Mages' respite

NOT SPOILER-FREE!! Hi, this is mostly my FFXIV alt blog, where I'll be reblogging ffxiv posts as well as post screenshots and potentially stories involving my main Warrior of Light, Akira Gin, as well as screenshots of my alts that are Akira's parents and Orfeo Dwin'anea, who currently is my representative for 1.0's WoL, and so he has no ties to current timeline. My main blog is demonakira22, where I'll probably still also reblog ffxiv things, but also an assortment of other matters. Same as my main, I'll try and tag, but I'm mostly on mobile outside of posting screenshots, so no guarantees.

[magesacrosstime]

So, update on my personal project of recording each expansion and it’s postgame cutscenes as a precaution to possible changes is that I just finished recording the Stormblood scenes yesterday, and have them thrown onto youtube.

[magesacrosstime]

Here’s the playlists that I’ve compiled so far:

Seventh Umbral Era Playlist

Seventh Astral Era Playlist

Heavensward Playlist

Post-Heavensward Playlist

Stormblood Playlist

Post-Stormblood Playlist

Shadowbringers Playlist

[magesacrosstime]

Putting this in as an update.

I'm still planning on recording the post-Shadowbringers set as well as Endwalker, but my health took an absolute dive several months back, along with my computer giving me issues while recording, and thus why I haven't actually caught up before now.

[noscean-scholar]

Y’shtola has Stone IV, Foul, Blizzard IV, Aero, Water, and Thunder spells, and is called a Sorceress.

Alphinaud is an Academician, so he gets to have Scholar spells while keeping his carbuncle. Minfillia was able to cast spells as a Rogue. Urianger has a Death spell as an Astrologian.

Basically, don’t let your dreams be dreams. Have your character know whatever skills/spells you want, and if people call it lore breaking or Mary Sue tell them you don’t care. And that’s that.

[balthius-stark-blog]

THIS!!

I remember thinking about this when they showed off the trust system menu. I thought about it even more going through the MSQ and seeing their other abilities in cutscenes. I get lore is important to some but this is throwing wide the gates of possibilities. Let your characters learn/do whatever they want and have fun!

[mirkemenagerie]

IMPORTANT! Because doing this with your own characters is actually not lore breaking/bending at all.

People who’ve known me for a while have probably heard this speech before, but what defines a Disciple of Magic class or job in this world has nothing to do with what spells they cast! It has everything to do with how those spells are cast. How do they manipulate aether? How do they focus that aether into a spell? And sometimes what medium are used to facilitate spellcasting. These are the things that define a mage, not what spells they cast. 

For example, in lore a conjurer has access to all six elements: Wind, Lightning, Fire, Earth, Ice, Water. Y’shtola was originally trained as a Sharlayan conjurer. Thus, she has access to spells of all those elements. But how she casts those spells now as a “sorceress” might be different than what we, at a glance, might suspect from a conjurer, white mage, or black mage on the Source. It might be the same, just with a different name like how the WoD mage was a “Magus”.

Alphinaud isn’t a Scholar, because he doesn’t have a faery companion, or training as a Nymian Scholar. But he is a Sharlayan trained arcanist versed in healing magicks. Likewise, Urianger may be casting spells in the manner of a Sharlayan Astrologian, but he’s versed in other forms of magic from before, like arcanima. Those spells don’t necessarily go away just because you pick up a different tool… but you might have to reinvent how you work the spell!

A great example of this is Red Mage! They cast spells that were originally used by Black Mages and White Mages. The difference isn’t in the spells they cast, but again, it’s how they cast them that distinguishes them from their predecessors - casting using only internal aether.

So as @noscean-scholar said, don’t let your dreams be dreams! Just because we’re limited by the battle mechanics of the game, does not mean your characters have to suffer that same limitation. Mages invent spells. They come up with new incantations, geometries, and more efficient means of spellcasting. Just remember, it’s all about the “how” that defines the magic you use, not the “what” you’re casting.

[noscean-scholar]

Y’shtola has Stone IV, Foul, Blizzard IV, Aero, Water, and Thunder spells, and is called a Sorceress.

Alphinaud is an Academician, so he gets to have Scholar spells while keeping his carbuncle. Minfillia was able to cast spells as a Rogue. Urianger has a Death spell as an Astrologian.

Basically, don’t let your dreams be dreams. Have your character know whatever skills/spells you want, and if people call it lore breaking or Mary Sue tell them you don’t care. And that’s that.

[balthius-stark-blog]

THIS!!

I remember thinking about this when they showed off the trust system menu. I thought about it even more going through the MSQ and seeing their other abilities in cutscenes. I get lore is important to some but this is throwing wide the gates of possibilities. Let your characters learn/do whatever they want and have fun!

[mirkemenagerie]

IMPORTANT! Because doing this with your own characters is actually not lore breaking/bending at all.

People who’ve known me for a while have probably heard this speech before, but what defines a Disciple of Magic class or job in this world has nothing to do with what spells they cast! It has everything to do with how those spells are cast. How do they manipulate aether? How do they focus that aether into a spell? And sometimes what medium are used to facilitate spellcasting. These are the things that define a mage, not what spells they cast. 

For example, in lore a conjurer has access to all six elements: Wind, Lightning, Fire, Earth, Ice, Water. Y’shtola was originally trained as a Sharlayan conjurer. Thus, she has access to spells of all those elements. But how she casts those spells now as a “sorceress” might be different than what we, at a glance, might suspect from a conjurer, white mage, or black mage on the Source. It might be the same, just with a different name like how the WoD mage was a “Magus”.

Alphinaud isn’t a Scholar, because he doesn’t have a faery companion, or training as a Nymian Scholar. But he is a Sharlayan trained arcanist versed in healing magicks. Likewise, Urianger may be casting spells in the manner of a Sharlayan Astrologian, but he’s versed in other forms of magic from before, like arcanima. Those spells don’t necessarily go away just because you pick up a different tool… but you might have to reinvent how you work the spell!

A great example of this is Red Mage! They cast spells that were originally used by Black Mages and White Mages. The difference isn’t in the spells they cast, but again, it’s how they cast them that distinguishes them from their predecessors - casting using only internal aether.

So as @noscean-scholar said, don’t let your dreams be dreams! Just because we’re limited by the battle mechanics of the game, does not mean your characters have to suffer that same limitation. Mages invent spells. They come up with new incantations, geometries, and more efficient means of spellcasting. Just remember, it’s all about the “how” that defines the magic you use, not the “what” you’re casting.

[whymaige]

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[whymaige]

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[fatewalker-deactivated20200615]

some thancred dialogue after unlocking dohn mheg.

[risingoflights]

island sanctuary

all the WoL comics, here.

[ryuucae]

Some recent character studies/doodles...I haven't drawn them in a long time, and I missed them

[shivapvoid]

since a certain someone seems convinced that there are absolutely no queer creators in this fandom, prove him wrong by promoting yourself in reblogs <3 ill go first - i'm a trans nb aroace artist that draws mostly my wol and fanart, and i have an ongoing webcomic for my wolcanon as well, but it's updating very slowly i fear...! here's my ko-fi and vgen!

here's some recent art i've done:

[lionheartdancers]

hello!! I'm nonbinary and demisexual. I dabble in a lot of artistic endeavors, but lately I've really gotten into 3D animation and modding through Blender. You'll commonly see Vira and Burakh here, under the tag #lionhearts ! Here's some recent art I've made of them:

I haven't written in a while, but the lionhearts do have an FFXIVWrite series from 2024!

It would mean a lot to me this year's Pride, to see acknowledgement and celebration for queers of color of every stripe. Often it feels like BIPOC are an afterthought in Pride celebrations, not only left unacknowledged, but further marginalized by the intersection of their identities. And yet the weight of queer history roars with the resistance of people like Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera who did not stop fighting for liberation until they passed. The uprising at Stonewall itself is a culmination of years of queer activism.

When it comes to conversations about queer suppression, especially as shown by the attitude inspiring this post, we often see takes that certain people inherently don't "understand" gay coding or any number of nods to queer identity, simply due to the circumstances of our birth. I'd like to bring attention to the fact that many people in the world are still unable to openly call themselves queer of any kind of identity, without being severely punished by their own governments. At the same time, BIPOC in the USA especially Black and Indigenous people, regardless of their queer status, are policed and killed every day for the most frivolous reasons; and queerness amplifies the danger they face on the daily, especially if they are perceived as being gender-nonconforming. I'd like us all to remember what we think of as 'normal' now, like posting about queerness and being queer online, is an incredible, incredible privilege that people lived, fought, and died for. Our elders died dreaming that we, the future generations, have a chance to breathe and love together.

Stereotyping a whole kind of people, or blanketing a nation's attitude onto the people who live there, feels extremely antithetical to the history of the term 'queer' as a community and as a movement of liberation. Personally speaking, I was practically raised by a butch while we were both navigating the complexities and danger of being queer, in a country whose textbooks promote civilians to punish homosexuality by stoning gays or putting lesbians into house arrest, whose laws criminalize private citizens' sex lives. I saw firsthand the discrimination she could not shake for the entirety of her work, how she had to bring her own friends as advocates for her because her coworkers and administration disliked her, the way our organization suffered due to the perception of her as a corrupting influence on the band kids she trained. She shepherded us through the most successful years of marching band our school had ever seen, and her reward was to be kicked out of the school the moment my class graduated. Luckily, no worse outcome happened that I know of, but we all saw it happen. She had no partner that I knew of, and she never spoke of her orientation publicly, but that she was so gender-nonconforming as a butch was enough to mark her for life.

Instead of performing that violence of erasure, let's uplift and truly see each other, and continue the hard work of our forebears where we can. We must, we must strive to give the next generation (and our peers right now) a better life.

[iron-sparrow]

Reblogging to amplify both prevs, but I'd also like to invite everyone to reflect on the shitshow witnessed yesterday by our little corner of the XIV fandom.

I don't care if that artist sent themselves the anon ask. I don't care who anon actually is. What I want to highlight is just how prevalent their bigoted way of thinking actually is in queer spaces, particularly when it comes to White queers.

The truth, whether we accept it or not, is that White queers — especially but not just cis gay men — still benefit from their Whiteness. And rather than using this position of privilege to uplift Black queers and other queers of color, so many are instead content to maintain the misogynistic lily-white status quo. (You bet your ass White women do this too.)

The wrongful assumption that existing within a marginalized group like the queer community exempts them from being discriminatory. False. Racism can and does manifest in the alphabet community, as can any other -ism.

These are the same people who, when faced with very real criticisms, invoke their queerness like a multipass that absolves them of their own prejudices and bigotry. How can I be racist? I'm gay.

Black and other people of color who exert any sort of pushback may be accused of engaging in the oppression olympics or playing the race card, as if being marginalized were a fucking contest. Hey, losers, you don't get a gold medal for being the most oppressed and attacked minority on the internet.

Queerness should never be a shield against criticism or an excuse to skip past any introspection over the privilege of Whiteness. Queerness is simply who we are, not a get-out-of-jail "gotcha" pass.

[snail-fever]

a story about grief

song: world spins madly on by the weepies

[mewfromshadows]

Reblog if you’re OK with people sending you asks about your OCs, ‘sonas or even about yourself

[nyaawn]

Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest 2026 - Main Visual Illustration

[just-pug-things]

Drop a lightning AoE on your Terrified party members to shock them out of it!

Today's cameo is Sylux BountyHunter, the poor bard who didn't get to play the game. Thanks for letting me draw your character! ♥

More comics available at my website! [ Just PUG Things ]

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[joyejoyu]

Haurchefant.

[Also available as this month's postcard for Heirloom tier patrons.]

[egg-on-a-legg]

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ARE HUNTING ME FOR SPORT

[voidsentprinces]

[maridiayachtclub]

hot take: aether currents in ffxiv aren't that bad at all. in fact it's kind of nice to take a little walk around and have an incentive to navigate an environment. like outside of field operation content there isn't a lot of "explore this area" type stuff to do in the game. dungeons are linear corridors, raids are single room arenas. the game making you occasionally figure out how to climb a mountain is good for your health

[ttenri]

That was INSANELY HEARTBREAKING 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭