While there are Ishgardian salt rocks, used as a communal source of salt in the middle of the table, there also exists rock salt. This salt is for sprinkling on rocks to make them taste better
The funniest thing about Alisaie's "he gets his innocent streak from our mother" line is that shes wrong. Just a completely incorrect read on her own mom. If Ameliance revealed that kinda info to someone it is 100% on purpose.
Alisaie's mistake here is foreshadowing. She's assumed like everyone else in Sharlayan that her father is "the clever one." Son of a famed Archon, leading member of the Forum for her entire lifetime, important political figure and all that. While Ameliance is--at least apparently--just running the Leveilleur household.
Except Forchenault is decidedly not the brains of the family. He's wrong about every single thing in the entire plot, and his life's work of building the Ragnarok would have utterly failed if his wife hadn't schemed behind his back to bail him out.
Ameliance is, without question, the clever one, and the most devious and adept at persuasion and manipulation in a family that is supposed to be politicians.
And we kind of get this sense of her as soon as she appears in Endwalker specifically because Alisaie misread her so badly. "He gets his innocent streak from our mother," and then she outmaneuvers the two of them and her husband and gets the entire household to keep secrets from the lord of the house in like two minutes of introduction.
This is the most dangerous person in Sharlayan. And nobody knows it. Which is exactly what she wanted.
Beq Lugg, a Nu Mou researcher, was very good friends with Pauldia, one of the previous princesses of Voeburt. When the court mage Tadric tricked Pauldia and tried to take over the kingdom, Beq Lugg worked with Cyella to lock Pauldia away before she transformed into a monster
(and yes I really just took a pic of the book because this was pretty crazy of an illustration lol)
Another thing to be thankful for the for is hiding spoilers from timelines. The tag could be showing you stuff about MSQ or raids, but instead it's a gazillion people petting/posing with a level 1 doe
A few people have shown interest in replicating the pride backlighting I did, so hey, here’s a quick tutorial below the cut.
Enjoy, and happy Pride Month. 🏳️🌈
STEP 1 — SETUP
First thing you’ll want to do is find a suitably dark background to bounce the light off of. I use the White Screen housing item dyed Soot Black, available from the Housing Merchant or Apartment Merchant in any of the housing zones for 3000 gil.
I line up 2-3 of them for coverage, but one will do if you're trying to be frugal.
If you don’t have an apartment or an FC room to use, try asking friends, FC mates, or even folks you share a Discord server with. You might even find someone who already has a studio space set up and is willing to let you use it!
Lighting in your studio space should be 0 (though you might have success at 1 as well), so make sure to adjust that or ask the studio owner if they can make that change before you start posing.
STEP 2 — GPOSE
Position your character(s) just a little ways back from the edge of the screen. You want some space between them and the screen so that the lighting can float there without casting a weird circle on the wall.
Hop into /gpose and bump up the “Manual brightness adjustment” to about 120 or whatever level allows you to see your character well enough to pose them. Pose to your heart's content.
STEP 3 — LIGHTS
Here’s the fun part. In the Light tab of the Gpose menu, switch all of your Light sources to Type 1, which has the shortest falloff radius (meaning it doesn't reach as far as Type 2 or 3). I also set all of my lights to one strong color to differentiate them while I worked on lighting—red, green, and blue, all maxed out at 255 (for now).
Swing your camera (still on all default settings) around to your character’s back and up above their head a little ways. This is where Light 1 (red) will go.
Now pan your camera down at about mid-back height and set Light 2 (green) there.
Pan your camera down one last time until you have a nice shot of your character’s butt and set Light 3 (blue).
If you have "circles" that appear on the background behind your character, your lights are little too close to the backdrop. Pull your camera in towards your character just a bit more to reposition your lights. I recommend doing this at a Camera Position setting of 100 so that your sense of "close" and "far" aren't skewed by extreme Field of View (FOV). You can adjust that once you're happy with light positions.
Spin your camera back around and enjoy this nice little macaw-colored gradient.
STEP 4 — CAMERA
Set your camera angle.
The way FFIXV’s lighting works is partially dependent on how much light is in a shot. It will adjust a lot like your eyes do when you’re entering a dark room from a bright room, or vice versa. Your zoom level and camera angle are going to directly affect the lighting, so set this before you start messing with light strength and color. Sometimes this means weaker lighting will actually light your character better.
I ended up bringing my lights down to around ~160 and boosted the "Manual brightness adjustment" up quite a bit to get lighting I was happier with.
For a straightforward vertical shot, I like to have my Camera Position/FOV at 200 and of course my rotation is set to 90. Zoom in or out as needed. Remember to save your camera angle if you plan to pan around and fix things!
STEP 5 — COLOR
Make it ~queer~.
Take your flag of choice and pick out 2-3 “main” hues. Generally these will be the strongest hues in the flag, if not the only ones. Some flags, like the Pride/Progress/Intersex-Inclusive flag itself, are difficult to replicate for the sheer number of colors that are in it. You can loosely represent a rainbow with some adjustment to the RGB colors, if you’re determined to have a whole rainbow in there.
Shader Note: I recommend picking a shader preset that doesn’t mess too much with color so that colors are represented correctly. You may need to adjust light strength and “Manual brightness adjustment” to be compatible with your preset of choice. Bloom will also heavily affect the way your colors are showing up, so you may need to tone down the bloom FX or toggle it off entirely. This all depends on your preset, however.
If you’re not into RGB math, here are some cheat sheets! Not every flag is represented here of course, but I tried to cover as many colors as I could so that you could grab a color from another flag as needed! Please note that colors will need some adjustment for your own screenshot, presets, and preferences.
And that’s it, y’all! 🏳️🌈
(Open this image up in a new tab for more detail.)
These were taken using a heavily customized shader for that nice glowy effect.
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