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mirkemenagerie update

Lore Index

I’ve had my own lore compilations thread on the RPC for some time, and now I’m porting the Index over to @mirkemenagerie. So you will now be able to scroll through an itemized list of my lore posts here:

While still finding all lore-related reblogs under the Lore Tag here:

Hope you all like the changes!

Mirke’s Menagerie Lore Index

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Aether & Magic

Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About Aether & Magic

Magical and Non-magical Healing Lore

Undead Lore, Ashkin and Necromancy

Voidsent Summoning Lore

Linkpearl Lore

The War of the Magi

Deities & Primals

Halone Lore

Menphina Lore

Thaliak Lore

Nymeia Lore

Llymlaen Lore

Oschon Lore

Byregot Lore

Rhalgr Lore

Azeyma Lore

Nald’thal Lore

Nophica Lore

Althyk Lore

Far Eastern Kami Lore

Mol’s Elder Gods Lore

Tempering Lore

Races of Man & Beastmen

Languages and Accents Lore

Spoken Terminology and Origin of Beastman Slur

Interracial and Inter-clan Heritage

Lalafell Lore

Viera Lore

Miqo’te Lore

Miqo’te Purring/Rolling R’s

Hellsguard and Roegadyn Lore

Highlander Lore

Xaela-Raen Relations

Hrothgar Lore

The Ashcrown Consortium

The Qiqirn

Guilds, Classes, & Jobs

Soul Crystals & Roleplay

Spiritbinding and Soul Crystal Lore with Links to Job Lore Compilations

Red Mage Lore

Bard Lore

Monk Lore

Black Magic Lore

Sultansworn and Paladin Lore

Dark Knight Lore

A Warrior’s Axe

Ul’dah, the Jewel of the Desert

Ul’dahn Law, Brass Blades, Stone Torches, and Immortal Flames Lore

Highbridge Executions?

The Order of Nald’thal

The Platinum Mirage and Pugilists’ Guild

Street Names and Districts in Ul'dah

Limsa Lominsa, the Navigator’s Veil

Lominsan Law, Yellowjacket, Cuda, Pirate, and Maelstrom Lore

Limsa Lominsa's Government

Limsa’s Gun Control Laws

Arcanist & Mealvaan's Gate Lore

Mistbeard Lore

Sastasha & Mistbeard Cove

Carvallain & Astalicia Lore

The Company of Heroes

Gridania, the Sylvan City-state

Gridanian Law, Wood Wailers, Gods’ Quiver, and Twin Adder Lore

Elementals, Conjury & Hearers, Hedge, Greenwrath, Wildling Lore

Padjal Lore

Tam-Tara Deepcroft

Mun-Tuy Beans

The Holy See of Ishgard

Ishgardian Heresy Lore

Dragon Blood Lore

Chocobo Lore

House Dzemael’s Roegadyn Knights

Sharlayan, the Old World

Nyunkrepf and Sharlayan’s Founding

Sharlayan Lore Compilation

Great Gubal Library Texts, Boy and the Dragon Gay Story

Saint Mocianne’s Arboretum

Ala Mhigo

Expanded Ala Mhigan Lore Part I: History and Culture of Ala Mhigo

Expanded Ala Mhigan Lore Part II: People of Ala Mhigo

Expanded Ala Mhigan Lore Part III: Common Misconceptions about Ala Mhigo

Garlemald

Sins of Garlemald: The Rise of an Empire

Sins of Garlemald: The Fall of an Empire

The Near East (Ilsabard & Thavnair)

The Near East and Thavnair Lore

The Far East (Othard & Hingashi)

The Kingdom of Dalmasca & the Royal City of Rabanastre

Far Eastern Geomancy

The Confederacy and the Ruby Tithe

Doma, Raen, Ninja Lore Compilation

Far Eastern Lalafell Lore

Far Eastern Miqo’te Lore

Ancient Allag

The Allagan Empire, Meteor Project, and Summoning

Meracydia, the Southern Continent

Meracydia Lore

Mamook, the New World

New World Lore

Miscellaneous

1.0 Archive

Levequest Lore

Fishing Lore

The Great Continents Map Labelled

Time Passage 4.0 - What year is it? 

Towns Changed by the Calamity

The Adventurers’ Guild & Eorzea’s Forty Saints

Commoners' Opinions of Adventurers and the City-states

Commoners' Opinions of Adventurers and the City-states Pt2

Airship, Ceruleum, Highwind Skyways, and Garlond Ironworks Lore

The Prophet Urianger & The Seventh Umbral Era

The Rising & Foundation Day

All Saints’ Wake

Starlight, Winters’ Knell, and Heavensturn Lore

Formal Education in Eorzea

Orphanages in Hydaelyn

Sex Workers, Pleasure Barges, Pillowhouses

Hydaelyn Alcohol List

Diseases in Hydaelyn

Drugs in Eorzea

Areas with Harsh Winters in Hydaelyn

Eorzean Map Poem by Roddard Ironheart

Eorzea's Rivers Lore

Eorzean Explosives and Firesand Lore

Zer'maat Five Lore

Paissa Lore

Are Fantasias Canon?

PAX West 2017 Lore Panel Notes

2018 Las Vegas Fanfest Lore Panel Q&A

The First: Norvrandt

The Crystarium, Lakeland, and the Church of Light

Eulmore, Kholusia, Sin Eaters, and the Oracle of Light

Nabaath Areng, Amh Araeng, and Daedalus Stoneworks

Voeburt, Il Mheg, the Fae, and Titania

Ronka, Rak’tika Greatwood, and the Night’s Blessed

The Tempest, Amaurot, the Ancients, and Ascians

RPC  >>>  Docs Archive*

*The old RPC archive has finally broken, taking most of my old, properly formatted posts with it. Never fear! The information itself was saved in a number of docs. The links below have been updated to redirect to the corresponding docs. Unfortunately, because of urgent time restraints, these posts are straight copy/pastes and not reformatted for prettiness. Eventually, I hope to convert all of these posts to Tumblr formatting, but for now this will have to do! Please also keep in mind that as these are straight copies, they have not been updated with newly available information!

Aether & Magic

Voidsent Possession

Races of Man

Races of Man Lore & Lifespans

Au Ra Tribe Adjectival Forms

City-state and Beast Tribe Relations

Zodiacs

Guilds, Classes, & Jobs

Faction Leve Organizations

Machinist Lore

Gladiator Lore

Eorzea (Aldenard & Vylbrand)

Settlements in Eorzea Then and Now

Eorzean Religion and Religious Texts

Eorzean Climate and Weather Lore

How Big Is Eorzea?

Battle of Carteneau Lore

Explaining the Calamity and the Warrior of Light

Echo Lore

Who Owns the Chocobo Porters?

Slavery In Eorzea 

Gelmorra Lore

Saint Endalim’s Scholasticate Lore

Belah'dian Lore and the War of the Sisters

Paglth'an Lore

Sharlayan, the Old World

Bibliothecs Lore Thread

The Far East (Othard & Hingashi)

Hingashi's Age of Strife

Sui-no-Sato Lore

Namazu Lore

Miscellaneous

Eorzean Time and Measurements Lore

Geography of Hydaelyn

All Sightseeing Logs and Dungeon Notes

Notorious Monsters Lore

Favorite Foods and Meals per Race and Nation

Allagan Onion Knight Lore

Mammet Lore

Mount Lore

"Vampire" Lore

Banks and Gil Lore

Hope this helps! Check back frequently as I update this with new posts!

[newarc]

lancer pilot

[finale-fantasie]

so... what if time continued to flow faster in the first

[nitw]

*jumps up and down waving my hands and yelling in a crowd* DISCORD WAS NEVER MEANT TO REPLACE FORUMS AND WIKIS!!! IT'S JUST EMBELLISHED CHATROOMS WITH MULTIPLAYER GAMING FEATURES AND LOOTBOXES AND SHIT!!! PLEASE PUT FAQS AND MESSAGE BOARDS OR AT LEAST A DIRECT EMAIL-BASED SUPPORT SYSTEM ON YOUR WEBSITE!!! 1GB NEOCITIES DOMAIN ZERO DOLLARS

[ignsart]

[magellanica]

Fordola! I love her so much!

[ariaofsasha]

[mythiclings]

Fanwork no.1 I made for 2026 stormblood's anniversary.

Posted to bluesky and X on 06.17

[jabberwockprince]

another thing that pisses me off in regards to the fandom's treatment of lyse by calling her a white saviour or saying that within the story she is unnecessary and useless because she didnt live as an ala mhigan, so therefore the role of leader should go to m'naago instead, is the fact that. well. the point is that she is disconnected from ala mhigo because she left. she has monologues about how she feels unfit to lead. there's so many quests where you get to see her being rejected by her own people or be violent towards her because she wasn't there to suffer like they did. this is something they constantly rub in her face! this is the entire point of her character! the disconnect!

ala mhigo was torn by garlean invasion, their entire people scattered and forced to leave to the rest of eorzea. there are so many displaced ala mhigans that LITTLE ALA MHIGO EXISTS, FULL OF ALA MHIGANS WHO COULD NOT LIVE WITHIN GRIDANIA OR UL'DAH

Rejected by the elementals of the Twelveswood and unable to adapt to Ul'dahn custom, Ala Mhigan refugees eventually settled in southern Thanalan. In exchange for supplies, the residents allow the Immortal Flames to maintain a presence, and Little Ala Mhigo now serves as a post whence to watch the movements of the Amalj'aa

you literally interact with meffrid in A REALM REBORN

IN FUCKING GRIDANIA

WHERE THE PALACE OF THE DEAD THING IS. IN THAT SMALL CAMP. BECAUSE HE TOO WAS FORCED TO FLEE

how can you look at lyse in the eye and see stormblood in a vacuum and not understand that the entire point of lyse becoming the face of the resistance is the fact that ala mhigo does not abandon her children, regardless of where they are and who they are? that she rejects this position of power over and over because she understands she's unfit to lead as someone who didn't fight for her own homeland?

THE LITERAL GYR ABANIAN ANTHEM THEY SING AT THE END OF THE MSQ EXPLAINS IT. COME YE WAYWARD BROTHERS, BEREFT OF HEARTH AND HOME

this is why lyse is tied with hien, because he was born DURING garlean occupation. he has never seen a free doma, this is something they insist upon on his side of the story. they are linked because hien has never seen the country his father died for and yet he is here to continue the fight and ensure doma is liberated. its the exact same for lyse. hien's life hinged on the desire for freedom, if his own people didn't want to be free then he was going to kill himself because there is no point in him fighting for and existing as a symbol of freedom. both of them had their people acknowledge they're needed!

wayward brothers! in the lyrics of gyr abania's anthem!

wayward daughter! as the theme for tsukuyomi!

this is why yotsuyu is also important! why fordola is important! they are still, at the end of the day, daughters of their own countries who matter as much as anyone else who embodies the perfect upstanding citizen! it matters that yotsuyu is treated as doman (even after the questionable decision of giving her amnesia which just. feels like an easy "feel bad for her bc we couldn't figure out how to make a victim turned perpetrator seem empathetic"), because her pain and suffering came as a result of doman patriarchy. it matters that fordola grew up as a "priviledged" ala mhigan child within garlean camps! because neither group accepted her or her family in the end, because she was always going to be seen a traitor and a savage regardless of what she does and what she accomplishes!

again, the writing and the pacing and the way so many things are handled in stormblood is objectively baffling and shitty sometimes! but there is still the foundation of a story grounded in people of color! and pretending like stormblood doesn't exist or its the devil from the bible and it killed your dog because lyse is white skinned is just adding to the issue!

[fellyse]

Tifa for today!!

[newarc]

lancer pilot

[steel-peach]

FFX Shiva painting (from 2024) My favorite Shiva in the series. Love the finger snap move.

[ceresria]

[lyndztanica]

got inspired to make a meme of an FFX AU with Merrick and @mirkemenagerie 's Augustine where Gus is an Al Bhed summoner and Merrick is her lone beleaguered, unsent guardian who was a warrior monk at the Bevelle Temple. they are the worst to ever do it, truly.

[etroveria]

quick masks practice! 1.5hr each~ 🧡🖤

[ageha-sds]

Okay but why did no Machinist look at anything in Alexander and go "we should use this!" At least take the not-Combaticons!

[ljonskart]

Lancer pilot, Lin Disztl! Callsign Firecrest. I can't remember her mech's designation, but the filename's "Happy To Dance", which is an okay name :D