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Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold (2027)

[mirkemenagerie]

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

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[captainbasch]

The Scions of the Seventh Dawn -almost all of them lol Here is what they look like almost completely finished! They will be this circle for the stickers anyway, but there will be more for the print version c:

The main border is a play on the frame around Tupsimati, found in the Waking Sands, and the tile patterns are the eye symbol some scions have as tattoos, and tiny mother crystals for the interior circle. The tile/rocks motif hearkens back to the Rising Stones base of operations.

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[verodynamix]

Has anyone done this yet?

[verodynamix]

Bringing this back now that we're going to the cold place of all time and Alphinaud is confirmed coming along

[somewhereovertherainbowtables]

The result of a post I saw on bsky earlier and joking with my friends

[ciphox]

tanking in shadowbringers

[66junklord]

“xiv is for raiding” “xiv is for combat content” wrong. ffxiv is for playing dressup

[thepictoblr]

i'm never gonna be normal about this song again thank you

[ribbi-ffxiv]

[joyejoyu]

Haurchefant.

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

[thegreatyin]

happy 6th birthday to the best final fantasy 14 tweet of all time

[store-bought-apotheosis]

Still hilarious to me how not even Zenos cared

[koukouture]

i saw a reblog under my post of azem haunting the narrative and it said smth like "ffxiv is a story where you haunt your own story" and it's just. wow. yeah it is. literally everything we know about azem can probably be summarized in a couple of sentences and yet their influence just reaches so far and so many things just end up leading back to them and then so many characters embody the idea of the traveller in so many different ways and it's just aaaahhhhh

it's such a masterclass in subtle character building tbh. like obviously they can't make azem too overt in their actions and the fact that they didn't join venat either makes them ambiguous enough that the player can project and think "hmm what would my azem do" but it also gives them a pretty solid idea of where azem stood and what they did. the player can still decide why they did it but it's still open ended enough. azem you will always be famousssss

and you the player? you are haunted by the actions of your old self. almost everything in ffxiv would be different if azem hadn't done what they did. if they weren't the person who they were. but who are they? i don't fucking know. nobody does. that's for you to think up in your own mind. honestly i don't think squeenix gets enough credit with how well they handle the self inserts aka wol and azem. they both have a set list of characteristics and embody certain values but it's kind of up to you as the player to decide why and how they do that.

i'm still so idk just amazed by that idea. you haunt your own story. you did all this and you don't even know it. or, you don't know the full extent of it.

[koukouture]

Oh Azem... nobody can haunt the narrative like you <3

[sunnythanalan]

It tickles my fancy the way Elidibus teaches us how the Echo awakens in people when they see the hail of fire of the End Days. Then Zenos talks about his dreams where he sees the world end in a hail of fire thanks to having been infused with a resonant.

It's the same way that Hydaelyn gives the WoL her power willingly, while Zenos' takes it from her dead corpse (just like his Resonant is made from dead people's souls). There is something in the way Zenos becomes a Warrior of Light in his own right (even saving the universe) without having a narrative that redeems him that delights me. There is no sob story where he suddenly sees the error of his ways. There's no need for it. He's utterly selfish and unsympathetic and still that doesn't change the path he walks and the result of it; he still becomes a warrior of light. It's exactly as he tells Alisaie: "Would you be 'happier' had I a 'good reason'?"

The narrative blatantly asks us: "what then, makes a hero? Their intention or the result?"

In everything, he's WoL's twisted mirror image.

[mo-ribus]

[ In Search of the Bluebird ]

[sunnythanalan]

If I spend more than two minutes thinking about Endwalker and the themes of depression, suicidal ideation and hope; walking towards a new tomorrow all the while asking why, because the dark sludge of depression is drowning you and everything is pain, yet never stopping because the walk itself is proof of a spark of hope, I start crying, actually.