#13th au

[kyrie-silverwings]

the four lords, before the 13th's fall

(endwalker patch spoilers)

of course, once ffxiv was like "here, have the archfiends' mortal forms," I was going to put them into my pocket and play dress up with them.

they are important to both the 13th alternate history and the Voidcast AU, though their eventual fates differ between those stories. in the game canon, they are also left unnamed - so I did them some favors and picked a few names out of The Divine Comedy (Inferno, specifically) for them:

'Scarmiglione' - Ezzelino

'Cagnazzo' - Obizzo

'Barbariccia' - Francesca

'Rubicante' - Farinata

[kyrie-silverwings]

in the valley of winds

"In truth, I could never ascertain the identity of Barbariccia, that demoness who prowls these war-torn lands. Some say that she came from that short-lived noble line which branched from a nest of villainy in earlier generations, yet no text would procure her name. All record of her vanished in that manse in the woods. So, inspired only by a name from antiquity, I will refer to our enigmatic woman as Francesca."

-- a discarded excerpt from a historian's journal