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FFXIV: Can you imagine the Ascians' reactions to Midgardsormr landing on this planet? They didn't know about life on other stars. If they missed his actual landing they'd be gallivanting around, jumping to the other shards, teehee we'll get that dastardly Venat, and then they come back and find

this thing

protecting a lake full of aether, it's the size of a skyscraper from the World Unsundered, it's immortal, it has funky aether they can't sense or manipulate like other sundered beings' aether, its soul is in its eyes, it's incredibly strong, it seems to be able to change its shape, holy shit it's like it's unsundered is it even ethical to fight this thing, and it may also be able to eat people to get their souls and then that soulshard is kinda immortal again? how did Venat come up with this thing -

And then the lizard opens its mouth to the nice mortals that are hanging around asking questions and it says, completely intelligent, that a goddess called Hydaelyn let him stay on this planet if he protects the lake and does her a favor every now and then. Oh, and meet his first baby. The other 6 are going to hatch at some point.

I think the Ascian in the awestruck crowd would have just shat out of their borrowed body on the spot and gone running to the others like "You will not BELIEVE what that fucking bitch beat us to"

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My tribute comic to the Ancients.

It didn't really come out as I would have liked but I'm glad I finished it.

The text is from the song "What Angel Wakes Me" from the Titania fight in ffxiv, written by Masayoshi Soken. Making this comic was only possible through the support of my patrons. If you enjoyed it and want to see more don't forget to ring that bell and smash the subscribe button consider giving me a follow and donating on kofi or subbing on patreon! Links are on my pinned post

Been catching up on the FFXIV story patches, and I have some thoughts about that last scene with Calyx that go against what I've seen most people say. Calyx tells the WoL where he and Halmarut are going and notes that he doesn't agree with the methods of his fellow Winterers, so many have jumped to assuming he's trying to set the WoL against the Fourth's Winterer.

But I don't think that's the case at all. He's trying to recruit the WoL.

Let's put together the pieces:

Calyx tells us where he and Halmarut are going and would like us to follow them.

He asks if we have any ambitions we'd pursue at any cost--the exact thing the Winterers are doing.

He notes that he doesn't agree with his fellow Winterers' methods, but is still willing to work with them for what he sees as the greater good.

He finishes by reminding us that trying to save everything and everyone might not be in the interest of the greater good.

I think Calyx is inviting the WoL to the Fourth as a case study, to make his argument that the WoL should be the Source's Winterer. Even though we found his actions objectionable, he thinks we should set that aside, as he does, to work towards the same goal.

And I think that's really interesting! I don't know how but he somehow became a more compelling antagonist when they stuffed him in a squirrel plushie. (Yes, I've seen the Ratatoskr comparison and I'm into it.)

Given some of the lines in the Evercold teaser, seeming to encourage the WoL to "unite the stars," I'm fascinated to see where this goes.