Memories Etched in Starlight

An FFXIV blog lots of Graha Tia x named WoL fics, screenshot, maybe art, 18+ !!! Minors DNI Oh uh. she/her (Age, - old enough, 30+, k thks. Do I count as a fandom elder yet? ugh) This is a sideblog. Follows will come from artoftallyrogue ! Mutuals are welcome to msg for my discord!

[wol-taleal-desharn]

A quick Bio of Taleal

It occurs to me that I don't have a basic bio up of my girl.

Name: Taleal "Tally" Desharn, born Fujimura Tsukiko

Age:

ARR - 18

Heavensward - 19

Stormblood - 20

Shadowbringers - 21

Endwalker - 22

Dawntrail - 23

Nameday: 23rd Sun of the Sixth Umbral Moon (12/23, right around the winter solistice)

Patron Deity: Azemya, The Warden

Race: Raen Au Ra

City-State Grand Company: Maelstrom - Storm Captain

Free Company: Wayward Adventurers

Main Job: Ninja

Secondary Job(s): Paladin, White Mage, Bard / whatever she needs to be in the moment.

Home: She doesn't really consider any one place 'home'. She has an apartment in Shirogane, but for some years, Mor Dhona with the Scions was home. Most recently, she and G'raha now have a home in La Noscea, near Limsa. They both go between there and Sharlayan.

As of 9/5/24, Tally has her own personal house!!!

*** Address: Malboro (Crystal center), Mists, Ward 27, Plot 9 ***

Data Center: Crystal, Malboro

May you contact me in game: Absolutely! I like making new friends.

I've been playing FFXIV since ARR (off and on, I've had plenty of breaks!) I think I have about 5 years of playtime logged.

To read about Tally's Adventures, head over to AO3!:

Warrior of Light, Taleal Desharn

To read smaller snippets, here's Tally's Adventure Journal , here on tumblr.

Other Random Snippets:

Goodbye is But A Moment

~ The Exarch asks something of Tally. (Post-Shadowbringers spoilers)

[wol-taleal-desharn]

I like the being able to save outfits thing in the glam dresser - but, hear me out - they're only for 'sets' that go together.

What if we could assemble custom outfits, and save them, and then we can just...change out the glam plates with these pre-assembled looks?

that way we don't really 'need' more glam plates, because we can set up all the outfits we want in the dresser, and just 'switch them out' as we like.

[wol-taleal-desharn]

I have been in a Stardew Valley vibe when I get a chance to just...zone out and play.

Though I feel either a DragonAge/MassEffect/BG3 itch coming on...

[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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[wol-taleal-desharn]

Dark bardic outfit for Tally, featuring her crystal bow.

(I like to headcanon Exarch took a piece of crystal from the Tower, and magicked it so that it would turn into whatever weapon she had need of.)

[wol-taleal-desharn]

Taleal listened, ever quiet, as Krile spoke her heart. The raen knew all to well the feeling of not belonging, or of not being sure where she belonged, if anywhere.

[nyaawn]

Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest 2026 - Main Visual Illustration

[wol-taleal-desharn]

Trying to catch up through 7.4, lmaooo

[eta-volantis]

This trailer is so fucking peak I think I'm about to freak the fuck out. You give me Azem shit, and I will lose my mind.

[invisiblebounds-ffxiv]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: EVERCOLD

[wol-taleal-desharn]

Aaaah. Lesssssgoooo

[irudraws]

Sketch I posted on bsky based on this post

[rkkuna]

everyday struggle i fear

[wol-taleal-desharn]

"You promised - you promised, Raha. And then you died anyway!"

"I know, love. I know. It broke my heart to give in to Meteion's darkness...but for you to get to the end, it had to be done. I would do anything in my power and beyond to have not done that to you, to break that promise. But it was not the end, was it not?"

"...it was not."

"And we are all here - I am here, again, because you succeeded." G'raha took a breath, and squeezed Taleal closer to him. "We almost lost you for the effort, anyway."

"...there are some nights I wish you had let me go." She tried vainly to blink back the tears, but they refused to comply, trickling their way down her cheeks, turning to salt on her lips.

G'raha winced, ears falling to the sides of his head. "We are yet selfish mortals. What good was it for us to live, if you were not here with us as well, Starlight? It was by your hand we lived; if it was in our power, you would live to see what you had accomplished. Perhaps it was my selfishness - as many times as you had saved me from my own demise, I could not have borne the thought if I could not save you then."

He fell into silence, the small au ra's delicate form shaking in his arms as she cried, her fingers digging into his arm.

"Would you really rather we had not tried to save you, after saving us all from so much?"

Taleal took a deep, shuddering breath to try to settle herself. Eyes drifting shut, she let her head fall as deeply against G'raha's chest as was able, absorbing the warmth of him, listening to the steady thumping of his heart, the rise and fall as he drew air.

The only person her death would have served would have been herself. The faces of her friends, her family, flashed through her minds eye, recalling how they looked when she cracked her eyes open on the Ragnarok. It seemed a fever dream, recalling those memories. She had often wondered if it had been a dream, but knew it had not been.

"No. Because then I would not be here with you now." She curled inward towards him, finally finding some calm. There were some aches and pains of physical wounds still healing, but she could bear those. They reminded the warrior of light that she was still alive.

The pair sat in silence in the garden of their newly acquired home, listening to the gurgling of the water and the chirping of the birds.

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"For those we have lost; for those we may yet save..."

"For those that yet still live. I wish, more than anything, to safeguard those I hold dearest in my heart. I shall lose no more of them - not so long as I can stand and fight."

"This is my prayer. Give me the strength to finish what was started."

[wol-taleal-desharn]

Tally is BACK (as a new little one allows time to play, anyway) and with a new hair style!

I like to think she let it grow out post-Endwalker (so lmao I'll have to go get new Dawntrail shots)

[nymphfair]

My biggest grip with the FFXIV fandom will always be mischaracterisation.

One that annoys me the most is G'raha. No this man is not a sweet soft princess that is afraid of water puddles and who needs the WOL to carry them to safety every 2 minutes.

We're talking about the guy who waited for hundred of years, the equivalent of a PHD student in Allagan culture, the actual only all rounder in the Scions, and the one who wouldnt hesitate a single moment to sacrifice himself for the WOL

But yeah keep depicting him as a baby i guess

[drawingway]

this omg this

i was literally ranting to my friends this weekend.

He is the most insane character of all the Scions! This man locked himself in the Tower and send himself back in time for the sake of others because yes. And he still the one who jumps in front of danger and asks questions later. He actually way more fantasy hero coded than we are amnsmammsmansmma

He is not just smart enough that the writing keeps writing him off so the plot can move in a certain pace, or outright making him not say anything. He is the only one strong enough to be three job classes. I have never seen Tancred or Urianger being drawn as a twink as uwu baby girl, i dont know why the fuck this happens with G'raha. (except i know, he is short. Therefore, cutesy baby girl feminine)

He is cringe when it comes to his interests, not cutesy. He is straightforward to talk his mind, not a blabbering teen. Even when embarrassed.

He even corrects OUR behaviour when WE make a joke out of place (yes, this is in the game).

[wol-taleal-desharn]

He can occasionally be awkward, unsure, or embarrassed even, but that =/= the cutesy femme. G'raha is also just very a passionate character about people and things he cares about / is interested in.

G'raha is a Grade A++ badass.

[hoppips]

get this man a bow the scions need a phys ranged!!