Fig. 4: Early tintype lumography, wet emulsion plate, Eorzea, recovered in 135 7AE. Subject and lumographer may be Ramius Raske, inventor, Eorzea 1554 6AE - ? 7AE (Cat. 4391J)

[From museum archive c. 194 Seventh Astral Era]

"Yet no good deed goes unpunished, does it?"

Okay it's four in the morning and I'm not entirely right in the head and I absolutely have not thought through the ramifications of this in its entirety, but

Garleans can't use aether, but they can affect and be affected by dynamis. we've seen this in canon.

Culturally Garleans seem to have a lot of emotional repression, breaking through only when pushed to extremes, which has no doubt prevented them from actualizing the combat potential of dynamis in the past. There is now an opportunity for this to change.

as they rebuild and reform their culture we should see Garlean bards becoming a thing, and they should invent heavy metal

think about it think about it. You've got Garleans coming into direct and peaceful contact with other cultures en masse for the first time since they were exiled. They're going to be learning and absorbing so much, and with no infrastructure, one of the things people do for entertainment is gather to sing and tell stories. They are going to learn about bards. They have plenty of skilled ranged combatants. With lots of half-scrapped magitek components lying around, they have the ability and motivation to experiment with sounds no one's ever thought to turn into music before.

All it takes is one bored engineer working with something that can make different pitch frequencies, realizing that they can manipulate those frequencies on purpose, playing around with it until they can make this hunk of sparking wires and metal play the melody they heard around the campfire the other day. That's always been how things start getting invented. Iterate, clean it up, make it more purposeful, advance it. And what the hell else do we have to do but fine-tune the few things that are still ours?

imagine someone getting a brief glimpse a hundred years into the future, when a fully equipped Garlean combat unit includes a sound system broadcasting metal screams and electric guitars that boost a whole platoon's combat capabilities. visions of madness in the best possible way.

Like this?

Not unlike!

From the other day. Sometimes when random emotes are going about you can get lucky and catch some really good screens in split-second moments. This was one of those shots, nothing rehearsed or timed or anything, it just happened (As you might notice the UI is still on cause npc names in the back.)

But yeah, thought it was a really great shot of Folken and Ashlin

10 years ago today I met my now husband =u= its crazy how time flies! HAPPY meeting-ANNIVERSARY <3 <3 <3 Our 10th Eternal Bond anniversary is at the end of the year, coinciding with our 5th irl wedding anniversary :) (:sweat: i need to find an anniversary gift)

Back when Balmung was for Balmung and Uldah was empty.

SOUL

WoL: Don't wish ill upon strangers.

Y'shtola: Great advice but remember that if someone has slighted you they are no longer a stranger but an enemy. Hope this helps.

Vierapril, Day 8 - Relinquish

I see echoes of warriors past in The Artist. Every day, I feel honored that they chose me as their pupil.

Thank you for passing your knowledge to me, for giving up secrets of the honorable arts. I hope I haven't wasted your time.

A galaxy of colour and light

I personally think Y'shtola deserves some more credit for how she advocates for the Warrior of Light during Shadowbringers. Without knowing the whole story I've always felt she had every right to be uneasy with the Exarch, and to be honest I was expecting a pricklier welcome from her in Rak'tika... but as soon as she realizes who it is, her greeting for the WoL is incredibly warm. I love that her first question is "How are you?" She cares about them! And when her aethersight gives her reason to believe the WoL is in danger, she's concerned! She thinks they need to be told! And when Urianger won't agree to tell them, she does it herself, because she thinks it's the right thing to do. She treats the Warrior of Light like a person who deserves to know what they're getting into and make an informed decision, and it's such a far cry from the "You'll do it because you're the Warrior of Light!" attitudes of everyone in ARR.

And I think it's also worth noting that in the end, after she knows the whole truth, she doesn't seem to hold any of it against G'raha. When you're back in the Source, she's talking about whether he should be given the title of Nunh after his long tenure as the Crystal Exarch, and after he joins the Scions, she seems cool with him, so I genuinely have no reason to think she holds a grudge about any of it.

She was, ultimately, concerned and wanted to do the right thing, and she cares about the Warrior of Light and their wellbeing, and I think that's an important thing about her.

y'shtola gets way too little credit for being fiercely protective of the people she cares about, and a ton of shit for the dramatic things she does to save them (that she has to be rescued from).

some of my favorite bits of missable dialogue that i do not have screenshots for, but come from the text strings from npcs in fanow and slitherbow after the events of mt. gulg, which you never see because honestly who wasn't racing into the finale?:

y'shtola not only advocates for the WOL, she is exhausting absolutely every resource she can get her hands on, and she is grieving. the WOL is her friend, and she wants to help them, and it kills her that she can't. dats it.

Hello, I opened Photoshop again

Vierapril - 7 - pause

Channeling divine fury to protect your home from invading magitek armies doesn't allow for much downtime. Onti and Bylka do what they can.

(pose credit)

Stand Down

Title - Stand Down Fandom - Final Fantasy XIV Rating - Explicit Characters/pairings - Klynt Gohtawyn/Reinhardt Sauveterre Summary - Six days of rough conditions and chaos later, Klynt catches up with Reinhardt, intending on making him pay for the hazing she'd suffered during training.

She sure shows him. Yup Notes - Skin-emax screenshots. Follow-up to Battlestations

This is probably the most complete as well as one of the better quality uploads of the 1.x quest "Futures Perfect" that I've seen.

The Path Companion was a partner for the WoL, someone to make and give commentary during the storyline. They were customizable like a retainer; you chose their race/gender (of the available 1.0 options), class, and personality type. They were also Ala Mhigan originally, with a (variable) relative in the Resistance.

The WoL is defended, and spoken to at the end, by their starter city archon (this is during the Circle of Knowing/Path of the Twelve era, as the Scions were formed by combining the organizations after the Calamity).

This is also the introduction of Gaius van Baelsar as an imperial enemy; going forward there were scenes that include him shooting Cid for being angry and insulting, and also talking to WoL about how Gaius disagrees with Nael van Darnus's plans and the Meteor Project. But here, he crushes the Resistance's operation and gets into a fight with the archons--that only ends when he calls in an airstrike, sending WoL into a brief Echo vision before returning home to get medical aid for their companion.