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Lore Masters - I need your aid!

My friend just upped a subscription to FFXIV and wants to RP.  He wants to know if he can have a character who attempts to dabble in every sort of magic he can, I remember hearing that you can’t really be a conjurer and a thaumarturge (or is it that you can’t have both White and Black magic?) - but I have no idea why that is.  What’s possible?  Could a character theoretically be at beginner levels of all forms of magic?  If not - what types of magic wouldn’t conflict?

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Astrolabes are used to calculate how the sky will look at a specific place at a given time and were one of the basic astronomy education tools in the late Middle Ages. Though they have fallen out of use, they are still beautiful to look at.

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Glasses RPers after 3.5 can finally be like:

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Ishgard

Full screenshots with bgm↓

http://www.ff14.co.kr/community/screenshot/detail.asp?no=3397

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Ice fall. 

3th Dec 2016, Korouoma nature reserve, Finland.

by Tiina Törmänen | web | FB | IG | STOCK

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I will use the heck outta that emote.

3.5: New Emotes! AHH the glasses fix emote!

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Gif Meme

I got tagged by @centalius​. I did one previously here, but hell if I pass up the opportunity to do another.

Rules: pick three gifs to define your aesthetics

Valentinoix Thibault:

Dru Raine

Jeantremont Arbeau ( @alchemy-and-magicks)

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Ul'dah by night.

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Man I want these places to be accessible for rp and puttering around.

Why is it called Ruby Road Exchange when it isn’t red…?

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Wait (OOC)

The Children’s ward is next to the Alchemist’s guild? How is that not suspicious!? @thecrucibleffxiv START INVESTIGATING.

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OOC - Starlight Quests and 1.0 Connection

So here’s a neat little tidbit about one of the main NPCs in this year’s Starlight quests.  If you played 1.0 and did any of the alchemy quests the NPC’s dialogue in the last Starlight quest will vary for your 1.0-originating character compared to someone who didn’t.  I tested this, myself, and sure enough he gave the 1.0 nod to my main character (Ciel), but not to my alt (Glace).

http://gamerescape.com/2016/12/15/the-lore-train-a-starlight-miracle/ @mirkemenagerie

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Why is it called Ruby Road Exchange when it isn’t red…?

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Ishgard Chronology of the 6th Astral Era

Pulled from this post here

(Figured I’d post the Ishgardian-centric events here, though much, much love to the original poster <3 )

Year 350-360:   A band of Elezen displaced from their ancestral home in central Aldenard come to settle in Coerthas.

Year 360:  Elezen settlers come to the Sea of Clouds, where they commence construction of the mountainside sanctuary to Halone that will later become Saint Thordan’s Basilica. Small villages spring up in the vicinity, laying the foundation for the nation of Ishgard.

Year 370:   The great wyrm Hraesvalgr consumes his Elezen lover, Shiva, entwining their souls for eternity and ushering in an era of peace between dragon and man

Year 545:   According to Ishgardian holy scripture, 545 marks the year when King Thordan is visited by the goddess Halone, who beseeches him to guide his people to the Promised Land of Coerthas. As the legend is told, the great wyrm Nidhogg attacks the caravans on their journey, and King Thordan and half of his men are slain before the dragon is valiantly driven away. The remaining knights, including the king’s son, Haldrath, guide the Elezen survivors to their destination.

In truth, King Thordan and his knights twelve ambush and slay Ratatoskr of the First Brood, devouring the she-dragon’s eyes to acquire preternatural wisdom. Enraged by this betrayal, the great wyrm Nidhogg pursues and kills the king and half of his company, heralding the end of the era of peace and the beginning of the Dragonsong War

Year 550:   The Holy See employs the power of twenty and four dragon eyes to erect a great arcane ward—later to be known as Daniffen’s Collar—that envelops the entirety of Ishgard, as the city steels its defenses against the coming raids by Nidhogg’s brood.

The progenitors of the four High Houses join together with the clergy of the Ishgardian Orthodox Church to pen a historic narrative that omits details of the betrayal and slaying of Ratatoskr. This new myth of the nation’s founding is indoctrinated through the education of Ishgardian children.

Year 563:   The sanctuary to Halone undergoes extensive reconstruction and is renamed Saint Thordan’s Basilica.

Year 761:   The Azure Dragoon Valeroyant repels an attack by the wyrm Nidhogg, who had been dormant for several decades.

Year 787:   The Azure Dragoon Valeroyant leaves Ishgard to defend a small village from the Dravanian Horde, but is slain in battle protecting a group of shepherds

Year 817:   Thirty years after his death, the Azure Dragoon Valeroyant is canonized as a Halonic saint by the Holy See.

Year 968:   The Temple Knight Ser Toriphaniel brutally slaughters a clergyman of the Holy See known to have abused orphans in his charge. The knight is tried for murder, but earns his release in a trial by combat. Ser Toriphaniel’s actions garner him recognition as the first “dark knight”

Year 1058:   The Azure Dragoon subdues a massive dragon in the western highlands of Coerthas, aided by a contingent of mages from the Holy See who spellbind the foe into slumber. The body and limbs of the great wyrm are enveloped in ash and stone, forming the floating isle known as the Dreaming Dragon.

Year 1146:   The lady dragoon Reinette carries out her revenge on the dragons who killed her lover. She then lays down her spear Gae Bolg, and takes a vow of poverty, living out the rest of her days as a nun in the service of the poor and downtrodden.

Year 1189:   Lady Reinette, the former Azure Dragoon, expires in a nunnery at sixty and six.

Year 1289:   Lady Reinette is canonized by the Holy See a century after her death. Unpopular with the clergy for having abandoned her duties as a dragoon at a young age, she is beloved by the commonfolk for having devoted her life in service of the poor and downtrodden. The See elevates her to sainthood, in what is widely seen as an attempt to distract the public from corruption within the church.

Year 1354:   The mighty Dravanian general Darkscale awakens and leads an army of wyverns in a raid on the villages of the eastern Coerthas highlands. The Temple Knights and dragoons join forces to retaliate and succeed in repelling the dragon threat. A mortally wounded Darkscale tumbles from the heavens and plummets into the depths of Clearwater Lake, and the battlefield is henceforth known as the Field of Glory.

Year 1377:   Stonemason Percelle begins work on a statue of Haldrath to be erected in the western highlands of Coerthas.

Year 1406:   Stonemason Percelle completes the statue of Haldrath in the Coerthas western highlands.

Year 1483:   Skysteel Manufactory is established and begins developing new weaponry to be used in the war against the Dravanian Horde.

Year 1558:   Count Tarresson de Dzemael disburses his own coin to finance the excavation and construction of Dzemael Darkhold, a subterranean fortress and safe haven from dragon raids.

Year 1560:   Upon the death of his predecessor, Thordan VII is ordained Archbishop of the Holy See.

Year 1562:   The mountain village of Ferndale is laid to waste by a recently awakened Nidhogg.

Ishgard withdraws from the Eorzean Alliance, declaring the Garlean threat all but over with the retreat of the imperial forces to Ala Mhigo. Historians agree, however, that the true motivation for the withdrawal was the Holy See’s desire to divert their full military strength to the Dravanian threat in the wake of Nidhogg’s reappearance .

Year 1564:   The construction of Dzemael Darkhold experiences significant delays due to a scarcity of building materials.

Year 1565:   Ishgard places severe restrictions on chocobo exports after grazing pastures are devastated by the Dravanian Horde.

Year 1567:   Voidsent gargoyles attack a team of stonecutters at work in the tunnels beneath Dzemael Darkhold, leaving few survivors. Construction is postponed indefinitely, and the incident besmirches the name of House Dzemael.

Year 1569:   Tarresson de Dzemael relinquishes his claim to the head of House Dzemael and passes on the countship to his eldest son.

Year 1572:   The city states of Limsa Lominsa, Ul'dah and Gridania form their Grand Companies. Subsequent events leading up to and in the aftermath of the Seventh Umbral Calamity are detailed in Memories of the Calamity.

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I’m not sure if these have already been posted (because what hasn’t, at this point) but if you ever wanted to figure out which circle of hell or heaven you/your character was going to, here you go.

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Somewhat recovering from conplague or something like it, so I’ll get a few multi-posts out of the way here since I’ve been quiet save for some reblogs.

For a couple of anons, Void and Voidsent ½! There’s info on Mhach and the Nymian plague as it has to deal with that same topic.