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This old post got a few reblogs recently, so if you are right now out there wondering WTF viscount, you might be interested in “Titles, Names, and Forms of Address”, a lore compilation I did subsequently!

The Tumblr post with it is here for ease of rebloggin’.

Also, given that the above post is old, there’s some obviated lore (I wrote it before Encyclopedia Eorzea I came out, I believe). It’s since become clear that Grinnaux is a nephew of the current Count de Dzemael, for example, and I think Baron Thievenaux has been retconned.

Ishgardian courtesy titles, etc.

So this is the mystery that’s been boggling me: Why is Jannequinard de Durendaire a viscount (as numerous NPCs constantly remind us?)

It would make sense if the Count de Durendaire’s eldest son received the courtesy title of Viscount, but Jannequinard is the second son. ?????

I decided to delve into this mystery and related questions about the Ishgardian nobility. My take on the situation is under the cut (with minor spoilers for various Heavensward quests, but no big story spoilers.)

Keep reading

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WARK! Magazine - Third Astral Moon - Issue 13

 Some say 13 is a number of bad luck, and after struggling to get this moon’s publication out the door, I’m inclined to start believing it. I won’t bore you with the details, but rest assured we have fixed what needs to be fixed and will continue on as we have for the past 13 moons, albeit perhaps a sun later than normal. I’ve been told it’s fashionable to be late, but I feel a need to apologise a couple of dozen times before I feel completely comfortable again though my staff will roll their eyes so vigorously if I do that I fear they might lose balance. Instead, I’m going to do some mysterious foreshadowing by saying we might have something extra in the works to make up for it, something special. Until then, I hope you enjoy this issue as much as the others, and have a good sun!

Signed, Editor-in-Chief Charlette Bellamy

Click >>here<< to enjoy the full issue

OOC Information

WARK! is an in-character magazine created by Chocobo Dreams on the Crystal DC.

The magazine is available for free at the different adventure guilds, books stores, and libraries. If you would like a feature in the magazine don’t hesitate to contact us on Tumblr or Discord on Djill#8950

Any support is greatly appreciated. If you like what we do, then don’t forget to like and re-blog!

Here are some tags to hopefully help spread the word: @mooglemeet @balmungroleplayers @balmungrp @crystal-rp-ffxiv @ffxiv-crystal-rp

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Inventory checklist: Rosaire Ledigne

always | sometimes

➳ BAG backpack | messenger bag | pockets | satchel | wristlet | purse | duffle bag | briefcase | pouch | drawstring bag | fanny pack

➳ WEAPONS sword | dagger | knife | axe | mace | warhammer | staff | spear | throwing knives | darts | shortbow | longbow | crossbow | arrows | bolts | enchanted weapon | poison | firearm | bullets

➳ APPAREL light armor | medium armor | heavy armor | underclothes for armor | enchanted armor | mage’s robes | uniform | casual clothes1 | formal clothes | cloak | scarf | hat | helmet | gauntlets | bracers | gloves | shoes | boots | socks | hood | mask | sunglasses | belt | coat | jacket | necklace | bracelet | ring | earrings | watch2 | flower crown | undergarments

➳ HEALTH + MAGIC health potion | mana potion | stamina potion | attribute potion | alchemy equipment | herbs | chemicals | ingredients | bandages | burn cream | antidote | moisturizer | medication | scrolls | crystals | enchanting equipment

➳ STEALTH lockpicks | probes | trap-making tools | trap-disarming tools | disguise kit | forgery equipment

➳ TOOLS pen | ink | pencil | charcoal | parchment | paper | compass | ruler | saw | hammer | nails | shovel | pliers | needle | thread | utility knife | art supplies | fabric scraps | kindling | magnifying glass | fishing rod | matches

➳ PROVISIONS rations for themselves | rations for others | fork | knife | spoon | serving utensils | pot/pan | water | alcoholic beverage | non-alcoholic beverage | pet food | drugs | sweets | coffee | tea

➳ PERSONAL small amount of money | large amount of money | map | soap | comb | brush | cosmetics | hair ties | hair product | journal | razor | nail clipper | religious paraphernalia | tent | sleeping bag | blanket | pillow | sentimental item | comfort object | musical instrument(s) | toys | eyewear | identification | important document(s) | torch | books | plant | cigarettes

TAGGED BY: @elegant-etienne

TAGGING: Open tag! Steal it if you like, and please do tag me back so I can see what you wrote!

Comments:

Rosaire OWNS and uses many many of these things, like “hair product” and “tea”, but he carries little with him, since he rarely strays that far from his well-appointed home.

1Rosaire, who in fashion is a conservative Ishgardian, may have a different idea of “casual clothes” than some other Eorzeans.

2Pocket watch of significance.

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World Visit’s here! I’m working on preparing the next Cathedral Chats and the promised Growers’ Conference for Greening Coerthas as planned (hopefully both in May, maybe late), and I look forward to minglin’ with all you Crystal folk.

I do have a depressing confession to make, though.

For quite some time now -- maybe as early as 4.1, though maybe even with portents in late Heavensward -- I’ve not been feeling great about the direction FFXIV is turning, while at the same time I was struggling to sustain RP though 2018. I was expecting that the Starlight Feast in Ala Mhigo would be my last event and that I’d wind down Greening Coerthas after that. However, the announcement of Ishgard reconstruction and farming at November FanFest re-energized me, and I was excited for Shadowbringers.

Since then, all the news has been bad, and now the trends look even worse than I had been fearing before. Having taken the past few months to brood and reflect, I’m pretty sure now that FFXIV is becoming -- perhaps has already become -- a game that isn’t enjoyable for me. Aesthetics, story, lore, progression have all drifted away from what attracted me to the game back in 2.5. Doesn’t mean I think they’re now bad -- I know my preferences will put me in a teeny minority of the players for any game -- but they’re not for me, to the point that the little niche my tiny minority enjoyed doesn’t really exist anymore.

I’m so heartbroken. I loved this game. I’m grieving the loss heavily.

I’m not quite quitting, though. I still plan to get and play the beginning of Shadowbringers -- solely for Ishgard reconstruction and farming, hah -- and then probably at the end of 2019 evaluate if I should continue. So, like I mentioned: Cathedral Chats and the Growers’ Conference will still happen (though I may reduce the number of planned Chats to give myself less stress and workload), and my characters will still be around to RP with. And I’d love to meet ‘n’ chat with all of you, including new people from Crystal! Every time I take a character out for a spin it makes me really happy. But I’m not sure I can in good conscience commit to long-term plot arcs anymore, nor is it really practicable for me to be deep in event-running when a lot of days I can’t even log in without dread and disappointment.

My heart is heavy, and I’ll be grieving for a long time. But, having gotten a head start on that grieving process, I can also look back at some of the memories with joy and pride. (Such pride! I think I’ve done some of my life’s best writing so far for Rosaire.) What a wonderful time it’s been. I only wish it could be longer -- and perhaps it could still be, if the course of the game changes someday in the future and the things that once drew me in come back.

But for now I plan to pull back and put more energy into work, art, and other RP. You can still reach me by Tumblr and by Discord (send me a Tumblr message if you’d like to be Discord friends!) to arrange RP or just say hello! I also expect to continue maintaining my lore compilations at least through the end of this year, and I plan to keep them up forever, so don’t worry about those disappearing.

Thank you for being great RP partners, friends, and neighbors. Even if it ends up shorter than I could wish, our time together’s been an incredible, splendid gift.

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Farm Stand: Apr 27, 7-9pm EDT!

The Alpine Greening Institute hopes you shall stop by our humble Coerthan farm stand when we next visit our friends at Idyllshire’s Greengrub Mudplots with a selection of produce, food, and drinks for sale and trade, from the 7th to the 9th bell past noon!

        Wherever our stand travels across Eorzea, vendors of all stripes are ever welcome to join us for market day and to open their own stalls alongside.

      Our stand has been opening once a fortnight, alternating between early and late times. For the latest word of our stand’s next date and location, pray follow our postings here.

Keep reading

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The Ashen Enclave Presents: The Spring Children’s Festival!

Where: The Ashen Clinic: The Goblet - Ward 9 Plot 35

When: May 11th - 8 PM EDT

Server: Balmung - Crystal

Admission: Free (Donations Accepted)

The Ashen Enclave is proud to announce the first of hopefully many Childrens Festivals. Doctor Ferdillaix Tristelle of pediatrics will be hosting a festival celebrating spring, and featuring child and family friendly activities!

Help us bring this vibrant event to life! If you are interested in helping organize, assist, and offer you or your FC’s talents to this event in anyway please join the event discord @ https://discord.gg/H7Rvfzq. We’re looking for activity booths, storytimes, performers, and food vendors!

[We hope to have this event ready by May after the making of the Crystal Datacenter! Meaning off world RPers are more than welcome to, and encouraged, participate in the planning, and even participation when the time comes! If you’ve any questions please ask me in a DM here, Mandalina Bouchard/Ferdillaix Tristelle IG, or in the event discord!]

@balmungrp @ffxiv-crystal-rp @mooglemeet @balmungrpcalendar

[Shout out to @etani-a for the lovely banner!]

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WARK! Magazine - Second Umbral Moon - Issue 12

((To celebrate our 12th issue we’ll be having two Mog Station giveaways. Info on how to participate can be found below the cover image))

Well, this is a special one. Twelve moons ago Q’talhdi, Y’dhin and I begun this little publication with just the small, naive hope of spreading grand tales, lost stories and new legends to the rest of Eorzea. And every moon since, we’ve done our best, beside the many contributors we’ve had the great pleasure of meeting along the way, to make good on that dream. And what a dream it’s been, not just because (if I may be so bold) it’s quite the accomplishment, but because it’s brought us all of you, dear readers. And to thank you, we’ve made this issue a little special and will be running an event to celebrate Wark’s first anniversary. Our first full year of publication! May we have many more together in the future. 

Signed, Editor-in-Chief Charlette Bellamy

Click >>here<< to enjoy the full issue

Celebration Giveaways

We have not one, but two giveaways to celebrate 12 issues of WARK! Magazine!

IC: Distribution Raffle

Prize: 15 USD of Mog Station Goodies of your choice

Come and pick up a free issue of WARK! Magazine in-character at the Chocobokeep in Ul’dah on April the 20th between 6 and 8 PM EDT and you can join the free raffle for the above prize. Check this post for more details.

OOC: Re-blogs

Prize: 15 USD worth of Mog Station Goodies of your choice

Share the fun by re-blogging this post on Tumblr, and one re-blogger will be randomly chosen on the first of May to win the above mentioned prize. 

Only one re-blog per account counts towards this giveaway, and only the re-blogs from before the first of May will be counted. Make sure you have your inbox open so you can receive your prize. If you don’t reply within one week, we will randomize another winner.

OOC Information

WARK! is an in-character magazine created by Chocobo Dreams on Balmung and will be expanding to the Crystal DC once it is up and running.

The magazine is available for free at the different adventure guilds, books stores, and libraries. If you would like a feature in the magazine don’t hesitate to contact us on Tumblr or Discord on Djill#8950

Any support is greatly appreciated. If you like what we do, then don’t forget to like and re-blog!

Here are some tags to hopefully help spread the word: @mooglemeet @balmungrpcalendar @balmungroleplayers @ffxiv-balmung-rp @crystal-rp-ffxiv

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Farm Stand: Apr 14, 2-4pm EDT!

The Alpine Greening Institute hopes you shall stop by our humble Coerthan farm stand when it visits Fallgourd Float in the North Shroud, from the 2nd to the 4th bell past noon, to browse our selection of seasonal produce, food, and drinks!

        Wherever our stand travels across Eorzea, vendors of all stripes are ever welcome to join us for market day and to open their own stalls alongside.

      Our stand has been opening once a fortnight, alternating between early and late times. For the latest word of our stand’s next date and location, pray follow our postings here.

Keep reading

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Quality ranking meme: The ability to apologize!

A really interesting prompt for ranking characters by an attribute meme!

In some sense, Rosaire would be the best at apologizing. He is eloquent, skillful at expressing empathy and soothing feelings with understanding and humble words. And it’s because he’s a silver-tongued manipulator who’s cultivated the skill of “apologizing” as a means to an end. He will, most likely, never apologize sincerely for anything, because in his mind he’s always right. (He’s improving, but we’re still working our way from “earth-shatteringly enormous hubris” to “massively inflated arrogance”, so it’ll be a bit.)

As far as apologies that are sincere and well-expressed, I’d say:

Gentle Valroit‘s problem is more likely to be apologizing when he wasn’t in the wrong.

Kharadai has the easiest time admitting he was or did wrong, and easily apologizes without resentment. But he might be a little flat and direct, as if expecting the same dispassion from the other person, so it may not go over as well.

Denisot is quite proud, but he knows how to apologize to placate a client, and if realized he was really in the wrong, he’d be mortified and want to make amends.

Mrhael’s a bit gruff and holds grudges, but he’d apologize if he though the other person would take it well and they could then drop it.

Hyacinthe’s Real Bad.

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rank by who can sing and who can cook!

For ranking characters by an attribute meme!

Singing, from best to worst:

Hyacinthe is the best, I’m pretty sure, even if he’s massively out of practice and has Feelings and Issues surrounding it. He’s actually been trained! The rest haven’t and are waay behind him in a cluster of amateurs:

Rosaire’s an amateur, but not totally terrible. He has some musical training, but not in voice.

Valroit probably isn’t completely terrible, but definitely an amateur.

Denisot has no training at all but isn’t awful either.

Kharadai has some training in singing as part of ritual practices, but he doesn’t like to draw attention, so he hasn’t practiced much.

Mrhael is probably just bad.

Cooking:

Denisot, obviously, as an actual Ishgardian master culinarian. The rest are at best home cooks:

Kharadai is competent with simple Xaela cooking.

Mrhael is on the road a lot but has learned how to make camp food pretty decent.

Valroit is around a stereotypical “bachelor” or “undergrad student” skill level (you know “You know how it is with spaghetti” meme? that’s canonically Valroit) but has been improving since marriage. Yes, he married into a noble house and so doesn’t have to cook, but Perrine has an interest in cooking so they practice together.

Rosaire can boil things in a pot (but hasn’t in about 25 years). That said, he loves to eat food, so his food knowledge would give him an advantage if he ever ends up in the kitchen again.

Hyacinthe can boil things in a pot, but without that advantage.

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{ Send a quality and I will rank my characters in order of it }

Such as morality, ability to get up early in the morning, etc.

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Farm Stand: Mar 23, 7-9pm EDT!

The Alpine Greening Institute hopes you shall stop by our humble Coerthan farm stand at its next opening at Saint Reinette’s Forum in the Foundation of Ishgard, from the 7th to the 9th bell past noon, to browse our selection of seasonal produce, food, and drinks!

        Wherever our stand travels across Eorzea, vendors of all stripes are ever welcome to join us for market day and to open their own stalls alongside.

      Our stand has been opening once a fortnight, alternating between early and late times. For the latest word of our stand’s next date and location, pray follow our postings here.

Keep reading

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The Ashen Apron: Introduction to Culinary Basics II

Where:  The Ashen Clinic: The Goblet - Ward 9 Plot 35 - Room #28 When: Thursday, March 28th, 8:30PM EDT Server: Balmung Admission: Free (donations welcome) The Ashen Enclave is pleased to announce the second of it’s Holistic Wellness Workshops and Seminars! Director Leandre Mercier and Liaison Abelaire Cygnnoire will be co-leading a hands-on exhibition focused on the basics of the culinary arts for those with limited time and resources in mind. No prior experience required~ All participants will be encouraged to work alongside the instructors and create their own dishes: this time a hearty stew that can be made equally as easily over campfire or stovetop alike, certain to impress one’s adventuring companions! All ingredients and resources will be provided by the Enclave, we truly hope to see you in attendance! ( Many thanks to @etani-a for the lovely banner! @balmungrpcalendar , @balmungrp, @ffxiv-balmung-rp~ Any questions or suggestions for future workshops can be directed over tumblr, or to:  snarksnomy#5640 or math#1313 on discord! )

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                                              Little Ladies’ Day.

  FFXIV © Square Enix; Rosaire Ledigne is mine; Gwenneth Ledigne is @rose-in-the-stone's.

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Farm Stand: Mar 10, 2-4pm EDT!

The Alpine Greening Institute hopes you shall stop by our humble Coerthan farm stand at its next opening at Revenant’s Toll, from the 2nd to the 4th bell past noon, to browse our selection of seasonal produce, food, and drinks!

         Wherever our stand travels across Eorzea, vendors of all stripes are ever welcome to join us for market day and to open their own stalls alongside.

        For at least the rest of the moon, our stand shall open once a fortnight, alternating between early and late times. For the latest word of our stand’s next date and location, pray follow our postings here.

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WARK! Magazine - Second Astral Moon - Issue 11

Another moon, another issue and it’s still just as good to have you back dreamers and readers. With the turning of the seasons and the coming of brighter days and shorter nights, inspiration is in the air! Little Ladies’ Day has come around and I hope we’ve all taken the time to find the princess or seneschal that lives within us. Or helped someone else find theirs, just like all of us at WARK! hope we do with every issue. So don the new flower-crowns and spread confidence, bravery and that little spark of imagination. After all there’d be no WARK! without it.

Signed,  Editor-in-Chief  Charlette Bellamy

Click >>here<< to enjoy the full issue

OOC Information

WARK! is an in-character magazine created by Chocobo Dreams on Balmung and will be expanding to the Crystal DC once it is up and running.

The magazine is available for free at the different adventure guilds, books stores, and libraries. If you would like a feature in the magazine don’t hesitate to contact us on Tumblr or Discord on Djill#8950

Any support is greatly appreciated. If you like what we do, then don’t forget to like and reblog!

Here are some tags to hopefully help spread the word: @mooglemeet @balmungrpcalendar @balmungroleplayers @ffxiv-balmung-rp @crystal-rp-ffxiv

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Thank you so much to those who came by Cathedral Chats tonight!!! I hope it gave your character some interesting tidbits to think about, and I hope you had a good time despite my slowness and general disorganization!

I’ll be editing and posting up a log of the event in the next few days, grouping questions and answers together and trimming out chatter. If you would like to be omitted from the public log for any reason, please just let me know and I’ll make it happen!

Our hope is that next Chat will be after World Visit so that anyone from Crystal can come by, so it’ll be at least 1.5 months, maybe longer.

... also, if anyone has a screenshot from event and would like to donate it to me I would deeply appreciate it because I took a metric zero of them. because thats what I always do.