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"Hyur are so boring, why would you play a human in a fantasy game?"

Fine. Whatever. You find the idea of playing a human boring. But I'm kind of getting sick of people saying this to me, a hyur enjoyer, sometimes even directly under my own screenshots of my OCs.

Hyur in FFXIV are a *wildly* fascinating take on the "humans in a fantasy setting" that we often see in video games. They're an almost complete subversion of "humans are the dominant culture that everyone assimilates into and also they did a colonialism at some point, which is why their language is The Common One".

Meanwhile, hyur in ffxiv? They're MIGRANTS.

They're NOT the dominant culture. Are they the most numerous population in a lot of places? Sure. Because they have kids out the wazoo, but I digress. Hyur in ffxiv are defined by their adaptability and willingness to assimilate. They're *so* defined by adaptability that there are at least three major historical events throughout the astral and umbral eras called "The Great Hyur Migration". Hyur only arrived in Ishgard after the dragonsong war had started and you'd be hard pressed to find any modern Hyur born and raised in Ishgard who would define themself as anything *other* than Ishgardian. Their names may be slightly different than Ishgardian elezen, but I would theorize that might just come down to class dynamics as while hyuran noble houses exist, they're not common. However in Hingashi they've completely assimilated into eastern Raen culture, as an example. I actually hesitate to find any place we know ingame to be completely dominated by hyur, because in Gridania despite the elementals picking hyur to be padjal the culture seems to be most influenced by wildwood elezen, and in ala mhigo while hyur are the most populous of demographics, the entire culture seems to be a marriage of hellsguard and miqo'te. Ul'dah is clearly highly influenced by lalafell above all, and limsa lominsa is heavily developed by the sea wolf roegadyn. Hyur just kind of fit themselves in and adapt to what everyone around them is doing.

So why is the language spoken by all the peoples in Eorzea the same? Isn't that the hyuran language? Nope! It's pretty explicitly said that the common language is a pidgin tongue that was deliberately developed by merchants and was adopted widespread out of convenience. They even say that Tural took inspiration from this in developing their own (and it's only coincidentally similar enough that your party can understand it with minimal language barrier, funnily enough. That's a hilarious way to handwave 'eh, game mechanics' tbh).

Anyway hyurs are really cool and I really want to see more people appreciating them for the interesting lore they do have and also exploring this concept more. Like making their hyurs naturally predisposed to learning multiple languages for example.

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stop letting me say whatever i want

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Just a little curious.

Personally I use Anamnesis cause something about the lines all over the body with Ktisis activates my anxiety and I'm nice and comfortable with Anam. (Honestly, I already had to learn an entirely new tool once, I don't want to do it again.)

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some other fun gpose things from ktisis and brio :>

ktisis - autosave function don't let the ddos attacks get you down.

ktisis - pose monsters, mounts, and other unusual models by toggling on the "other" and "body" bones

ktisis - wrangle full control of the camera mess around with the camera's position, field of view, rotation and more. lock it to one character even as you edit others. disable collision and turn off the game's limit on how far the camera can be moved or rotated.

brio - make some fun effects (with these two boxes at the bottom of the appearance popout)

alpha adjusts transparency wet/wet depth does what it says on the tin tints make your character and gear fully change color, great for silhouette effects. the body/hair/other color options give you control over things like body and skin gloss too. i've used this to give a gold luster to skin for a sin eater look.

examples of alpha and tint adjustments:

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I have a few of these tbh. The most obvious one is one I've mentioned before but pretty much anytime some Garlean or other is spouting off about how if we really wanted a peaceful world we'd stop fighting them because the Empire is nothing if not internally peaceful Lyneth would be climbing up them like a tree to grab them by the face and scream "SUBJUGATION IS NOT PEACE!" until they got the message or passed out from the violent shaking.

As for snark, the biggest example I can think of there is that Lyneth would not have let the Exarch get away with pretending not to know anything about G'raha Tia. As soon as she asked about him and got told "Oh.. uh.. never heard of him." she would have spent the rest of Shadowbringers right up until the reveal snarkily calling the Exarch "Not-G'raha" at every opportunity. "That is a fascinating insight, Not-G'raha. Glad you're here and able to control this tower even though you are definitely not the only guy I know of who can do that. Obviously."

Silly FFXIV WoL Question.

Do you have any headcanons for how your WoL may have responded to notable pieces of NPC (or antagonist) dialogue during the MSQ?

Was there a statement that they could not help but challenge? A sentiment with which they voiced their wholehearted agreement? Perhaps a proclamation to which they could not help but respond with a snarky aside? Or maybe even an innuendo that they couldn't resist pointing out...

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For me it was neither. I mean, don't get me wrong I like them both as characters and adore the story of Shadowbringers and what they both bring to it but the moments that utterly broke me in that expansion and had me ugly crying through cutscenes came from Ardbert and Elidibus. Who are also narrative mirrors of one another. So much so that Elidibus walks around wearing Ardbert's face for part of the story. Both willingly sacrificed all that they are/were to save their worlds and people. Both were called back from that emptiness by pain still in need of healing. Both ultimately failed to save their worlds but gave up everything they were a second time to give the WoL a chance to save what remained of those worlds. The unrelenting helpless noble tragedy of both characters just really got to me. And for me that was the emotional core of the expansion as a whole. (With the patch story factored in) Which bled perfectly into Endwalker. Just exquisite storytelling.

Convinced everyone who resonates with shadowbringers ends up in the Emet-Selch side or the G’raha Tia side, this is not a moral judgement but rather commentary on how they are narrative foils so powerful they shift the course of your game experience. This isn’t to say you can’t like both—of course you can. But fundamentally you will resonate with one more than the other and I’ve never met anyone who liked shadowbringers who didn’t have their brain chemistry permanently altered by one of them and which one it was is like some kind of phrenology to me.

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...kupobrea

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he's not very used to affection

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8, 16, 19 for the get to know me ffxiv

Biggest Accomplishment?

This one is a tossup. It's either getting all of my jobs to level 80 because I wanted the Amaro mount.

Or it was getting all of the minions and weapons during the stupid Yokai crossover event because I really wanted the glowy little bumper car mount and then doing it again for the new jobs when they brought it back even though I didn't care about that mount at all but sunk cost fallacy said "I mean... you already got all the others..."

Not worth it.

Favorite Primal? And Also Favorite Villain?

Oh, It's not even a question. In darkness blooms the spider lily.

This fight is so much fun. And the storytelling is so good. And the look is so iconic. And this gave such a satisfying and tragic end to the story of my personal favorite villain in the game. Yotsuyu deserved her fate, but she also deserved her vengeance. Just not on the people she mostly turned that craving for justice on. Finding tragic closure in that final kill before her death? Perfection.

Thanks for the ask, anon.

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