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The Rabanastran Record

A Detailed Document on Dalmasca

Personally made by myself, this is a document listing out the lore of Dalmasca, general key notes and a history of the region (not including the Legend of Ivalice).

This can be used as a general writing and roleplay resource, due to the scattered nature of the kingdom's lore as well as missing details not carried over from the original FFXII source.

If any additions are made or changes, I will reblog this post with information on what has been changed.

Boosting this would be greatly appreciated!

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FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th, 2024

Welcome to YEAR 8 of our annual FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge, folks!

Last year we had 7,935 total entries! Which brings us to a total of 50,656 unique written entries over the last 7 years. That is just incredible! And something that I think that we should be super proud of as a creative fan community.

Whether you're new to the FFxivWrite community or a 7-year writing challenge veteran, if you'd like to give perfectionism in your creative writing process a swift kick in the butt, then this challenge was designed for you!

More info is below the cut~

Here’s the gist:

Runs from September 1st - 30th, 2024. During that timeframe:

Visit sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ once a day at 12:00pm (noon) PDT for the prompt of the day. Convert to your timezone accordingly. All prompts will be one word or brief phrase that you can interpret however you please.

You have 24 hours to write something for that prompt.

Submit the link to your entry post via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/jDWjFKfmeaGnH3PL9

There are no length or skill requirements (short & sweet is fine!).

There will be no 24-hour deadlines for the first week, September 1st - 7th. The deadline will go into effect on September 8th at 11:59am PDT.

Makeup/extra credit days every Sunday.

Every entry posted within its 24-hour deadline will count toward a participation prize raffle at the end.

You can join any time with any prompt #! There’s no need for latecomers to start with prompt #1. Picking up with the most recent prompt is A OK.

If you’re an artist and you would like to volunteer to do a simple black & white illustration as a participation prize at the end of this challenge, you can volunteer here!

RULES & MORE INFO can be found here: https://ffxiv-write.carrd.co/

(( banner art - by @dantinmikannes ))

Rules & Info || Prompt List || #FFxivWrite2024 || kofi

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your teens are for learning how to rp and your twenties are for the trial and error of rping around a rotating door of some of the most bugfuck unstable people you have ever met and your thirties are for finding contentment rping with somewhere between three and ten people who all came out of it stronger together 🙏

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still very angry at writing-prompt-s lol. actually i'm angry at that entire circlejerk going around trying to convince everyone that the palestinians on tumblr are all bots but writing-prompt-s is someone who has a big presence on this site and who knows what kind of damage they're causing by enabling this rhetoric that real ass people trying to survive a genocide are bots trying to scam you. idk i know this isn't productive but i'm feeling really petty right now and i really wanna see them get destroyed for this. cancel writing-prompt-s we as a collective deserve a writing prompt based blog that's run by someone who actually cares about people dying

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SEA'S COMMUNITY COMPENDIUM UPDATE

Happy weekend, all! 🪸

As of 03/16, I have added the following communities (in no particular order) to Sea's Community Compendium:

Au Ra Skin and Scale Care Guide — a headcanon/lore post surrounding au ra skin and scale care. Created by @blutkatze on Tumblr.

Dalton Family Estate — a family-owned employment company in Ul'dah.

The Honeystone — An Ala Mhigan themed establishment maintained by @magnificent-bee.

Teatime — a med-heavy roleplay Free Company hosting Teatime at Shroudrose Teahouse @tea-ffxiv.

I've done a lot of boosting for this lately but, just to reiterate, not only can you submit communities now via my ask box or google form, but you can also post your communities via my Discord at SEAFLOOR! If you're community leader doesn't utilise Tumblr, please let them know they can get in contact with me via that method.

Existing Compendium members can also post their communities in the Discord's affiliate section! It isn't mandatory, but the offer is there. ✨

My only major stipulation is that anyone joining the server MUST be over the age of twenty-one. If you're younger, please utilise the existing submission methods. It's nothing personal, I just don't want minors in my space.

I am also beginning to DM community leaders/resource owners for permission to be featured in the Compendium. "I'm not sure if my things count/are good enough," you say? Didn't ask, it is, shut up; get loved, nerds. This is predominately for communities I see via Tumblr, as I don't have the time to canvas multiple Discords and I'm not thrilled about messaging people I'm not mutuals with out of the blue. Again, please drop a line to the leaders of your community if you think they might want to be featured, especially if they're not on Tumblr.

There is never any pressure to be a part of the document and there's no hard feelings if you decline.

That's all from me (I said, like a liar), have a great day!

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Whenever people talk about funny lore facts about ffxiv, it's always the "guns are named that because they're blade-less gunblades" thing, so let's share some more fun facts about this crazy-ass setting:

-The word "War" is derived from a demonym, just like "Vandalize" comes from the vandal people that sacked rome. There was a tribe called the Warriors who were so good at fighting that the word for someone who fights good came from their name, and "having a really big fight" was named after that.

-The people of Eorzea use chocobos instead of horses because horses aren't native to the continent. --Unicorns were, but they were hunted to extinction.

-The reason ffxiv uses a different spell naming convention than other final fantasy games ("Fire II" instead of "Fira" for example) is that they used to use the old system, but the amdapori ruling council got tired of having to come up with new names whenever someone invents a more powerful version of a spell, so they passed a law enforcing a numerical system instead.

-The Viera have no sexual dimorphism until puberty, and treat males not as a different sex or gender, but basically as divinely appointed super soldiers.

-Each of the Seeker tribes actually have a totem animal, usually one that shares the first letter with that tribe. For example the Y are the Jaguar tribe, and the G are the Gryhpon tribe. There are also a Dodo tribe (D) and a Marmot tribe (M).

-Certain Keeper tribe names are said to have originated in the first astral era, meaning there are keepers out there with family histories stretching back over 10.000 years.

-Dunesfolk used to be nomadic, and built their homes on the backs of adamantoises.

-Dragons are from outer space.

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No idea the source, but here have this.

Edit: Source is Pretendo Games. Thanks to @happilyeveraftereveryday for finding them!

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I wrote a nearly 200 page document on fishing in FFXIV and published it for free online. (Ok, it's a google doc, so not that fancy). You'll find guides on mechanics, skills, every Legendary Fish, and now every big fish and glioaether fish added in Endwalker. I'll be updating it over time to make sure it remains a relevant resource. These are just some pages from the book. You can access the link here.

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Supposedly the map of The Source, as seen from the Moon!

Yay lots to explore!

Sorry it probably would have been helpful to put a link to where I found it.

https://twitter.com/umbraviolet/status/1396158963088035840?s=21&t=oMBtFSjYQ5cmJX__jqHnSw

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For anyone looking to describe wind in fic! Beaufort Wind Scale. I found some of these descriptions amusing.

Update: Sorry this is so hard to read. I may type it out when I have a minute.

Further update: Source is The Complete Sailor by David Seidman which is really very helpful and well written!

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Etheirys! (as of Endwalker.)

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