#Bahamut ffxiv

[estinininininen]

FFXIV fans this is your daily reminder that if Estinien has even a tiny fraction of Nidhogg's memories he knows a hell of a lot more than he's letting on.

Nidhogg remembers at least three Umbral Calamities, and probably four or five. Safe to assume he defended Coerthas from Allag, and that he heard Vrtra looking for Azdaja and the primal-ification of Bahamut through dragon song. The DRG 80 quest states Nidhogg considered himself guardian of the star after Midgardsormr. At his prime, Nidhogg may have even known or been trying to learn his father's abilities - the changing form, the crystals, possibly even the ability to speak with Hydaelyn. Theory time: Hydaelyn may have even rejected him for being a dragon supremacist.

Estinien's shortcomings (if you don't have another silly explanation for them) have to do with mortal knowledge and interactions, like niceties, coin, and bluffing immigration officers. He asks for the Scions to explains things because they have discovered stuff nobody knew before this, or they were using vocabulary he doesn't know.

In Shadowbringers the idea of Ascians doesn't phase him, but the different shards and time travel nonsense throw him for a bit of a loop, coincidentally things Nidhogg wouldn't know. He is very tense at the idea of the WOL seeing his memories, and leaves immediately, but after telling you he shares Nidhogg's memories in 5.5 he chills out and hangs around more. Like he saw the writing on the wall about joining the Scions and covered his own ass in case of an Echo vision.

In Endwalker the reason I think he said "At least I will not pretend to understand this talk of ancient primals or the Final Days" and the like is because he has to constantly sort out if what Nidhogg knew was correct. He is remarkably chill staring up at Hydaelyn like "ya bitch let's go let's fight God." What Hydaelyn said to Estinien about hate becoming love is ambiguous enough it could also apply to Nidhogg.

And you are still the only person he has directly told he shares some memories with Nidhogg. He is deliberately not sharing this with people. He doesn't want to be Nidhogg. Most of the information is pointless outside of Coerthas in the 7th astral era. He makes an exception when he is the only one who knows something important - there's a Great Wyrm behind the curtain, how to motivate depressed dragons, the Eyes of Nidhogg are active again better find them, Omega? wait the thing that chased Midgardsormr? if not me better make sure someone handles it, oh shit Zenos is standing back up that's not Zenos anymore-

Then he just wants to have a drink and some dried squid and chill out. Not get interrogated about past kingdoms, or have his brain and eyes poked at when he dies ( . . . if he's even mortal anymore.)

[ffxiv-smackdown]

[monstermonger]

The binding coil of Bahamut

[estinininininen]

'dad's dead again? taking out a human invasion? aw i missed all the fun'

nidhogg slept though the calamity lmao

[itsmeishmi]

Year of the Dragon Year of the First Brood! HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR! With my attempt at a Bahamut and Ratatoskr too! ;v;

[absolem0]

have been replaying MSQ as a summoner, and it is pretty funny

[snail-fever]

just did coils (very late ik) and i have so many feelings about it in general - but especially about urianger's worries regarding alisaie's mental health and grief. he's such a sweet friend and i like to think she confided in him in private when she didn't have to worry about impressing the wol.

[theninthlaw]

A REALM REBORN

Just a piece I had some fun with, enjoy!

[shuuzaar]

Nice to meet you Solar Bahamut!

[calico-heart]

You know the whole Louisoix getting tempered thing becomes a LOT more horrific when you realize tempering is less like demonic possession and more like being turned into a zombie who's only desire is to "feed" (i.e. kill or turn others)

I guess it was sort of easy for me the first time running the Bahamut raids to just brush over it as an exciting identity fakeout plot twist. Oh this isn't the real Louisoix! Twins will be fine, we're doing cool hero stuff!

But up until Endwalker, tempering had no cure and it eventually warped the afflicted into mishapen monsters as their bodies deteriorated. If a Primal got a "bite" out of you, there was no escaping it. And it's not abstract fantasy magic to the people of Eorzea, it's a very real threat that required the straight up execution of friends and family because killing them was the only mercy you could offer.

And with Louisoix... like, this figure comes up to you sounding and looking like your grandad. You think you found him! He's alive! But then it turns violent and you realize your grandad is dead. "Something" else that's taken over and warped his body, and it wants to kill you.

Maybe some part of his memories and impulses are still in there and come through for flashes, but the thing controlling him has already won, because he's already dead. All the hopes you had of a reunion or a peaceful end for him have now been dismembered because this monster wearing his face is loose and bent on destruction.

And if you don't kill that thing yourself, and take down this hive and its leader, a LOT more people are going to die.

That's. Extremely traumatic actually.

[estinininininen]

Varshahn:

Estinien:

Varshahn:

Estinien: . . . So, those are dragon scales.

Varshahn: yeah what about it HUH

Estinien: Did y'all . . . ?

Varshahn: . . . imprison or kill a dragon to get them like SOME countries would? No.

Estinien:

Estinien: ok cool

Varshahn: cool

Estinien: Good.

Varshahn: Good.

Estinien is then kidnapped by the Thavnair alchemists, complaining loudly the whole way, and no one knows if he's putting up with it cause Scion duties and this is just how he plays nice - he bitched all the way to Hraesvelgr, after all - or if he genuinely just forgot he could jump

Meanwhile, in the meghaduta

Vrtra: hey Ahewann cancel DEFCON 1, this guy is cool. Total softy. Also kind of a dumbass. Of course I'll be glad to help clean up, I'm not going to make the maids clean up dragon piss. Ahem. Did I ever tell you about my brother Nidhogg? Yeah, the one I've avoided answering for a thousand years. Uh, well, yeah the dramatic asshole who went off the deep end, yes. Him. Too be fair it was about our sister, Ratatoskr - yeah, oh I'm actually really glad you remember what I said about her! She was a lot like . . . No, it's fine to interrupt, I got lost in memories for a second there. Ummmm, yes, I suppose it has influenced why I . . . hestitate telling everyone I'm the satrap. But Nidhogg took it way too far, yeah. He used to be a cool big brother, I swear. Knew how to get under everyone's skin, didn't put up with bullshit, but let kids climb all over him if it made them happy. Whenever I visited he was always swarmed by his own kids and all his niblings, and teaching them how to hunt and defend themselves against morta - Oh, but that was a couple Astral eras ago, sorry. Turns out Tiamat and Hraesvelgr weren't joking - yeah my other sister, Tiamat, the one who went into battle recently with this guy against, uh, yeah, the corrupted image of another brother of ours. Bahamut, yeah - yeah. The one who almost destroyed a continent, yes. Hraesvelgr? Hraesvelgr's our other brother who lived with Nidhogg for a long time - yyyyeah yeah you heard right, last time they met Nidhogg did call his dead mortal wife a whore and tore Hrae's wing off. Anyway! Anyway they were right, this guy really is like if you sucked all the filling out of a Nidhogg donut and tried to squish it into an Elezen. Yeah, sorry, that is the closest I can get to describing dragon aether stuff. Is he . . . yeah he's the guy who technically killed Nidhogg and spent his whole life training to kill dragons but like I just said, Nidhogg smooshed the two of them together. He's all but a dragon walking around in a mortal meat suit and seems mostly just embarassed by it. Kiiiinda looking forward to messing with his head more, honestly. Let's get the curtain ready. Ahewann, why do you look so scared?

[ancillaryjurisprudence]

oh cool the old 1.0 period patch notes!  Lets see what features they were adding in the year after the official release of the game!

*touches ground* something terrible happened here

[ffxiv-smackdown]

[syogren-heartofcrystal]

"Yeah this setting is what remains after Dalamud descended on the land and exploded, revealing a really ancient dragon primal named Bahamut, who then laid waste to Eorzea."

"Why are you spoiling me?"

"I'M NOT, THAT'S ALL ANYONE TALKS ABOUT FOR THE FIRST 50 LEVELS OF MSQ!"

There is something amusing in being able to talk about the Seventh Umbral Calamity all you want without spoiling anyone, because that's just...the thing that happened right before the game starts.

It's like. The first thing you learn about, and you learn about it immediately.

[vulcanautus]

luminous calamity

[itsmeishmi]

CALAMITY