#Endwalker

[picaroroboto]

One of the typical imageries associated with the concept of "hope" is the image of light amidst darkness. FF14 does a lot of stuff with light and dark of course but in Shadowbringers they made light a thing of horror so they can't rely on the light image all the time.

Another usual image is a bird - "Hope is a thing with feathers..." from the Emily Dickinson poem. Meteion, the bird, was created with hope, but becomes a thing of despair.

So what's left as the image of "hope" in Endwalker is this:

From the cutscene "Live, Die and Know", where Venat monologues about hope and light everlasting while the camera cuts back and forth between her, blackened with blood, and the WoL succumbing to the Light corruption, both limping and stumbling along their paths. This is the face of hope in FF14 - broken, dying, bloodstained, yet defiant. That's what makes playing the hero in FF14 so damn magnetic.

Early ARR, I was cringing at the cliche chosen one, light vs dark type concepts. Further along I began to doubt Hydaelyn, given her ineffectiveness and the cruelty of the fate she bound the WoL to. But from Elpis to the end of Endwalker and beyond, I was proud, for the first time, to be called a Warrior of Light.

[raidenfanclub]

Catching hyth up on wol’s buds

[caemidraws]

Endwalker

[oograths-pizza-and-chill]

PSA

[chaobunnyarts]

ardbert in ultima thule

[winterheart]

[junjou-laina]

die

[marronbunnie]

the final day

[vanillafry]

A tea party on the moon 🌙

One of my pieces for @scionszine! 🥰

[birb--birb]

Also plz appreciate my stupid dragon boi bc I had the same fucking expression upon reading that

[crimson-sun]

Still chugging along with the FFXIV playing card deck - we're about a third of the way there!

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[friuut]

my queen

[demilypyro]

I love that they included portraits of the Loporrits. As if the large majority of them aren't totally fucking identical

[burriburi]

Left a fragment of my heart at the end of the universe.

[flushwithdarlings]

Ktisis Hyperboreia voice lines, movesets, misc dialogue

After Endwalker came out, I went thru Ktisis...an incalculable number of times and made notes of all the spoken dialogue for Emet, Hyth, n Venat. I posted it to Twitter but I've moved away from that place so I'm migrating my posts from there to elsewhere.

It's years old now and a bit incomplete but here they are if anybody is interested

Voice Lines

Movesets

Link to online spreadsheet (it got so big I had to move everything to this instead of just posting screenshots) here

Emet-Selch voiced ENG lines:

(I was going to make videos for Hyth n Venat but ngl I ran out of energy and also time)

EDIT:

Hyth's eng lines very quickly thrown together here

I might as well also do Venat's sometime next week

[neaththeheavens]

You've made your point, Estinien. Painfully well.