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bnuuywol · 2 years ago

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i need to hear your own drk lore bc i need to slam my custom drk lore in return. i want to hear your bnuuy’s lore. sorry for the aggression xiv brainrot is string

Lmao no need to apologize! I get it, I'm much the same xD

If tis lore you desire, then tis lore you shall get:

SO. Walk with me to the Thirteenth for a moment, during the era of the Contramemoria before the Flood of Darkness. There's a bun there whose name is Einarr Odysseus. He's a memoriate, and he's the shard of Azem who resides in the 13th. Viera (or whatever Viera may have been called in the 13th) having the long lifespans they do, Einarr was alive and fighting from as early as when the first eidolons began appearing all the way until the Flood of Darkness consumes the world. He's not saved from the Flood, his body is warped by Darkness and he turns into a voidsent.

Flash forward to the Fifth Astral Era of the Source when the War of the Magi is raging. Black mages summon voidsent to the Source in order to do their bidding and fighting in the war. The voidsent that was once Einarr is summoned during this time. Bound by the magicks of the mage who summoned him, he answers the call, he fights, he falls. Being in the Source, his soul is drawn into the Lifestream. Within the madness of the Sixth Umbral Calamity, as the shard from whichever world was rejoined merges with the soul of Azem in the Source, Einarr's soul, the shard from the 13th, is drawn in and merges with it as well.

Having been completely corrupted by Darkness, however, leaves a permanent change upon that shard that seeps into the rest of Azem's soul in the Source. When Phoenyx is born, his aetheric balance is naturally tipped towards Darkness. In fact, trying to tip it away from its Dark-aspected nature leaves him unbalanced and unstable.

Now flash forward with me once again to Heavensward. When Phoenyx finds Fray's body and soul crystal and Fray tells him there's a darkness growing in him, he's unknowingly speaking of this very thing. Sure, this is already a part of dark knights, using their own internal "darkness," meaning their negative emotions (or strong positive ones when you get around to post-level 50 and its a strong sense of love and protectiveness that fuels it) to create dark energy woven of their own aether. But for Phoenyx it's rather more literal. His aether is Dark-aspected. So rather than creating this energy, it's closer to the kind of aethetic manipulation that black mages use with elemental forces (which, in part too is why he could harness dark knight so easily, because he already has a background in "dark magic"). He uses his emotions to fuel his ability to manipulate primordial Darkness. The kind of Darkness controlled by the Ascians, the kind of Darkness that Zodiark himself is woven of.

So while Phoenyx is the Warrior of Light, Hydaelyn's chosen, protected by Light, as a dark knight, he actively uses Darkness in weaving the spells associated with the art. He doesn't even realize he's doing this. By the time he understands his Echo ability to sense his own aetheric balance, he assumes its tip towards Darkness is because he's a dark knight, a conclusion Y'shtola comes to as well. But he doesn't realize that its actually the selfsame force that the enemy uses against them. That in being Hydaelyn's "Bringer of Light" while having a soul seeped in Darkness, he is a living manifestation of the balance of the star.

This is also why he's so strong against sin eaters and Lightwardens in the First, why he's able to stay somewhat stable with all that Light inside him until the fourth Warden. But it's also the reason he's so fucking terrified of turning into a Lightwarden. Because even if you put aside the implications of what that dooms the world and his loved ones to, there's just this deep seated memory of Einarr's that's etched into his soul. The memory of being corrupted by Darkness and turning into a voidsent. The powerlessness and agony that came with it. He's scared because he remembers what it feels like and never wants to go through that again. But Phoenyx doesn't consciously realize this, it's a trauma burned into his soul.

This,,,,,,,,,,,,, ended up being way longer than I intended but please share yours also!!!! I wanna hear your lore!

#ffxiv #phoenyx eldritch #*matpat voice* the LOOOOORRREEE #this actually originally started with an AU i write with fatewalker-phoenix #in which that shard is actually just reincarnated as its own person #and so her wol is the other 8/14ths of azem while he's 1/14th of azem #but i like it so much and my gf prompted as to why its not just canon also #so i made it canon lmao #endwalker spoilers #endwalker patch spoilers #shadowbringers spoilers

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ammonitetheseaserpent · 2 years ago

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Celestial Bodies And Magic

- The sun, moon and stars are all powerful sources of magic, which they radiate out around them. Reaching the Earth’s surface, the sun’s magic gives rise to life, and the moon’s magic allows deceased life forms to live on as spirits.

- The stars are too far away from earth for their magic to reach the planets. Fortunately, being between the sun and moon (in a way) - and thus, able to be reached by both celestial bodies’ magic - allowed the stars to form a group of ambassadors, powerful Emissaries that could reach the earth themselves.

- The combination of life magic and spirit magic made the Emissaries beings that are neither alive nor dead. They can interact with the physical world the way living beings can, but they’re definitely not organic - kinda made of magic, in a way - and they’re pretty close to immortal. They’re also able to take the form of any type of living being they choose.

- By far the youngest of the Emissaries (and the cat one) is a being called Orion, who shares a lot of the views of their siblings, but also holds a genuine curiosity about mortals and a desire to make friends.

Great Cats

- In prehistory (particularly the Jurassic Period-Pleistocene Epoch), the large, powerful and dominant species were also powerful magic users and lived long lives. However, the Emissaries would eradicate these species each time it was feared they were becoming too powerful.

- Then in the Pleistocene there were the Great Cats, which were the pinnacle of felines (felines in general being among the most skilled magic users in the animal kingdom) and are remembered best for the skills they passed down to their modern cousins. This is when the Emissaries finally decided to wipe out powerful innate magic among Earth species altogether. Taking advantage of the fact that humans were starting to chop down these species' populations via hunting, they joined in, as well as placing curses on the Earth so that no powerful magic would come from beings on its surface again.

- During this massacre, one of the Great Cats in particular hid his only son to prevent any harm from coming to him. He also turned on Orion, who (unbeknownst to him) was only there to play with the Great Cats, and banished them from the physical realm with a powerful spell, leaving him only able to appear in shadows.

#the owl house #the owl house au #toh au #the wing clowder au #warriors #warrior cats #warrior cats au #orion the emissary

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