#aitiascope

[cosmicseashanty]

My entry for the FanFest EU 2023 art contest! I had the idea somewhere in my mind ever since I finished Endwalker... wanted to show the winding journey through the Aitiascope dungeon

I made it as a finalist, which I'm still so blown away and happy about...

[cylerini]

memory takes form

[matoyaa]

An update! Changed a lot but the web site is a lot more stable now.

Also got some more people to test the webbed site so there are more people. I've cleaned it up a lot, so i am going from testing more to beta.

Somethings I'm still working on:

Docs, for any residual information I may want to add.

Possibility of adding venues to the website (BIG MAYBE)

Refine search (ALSO maybe, its not bad but its not great)

So I am still giving tokens out for beta test users, just lmk. Check out the site here - https://www.aitiascope.com/

[roegadynroost]

Ephe took the boys with her in Aitiascope ♥

[misedejem]

Having any sort of ‘Emet-Selch is still around after Endwalker’ headcanon or AU makes the results of some of Dawntrail’s revelations quite interesting

[voidsentprinces]

Endwalker where everything is the same, but you meet the spirits of the past along the way.

[trustinsighters]

The Sharlayans constructed the Antitower in the Dravanian Hinterlands to study the aetherial sea, eventually learning of the Final Days from Hydaelyn. After the exodus, the Antitower was entrusted to Matoya. They built the Aitiascope in Labyrinthos to continue their research.

Much more advanced than its predecessor, the Aitiascope allowed Sharlayans to peer even deeper into the aetherial sea in search for Hydaelyn's voice that grew fainter and fainter by the years.

[abyssalmermaiden]

I can't say that you're losing me I always tried to keep myself tied to this world But I know where this is leading

Please no tears, no sympathy

[ubejamjar]

hmmm... im gonna make some emo fanart about this later...

[neriyon]

"Oh yay I can finally get the sne---- WDYM THERE'S S MINION IN AITIASCOPE TOO???

[luc1d17y-ffxiv]

AST is the RDM of healer LB3s.

[hydaelyns-bitch]

if i break the glass then i'll have to fly there's no one to catch me if i take a dive

i'm scared of changing the days stay the same the world is spinning but only in grey

[roegadynroost]

Pandaemonium

[asleepinawell]

ffxiv is like...I log in, I queue for trials, a clown man with tentacles attempts to yeet me into the void, I queue for normal raids, a clown man successfully yeets me into the void, I queue for alliance, a clown man's clone turns me into a frog, I queue for leveling, a pre-clown man throws himself at me buttass naked, I queue for 50/60, I witness the clown man's apocalypse, I do not queue for msq, I log out

all but one of these are the same clown

[ishgard]

how do any of you characters feel about Livia Sas Junius

Thank you!! This is a wonderful choice because damn was Ahru's beef with Livia kind of formative in those early ARR days.

(Send me an NPC and I’ll talk about my OC’s feelings on them)

Oh Livia. To say Ahru has a bad opinion of the woman would be an understatement, the attack on the Waking Sands did a real number on her mentally, the echo replaying the events in her nightmares mercilessly. The memory of Livia calling for Ahru specifically as she gunned down her comrades haunted her and twisted into a relentless rage and vengeance. It’s funny (haha…) to me how Livia was so dead set on this idea that Ahru was going to come steal everything from her, and Ahru’s vengeance was pinned on Livia stealing everything from her. She would kill her, burn everything Livia had worked so hard for, and protect those she could yet save.

So yeah, she kind of just reviles the woman; Ahru isn't prone to vengeance or grudges on the regular, she's generally laid-back and forgiving, but some (Livia and Ilberd) hit her so wrong mentioning them will still sour her mood some. She might entertain a pinch of pity, but definitely not in a remotely endeared sense of the word. Straight-up condescending pity. Of course, she’s dead now, so there’s a satisfaction to that, and Ahru has come far enough it’s not as if she’d have any reason to further dwell on- wait… what… Who’s that in the Aitiascope-?

Needless to say Thancred’s trust line “I thought we were past all of this.” (paraphrasing) cracked me up for how spot-on it felt. But, it’s true. There were far more important things to deal with, and she’s grown and learned and moved on, and Livia’s still festering in the aetherial sea, so nyeh.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i found this lore entry recently and have not stopped thinking about it since. it is HYSTERICALLY funny to me that fandaniel's villain origin story was just being a fuckin boomer

One of few great minds in a land that had seen the slow, yet steady numbing of its people's intelligence, Amon long lamented the sorry state of Allag , concentrating his early scientific efforts on developing medicines to increase mental capacity . He soon realized that it was not knowledge that the Allagans lacked. If anything, they had too much. What his people lacked was a leader. With a renewed sense of focus, Amon shifted his studies to the field of vivimancy, and soon was conducting experiments on his own flesh in order to attain his final goal - the resurrection of Xande the First.

— Encylopaedia Eorzea Volume I, p. 25