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cfs-melkire · 1 month ago

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Muting this post. I'm seeing a lot of actual fanon and/or headcanon now in the notes, absent any citations from the game text or the lorebooks or developer interviews. I'll probably end up sitting down this weekend and making a big post specifically on tempering. A lot of the older lore and interviews are clearly outdated, but those instances are obvious and most of the rest still holds up. Probably worth revisiting.

Not gonna reblog the person answering a good-natured ask because I don't want to be That Person, so instead I'll just post this here.

The unsundered Ascians were tempered by Zodiark. This is canon. We get the optional dialogue (read: optional as in, "if you do not speak to the NPC that doesn't have the quest marker, you will miss this bit of dialogue/lore") from Emet-Selch himself during the Lv. 76 quest "Best Way Out." Image below.

#ffxiv #it's kinda galling bc there are people on this very website who've compiled all this shit for us #and we have garlandtools these days #and youtube clips of almost every scene from 2.0 onward imaginable #and we have the inn room journal besides for revisiting cutscenes #to say nothing of those of us who replay MSQ multiple times via alts #so i have to wonder if this is a lost in translation thing #or if folks only ever played through the game once and thus only remember things hazily #my least charitable thought is always “i wonder how many people potskipped”#been playing since 2014 and lemme tell you there are things about this game that stick with you if youve played it live for that long #consequence of having months between patches to ruminate on shit #anyway im rambling now #muting notifications #don't fucking @ me

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