#but i'm also a fan of esteem/wol so that concept probably needs a big asterisk LMAO

[yloiseconeillants]

hi! what's the story with your Azem's name(s) 👀

oh so uh

i have an extracurricular interest in the myth of ariadne - and like, due to some pretty severe brainrot caused by too much free time at work and access to academic journals, i spent a LOT of time turning over concepts present which like, i immediately started grafting over my newly created ffxiv protagonist (i started the game a couple of months after starting my new job) - attempting to do so in subtle ways at first until the game gave me the concept of ancients like some kind of narrative birthday present

by the time that happened, though, i was pretty into the idea of splintering personas for my wol (as a by-product of both the drk quests and the shadowbringers motif of masks and deliberately choosing to embody certain narrative roles) that it all snowballed into deciding that my ancient, who otherwise self-isolates in amaurot as a labyrinth of her own making, takes on a different persona when she accepts the seat of azem to interact with other people in the world as the theatrical dionysos (always arriving, always leaving).