#ffxiv crystarium

[enthusiasmforpretty]

So I was playing FFXIV patch 6.5, right? Your character and new NPC Zero go back to the First for plot reasons. The way it reintroduces you to your friends there, and the setting, just had me bawling at the title card.

Headcanon for this convo: Zero: Why are you crying? Jayesh: I had some of the worst experiences of my life here. Zero: So you are experiencing grief? Jayesh: No, it was wonderful. Zero, who doesn't understand human emotions: ???

[werepuppygaming]

First splendorous tool maxed out! Just 10 more classes to go....

[shippyprincess]

Would you go on a date with her~?

[avirael]

I already took a picture of Crystarium a while ago but I had to take another one because the moon was such a nice detail here.

[fey-t-ff]

[oikvw]

a tale of two cities

[sasseebeee]

LET HIM YAP!!!!!!

[uldahstreetrat]

while I'm sure it's unlikely we'll get any new housing wards anytime soon (though I can certainly hope one day), I'm curious what people think

I also included end game hubs despite them being more unlikely, I just wanted to see what people are wanting! 人´∀｀)

[actual-haise]

>arriving at the Crystarium >asking Lyna whether the Exarch is normal or that cat >she doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is normal and what is that cat >she laughs and says "he's a good leader sir" >pull off his hood >it's that cat

[catgirlhell]

qnabyano my beloved

[hodinodi]

brave lil aspiring rascals 💪

[ubejamjar]

Tired? Why don’t you take a break? You’ve earned it.

[unionizedwizard]

going through endwalker MSQ on my 2d character and there's something crazy going on about corvos like

-> garleans claim to be originally from corvos (that they call locus amoenus. which is a whole thing that would deserve its own 10000 words essay but anyway) before they got "kicked out" by "the corvosi" (?). to this day they still dream of "going back" and the infamous radio song/national anthem is a reference to this project (even though corvos is currently under imperial rule...?)

-> g'raha is from corvos. his tribe has been living there for centuries after the fall of the allagan empire, in order to protect the allagan ruins and artefacts from being used by a new aggressive imperialist nation (hence the allagan eye), and was sent to sharlayan as a safety measure when garlemald invaded corvos (within his lifetime)

-> according to a researcher in meryall agronomics, labyrinthos was modelled on corvos, because its unique, favorable and varied climate was deemed ideal for experimentating on different biomes and growing/creating new types of plants (also it's clearly supposed to be italy (and rome). g'raha italian-coded confirmed)

-> according to g'raha himself (and very obviously), the crystarium and its various locally-grown crops/greenhouses meant to breed and safeguard new strains of plants (necessary endeavor for survival in a post-apocalyptic world) was directly inspired from sharlayan, including labyrinthos

-> while this was, as far as i know, not directly confirmed in canon, i'm pretty sure we can assume that labyrinthos was modelled on elpis (aka the original locus amoenus) thanks to hydaelyn's intervention & her orders to the loporrits

conclusion: ???? everyone is weirdly obsessed with the mysterious and secretive fantasy italy to the point it's literally haunting the narrativeTM and a major reason for the plot to keep moving. and so i'm pretty sure we'll have a corvos-themed expansion soon enough

[melshardae]

ffxiv city-state desktop backgrounds, part 2! stormblood & shadowbringers edition

[saltska]

Team Crystarium! Wayward grandpa uwu

[zakifairer]

Another similarity to Azem.