#ffxiv padjal

[candycryptids]

Khorloo prefers to observe- from a distance. A great distance. Watching people live out their day to day lives….

featuring.. featuring... a lot of people... so many people... uhm... under a cut! With closeups!

FEATURING- from @cindernet-exploded , Shyssa, U’nia, A’vyra, Oketra, and Itself!

Ris from @this-is-ris

E-Nishka from @e-nishka-aosh

Flidais from @selnyam

Verbaros from @cerbaros

Percy from @sealrock

Ashe from @gatheredfates

X’vahl and Lyra from @zylphiacrowley

ALSO Lizzy from @lizzy-calaxio (she’s there I swear….😭 I didn’t get to focus on her a!)

Keathan from @dustedbooksandreadingnooks

Aaand there’s a Wind-up Kea to be spotted, from @nhaneh

And also my self insert is there OvO and Lev, Sasha [Krystdraga] and Ishi’li from myself… uwu

I’m pretty sure that’s everybody @v@ but I will update this with MORE tags if I find out I missed people 😤

Oh also the teensy blue bird is named Zaya…

This all happened cos I wanted to pose people watching in a tree…. But there was like, no people at all? Not even a little bit? So I gathered as many people as I could find publicly available and then kinda, Scrimbled them around as little as possible because 25 actors is a LOT of. It’s a lot of everything. Don’t do that.

Also why the hell does that tree sway 😭😂😂😂 [oh my god there’s a tag limit of 30]

[gay-simple-and-chaotic]

art post jumpscare

I've been doing nothing but drawing my padjal oc and Four just being unhinged here you go

(featuring several friends from the roleplay venue!!)

[vitis-azem]

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[this-is-ris]

Happy Halloween from the cutest Moogle Delivery Service in Eorzea!

ft. the adorable @e-nishka-aosh ♥

[lookbluesoup]

So while I get that Gridanians live under these.... essentially toddler-gods who can afflict the entire territory with horrible plague, who will severely punish well-intentioned children that were manipulated by adults instead of the adult, and can't communicate their desires clearly, which leads the community to adopt a lot of hostility to change, paranoia, hate and even violence toward outsiders, etc...

Unless there's more explanation for this I haven't found? I know I'm not 100% up to speed on everything Gridania, especially pre-ARR....

Keepers of the Moon were living in the Black Shroud outside of Gridanian authority, for generations, presumably not being laserbeamed out of existence. There would have been a lot going on outside of the Seedseer's effective reach, and there aren't Moonkeeper Padjal to make up the gap there, only Hyur get to be Padjal.

Miqo'te are described as traditionally being far more in tune with nature and eschewing things like major city developments and whatnot. They're predators, yes, but predators have a place and function in the natural balance of the world.

"Beast Tribes" are a made up word from Ul'dah to protect trade monopolies in Thanalan, and Miqo'te could easily have ended up on the wrong side of that label if the rich elites had wanted them barred from the city. Historically, they're a lot more "feral" than a lot of the other spoken races.

I mention all this because it's unlikely the Elementals divide people into Beast Tribes and Human Races. Sylph's aren't being deleted by the Elementals, either, despite certainly having no inclination to live like the Gridanians do and being fairly mischievous.

My point being... I wonder if maybe the Gridanians kind of brought the Greenwrath on themselves. A lot of the time. The same way that some IRL religious institutions preach hate in the name of a deity and stir paranoia and fear of eternal condemnation. They create sins where there didn't need to be... Justifying division and destruction and isolation out of fear (and thus a need for control), and actually creating their own problems.

Elementals might not care about a lot of the stuff Gridania does, its clear a few times when something bad happens to someone, even just getting sick, panic strikes that the Elementals are behind it and people act irrationally out of fear, like the IRL Salem Witch Trials.

If you look at places like Haukke Manor... a country living in balance with nature does not need massive monuments to vanity like that. And there's apparently a whole quarter devoted to mansions for nobility in Gridania (which the npc says we're not allowed to visit.) Why do you have that. Why do you think that promotes peace with the natural world.

There's Wood Wailers who talk about wanting to kill Moonkeepers on sight, just in case they're "poachers." That's sort of like killing wolves because they're predators. Outside of some genuine bad apples, though, a lot of what seems to drive actual Moonkeeper poachers AND Duskwight Elezen to banditry is a straight up need to survive. Gridania's essential demand that they have dictatorial rights over management of the forest leads them to disrupt these group's lives, sometimes with exceptional cruelty.

I know that "central authority" is kind of... not super really a thing for Gridania, power is pretty divided up and a lot of it seems to run on an honor system. But that seems to have led to a lot of Process Loss and enabled a lot of prejudice and abuse to run rampant. Especially now that the Elementals are weaker than pre-Calamity.

I guess basically I wonder if the reason Sylphs and traditional Moonkeeper clans managed to survive out there was because, unlike Gridania, they don't have social systems built from the ground up on fear and condemnation. They're not constantly LOOKING for reasons to think the Elementals hate them and someone to blame for it.

They just live "natural" lives, that aren't inherently dangerous to the overall balance of the forest ecosystem, and they don't have an entire religious/government body dedicated to trying to interpret vague impressions from the Elementals (this is a HORRIBLE system of government and EXTREMELY susceptible to personal prejudices/bias), so these non-Gridanians run into conflict with the Elementals far less often.

i.e. Moonkeeper kills a rabbit, uses the meat, skin, and bones, is behaving like a hunter, Elementals don't care. VERSUS Gridanian kills a rabbit, uses it the same way, but then a villager gets sick and their friends panic and they turn into a mob and punish the Gridanian, Elementals didn't care but now they're a little pissy bc you're disrupting the forest with your insanity.

Basically... Gridania is the real affront to the Elementals, their very infrastructure and their culture of micromanaging the forest and constantly looking for scapegoats, kind of flies in the face of actually living in balance with nature. The Elementals aren't omnipotent or a unified group, and seem to struggle to understand human minds anyway, so they're trying to work with this city-state and have established some kind of partnership, but Gridania is really its own worst enemy.

[cookiehana]

[brother-one]

since ppl on twitter are accidentally reinventing hetalia i wanted to do it but intentionally and i hope mine fucking sucks so i can laugh about it. woe hetaeorzea be upon ye.

it all started with this dumb thing btw. i changed his job to warrior tho bc it's better for him i think. bye bye giant sword he doesn't like u

[pillowboat]

vgencomm for fenbo ⸜(*ˊᗜˋ*)⸝

[vgen commissions] [twitter]

[odisauv]

Life Finds a Way by Aeollon

[diadoesart]

The first post for 2024 is actually a birthday gift I made back in October (that I realised I never posted) for @concaviddavid

[fisherrprince]

A kissaroo from me to you! (judo flips kan-e-senna)

also I had a dream everyone turned into a dragon . alphiesaur

[azttore]

im gonna try and start getting more comfortable posting here idk

i have a lot of stuff i dont share

but . consider the following

"fushi" or as known in this au, E-Mor-Tal, is a padjal of questionable origin.

the truth is that they are the result of a warrior of light's death- presumably, the nameless boy. upon this warrior of light's death, his body served as a vessel for an artifcial soul- whom of we know as fushi. in the process of reblessing the body to life, the hyur became a padjal. while it's unknown if his bloodline had the capacity to become a padjal, they no less exists as they are now.

E-Mor-Tal travels with Ekko, a lost child of a keeper's tribe. he has basically adopted her under his wing as a traveling cnj\whm.

while the original wol is gone and passed... his soul remnants have seemed to mix with fushi's, to which E-Mor-Tal becomes the new Warrior of Light

I kinda wanna make the immortal army into the scions

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

we will see

[origamihoshi]

She cute

[twelve-forfend]

it was not a good time!!

[buggleboos]

mysterious padjal involved in the upkeep of the moogle mail system, E-May-Yul

[cookiehana]

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