#final fantasy xiv 1.0 screenshots

[before-calamity]

Loading Tunnels

The maps in 1.0 are huge, and they are seamless. There's no boundaries and each zone leads to another.

In order to load each map into memory, 1.0 uses these loading tunnels.

They are devoid of anything - no NPCs or anything interesting, and are actually fairly long.

Plus, you can't sprint, so they take forever to get past.

Although ARR got a lot of hate for not having seamless zones...I'm glad they didn't incorporate these. For what it's worth, they are all different from each zone, although they are always of the long linear corridor variety.

[gunbreakmyheart]

Brings back memories...

[pippuns]

unspoken

[wilanserulia]

You can't be serious. THIS is going to be my partner? For crying out loud, he looks like a farmer!

A bit of a flashback to 1.0 today.

A look back to a day, about five years before the Calamity, when Wilan had just been asked by Minfilia to join the Path of the Twelve, an organization that gathers indivudals blessed by the mysterious power called "the Echo", intent on revealing its mysteries.

Those possessed of the Echo are immune to the Primals' mind-bending influence, so slaying the idols of beast tribes is going to be one of their main tasks. For their own safety, however, all members of the Path of the Twelve capable of fighting are to be assigned a companion and travel in pairs.

Wilan's assigned partner is going to be a swordswoman from Ul'dah called Nessa Corallen, daughter of a Sultansworn. Nessa however is not thrilled at the idea, bothered by Wilan's humble background and lack of formal education. When they first started traveling together she would often belittle him, treat him as no more than a squire, and insisting that she'd handle all the talking during their travels.

[rsenak]

febhyurary - day 11. begin

[thebeauregardbros]

MM6 - Snow

[valentine--heart]

Happy Starlight Celebration from 1.0!

https://castthemintotheabyss.tumblr.com/post/169430680463/french-haurchefant-strikes-again

[saberdance]

“Honey you can stop T-posing now. Honey.”

[pawcifist]

lowlevel lancer life

[lokhlae]

FFXIV: v1.0 landcapes

[before-calamity]

Camp Ever Lakes

Camp Ever Lakes is a camp in Coerthas. There is no equivalent in ARR, as the area of Coerthas it's in isn't even in ARR. Like most camps, it's literally a camp and a campfire.

[sajiri]

Evolution of an OC

Here I am to show how one of my favourite OCs has grown and developed over time. Of course, it’s Dijana.

A little background, typically when I play games, I have character archetypes that I recreate until I end up developing a story for them, and then I leave them in that media. So the ‘original’ Dijana, was my character archetype of ‘dark, evil magic user’. The name ‘Dijana’ means heavenly, divine, so it was meant to be ironic. She was never an evil character, just used dark or forbidden types of magic.

So lets begin.

Final Fantasy XI

There wasnt really customisation in this game. You had a few preset faces, each with 2 different haircolours. This was the one I chose. I don’t have a screenshot from that, but lets just say, that specific face looked terrible in game. Hurhur

Dijana was originally a hume. Going with the forbidden magic theme, she was a summoner. I eventually learnt about dat editing, so swapped her out for a shorter, pink haired model.

I had/have a developed storyline for this characer, and she still exists even though I’m not actively playing FFXI anymore. I eventually changed from Summoner main, to Dancer main. Here’s poopy old chibi sketches from 15 years ago.

FINAL FANTASY XIV

FFXIV 1.0 essentially recreated all the races and faces from FFXI...except for that one over the shoulder hairstyle for hume/hyur. So I went with the short haired style. There was no summoner or dancer back then, so I started as marauder in the alpha and beta tests (yes I’ve been playing that long). After the wipe and leading into official launch, I went archer instead.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A REALM REBORN

Still the same looking hyur that she’s been forever. I was excited for SMN release, but it didn’t match Dijana’s established history going all the way back to XI. I instead leveled as SCH, but went back to BRD.

During this time, Dijana’s story just...didn’t really convert well from XI to XIV. I RP’d a bit with her, she married a miqo’te man (no not G’raha), and eventually decided to finally try some new hairs and looks. She was still always pink haired white girl though.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: HEAVENSWARD

Ahh Heavensward. I wasn’t really into the idea of playing a lizard girl, but I didn’t like midlander’s princess run. I was very interested in Au Ra’s lore though, so as soon as the first expansion launched, I bit the bullet and race changed.

I essentially just tried to duplicate her look as an au ra, but I alternated between raen and xaela a whole lot. I could never decide which I liked more- lore wise it was xaela, but aesthetics (for the more vibrant tones) it was raen.

I started to gradually sort out her story a bit more, and decided IC she was mixed- raen mother and xaela father. I bought so many fantasias back then changing back and forth, and gradually making her skin darker each time. Also decided I didnt like the fish horns.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: STORMBLOOD

This is when I finally decided to sort out her character story and settled on staying as a xaela. Going into SB, I knew we’d be going to the Azim Steppe, so I went through the xaela tribes info to decide which tribe she was initially born to. I decided on Oronir as the most suitable, and so when I finally made it to the Steppe, I wanted to find a xaela man who most resembled Dijana, even if it was an unnamed npc, and make that her long lost father. Who did I find? Freaking Magnai. Obviously he is too young to be her father...and uh...cant seem to find a woman anyway, so he is her half brother.

I stopped doing any RP on Dijana during this time. To cut a long story short, my rp partner and Dijana’s husband decided he was going to rp out an ‘alternate’ timeline with another friend of his, after we agreed no romance RP with others on our mains, and made a far more detailed storyline than we had in years. Lets just say my feelings were pretty hurt, so I decided that Dijana’s storyline would not involve other player characters, only NPCs.

And because I love to torture my own characters, she was pining after G’raha Tia, who had locked himself away in the tower, never to be seen again.

Well, look how that turned out.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: SHADOWBRINGERS

By now, Dijana has a dedicated storyline without me constantly unsure wtf I’m doing. I discovered mods by now, so making Dijana look more how I imagine is much easier. Unfortunately, feels like all the hair mods I like don’t have working highlights :I So Dijana’s blonde/gold tipped hair doesnt really get to be seen much. But the best part? FREAKING FINALLY I GOT DANCER

Crystal Exarch’s presence in this expansion obviously threw a wrench into the plan of ‘lets make my character as miserable as possible’ but what the hell, now I can take sappy screenshots.

And now we are all caught up. Pink haired human to dusky lizard girl.

[an-ale-of-a-tale]

25. Which area/location would you live in if given the opportunity?

From: Final Fantasy XIV ask meme | Accepting

(( Does Coerthas as it was in 1.0 count?

(Not my screenshot)

I don’t care if there were Apkallu there. I don’t even care that Dzemael 1.0 traumatised me. ))

                                                                           [ @bloodsworn-marshal ]

[wilanserulia]

Oh, for the love of... Look, just let me do the talking from now on, you uncultured simpleton.

If I have to be honest, the place of Nessa as a character came to me while thinking back of Path Companions, 1.0's clumsy answers to having a mute character being the protagonist. Despite Minfilia assuring you that she wants your Path Companion to tag along for your safety it's pretty obvious that they just wanted somebody who could talk in your stead to NPCs in cutscenes while you, the actual protagonist, didn't so much as solemnly nod along. For the most part you wouldn't even feature in them.

I let that near-sighted storytelling device serve as inspiration, and from there I got the idea of a partner who was so high-and-mighty that would just boss her own path companion around and insist being the only one who had any kind of social interaction. It's not a rule I feel I have to hold myself to, but I feel endlessly satisfied whenever I can make sense of oddities that happen in game and rationalize them in my own narrative.

[orchestrion-works]

N'losk i[n] err[n] y Le[h]s A[h] n ong , a[h]m y S[h]is

Ta[h]i to[h] es[h] ahs wa[h], a[h]l dee[h] ais e[h]sk Kis[h] oom E[h]ss ith We[h]s...

- Drann Y Ahm, 1st verse --------------------------

my first arpasing cover AND also my first arpasing ust to release Marie's bank, and of course, it's gotta be a Final Fantasy song! (can't change my tastes, sorry)

Marie Kagekine is an UTAU voicebank type "Operaloid", developped by Adagio Fantasque.

"Dragonsong" is the theme song from FInal Fantasy XIV Heavensward. All rights to Square Enix. No copyright infringement intended.

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UST/tuning/mix/visuals/video: Adagio Fantasque voicebank: Marie Kagekine Arpasing 1.0 (by Adagio Fantasque) Screenshots & Visuals taken from the game Final Fantasy XIV

UST DOWNLOAD (includes off vocals): http://www.mediafire.com/file/h7at1ca1ecckv24/DRAGONSONG%20HEAVENSWARD%20ust%20by%20adagio%20fantasque.rar

MP3 DOWNLOAD: https://soundcloud.com/adagiofantasque/utau-dragonsong-heavensward-ffxiv

Voicebank Download (Arpasing 1.0):  http://www.mediafire.com/file/7zja7xc03qgea80/Marie_Kagekine_Arpasing_1_0.rar

Not interested in her Arpasing voicebank? Try her 3VCV japanese bank: http://www.mediafire.com/file/cd31uz87ss1pgnw/Marie_Kagekine_3VCV_FINALE.rar/file

and a big thanks to Adlez27 for their OTO work on this bank :) please check out their arpasing ressources website to learn how to use this bank: http://arpasing.tubs.moe/

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[xivlegacy]

Welcome to the XIV Legacy Archive

If you have an interest in exploring details of Final Fantasy XIV 1.0, please follow!  This blog is dedicated to giving you a glimpse into the past, both great and not so great, looking at details of lore, media from 1.0 and more.  We’re just getting started, and we’ll begin by re-posting the series of daily lookback screenshots from the 1.0 MSQ which I did last spring.  These will eventually be removed from my original blog, @winterdeepelegy, as that was intended to be a character blog more than anything else.  xivlegacy will be the repository for all things 1.0. Thank you for your interest!