#final fantasy xiv 1.0

[uinre]

FINAL FANTASY XIV TRAILER (2010)

[before-calamity]

UFO over Ul'dah

So, FFXIV 1.0 had a lot of interesting things that appear in the sky. Dalamud being a big example, but in Mor Dhona you can see Garlean airships as well. Over Ul'dah is this little thing, which look like either an Ixal Balloon or some sort of Garlean flying thing (the ones that basically look like a pole with wings you see time to time). I dunno. I thought it was interesting, so I took a picture of it. If any of you have an idea what it is, please let me know!

[dukeofriven]

My therapist: Stop fixating on the subtly wrong 1.0 Final Fantasy XIV Cutscene Miqo'te with the fake British accent. She isn't real and can't hurt you. Subtly Wrong 1.0 Final Fantasy XIV Cutscene Miqo'te With The Fake British Accent:

[chronicallykiki]

Also, hey, I recognise that cutscene glow!

Maybe it's just me, but so far I'm finding the World Tour kinda boring. It's early days though, so we'll see how it goes.

[autumnslance]

This is probably the most complete as well as one of the better quality uploads of the 1.x quest "Futures Perfect" that I've seen.

The Path Companion was a partner for the WoL, someone to make and give commentary during the storyline. They were customizable like a retainer; you chose their race/gender (of the available 1.0 options), class, and personality type. They were also Ala Mhigan originally, with a (variable) relative in the Resistance.

The WoL is defended, and spoken to at the end, by their starter city archon (this is during the Circle of Knowing/Path of the Twelve era, as the Scions were formed by combining the organizations after the Calamity).

This is also the introduction of Gaius van Baelsar as an imperial enemy; going forward there were scenes that include him shooting Cid for being angry and insulting, and also talking to WoL about how Gaius disagrees with Nael van Darnus's plans and the Meteor Project. But here, he crushes the Resistance's operation and gets into a fight with the archons--that only ends when he calls in an airstrike, sending WoL into a brief Echo vision before returning home to get medical aid for their companion.

[astra-xiv]

Yuyuhase & Lulumo

I'm so thankful to my sister for giving me back in 2021 the occasion to play 1.0 on a private server... I got to learn that Yuyuhase's colleague at the Aetheryte Plaza wasn't the buggy bald male lala that was in the old pictures showed in the wikis.

He was bullied by a lady and I'm so here for it.

[gunbreakmyheart]

Brings back memories...

[mosthuggableffxiv]

Okay, so I never played 1.0 either and this was just something I was vaguely aware of from reading a wiki page on Urianger, so I actually looked up the cutscene and it's... less wild than I imagined, but still pretty great.

So this was in the time leading up to the end of 1.0. Moon's getting bigger, Nael van Darnus is doing their thing, all that sort of stuff. Our favorite grandpa Louisoix has his plan to pray really hard to the Twelve and use that to seal Bahamut (as seen in the End of an Era cutscene), and Urianger is going around and spreading the word in his own particular way (by which I mean cryptically and in cursive).

Hildibrand hears what Urianger is saying, but instead of "people need to go to these sites and pray to the Twelve", the conclusion he draws is "I'm the chosen one and I need to go save the world!" He asks Urianger about this, and Urianger is like, "yeah, sure, bro, you do you" (I am, of course, paraphrasing).

So Hildibrand uses a gun spear he found in a field to yeet himself at the moon.

Sometimes when I'm sad I remember that Urianger was the one who convinced Hildibrand to yeet himself at the moon near the end of 1.0 and that cheers me up a little

[pippuns]

unspoken

[14kuponuts]

I took this pic during 1.0 on the final day before they closed the servers. I believe it was Nov 2012. I took this in the city before I went to Mor Dhona for the "final battle". My character was called Keia and she was a Warrior.

This pic is taken during the 2023 Winter event in the same spot. Keia is now Keian and a male miqote. I still play as WAR but I'm currently on GNB.

[icewitcher]

Hreavsvelgr: gets a wing ripped off by Nidhogg

Me: Oh shit

Hreavsvelgr: the battle isn't over yet camera zooms on his eye who's actually missing only to show it in front of WoL

Me: OH SHIT !!!

Piano starts playing

Children of the Land, do you hear ?

Echoes of Truth that once were clear

Two souls entertwined, one true love they did find

Bringing land and heavens near

Me: Nope, I'm not going to cry. We have a wyrm to kill and a friend to save.

After-fight cutscenes happens:

Me: floodgates opens

[uinre]

FINAL FANTASY XIV TRAILER (2010)

[before-calamity]

Just a List of Padjali Names

Nestled in code is this list of Padjali names. While there are plently of Padjalis running around Gridania in 2.0+...not this much...at least not that I know of. Obviously you have the Elder Seed Seer, her siblings, the CNJ mentor, that one that's in Quarrymill, the one in Stormblood WHM job quests and the EW role quest that takes place in Gridania. Of course, I'm terrible with their 3 sectioned names, so I'm not sure which is used and which is not. I don't even know what this means, it might just literally be a list of Padjalis that once existed. An interesting oddity though.

[shadeykris]

Happy anniversary Final Fantasy XIV, you beautiful bastard, you really did it. ✨

[chronicallykiki]

1.0 Kiki

I'm using my old PC while I'm at my mum's, and I found my 1.0 screenshot folder.

[autumnslance]

send LOST for a scene from my muse's past in which they felt lost, literally or figuratively {Zaine}

He was supposed to protect her.

Zaine's axe and armor, Evienne's spells and social acumen. They were a matched set of opposites, a team that had traversed the realm for months now. That's how it worked.

On reflection, he really hadn't known her that long; less than a year. Yet everything they had gone through made it feel much longer, or at least more intense. They had shared their histories, their hopes, more than a few secrets.

Never a bed, though; as much as he'd come to love her, it was not in that way. And she was still mourning the loss of her spouse, besides. So fierce friends and comrades they were.

...They had been.

Zaine was going to tear Gaius van Baelsar into pieces.

"Hey," Yda said, wandering over to sit with him.

"Hey," he replied, taking a deep breath and sitting up. "You doing all right?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. How--"

"How about Papalymo? And Thancred?"

She frowned. "They're all right, Zaine. Everyone is."

Not everyone.

Before he could say more, she stuck her finger against his lips. "How are you?" she demanded to know, glimpses of her blue eyes through the mask showing her own sadness and resolve. She removed her finger.

Zaine slumped. "I keep feeling like I did everything wrong. Missed something, forgot something. If I'd been a little more on guard--and I know, I know that's not how it works, I know you all rushed cuz you only found out too late, but I--" He rested his head in his hands, clutching his hair.

"I feel like 'it's not your fault' won't help, huh?"

He huffed out a bitter laugh. "No." They were silent for a moment. "I know he targeted her as a caster, as a threat. Even if I had been in her place, even if I had been on guard. And I know...Evienne chose this, same as the rest of us, but it...Gods, this hurts."

"Of course it does," Yda replied softly. "It will for a long while."

He sat back now, leaning on the wall behind him, Yda watching. "If I knew anything of Eorzean etiquette as a boy, I forgot it. Evienne, though...she had impeccable manners. And took it upon herself to teach me better. My rough soldier ways grated on her lady's sensibilities." He smiled thinly. "I don't think I'd have made half as good an impression on all those people without her. And nevermind how many of her own heroics have been overlooked. It's not fair."

"A lot of things aren't," Yda said. "Minfilia's speaking to her sister, and her son. He's so little."

"Yeah," Zaine said. "Not much older than my sister was, when we lost our father. This kid's lost both his parents now and I don't...I feel like I should say something, but what? 'I was your mum's partner but failed to protect her from a Garlean bullet'?"

"Zaine, you can't say that."

"No, of course not, I just," he pinched his nose, trying to stay the renewed feeling of prickling heat in his eyes, threatening another deluge. "I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do. She would know; that's what she was good at! It's all her clever words and maneuvering that's made me seem a hero; people think I know what I'm doing, but I don't. And there's still so much happening, no time to sit here and wallow, but Sisters help me, I don't know how I'm going to do it without her!"

The tears fell despite his attempts; guilt and shame as much as grief pouring from him. Yda was silent, simply holding his hand, squeezing tightly, a reminder he had more friends and allies, more people to help, to rely on.

Just not his companion.

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((As the 1.0 WoL, Zaine traveled around with a Path Companion, who I decided was a prim & proper elezen conjurer named Evienne. There is, however, a famous scene where Gaius shoots the Path Companion, and then fights Thancred, Y'shtola, Papalymo, and Yda. In Zaine's continuity, his Path Companion dies from the injuries inflicted in that incident.))