#final fantasy xiv midgardsormr

[vettir]

Streaming schedule week of 9/22/24!

Thursday, 9/26: Streaming Crusader Kings 3! And I will be placing a poll here for what kind of game I run on stream, as we have two new kinds: Administrative Government and Wandering Adventurer. My current ideas for this are: family in the Byzantine Empire, and a Wandering Jewish Scholar. I do have further plans for both.

Friday, 9/27: Final Fantasy 14! We've got fun stuff in the Ostall Imperative to work on, and a Minfillia to save!

All streams start between 5 and 7pm Pacific time zone, and usually last until around 11 pm.

Keep an eye on this for the poll I will place for which run I start CK3 with!

[estinininininen]

FFXIV: Can you imagine the Ascians' reactions to Midgardsormr landing on this planet? They didn't know about life on other stars. If they missed his actual landing they'd be gallivanting around, jumping to the other shards, teehee we'll get that dastardly Venat, and then they come back and find

this thing

protecting a lake full of aether, it's the size of a skyscraper from the World Unsundered, it's immortal, it has funky aether they can't sense or manipulate like other sundered beings' aether, its soul is in its eyes, it's incredibly strong, it seems to be able to change its shape, holy shit it's like it's unsundered is it even ethical to fight this thing, and it may also be able to eat people to get their souls and then that soulshard is kinda immortal again? how did Venat come up with this thing -

And then the lizard opens its mouth to the nice mortals that are hanging around asking questions and it says, completely intelligent, that a goddess called Hydaelyn let him stay on this planet if he protects the lake and does her a favor every now and then. Oh, and meet his first baby. The other 6 are going to hatch at some point.

I think the Ascian in the awestruck crowd would have just shat out of their borrowed body on the spot and gone running to the others like "You will not BELIEVE what that fucking bitch beat us to"

[itsmeishmi]

Year of the Dragon Year of the First Brood! HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR! With my attempt at a Bahamut and Ratatoskr too! ;v;

[diadoescomics]

= Solo Duty: Midgardsormr=

Realised I never posted this before I got sick.

I'm reviving my sprout journey comics (as soon as this stomach bug goes away) and while I have a list of moments from the game, feel free to ask my impression or experience with any part of the story and who knows maybe I'll make something out of it (no promises tho).

All my comics are made possible with the support of my patrons

[mosthuggableffxiv]

Holiday Poll: Most Huggable FFXIV Dad

Second poll here because there are some pretty glaring people that I accidentally left off.

ngl, this was harder than the mom one and I seriously considered doing a most punchable or rerunning the worst dad bonus poll I did a while a back since there are a lot of dads in XIV that unambiguously suck (here's looking at you, Varis).

Honorable mentions to Hildibrand Manderville (acting as Gigi's dad in the Heavensward questline), The Crystal Exarch (as Lyna's grandpa), and Chai-Nuzz (who doesn't have dad energy quite the same way Dulia-Chai has mom energy, but is still lovely)

[varethane]

Sometimes I wonder if I should feel bad divebombing directly down at quest-giving NPCs in Ishgard when riding Midgardsormr...

I will not stop doing it, however.

[clockworkdragonffxiv]

Further thought about the dragons in Final Fantasy XIV because my power has grown beyond control because I was bored at work and it popped in my head:

It's mentioned a lot in Heavensward that dragons don't remember things the way humans do. Their memories are perfect to a degree that memories don't fade so for them every trauma is this gushing fresh agony in their mind, like how Nidhogg is so incredibly pissed off because he remembers in excruciating detail finding Ratatoskr's butchered corpse and the Ishgardians gorging on her flesh.

Well, not so much remembers as he's actively experiencing it. All the time. Forever. Dragons live in the now with an intensity humans can barely comprehend, and I really think they don't process time in the same we do. We experience time linearly. Past, present, future.

Dragons don't. For them existence is experienced all at once forever. I'm not sure they even entirely distinguish between present and past and future, because it all feels the same to them, and I think that it impacts them in strange ways.

Like I don't think dragons really plan the way humans do. Everything is experienced in the Now. So I think for the vast majority of them, human tinkering and building completely baffles them. Oh they see the utility but it's not something they'd come up with on their own.

This extends to things like buildings. They certainly have the raw strength to repair the structures there, but it's not something they'd ever think of. Because repairing the castles means scouting out the proper stone, quarrying it, planning the repairs, etc.

Nidhogg's war against Ishgard is the closest thing to planning we see from them, and that was literally "torture them forever."

Also why Nidhogg was batshit insane. Because for him, he's always and will forever be at that one moment in time: finding his sister's corpse as the Ishgardians she'd been fascinated by and befriended feasted on her flesh like a pack of jackals. He never left that moment. I mean, the narrative flat out tells us that, but really holy shit is that a horrifying thing to think about. Like existentially.

It's probably the reason he could bodyjack Estinien so easily: because until the end of Heavensward, whenever Estinien closed his eyes for a second he could smell the ashes and roasting flesh from Nidhogg burning Estinien's family and entire village alive.

Also, consider that Midgardsormr went through far, far worse. The fact that the guy mostly comes off as grumpy and old should tell you about just how ridiculously tough he is. And why he spends all his time sleeping. Because whenever Midgardsormr was awake he was watching his world burn.

That and probably why he loved Hydalen and his alliance with her and devotion to her. She was as tough as he was, and had been through so much and carried on despite unimaginable woulds and pain. And she still gave him shelter when he had nothing left. That kind of compassion and strength was something he respected.

As a side note, I would be interested to hear from Middy about his thoughts on Hydalen's passing. Then again, he might not mourn her. After all, she'll live forever in his memories, as whenever he closes his eyes he still sees the radiant woman with the weight of the world on her shoulders meeting an exhausted and desperate dragon with the last eggs of his kind and providing them shelter and safety. And he feels the intensity of the sudden hope he felt then with every breath. How could he not love her?

She'll always be with him.

[chaobunnyarts]

Great Wrym charms! They'll be added to the fanart shop on May 27 at 3pm Eastern.

[nshi-ao3]

Midgardsormr mentioned! Almost time for dragon dad!

[halybs]

That one hue meme, but with the FFXIV mounts I like

[most-fuck-able-ff14]

MOST FUCKABLE FF14 MAN ROUND 2

[vettir]

Streaming schedule for the week of 9/15/2024.

All streams (ideally) start between 5 and 7 pm Pacific.

Tuesday, 9/17: FFXIV! We're doing a bunch of Shadowbringers fun, including unlocks, side quests, and MSQ. May be starting late due to RL reasons.

Thursday, 9/19: More Final Fantasy 14! Also some discussion of other games I plan to stream in the future.

Friday, 9/20: yet more FF fun! All this is Shadowbringers, and it's pretty awesome.

Next week I will do some Crusader Kings 3, and that will also be awesome.

[haunted-xander]

A better look at (some of) the paintings from my last post bc I kinda liked how some of them came out

[cutest-xiv-chacter-tourney]

Crown of the Cutest Round 2~!

[rabbit-illustrations]

Soon the path we walk will intertwine... Oc lore stuff with my friend. His character is the Warrior or Light and Hydaelyn's chosen while mine is Midgardsomr's champion

[edbydawn]

Silvertear Falls