#nibirun

[starryscale-art]

'first and last mercy'

i wanted to draw the moment jai rejoined with ra la at the end of dead ends in the style of those really cool pieces of ingame art of all the minfilla fighting sin eaters on the first.

[autumnslance]

The Cafe at the End of the Universe

The Last Dregs - Final at Bloodsworn

[rydiathesummoner]

All I can see when I look at the Nibiruns is the 🤤🤤🤤 emoji

[rousedwhisperingdawn]

Basically Endwalker.

[dualcast-my-ass]

Farther still existed a star without strife, where none remembered life's trials—or its joys.

[aoife-asturmaux]

maxed with the omicrons!!!!! that final quest was so good, i cried again....

everyone! if you have gatherers at 80! please do the omicron quests!!!!!!!!!

shaders: neneko simple & clean 2; neneko traveler

[wine-dark-soup]

the dead ends dungeon truly deserve its name uh. the grebuloffs can't survive disease > the karellians eradicated disease and so could have thrived but they can't survive eternal conflict > the nibiruns eradicated conflict and so could have thrived but they can't survive the eternal boredom they created > the god they created to finally kill them could have granted the sick grebuloffs a painless death > repeat for 12 000 years (you are meteion)

[ladyswillmart]

Nibirun-chan cuts loose!! 💖

[ffxivxd]

Dire Facts Day #13:

Nibirun never distinguished between the individual and collective. Perfect mutual understanding ensured there were no differences in opinion. Once one declared "to live is pointless", all were in agreement that suicide was the only reasonable course of action.

[valkariel]

Rewrite the Stars

I thought the white star detail on the gloves matches the glitter effect of the shawl and the white star of the weapon. The gold shades are different between the gloves and top though.

The name comes from the song I was listening to when doing the 6.55 allied quests, but the back and forth of the lyrics of "(no one) can rewrite the stars" got me thinking about Endsinger's and the Nibirun's nihilism again.

Head: Welkin Hat - midnight blue Body: Ascension Robe of Healing - midnight blue Hands: Prestige Royal Celestial Gloves - midnight blue Legs: Astronomia Pantaloons - midnight blue Feet: Anemos Constellation Sandals - pearl white

Alt Feet: Welkin Shoes

Earring: Classical Earrings of Healing Neck: The Emperor's New Necklace Wrists: The Emperor's New Bracelet Right Ring: The Emperor's New Ring Left Ring: The Emperor's New Ring

Main Hand: Procyon - aldgoat brown Off Hand: --

Fashion Accessory: -- Minion: -- Mount: -- Location: The Dead Ends - The Plenty

Shader: Faeberry Bokeh

[thefreelanceangel]

Mortal! (from @tsunael)

Death.

Everywhere they went beneath the flickering light of dying stars, they found talk of death, of mortality, of the perpetual question of existence posed again and again.

The dragons mourned lost children, their lost home, what they'd seen when their species came nearly to extinction.

The Ea spoke of the inevitable end of the universe, of reality itself, of existence.

The Omicrons recalled exterminating planet after planet, waiting endlessly for the orders which Stigma-1 never gave, an existence designed for one thing that they could no longer pursue.

The Grebuloffs and the diseases that destroyed their planet, their society, their very selves. The Karellians and their disagreements that blew into war to decimate each other in the name of something they'd taken from themselves. The Nibirun who lamented immortality and the end of ambition, of drive to achieve.

7E listened to all of the drifting ghosts, formed of dynamis at the furthest edge of creation, and learned of death in all forms. Not simply the death that they'd once brought to their targets, per their programming, but Death.

They obeyed N-7000's commands, going from one aetheryte to the next, taking orders from the ghosts growing stronger from the dynamis that seemed to curl into itself and expand exponentially. And they did as they were asked--clearing hostile creations that sprung from memory, reading epitaphs, running training drills.

They voiced no opinion as they sat beneath the Ea's homes to listen to the chiming thoughts that emerged from within, but when N-7000 gave them time off from duties, it was to the Ea that 7E returned.

They could not fully express why, but their exchanged lamentations and memories of life, of struggle in the face of inevitability, of how heavily that'd weighed upon them...

7E believed that of everyone they'd met, the Ea truly understood something that they could not yet grasp.

[rydiathesummoner]

Turali people describing the City of Gold: "A heavenly land, suffused with a golden glow. Its people lived as gods, never aging, never dying, free from hardship and conflict."

Wuk Lamat: Aw, that sounds great! A worthy goal for us!

Me, remembering the Nibirun in The Dead Ends: WAIT SHIT NO ABORT ABORT

[eriyu]

obsessed with the way the three worlds from the Dead Ends parallel, in order, the known Calamities on the Source.

Grebuloffs: the Second Umbral Calamity, caused by environmental destruction leading to plague.

Karellians: the Third Umbral Calamity, caused by war.

and Nibirun: the end of Allag's Golden Age (eventually leading to the Fourth Umbral Calamity), caused by their scientific advancement making them believe they had reached a pinnacle, leading to ennui and (among other things) skyrocketing suicide rates.

and what's the takeaway? that all life is prone to repeating the same mistakes?

[azurillturtle]

finally put my finger on one thing that's been bothering me re: endwalker word of god so rambling ahead

it's been said that the Ancients would be doomed to eventually meet the same ending as the Nibirun/the Dead Ends third civilization (though i long ago forgot the source, so i can't check if it was phrased more vaguely or if there was a localization thing). but the thing is--this contradicts the central message of Endwalker and XIV in general, which is that there's always hope.

Venat was willing to fight; the Twelve and the Watcher were willing to fight. Azem was willing to fight. saying "yeah they'd be doomed to fall into apathy lol" is saying that no matter what they did, their struggles would be meaningless. which is... not the overall message of XIV? the whole thing is about moving forward and holding on to hope and overcoming despair? defying destiny? the future is malleable; we've changed the course of history before? so what's this about "oh, well, anything the Ancients did would be in vain"?

so then the difference comes down to the unsundered world has the WOL, and the sundered world has Azem. who is too different to save their world. which makes it seem like the only effector of change is the WOL, which is again in contradiction to the broader message of Endwalker, the power of hope and everyone coming together to help.

anyway like i said it's rambling and just my opinion, but hearing "well the Ancients were doomed anyway," as if the power and the will to summon Hydaelyn didn't mean anything--it just rubs me the wrong way.