#sabre qerel

[littlest-lancer]

Sabre would never have helped the Mol. She herself is a Qerel for one, and although she wound up a refugee in Eorzea (and had just. A really, really bad time there, I might add) she never let go of the heritage she'd been taught.

As far as she's concerned, she holds the same view of the Mol that many of the other more warmongering tribes do: they are weak. They participate in the Nadaam and they die, as sheep-herders with no warrior training should. That's how life goes.

For Sabre, she fights for her tribe. When she wins the Nadaam, she claims victory for the Qerel, not for the Mol. She allows Magnai and his kin to remain in the Dawn Throne purely because there's not enough Qerel that she can find to assume that throne, and in part because she has some family drama and expects it wouldn't help her tribe much. That, and because she knows - begrudgingly - that she can't stay on the Steppe herself, no matter how much she'd like to.

It's also her, not Hien, who then uses the attack on her immediately after the Naadam to justify leading the Xaela into war against the Garleans in Doma; specifically to crush the Empire's presence there as a way to safeguard and protect the Steppe. It isn't out of altruism for the people of Doma (who she cares very little about, Stormblood is a messy expansion for her filled with strife and grief thanks to Zenos that channels some of her very worst personality traits) and she certainly wasn't about to let some Doman runaway take command of a people stronger than his own for his own benefit.

Sabre really doesn't like Hien much at all, actually. She's not his friend, she doesn't consider him a strong warrior, and she certainly doesn't consider him a particularly strong leader. She leads the Xaela into Doman war out of a borderline obligation, knowing the rest of the Scions would never let her do otherwise, and even that in itself constantly makes her question whether she should even fight on their side. Nobody listens to her opinions, after all, she's just thrown at any fight they need to throw her at and expected to win for them. By the time she leaves the Steppe portion of Stormblood, Sabre's the angriest she's ever been at almost everybody in her life, especially the Scions. And even after Stormblood and she starts to sort her own head out, she never really comes around on Hien fully. She never truly trusts him given his rather imperialist idea of "force myself into Xaela culture, and use that as an excuse to lead them into war" - she can never let that go.

Good day everyone! I hope this day finds you well!

Once again, I have a WoLQotD question for you all!!

I know this may be opening a can of worms for some people, but regardless; what action in the Canon story goes directly against how you perceive your WoL's personality. A choice made in-game that you, in the mindset of your WoL, would have done drastically different?

The ending of a life or the sparing of one? Keeping your silence on something or speaking out? Choosing to go down the path you see laid out, or forging your own?

This game is beautiful in so many ways, one of the most beautiful ways is that we all have made our own unique characters. Characters that differ in more than just a few lines of dialogue here and there, so different that they really are just different people altogether despite following the same path.

I'd love to hear about what makes your WoL's different!

[littlest-lancer]

Would you care for a drink? Or perhaps a dance is more your thing?

[enzelffxiv]

[pyjamaenzel]

Made some Discord icons for my static + some friends.

[littlest-lancer]

My favourite dog and I got it. YES

[littlest-lancer]

If Square won’t give me /carry as an emote, I’ll do the goddamn thing myself, and yes if my Warrior of Light can fight and kill more gods than she has fingers on her hands she can carry her husband.

[littlest-lancer]

Sabre Qerel - 

I was, and am, a Warrior of the Steppe before I am your Warrior of Light.

[littlest-lancer]

If the gods had wanted you to live, they would not have created me.

[littlest-lancer]

People might disagree, but I think a lot of love has gone into the creation of BLU. The animations for it are absolutely wonderful, full of character and beautifully fluid. It's a visually fun class, to go alongside how mechanically fun it is to play. And sure, spamming 1000 Needles to level isn't necessarily genius tactics, but I had fun doing it! I had fun levelling this class (ignoring levels 47-50 where everybody is abusing that class switch exploit) and I had fun taking it into dungeons with my other BLU friends and just... goofing off. Having fun.

For saying this job can look very classy and stylish, it's probably the goofiest of all the jobs in the game, and I adore it. And also I adore my chosen glam for it, too, though full credit to the designers of both the level 1 gear and the AF gear because it looks wonderful and I struggled with myself for a bit wondering if I wanted to glam over it.

Don't be fooled by Sabre's smart, classy appearance. She absolutely blew herself up with Self Destruct and Final Sting a lot of times in different ways for the fun of it. She's died, intentionally, on BLU in the last 24 hours more than she's probably died in the last few months, and it's been great!

[littlest-lancer]

So yeah I got a new glamour. Honestly it just looks like an upgraded version of her previous set and still has all the elements I love. Praise be Bonewicca! ... except for the farming of it. The farming of Bonewicca glamour can go burn in hell.

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[littlest-lancer]

Even Warriors of Light need to take a break sometimes.

[littlest-lancer]

Blessed be Square for giving us those dyeable stage backdrops with very little texturing on them. Chroma-keying screenshots has never been so easy and I am going to abuse this newfound power with every single emote I can get my grubby little paws on.

[littlest-lancer]

[enzelffxiv]

Snails take on V1S!