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[lilas]

✨ 22 Dawntrail Inspired WoL/OC Questions ✨

A little list of WoL/OC questions based on the events of Dawntrail. Feel free to reblog so people can ask about your WoL’s experiences in Tural!

Though vague in places, this list contains many spoilers. Please be considerate of new players and tag with #dawntrail spoilers

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Why did they agree to accompany Wuk Lamat to Tural?

What was the first thing they did when they arrived in Tuliyollal?

What was their initial impression of the four claimants? How did this change over the course of the story?

What is their impression of Gulool Ja Ja? Do they agree with his method of cultivating leadership?

How do they feel about Wuk Lamat looking up to them as a mentor figure? Did this attitude change as the story progressed?

How did they feel about competing against Thancred and Urianger?

Were they happy with the outcome of the rite of succession?

Why did they want to explore Xak Tural? Were they happy to have Erenville along as a guide or would they have preferred to explore on their own?

What was going through their mind when the dome dropped?

What were their first impressions of the Alexandrians?

What was their initial impression of Sphene? How did this change as the story progressed?

What was their opinion of the culture of recycling souls and the use of regulators? Did this change as the story progressed?

What was their initial impression of Cahciua?

How did they feel about the Endless?

What was their experience like in Living Memory?

What are their thoughts about the Key?

The theme of family and legacy is repeated throughout Dawntrail—did this theme resonate with your character? Were there specific moments relating to family that impacted them?

What important relationships changed or developed throughout Dawntrail?

What was their favorite location in Tural?

Do they lean more Tuliyollal or more Solution Nine?

If they had to summarize their journey in Tural, what would they say?

What are they doing now?

[limielle]

complexity

[deathflare]

uuaaa

[liketheinferno2]

paggy

[sofusenpai]

it seems people really like woodwarder stuff so have some more (these r oldies but goodies)

[tritoch]

thinking about the fact that the vault is level 57 and paladin wols learn to heal the very next level when they gain clemency at 58...ow

[picaroroboto]

Do you remember that NPC in Garlemald who, when you approach them, seems to have war flashbacks to the WoL killing dozens of their fellow soldiers at the Praetorium? I don't understand why some people make light of this moment, or brush aside the fact that in canon the WoL has killed a lot of people. Yes, it's usually Garlean soldiers or Beastmen or others who intend to harm others, and it's almost always in the name of justice, freedom, protecting others, the greater good, etc. But they do still take lives.

Chances are some of those soldiers they've killed are ones who believed the Empire's espoused goal of controlling the world in order to protect it from greater threats like Primals and Ascians. It's a disgusting and patronizing idea, but if you're someone who's grown up in a war-like nation you might have no reason to question it. Hell, Varis believes it wholeheartedly even though Emet-selch repeatedly tells him that he founded the Empire only as a trigger for Calamities and Rejoinings. The thing is that the Garleans believe they're doing the "right thing" too. So do the Ascians, if only for the "greater good" of their own people to the exlcusion of everything and everyone else. And everything that the Garleans and Ascians did in the name of their beliefs and greater good is wrecked by Fandaniel and Zenos, who proudly claim not to believe in anything and scorn ideas of right and wrong.

In the end, what makes you "the hero" and them "the villains" - what, if anything, makes you better than them? It's not that you don't kill or harm people, because you do. It's not just that you kill presumably less than they do, because measuring lives as numbers is a disgusting thing. We could say that it's simply because the narrative always sides with you in the end, but that's a really boring and unsatisfying answer.

The answer for me and my WoL at least, is to understand that he's not so different from his enemies. Having a "good reason" to kill doesn't make you justified, and believing you're on the right side of history doesn't make you the hero - that understanding itself is what makes sure that he won't make the same mistakes as the villains.

[fatedroses]

And some days, I just wish you wouldn't look at me at all.

[viiioca]

[ day 12 - free day ]

I do so enjoy spending time with Shtola. It seems a ludicrously juvenile thing to pen on a page now that I look at it; these are the words a ten year old might scribble in her journal or speak quietly to some figmental confidant like a doll or imaginary friend. As if it were a precious secret! Ridiculous.

Admittedly, it has been a difficult thing for me to remember that friendship is a true and genuine phenomenon. One might imagine that years spent in the consistent company of others would go far to dispel these spectres of paranoia, but it seems this is not the case; as none of my companions have ever known me as anything but the Warrior of Light, it becomes an enticing form of mortifying the spirit to distill my primary role in these relationships as one of convenient usefulness. Gradually, then, I must collect evidence to the contrary.

An invitation to share in the excitement of a new mystery. Tea or wine taken together for little reason other than the pleasure of amicable company. A walk taken together in a land where we are both something like strangers. The permission to address each other with familiarity, removed of clan signifiers and formal pronouns. Small gifts left in the form of brief moments, inconsequential and intimate in turns, where there is little point in the sharing save to prove a certain security and comfort -- a lonely young girl's nursery rhyme to summon a little friend, or the brief, wavering flicker of some unfulfilled longing for acceptance. "I wonder what my life might have been like had I pursued studies in Old Sharlayan instead," she says, and means to tell me, quietly, what if I had belonged?, and I must recognize the trust for what it is.

It is a curious question, too. What would we have been had our childhoods taken different turns? If Shtola had seized her future by getting on a boat to "the motherland" rather than forcibly burrowing her way into Matoya's tutelage; if my father's inquiries to Sharlayan regarding my "strange affliction" had found a receptive party knowledgeable about the Echo rather than an indifferent School of Medicine. Perhaps she would have gotten that refined, cosmopolitan education she imagines, aloof yet popular by the power of her own charisma, holding tea salons like a queen holds court. Perhaps I might have found myself more rurally bound for the Isle of Val, the then-heart of modern Echo research, scuffing knees and pocketing frogs without a single deportment tutor in sight.

Would we have met? Would we have been friends still? I hope so.

[ahollowgrave]

You make for me a portal Eyes warmеd up with sorrow

[zylphiacrowley]

Cats Don't (ice) Dance

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[arty-ffxiv]

If there's no end And we are infinite Still, I hope you live

I hope you live

[florestxiv]

I fear my humble FRU contribution is just another Raha shitpost. 🤷‍♀️

Based on this meme:

[deathflare]

😵‍💫 uuu

[raidenfanclub]

A bunch of art from the past 3 months LMAO