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You can't cast in close combat, dumb mage.

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you have to

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The symbology of the Convocation of Fourteen is just... one of my favorite details in ffxiv. And yeah, I know they have zodiac signs because Final Fantasy Tactics had zodiac signs and FF12 had zodiac signs, but 14's spin on them is inspired, and I don't think that gets enough appreciation.

Each of the Ascians is characterized to at least superficially match their sign. Emet-Selch seems like a Gemini, seemingly on both sides of every issue. Fandaniel seems like a Leo who wants to be the center of attention. Lahabrea, The Creator, seems like an artsy Pisces... just...y'know, a horrible one.

And it's not as if "terrible, messed-up version of Zodiac symbol" is new here. Tactics definitely had that already. The thing ffxiv adds to the trope is the presence of the Sun.

Azem's symbol being the sun and not a constellation tells us exactly what their role in the Convocation was supposed to be. The sun's path through the constellations is what gives all those signs their meanings. You can't be a Gemini unless the sun is in Gemini. The sun's passage through the zodiac is supposed to illuminate the best way forward. This is why Emet-Selch calls them both "Shepherd to the stars in the dark," and "Counsellor to the star's people." They're meant to inspire people to become their best selves. This is inadvertently what WoL does in numerous places and times across the game, (and one of the ancients in Elpis even comments on it) because apparently repeatedly dying at the hands of their coworkers and friends for eons did not get them out of having to do their job.

When the sun protested their unspeakbly terrible plan, they went all in on their hubris by casting it down forever. They never replaced Azem. They don't even want to remember they ever had a sun. They don't have the light that illuminates their best selves, their better future. So they can't find it anymore. They don't know how to be themselves anymore, in Azem's absence. In Elidibus' case, literally. He is so desperate for the guiding star he can't even remember having, that he constantly, instinctively, seeks out Azem in different forms. Wearing Ardbert's corpse, and wandering up to WoL for awkward chats, and looking back to the heroes of the past who were definitely Azem shards.

The sun, torn from the heavens, leads to the maker's ruin.

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all saint's day emet selch :o)

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The universe was made just to seen by our eyes.

Tales from the Dawn: Days Gone By, Days Yet to Come

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looooove Emet so much ; w ;

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it's always been you

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emet-selch was Wrong but whom among us would not risk it all for hythlodaeus. he was right for that one

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947

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How rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist.

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choose your fighter: sleepover edition

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With your unbeating heart, wish them well.

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Another Emet to break in my new tablet~

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I deeply appreciate that FFXIV did not bother with trying to give us some kind of underwater breath-holding mechanic with a timer, and instead simply went, "A turtle guy did a magic blessing and now you can breathe under water forever. Don't worry about it."

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Au Ra August Day 1 - New Dawn

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑛 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒