What’s up with Azem? They are a mysterious figure that we’ve never seen in game, but their connections to pieces of the larger story span far and wide. Let’s break down everything we know about Azem, including how they know the Warrior of Light is meddling in the past.
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I love Azem
I don't see why Emet is so batty. We know he loves Azem. So much so that continuously rejoining shards meant killing Azem again and again to the point where he couldn't do it anymore
Would it be wrong to assume that Azem was the second youngest of the convocation?
i know we won't but i would love to meet Azem someday ☀️
I think one of the best parts of the character of Azem is that any player is free to interpret their own version of them and they’re not wrong for doing so. We just only have the barest framework of the character so that we can fill it in. Azem was adventurous, a good friend, and always did things their way. Maybe liked their grapes more than most.
I will however say is that I do hope eventually the devs will see fit to reveal Azem’s official mask or their glyph. It’s something that bothers me that I don’t know.
I would love to hear more stories about Azem. Hythlodeus and Hades’s stories about Azem and their adventures – but no more than that.
I think of the whole “shard of so and so’s” soul as reincarnation. So for me my WoL is Azem reincarnated. They have the same personality quirks. Being a wildcard, mischievous and too kind for their own good. Luckily the Dark Knight quests taught this incarnation self care! 😂
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I wonder how many rejoined souls was ardbert
The WoL and Ardbert are sundered from the Azem that succeeded Venat.
I feel like we have reached a perfect opportunity to learn more about who Azem was. Especially now that we've reached a point where our WoL is about to start adventuring again. To see what the universe has to offer and provide our aid where we can in lands unknown to us.
Wtf ? They made ifrita cannon? She's from world of final fantasy ? .. damn
I'm very curious to hear more about Elidibous' connection with Azem because of the little bit of information we've already been given by Themis. Seemingly, the Pandaemonium raids are happening some amount of time before we came to Elpis to meet Hermes. Themis states that the person who predicted our arrival, who we assume to be our progenitor Azem from all the context clues given, works with them as a part of the same organization and the reason why they didn't come themselves is because it would attract too much attention. We were also told directly by Emet-Selch that the only people who wear white robes are the Emissary Elidibous as well as Ancients who step down from their role on the Convocation but choose to not return to the star, serving instead as advisors with trusted judgement. The fact that Themis is wearing a white robe but doesn't seem to be Elidibous yet (and is definitely too young to have stepped down from the Convocation) suggests to me that both he and our progenitor Azem possibly served under the current Elidibous of the time in the same fashion that others serve under Lahabrea as his "Words." Them already being in close proximity to the Convocation would certainly afford them an easier opportunity to meet other Convocation members and eventually join up themselves.
I am torn up about this… I do and don't want to meet Azem! Drives me nuts!
I would love to see more of Azem's past and character, as it ties directly to our persona's in FFXIV. But SE cannot play their whole hand. Poker game analogy, they should slightly lift their cards, to give their opponents a taste of what hand they hold, without fully exposing it. We need to know more about the original Azem, But need to be left with a sense of mystery to him/her as well.
Question. Why did venat spare the 3 people but not azem? Since azem is her successor logically venat should have given him/her a way to escape the sundering no?
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So hard to pick of wanting to see Azim and not. That character has been a carrot on a stick and I've wanted to get it for so long. However with that chase gone and you get that carrot what other chase is there to go after. I want to learn more about them and their stories as I find them the most interesting.
Or maybe as we learn more about Azim we are rebuilding his fractures to us again. Then be the Shepard of the realms with different titles kinda how we helped out in the first already.
So much of Azem is tied up in what the player thinks Azem is. And YoshiP has always leaned on the importance our character has to us, the player. Meeting Azem would immediately destroy that 'customization' aspect. I'm glad that all we ever get to hear about them is second hand stories, tinted with a a slight flavoring of core aspects. It really puts it in the players hands to decide who and how Azem was.
Please allow Azem remain a mystery thru/into the FFXIV expansions. Its good for game play for the players to interpret how they view Azem & the lore. I imagine the grapes, some part of them might have been "champagne grapes."
I'd be interested in a story that suggests that Azem did, indeed, meet with Venat before she did the sundering. And, together they worked out a plan. In Endwalker, Venat/Hydaelyn, admits to Y''shtola that the main purpose of the sundering was not to stop Zodiark. That was, in fact, secondary. The primary purpose was to dilute the aether of man such that they could interact with dynamis and have a fighting chance by learning to persevere. The problem being that it was a balancing act. The champion of Hydaelyn (WOL) had to be strong enough to fill the role, but not so strong as to negate the interaction with dynamis. This threshold was met following the seventh umbral calamity. With the addition of Ardbert to our soul (which I might add was somewhat orchestrated by 'Minfilia" (Word of the Mother)…we became 4/7th of what we had once been. Then, in Endwalker, we found out that Hydaelyn has the ability to separate out a soul of the dead before it returns to the Aetherial Sea. She did this with Emet-Selch (she tells you this in the Tower of Babil…where she says an ally waits for you….the watcher…and one other who might come into play (Emet-Selch). What I'm getting at is the confidante talking to Venat in the recording is stating that Azem didn't respond to him…and Venat says nothing. It could be deliberate and wished to keep their plans private for some reason. I find this theory intriguing because even though it takes place over thousands and thousands of years, the timing of their one chance at winning required intricate timing. And, the WOL had to take the lead as Hydaelyn's strength waned. An 8th Umbral calamity was just one too many. Seven was just right….and Minfilia just barely holding off the flood of light in a temporary fashion was the point in which the WOL surpassed Hydaelyn in effectiveness and the WOL became the lead. There is also the cool irony of Azem passing the torch to Azem once more.
Honestly, the only story I would like to see for Azem is IF some of the Scions (Alphinaud & Alisaie mostly if too many is pushing it) somehow find themselves in the past and have a fated meeting with Azem, unaware they are meeting their full souls WOL/Friend, only near the end finding out who Azem is the moment they head back to there time.
It will probably not happen because of gameplay-wise but it would have been a good story point to use.