Was Hermes sympathetic? When is Zenos? Do we have time for dragons?
0:00 – Intro
6:45 – Chasing Meteion
15:50 – Ktisis Hyperboreia
31:11 – Space Analysis
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Literal chills at the intro, I love it
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I'm so happy for Kyle on this last leg of Endwalker!!
Oh thank god! I was TERRIFIED of the lack of mebtion of 'The Walk'. The bit at the end saying itll be its own video made me actually cheer out loud.
It is going to be a wild 3 levels
Soken's music and GG editing, name a more iconic duo
are there people that don't believe in the death of the author? God must these people be boring
as an austistic and hyperemotive person both, I resonate alot both with Hermes and Meteion (the autistic part being the fact I often break decorum, and I either don't notice it or I don't care if it means I'm doing something right, and the hyperemotive is, well, Meteion). So Elpis did resonate with me in a lot of ways (since I'm both an ascian lore extraordinaire and an Emett-Selch fan-girl). But that ain't even my favourite zone in EW…
16:41 I'm always going to point this detail out whenever I can, I absolutely love how much detail the developers put in the trust companions. Like this fight for example, when the boss disappears and prepares for a sneak attack.
With trust, you can see Venat assess the situation for a moment and then run towards the safe spot (same as the WoL) while Emet and Hythlo just teleports and basically ignores the mechanic 😂
Studio setup is looking great these days guys. super professional
I think the association with Hades and the Underworld is reversed here: He was not called Hades because he was involved with the Underworld, but we associate the name Hades with the Underworld because this was the dude in charge of the Underworld when the world was sundered. Kind of the way the FF14 "Gunblade" became the source of the word "Gun", rather than named after it.
On the topic of Emet seeing us as an equal, consider that the original timeline Emet witnessed 10,000 years of mortals being foolish, backstabbing, forgetting. Emet of that past didn’t have the experience that made him bitter and judgmental. Yeah, I think he saw us as an equal.
Another way to explain it would be that Hades is associated with the underworld BECAUSE of Emet
Excuuuuuse me! It's Dynamis not Akasha uwu
I ❤ these types of videos! Nice job
34:48 Ramuh would feel remorse if he accidentally/angrily killed his Sylphs. (It's a data point! One! One data point!)
Hermes desperately wants to find some value in life, even at the deepest point of his nihilism. He doesn't want to be right that nothing has meaning. This is why he tries to make things "fair" for Meteion's escape when he could have excluded himself from the wipe to ensure the Ancients fell in totality. Remember, without Hermes the Convocation would have never realized the aether currents were stagnating, meaning they would have never been able to come up with the idea of utilizing Darkness to restore those currents, and everything on that planet would have died even had WoL and Venat escaped with their own memories intact. Even as Fandaniel he does things in such a way that leaves room for chance, for his plans to fail, when he could very easily kept things airtight since no one knew what he was really trying to do until it was too late.
Dude needed therapy, the one thing Ancient society never bothered to invent.
Absolutely baller intro
23:09 Endwalker is chock full of mirror references, starting from the box art. And you're right, it is delicious writing.
But hermes wasn't restricted. If the others weren't, there would have been no reason to need to form a party to defeat him.
@28:31 Given that he's Alphinaud's and Alisaie's father, wishing for Fourchenault to die is a bit harsh regardless of how you feel about him. I do agree that at that point in the story though, he deserves to be humbled.
People always get Emet-Selch's line wrong in Ktisis: it can't be hypocrisy because this is his past self, in the moment, denouncing an action that he could never see himself taking. Even if you take this line's meaning as him judging that Meteion, as an inferior life (a familiar), doesn't get to decide who gets to live or die, that is still in line with how future Emet-Selch behaves in that he doesn't believe you and the Scions, also unworthy inferior lifeforms, deserve to decide the future of the star.
The balloons are full? We all float out here.
So, now that you have all gotten this far. If you go WAAAAAY back. To the end of Crystal Tower raid series. At the very end. Nero throws his energy sensor down into the the Syrcus Trench. There was a bit of Morse code. Translated as: "It's all wrong." Beeping out of the sensor just before the screen goes dark. People were speculating what it meant for years. FYI, Ishikawa, the MSQ writer for Shadowbringers, and Endwalker also wrote the Crystal Tower series for 14.
Another interesting side note: It's still there as of the first patch of Shadowbringers, if you go into the trench where you first started the Shadowbringers quest, you can see Nero's device at the very end of the trench in the background.
Hermes was tired of how his society was treating the lives of the creations, but I think he was more concerned with the general apathy of his people (like how they reacted when hearing the previous Fandaniel was passing, and how the flowers always bloom white).
He also didnt like how the Ancients glorify dying as if it is something beautiful. I do think what the writers were trying to say is the Ancients as a society is deeply flawed, they will grow to be unsympathetic, apathetic to life itself and seek their enjoyment or purpose with something else, just like the Allagans.
the hindenburg was hydrogen, not helium. That's why they use helium now. You probably know that but you'd been talking about helium and then segued to hindenburg so I think it's worth mentioning
For Garrett: I interpret the "Protect them all" as Meteion sees no point in life as it only leads to sadness and despair, so by killing everyone, she's protecting them from sadness.
I'm very glad to see you guys being emotionally literate enough to understand and empathize with Hermes as a character. The hate from a lot of the fandom is real.
Love the new format you guys, also dopppee video! ❤
I have never, ever, found Hermes sympathetic. He's a nihilist as has every single version of him we've ever seen (Amon, Fandaniel, Asahi). He then creates an unsanctioned creation and asks it a flawed question that can't actually be answered. Hermes is wrong. He's always been wrong, and will always be wrong.
Meteon is more sympathetic… until you realize what she's actually done. She has ushered entire civilizations to their destruction with her song of despair. While it's not her fault she was created by a nihilist, she was, and as such she's an engine of despair that must be stopped.
I will never understand how people find sympathy for these characters. They are beyond evil as they have forced their nihilism on others and removed others choice in the matter.
Have Kyle and Garrett not realized that Dynamis is out Limit Gauge? We, as the Warriors of Light, use Dynamis to fuel our Limit Breaks and that what the Limit Gauge is, it's a measure of Dynamis you've accumulated.
that "Auspices of a higher power" reference really makes me think "this is what would have happened if Zodiark just got his way forever without opposition"