This is going to be a weird experiment so don’t be surprised if there’s growing pains. But despite the extra work I’m very excited to try engaging with the FFXIV Community in ways I’ve yet to try! So be sure to do your part in bringing my your juiciest stories!
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Very interested in seeing how this plays out. Since you mentioned this on twitter, I've been going through my WoL's backstory and tweaking things to better fit the order of events in the timeline, since the "Well most of this happens in the span of a couple months" really messed with my character's age range. So, making my WoL a tad older made events flow better instead of rushing it all within the span of perhaps a year or two at most. Had to shake the dust off my Encyclopedia just to make sure I have years and events right has been a renewing experience into why I fell in love with XIV's story in the first place.
My time has come!
The time has come and so have I
Will you dm a dnd campaign?
I just found your channel recently and have been watching all your videos, I love what you do. I think this is a fun idea and am looking forward to hearing RP stories
I've been an avid follower of yours since the start of this year. I love this game's universe and I adore how in some of your videos it feels very in character as if you are giving a lecture. I've crafted a story for my character near and dear to me. So I'd be more than happy to drop off a PDF for my character's story! Even if mine isn't chosen I'm still excited to see you re-tell stories of people's characters to enrich this world further!
I've been an RPer for 22 years, and a 14 RPer for most of the game's life span. This sounds real neat!
Oh boy! Synodic Scribe reads your Fanfiction! I can see it now!
I wish I could do rp.
But can't figure out how, dunno if there is even much people on my servers for that.
Cool idea. Especially with the TTRPG due out next year. I know that is why I found your channel to start compiling lore to write my own campaign 💜
I will need to continue writing my Emporium Elezen Lore , damnit xD i need to fight my lazyness
Heck yeah! I am just getting into rp and my new miqo would be perfect for this!
As an avid role player in this game, I'm more than excited for this type of content!
So there I was, my foot stuck in the goobbue's mouth, Tataru screaming about how much Gil I spent on it and suddenly Zenos starts rushing towards us with a cake in his hands.
I love this idea! I love your lore vids! I think this will enhance your channel! I am totally all for this! I am stoked for seeing what you create!
Nice concept! Encourages me to finalize my story. I know the overarching plot but am only about done with the first third.
I'm currently writing an entire story within FF14 with a few of my friends, a lot of it made with my own lore outside the game's. Problem is it's one of those R rated stories that not everybody can gel with on account of language and subject matter.
I'd love to actually share our story outside our little circle at some point.
I haven't been able to get into RP for a very long time. When I try, sweat starts rolling down my back and something feels terrible inside.
But I do have a background for my character leading up to the start of ARR
So my friend and I are not into RP, but we like to brainstorm stories when going on lore tangents. Here is one spoopy body-snatcher-ish concept we thought about during Halloween in Stormblood:
Bordering the Black Shroud and the area around Silvertear, there was a small isolated hamlet. The people sought shelter in an abandoned Gelmorran cellar-like ruin during the Seventh Umbral Calamity. They emerged malnourished and delirious from their safety bunker only to find their old home uninhabitably scorched by Bahamut. In their desperation, they prayed to the Elementals to repair the land and to make things how they used to be.
Years later, the area is labeled as inhospitable due to environmental conditions. A group of Garlean deserters on the run discover a lush area in this hazard zone with a village. The deserters are mistakenly perceived as adventurers and get a warm welcome. They stayed for a week, doing odd jobs for the village and get recognized by the village elder, an old Hyur woman with big Behemoth-like horns.
From this point onward, the story is narrated from the perspective of one of the deserters. He is plagued with headaches and nightmares during their stay. In his exhaustion, his mental state deteriorates. He perceives that everything seems to belong to the village—the people, the flora, and the fauna. Only he himself feels out of place.
One day, while exploring the outskirts of the village, he stumbles upon a hidden entrance to an underground chamber. Inside, he discovers an old altar adorned with crystals and surrounded by symbols of the Elementals. He feels proven in his paranoia; the Garlean propaganda taught him what Primals are.
He warns his comrades, and they decide to leave the village in the dark of night. As the deserters make their hasty escape through the shadowy outskirts of the village, a chilling wind whispers through the twisted branches of the scorched trees. The protagonist's heart races, a mixture of fear and adrenaline coursing through his veins. The moon casts an eerie glow over the landscape as the group moves silently, hoping to avoid any prying eyes.
Just as they reach the edge of the hazardous zone, where the village's unnatural lushness meets the desolation of Bahamut's destruction, the protagonist feels a sudden, searing pain in his side. A stifled gasp escapes his lips as he stumbles, realizing too late that one of his comrades had turned on him.
In the dim moonlight, he catches a glimpse of the glinting blade, stained with the betrayal of Garlean steel. The other deserters, their eyes vacant and glazed, move with purposeful determination as they overpower him. Desperation and confusion cloud the protagonist's mind as he fights against the inevitable. His closest friend says:" We promised each other a better tomorrow a place to call home", while dragging his body back to the village.
On his dying breath, he sees a silhouette of a small-winged creature with big black horns.
I can’t say I’ve done much RP but I definitely have headcanons and stories for my character.
Super neat 😀 Submitted lore I've made in the discord, thanks for this chance to share our creativity!
I always enjoy hearing the origin stories my friends tell me of their WoL, so this should be interesting. I wrote my own, but I'm not part of any RP community so I never get to use it other than to imagine what my WoL is thinking during solo cutscenes.
Does this count for Lore exploration through FF14 DnD?
I'm running a campaign following the events directly after the fall of Dalamud?
I don't RP but I do write several paragraphs of lore and backstory for each of my characters. I like to know who they are, where they come from, what they are doing and why.
If the roleplay videos do well, will you also consider fanfiction in the future? While I don't take part in RP due to time constraints, I know myself and several other players write stories on our own that try to stay true to the presented lore of the game.
Or maybe that's eligible here, and that flew over my head. ^^;
I've shared your video with my RP-FC already. We try our best to keep our RP as lore-friendly as possible as our concept is that of a collective of scholars that travel throughout Hydalyn to study the star, and we have lectures on aetherology and book clubs and all that fun nonsense
Mine's short, so I'll just say it here. My fiancé died, so I changed my Hrothgar to tribe of the lost, and changed his name to match hers… instead of doing the wedding we had had planned.
I used Rhigitar videos for the naming conventions of certain races but gave up since I was a Roe main and trying to stay lore friendly with their names was tough lol
i'm part of a small story teller community on Instagram. i think this is such a great idea. there are so many great stories the fans make and being able to show them is a great idea ♥
I do like the idea!
FFXIV RP community is something I've been a little intimidated by just because I haven't been certain on
howthey go about it, or how I approach it. So I often will just lurk nearby to observe! It feels so different from other RP communities in games, like WoW Guild Wars or SWTOR.This sounds like so much fun! I hope it goes well I'm really looking forward to this <3
I am very excited for this! I am no RPer (too much social anxiety) but I do have a great interest in player character lore. Whenever I find myself in Limsa I often spend some time just looking at adventurer plates and following any carrd links because it’s just so fascinating. I also have a backstory for my WoL that I have made lore accurate and will be sharing!
this is a fantastic concept for videos
I really enjoy your lore videos, Synodic, and your glam is really simple and cheap and I like that. Being one who spends tons of real money on glam outfits(my Blue Mage is wearing the Princess outfit and my newly raised Warrior is wearing the Choir girl outfit), it's warming to see someone whose favorite attire is a simple hooded robe with a full-face mask. It helps keep the mystery on who this guy is. 😉
I'd gladly share my own stories.
So I'm an Au Ra male called Khurin Goro (yea, the tribe that shares a certain kind of love for horses… *sigh*) from the Xaela tribe. Anyway, luckily for me on that regard, my family (mom and dad) moved from the Steppe to Ishgard as my father was a reknown crafter and he wanted to expand on his crafting knowledge. My mother is what is known as a witch or, in the Western kingdoms, a mage. As for me, since I was a kid I was fascinated by the Yols, their wings and how they flew throughout the Steppe. On Ishgard there weren't this magnificient creatures, however, there were DRAGONS, so as soon as I came of age I decided I wanted to join the dragoons ranks and made a name for myself there but I could not start as a dragoon directly, so I travelled to New Gridania and started my journey as a lancer meeting the Scions in the way coming back to Ishgard and this time as an experimented lancer who really could join the dragoons. Nowadays I'm a DRG and I can finally soar the skies like the yols and the dravanians do, as well as weaving some magic as a BLM from time to time to honor my mum (you know, EEEEX-PLOOO-SHOOOON).
PS.: I also followed my dad's passion as a crafter <3
I can't really say what I'll make of these sorts of videos, but I'm willing to wait and see
Im a little late to the party but do you want roleplay stories or can i drop OC lore, The background for my wol was something i worked hard on to make sure it has as minimal lore conflict as it can, so im just wondering cause i have run into others who share in certain aspects of our backgrounds if thats the kind of roleplay story your are looking for.
This makes my heart ache.
one of the main motivators for my adventures through Eorzea was through the lens of roleplay; the ways unto which interactions would go and how bits and bobs of headcanon eventually got to blossom into full-on vindication thanks to details the story team gave us down the road. telling my story or the story of my friends during those halcyon days would be so wonderful, but…
I feel like you have cast open the sluice here, Scribe. you will get so many stories, and so many of those are probably far more structured than the individual stories I could tell about the Welcome Inn on Faerie or the adventures of a lalafellin lass from a rural part of Old Sharlayan called Thamasa, who wielded a brush that painted with the colors of Aether.
I’m no RPer but I always wanted to establish the place of my character in this world, so I wrote a short story (more like a dialogue of 2 nameless characters about my character), trying to not contradict all I know about XIV’s lore. However, it’s written in another language. I wonder, if I translate it to English, will that do for participation in this little experiment? Wish Scribe could answer that xD
I'm assuming we should keep our stories relatively short, to make your life easier. As much as I'd love to drop a book in your files lol
i have a Carrd page with my RP character's backstory, written like a "Tales from the Blank" short story. is it ok to drop a link to that?😮
Honestly, enjoyment of roleplay is what got me into following lore channels. Finding channels and creators that put the stories in a new context or help meunderstand the game world is a large boon to creating stories all my own, making it feel like it fits in the world.
I would love to see videos similar to what "All Things DnD" does, for ffxiv! You might be tapping a gold mine here.
Would slavery be considered content that would be considered not allowed? It's a part of my WOL's back story.