FFXIV Endtalkers: Episode 4

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Join Archons Elioaux and Niniri as they discuss and process the story of Endwalker in the fourth part of this multi-part series.

Intro 0:00
0:31 The Meal
27:37 Zenos & Fandaniel
39:25 The Lesson
1:21:37 Outro

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5 thoughts on “FFXIV Endtalkers: Episode 4”

  2. It always gets up my nose when I hear people clown on "the power of friendship" in XIV. Like, yeah, we get it; tPoF is a meme and a trope that has been used and misused in COUNTLESS stories over the centuries, but XIV is, IMO an example of that trope done right, and indeed it's hardwired into the very DNA of the story, so to dismiss it as a mere storytelling device that lets us beat the Big Bad is really missing out on some bedrock of this game, and I think you guys did a fantastic job touching on it in this episode.

    We should never forget that we start our journey capital-A Alone. Yes we've had some kind of interaction with Hydaelin, and we have a nice chat with a friendly merchant sharing our trip to our starting city, but we do our first walk through our city Alone. We go to the adventurer's guild Alone. And then we get our first "mission", and we start helping people and making friends. Farmers, farriers, ditch-diggers, tailors and tinkers…we help anyone and everyone we can. At first this seems like the usual MMO thing of poorly disguising mechanics as story, but by the time we're fighting primals we realize it's far more than that, and in ShB we find out precisely why; we are a tiny piece of Azem, the Convocation seat charged with going out into the world and learning about it from the ground up by helping people with their work, solving problems, making friends, and that's what we've done. The Power of Friendship isn't just a plot contrivance or writing trope in XIV, it's the reason we can get anything done at all. Whether we're depending on the manpower and ingenuity of the Lominsans and the Maelstrom to help us defeat Leviathan, or the acumen and generosity of our merchant friends and explorers and regional leaders to help us get enough of the necessary materials to LITERALLY FLY US ACROSS THE UNIVERSE the WoL is utterly useless without their friends, and I think they wouldn't have it any other way.

    Anyway yeah. I love this game and this story SO MUCH for so ennobling the simple and very human acts of making friends and helping people. Even Zenos, one of the story's most incorrigible, irredeemable psychopaths is made to realize that until he learns to care about someone other than himself, he will never get the single solitary thing that he wants. Now ain't that something?

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