The Lost City of Amdapor gives us a glimpse of what the 5th Astral Era was truly like. Moving stair cases, bridges made of light, and living stone are just a few of the things that we get to see! It’s a wonder that more people aren’t trying to learn from these long dead arch mages, oh well. But I we won’t forget, as we cover their lore today!
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Ah, this place… I always liked the way it looked, but whew did I whipe a lot here, on multiple ocasions. Interested to learn more about it.
Explain the undead white mages and black mages in the city itself
So good to go back to know what is what after years of playing. I forget some lore at times.
Yeahhhh gotta side with the elementals on this one. They're right to be conservative with who has access to such potent magic. And I mean, who better to make the call on who can access magic with such a deep tie to nature, than beings who are intrinsically linked to it?
the black-and-white Mages in the city are very bad at being black and white Mage the white Mages don't heal their allies while the black mage's don't spend their abilities and switch from fire to ice all they do is melee you and do 1 spell that's it no wonder why that War lasted for so long and I am confused of black and white magic causing the flood of water should it been caused by something watery instead of black and white magic
I'd like an expansion where we can connect with the Elementals more. As a White Mage at least it be interesting for me.
Personally, I would purge the ruins of the city of any dangerous elements and have it be a restored as a place for settlement, as both another key location for Gridania to hold as a strategic position and to help take in more people who want to be residents. Of course this is entirely dépendant on whether or not it can be reclaimed entirely and fixed.
Always glad to see more Shroud lore covered. There’s much too little compared to the other main cities!
One day I hope to have a proper in game delve into the Elementals, the Padjal, and Gelmorra.
Elementals really just sat back, watched the war brewing and then had the gall to be upset at everyone else while they did nothing to stop it. I hope we get to beat them down the line.
Woo another Synodic Scribe video! Ive been looking forward to this one as war of the magi is my favorite lore from ffxiv. Before i watch though, i just thought earlier today of a question i wanted to ask you next time you uploaded a video friend!
I was under the impression that dynamis was an explanation for limit breaks when i first learned of it but youve mentioned several times that it isnt. If thats the case though, during Endsinger, why does she say "Dynamis!? No Matter." After you use a tank LB3 to survive her first party wipe mechanic?
I'm of the opinion that "consigning the ruins to nature" is highly irresponsible. Motivated individuals could still very well access the buildings buried beneath the trees and dirt and potentially find valuable information.
Obviously the best answer would have been to ACTIVELY DESTROY the ruins, secure all found knowledge, and lock the dangerous stuff away. Just going "meehhhh not my problem, let nature keep it" is an abandonment of responsibility and duty.
I’d use and learn from the ruins myself. Amdapor was that shining city on a hill for a reason, and it isn’t as though they asked Mhach to start the war.
I would destroy the elemental spirit. I'm a 1.0 player and I remember how the Elementals treated people who stepped on a blade of grass on accident.
Burn the forest down
IDK if you address this topic before, like Mhach relies upon voidsent powers, could it be that Amdapor golems was some manner of sineaters precursors?
Running an FF14 DnD campaign is SO much easier with lore videos like this 😉
I don't know what I would do with the ruins. I would just allow the Forest to reclaim it for the simple fact I hated going through that place plus after going through there it made me realize that shadowbringers is a completely lazy expansion since literally most of the enemies that we faced it there are literally carbon-copy enemies that we have to face in shadowbringers
I really want more elemental/shroud lore in the game. alas
thoughts on the statues being the same models as the sin eaters?
Amdapor and Mhach, honestly, deserve to be purged of monsters and shit and completely refurbished. It'd be a shame to let those places just rot(and in Mhach's case, it's a further 'fuck you!' to that bastard Emet-Selch, who makes poor Hades look bad by association).
Blood lily needs blood.
But I thought the elementals are made of dynamis, being the feelings and life of the Twelveswood. It's for this reason the we cannot see them. >:O
Joking, scribe. Good video as always! <3
The Lost City of Amdapor is still one of the coolest dungeons from the early days of ARR. I wouldn’t mind the lost city becoming its own explorable area at some point after the spores and fungus have been purified
What i wonder.
One white mage stone is in this big tree in the dark forest, or?
At the end of the gridania start story are the bird people attacking this tree, to take the crystall inside of the tree.
Did they really wanted the white mage stone?
Or was there other crystall?^^