Be it thanks to misunderstandings, misinformation, or sometimes straight-up misreadings, sometimes people just get some stuff about Final Fantasy XIV wrong. Today, we’re setting the record straight on a number of the more common misconceptions around the community!
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As a ten year black mage, we would totally put materia in an eye socket to get bigger dps 😹
My take has pretty much always been "limit break = barely-understood aether + dynamis interaction" since it does seem to be tied to spirit and determination (Omega will never do a limit break) and of course the Endsinger's proclamation. The whole nature of dynamis/akisha is that we DON'T know 99.99% of the things there are to know about it, and yeah, that totentanz looks REALLY suspicious, don't it? As for the rest, I have NEVER understood the Rowena hate, in game or out. I'd take an entire business partnership with her over buying a single cup of coffee from Taledji Adeledji any day.
I am so glad you said that about evens, alliance raids and Hildibrand people might not like them, but unless they contradict the worlds lore there is no evidence they didn't happen. (There was a quote around 2.0 with "Lightning Returns" that made it seem less than canon, and that is the main justification for cancelling everything)
I largely agree with the ending point about seasonal events being canon but not necessarily mattering, though the last few years and post-EW in particular have got me thinking about All Saint's Wake- The more we learn about the Void's past and get actual named from there who aren't just monsters trying to kill us, the more I think it's significant that the circus seems to be such a big group of relatively friendly voidsent. I'd really love to see those characters pop up even briefly in our future dealings with the 13th.
If you ever do a follow up on this video, I'd love to see something about Ivalice- People have been functionally illiterate about that since it came out and it was nuts to me seeing people say it was all just a play or not literally happening or somehow not understanding how it's not literally Ivalice from those games but something in FF14 specifically.
I still feel that dynamis could be doing something when a lot of stuff is happening from an emotional starting point. It's just that we don't have anyone knowledgeable about it that could properly theorize about it. Well not anyone who isn't dead and isn't allowing Asahi's soul torment them. Not that I think Hermes would want to answer a summons let alone a conversation. Even if it was about a topic he understood more than most. I also know that the lore books are the dev's telling us things and yet they write those books mostly from an in universe pov. Thus as I said no one alive that we know of who has been researching it. I'm a bit surprised we haven't come across a Sharlyean who has taken an interest in it yet. Since we know that a few on the Forum have put forth the idea of having the WoL write a dissertation on things pertaining to the 1st that for whatever reason don't want to ask of the Archons or the twins about.
As we all know Sharlyeans will research just about anything and will go down as many rabbit holes as need be in pursuit of knowledge. You can't tell me that there isn't a forgotten about tome in the restricted section on dynamis when we know they have one of the many diaries of everyone's favorite voidsent loving goldsmiths in there.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever been in a fandom that didn't widely declare some part of the source material–usually the ending/epilogue–to be non-canon purely on the basis of "I do not like it, I do not see it." Anyways, to be needlessly pedantic, there is arguably one inter-(sub?)species offspring that is well-documented and exhibits high miscarriage rates (the Hoobigo and Boonewa,) but that's really its own bag of worms. Great video and I hope you feel well soon!
I honestly subscribe to the idea that Azem's fragments on the reflections aren't all male Hyur. It's just more fun that way.
i thought they meant to imply they transferred gulool ja's mom's soul into the vidraal
Super specific question, that is not a challenge but a "thought experiment" for lack of a better word – would/could Healer Alphinaud be considered a scholar? He uses his carbuncle but functions with barriers in such a way that it would appear to be using scholar approach? Lack of fairy would make it an easy/quick "no" but I'm curious for your take!
Genuine question, why does the immediate assumption have to be that "Godbert gets a pass over Rowena because players are sexist" vs "Godbert gets a pass over Rowena because half the time players see him, he's a big goofball of a father and husband rather than a cutting businessperson"? Fun video otherwise, but I think as a collective we could stand to try to not jump and scream "You're all bigots!" any time someone says/does something we disagree with. …As I'm typing this, I see "Hildibrand's One Good Joke" in my feed; that may be telling.
On a less sour note, I never heard of that Materia Eye theory. Wacky stuff. Though from what we know about Black Mage mains, they probably would sacrifice an eye for a materia if it meant squeezing out a bit more damage.
Can we really call Manderville worse than Rowena?
He is also Santa clause of that world.
I feel like for scholar the "We are the only one" argument goes out the window when you remember that we are doing those job quests as a part of our role as a well respected member of an institution of learning. The only way scholar is inaccessible to anyone else is if you assume the WoL does not spend their down time submitting their reports back to the arcanists guild, the guild isn't following up with tonberrys and the lala NPC with the marauders isn't helping anyone catch up. It's the same as the summoners, with the exception that the summoners wanted to use those new students as a plot point. This is all to say nothing of the fact Alphinaud as a "scholiast" exists. Different name, carbuncle not fairy, same job.
A weirdly enduring lore misconception I've found is people thinking FFXIV is some medieval ye old low tech fantasy world (while somehow ignoring that garleans and allagans exist), like the world of FFXIV isn't low tech so much as it's "The industrial revolution hasn't really happened yet in the same way it has in the real world" but the way some people talked about FFXIV's story you'd think it's Game of Thrones. You see this especially with people bemoaning the fashion items as "not realistic" even though the reason most people in Eorzea don't wear more modern outfits probably comes down more to the cost of producing those items without a industrialized society over not having the technology to do so. Like it varies from nation to nation but Ul'dah has railways and the gold saucer has working arcade machines they have modern-ish technology it's just the Eorzean nations don't have the infrastructure to widely produce it like the Garleans do.
1:10 Quick Correction: We're still at 7.15, not quite at 7.2 yet 🙂
For the "only the WoL can be multiple jobs", you went off on an unrelated tangent imo. Technically yeah anyone can have multiple jobs but it's like having multiple PhDs, not that necessary especially in a medieval world, the reason we CAN be multiple jobs is because we have a unique power (probobly from the echo) that allows us to attune to soul crystals far easier, as soul crystals choose their owners (except mch but mch is us imparting knowledge onto it, it doesn't really have a will). So yeah, we are the only ones that can attune to more than one soul crystal
My man Godbert Manderville owns a casino. Anyone that owns a casino has something shady going on. Besides, he physically hurts his son on the regular and calls it love. I think anyone on the Syndicate probably is not to be trusted 100%. Not that Rowena is innocent, but she's hardly a villain.
Great video as usual 👍! At the risk of stating something that might be painfully obvious, the lack of cross-species characters/kids is 100% a question of development resources… and I reckon that if it ever got "formally canonized" one way or the other, it would open many cans of worms that Squeenix probably prefers to keep closed. It's one of the many things in this game — and many other games, really— that are best left vague and for everyone to form their own opinions about. Sometimes, making a side detail any clearer only has downsides, and the unknown is more compelling than the answer!
as someone who doesn't really engage too much with the broader community I'm kind of surprised to learn that rowena is hated as much as she is. i never really had that read on her personally
Due to I’m sure very lore consistent reasons, Blaz Azetina, one of the Blades you find in Bozja, is a Bozjan Hrothgar Samurai.
So there is at least precedent of non-Hingans (does Hien and Gosetsu count as Hingans? Mayne non-Far Easterns? But Bozja is also in Othard, so…) learning the Samurai Job.
My personal headcanon is that as a Lalafell the Ancients see the player as physically looking like Azem but chibified, so he's sending out his own mini-me helper. Which they all see as perfectly in character
Wait what, someone actually theorized that the 7.1 Dungeon Boss is the body of Erenville's Mom?! I was looking forward to hear evidence it isn't Gulool Ja's Mom (or rather her transferred Soul which since went feral), which is what I theorize. Based on the Echo Flashback about her happening after you take the Beast down.
She probably isn't…but if so…man, would it have been to punish her for having a Child in secret or an attempt to win Zoraal Ja's favor through sheer dedication? As far as I remember there was an incident shortly after the Child was born, but that doesn't guarantee they did not get things under control after again. I think at least
do you think we'll learn who lunapyati was eventually?