This one was easily the most strange beast tribe to cover so far, as they didn’t naturally occur upon Eorzea! But we shall get to learn the how and why behind all that in this video. Are the Ixal just beasts that need to be put down? Or are they a race that needs to simply be shown they can be more than what they were made for?
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Yay, another beast tribe lore video! Oh happies^^
I know that Garuda is relatively new to the summons roster, but she should be the definitive wind summon like how ifrit is fire and shiva is ice
Hey man! Love your content! I have a question for you but if you feel you could make a video of it by all means please do. Is there any clarification for exactly HOW the world was sundered? As powerful as the ascians are surely Venat wasnt able to make 13 entire alternate universes.
Is there just like an orb every shard exists within but then they're all looking at the same stars in the sky? Did she just create the stars and then place them in 13 already existing alternate universes? What does this mean for Astrologians that aren't on the source?
It doesn’t help that the wind is blowing outside while listening to this video
The best beast tribe
I wouldn’t mind if the tribals became allied races kinda like in wow. I would love to have an ixal dragoon
The lore of these peoples and their natural way of life continues to amaze me. Thanks for continuing to help teach me the lore of this world that I can't be apart of as much as I'd like. Think the Ixal may be my new favorite beast tribe after hearing this one^^
And here I though the Ixal were just meth-head Vanu Vanu.
Of course the woman who inspired the myth of Garuda was a caustic psychopath
Can't wait for the nath I love ur work keep great job
Wasn't there some legend among the Ixal that they lost their wings when they invoked the Greenwrath? I feel like I remember reading that in a quest somewhere, but I don't remember clearly…
Err…is this going to be on the test?
A beautiful telling of a bittersweet tale.
I didn't know about General Garuda. That explains so much!
You are so fucking eloquent, I love your videos ❤ appreciate all the effort you put into these 👍🏼
My favorite beast tribe and yet, I've learned so much from this lesson. 🙂 Thanks, professor.
As descendants of chimerical beings, it should be asked. Do the Ixal have a soul? Personally I think they do, but I don’t have any official evidence to my knowledge. Do they have souls or is there evidence to support this? I mean they can be tempered. Can you temper someone who doesn’t have a soul?
Not once during my several visits there for tribe quests have i thought much about them and their society (though the whole Azys Lla twist was pretty neat when msq introduced that), as well as the naming conventions and personalities tied to the names. A+ lecture.
'Now fall.'
In regards to their food they actually really like cheeseburgers
Their favorite is Windy's with a slice of Garuda cheese
I had a theory which doesn't entirely hold water after I did a bit of looking, but that I still think is compelling enough to share. I would suggest that the Ixal's naming scheme suggests not only that their surnames are based on designations given by the Allagan, but that these were in fact the ranks generally used by the Allagan military, if not society in general. I say this because the suffixes of their surnames bear striking similarities to those of the Garlean empire, which openly emulates the Allagans.
The Skysent have names that end in TL and are the highest ranking among the Ixal. The highest in rank during the days of the Allagans would likely have worked with or been second-in-command to General Garuda. The equivalent role in Garlean society is Tribunus Laticlavius, which bears the honorific ToL, as in Nero tol Scaeva.
The Windrisen, the worker class, have names that end in AN and are the lowest rank among the Ixal, and therefore among the Garleans. What is the lowest rank among the Garlean empire? AhN. Note that the rank of Aan does not convey citizenship, belonging to slaves and people of annexed territories.
What makes me question if this holds true is the Galeborne, whose names end in OC. Not only is the matching title Oen, which doesn't really map to OC, but in Garlean society these are generally rank and file soldiers rather than officers or managers of any kind. One could argue that an enlisted Oen would outrank and perhaps be given command of enlisted Aan, but between that and the less-than-ideal match in naming, I felt I had to mention that flaw in my theory. One could argue that the Allagan system changed over time and the new version was adopted by the Garleans, but with no way to prove that the theory does have a few holes in it.
Nevertheless I thought it a striking enough resemblance to merit discussion, and maybe further inspection. Could the names of the Ixal and the Garleans share Allagan roots? I doubt we'll ever know for certain, but it seems a definite possibility, at least to me.
I didn’t know this!! Thanks!!
I'm going to the North shroud for a game of Triple Triad with my boy Sezul Totoloc. Care to come?
Awesome class!
7.0 Aeromancer confirmed ?
Also just a thought, could it be that their military base/operations during the allag days was actually the thing that allowed them to keep their wings ?
i mean with them being the airborne division they must be exposed to a lot of wind aspected aether(do aether work that way ?) during their operations and maybe at their military bases too ?
with the destruction of the allag empire the exalion might have been forced to leave those bases behind ? causing them to be exposed to wind aether less. and overtime their bodies adapted to their surrounding.
The best summon!
heh, i kinda remember the quest that has you chase after an Ixal it Azys Lla, and how it REALLY fucked them up when they found out the truth, which to be fair, was a surprise to me as well, cause i kinda wasn't expecting them to go 'oh btw, these guys? yeah, they where made in a lab'.
LOVE THIS
You didn't bring up the coincidence that is Amon recreating bird people after the disaster that was Meteon.
Where I'm from easternly wind most so the north eastern is dangerous and cruel often reaching 80 to 100 kms for days, so I had to chuckle.
I never recall reading what Garuda was in the Allagn records so this was the final piece I needed to really get them. I always thought she was the first Ixal able to produce eggs since I did not know she was a general. Now I wonder how I missed that bit of data.
Great vid as always.
There was a lot there I had no idea about. Great video 😀
Isn't it in Griadanian Lore that the elementals took the Ixalian's wings?
I mean those puffs of power can turn people into green stone.
I'm sure they could also mess up their wings back in their prime.
It's interesting how the Ixali religion seems to mirror that of the Ishgardians. They both serve a god that could be seen as a God of War or fighting. They both have a twisted idea of their creation / foundation stories. They both waged 'holy crusades' against a race or races that they'd been taught were enemies. They both have a social system that's a little similar, I suppose – nobles up in the pillars, poor down in the brume, and those that ascend these ranks through becoming a knight or having some other useful profession and some luck.
so if the Ixal were created by Allagans in the 3rd astral era, then it makes sense we dont see a counterpart of them in the first, just like Zun or Mord which resemble our Amal'jaa and Kobolds. The Ixal didnt exist in the unsundered world
I have a lot of hope for the future of Eorzea and the potential integration of "beast tribes" into a sort of Grand Eorzean Alliance, along with a hopefully reformed and rebuilt Garlemald. Just imagine what the Ixal could accomplish alongside Garlean engineering! Flight technology could take massive leaps and bounds in the near future, and that's just one such example of what a more unified and collaborative world could bring.
As usual, wonderful lecture from the sydonic scribe!
Ehcatl Nine quests are rather tedious but dang the story points are lovely and they're a wonderful bunch. They just wanna flyyyy… You missed the bit at how the leading airship company in Eorzea partly used Ixali design on their airships.
Really blew my mind when someone (iirc Alphinaud) mentioned in passing in MSQ that some creatures in the labs resemble Ixal. And then I unlocked Fractal Continuum for Gilly (I'm like, onsessed with magitek…) Matron's teats—the Iksalion were on museum exhibit! And then an actual Ixal actually gets to see the Iksalion for themself in Fractal Continuum (Hard)… I'm relived that Ehcatl Nine do not take this too hard and they were just like "Then Azys Lla, eff it! Find own paradise, we will!"
It is actually insane and really cool to see that the Ixal where these chimeras with a screwed up history and how that shaped their culture and whatnot. The fact that this is all in game and you can see it when you go to places like Azys Lla is really cool. Honestly might be one of my new favorite beast tribe lores.
I got as far as the floating islands and then gave up the idea, not realizing there was another puzzle that was able to be the other half of the idea just out of my grasp.