We’re very close to the release of Dawntrail now, so lets have one more lore talk before I start to address all the new things we’re about to learn together in this new chapter of FFXIV’s story!
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Haven't finished the video yet, but I have a question!
Is the old name for Tural (Mamook) just soft-retconned away or is it an explained name change such as the old name for the Dawnservant being the Autarch?
I love your mindset on the retcons in 14 being that sometimes the devs want to move in a different direction, and that's okay!
Personally, it reminds me of the real world historians and scientists. As we are furthering our understanding of the world, things that we used to believe as facts has evidence to the contrary revealed. These things are never exact sciences, since we are working with the current knowledge base available.
I'm an Englishman and I give you permission to come over here and do whatever you want mr Scribe. You can even stay in my shed if you like.
Happy dawntrail eve everyone 😂🎉
I suspect Gulool Ja Ja, probably had all of Tural unified, but it wasnt until around the time Ketenramm reach Tural and met Gulool Ja Ja, that the nation was officially funded, probably inspired by some of tales of Ketanramm, their official language is a new one, similar/inspired to the one used commonly on the three great continents, making me think…how did they understood Katenramm, specially befriending Gulool Ja Ja? Did either Ketenramm or Gulool Ja Ja had the echo?
I'll be up as soon as the servers are back up. I'm even prepping a special dinner for this weekend. Xaela roast beef, Miq'obabs, popotoes au gratin, ratatouille, and Xaela doughnuts.
As far as the size of the continent issue, you can see that part of the landmass is still shrouded in the bottom left corner of the map. We will likely get more areas unlocked later in the expansion which will add to the size of the land mass over all.
As a fan of Blue Mage, im hoping to see if we come across the Wahlaqee and learn more deeply about the origins of what we come to learn about blue magic.
Looking forward to exploring and learning more about Tural! Also I wanna see more about the Blue Mage tribe and what they’re doing.
Well, as usual, I'm looking forward to how FFXIV can take real world concepts and issues and make them engaging and understandable. There was some controversy over the Whelaquee, and I do expect some concept of Colonialization to be tackled in the expansion because of that (and our interference in their politics). However, RL, it's been skewed as being very negative and wholly detrimental with no acknowledgement of the positives or benefits. Honestly? Cultural appreciation can only happen when cultures share and learn of each other. There will always be greed and fortune seekers, but that's why it's important to step up and do what we can. I certainly can't imagine Italian food without garlic and tomatoes, so let's see what the inspiration from the real world brings to the table as they cloak it in a fantasy skin. ^-^
I hope that with the next Blue Mage update we take our homeboy Martin to the new world and find the Walaquee tribe he studied from. Even if it's a secluded instance from the rest of the Tural map.
Always very informative! ❤
Love your videos! And I appreciate your hard work. One question: Where are you ingame? @15:34
Great job as usual! Loved the format!
2:20 …. Boi does the world look like ours, there's America (Continent) Europe, Asia and even Australia.
Found your channel yesterday, i love this. You make an amazing job! Pls keep this channel going!
Synodic Scribe. "Then there is where we are visiting tomorrow, Tural."
Maybe you are visiting Tural, Scribe, but my avatar is going to Old Sharlayan again to relive Endwalker as a Pictomancer tomorrow. 😉
Took me a while to realize… The Mamool Jas are basically Mandalorians from Star Wars.
A respect for strenght and a warrior way of life.
So Gulzaja was Columbus
If the Indigo Deep is anything like the North Atlantic ocean, yeah I can see why people might think the ocean was alive or magically charged. I would get a kick though if we find Viking ruins in the north to really mirror how they found the continent before the rest of Europe.
A fantastic summary of what we know so far.
Some indicators on the map would be really helpful. I can't read that map at all and have no idea which continent is which.
I really can't wait for the Inevitable BLU 90 update in 7.x so we can find out how much of an absolute charlatan Martin actually is and start learning some REAL Blue Magic. 😉
I'm really curious as to what kind of leader Galool jaja is, because with such a long reign at this point he must be mythical in a way. Surely there must be people in Tural who have been born and died with him being at the wheel the whole time.
If he had all this time to prove his worth as a ruler surely his plans for chosing a heir must go much deeper than the contest. If he wants someone to rule for as long as possible then a contest is one of the worst ways to go about it because there are many variables going in that won't factor much in how good they'll do as a dawn servant. You don't just end the job of your life and just hand the keys to the guy who happens to know the right guy to win the trials.
I'm hoping for some caribbean inspired stuff in Dawntrail
Ethys Asher would be proud of this lore dive!
One thing about the map is I would think the map just isn't 100% accurate or drawn to scale. Even our Rectacular world map atm vastly undersizes Africa and oversizes things like Greenland and Europe
Like all map drawings (in the real world) … They are never to scale. Unless someone on the FFXIV world had a satellite image of the world, the artist of this map wouldn't have a proper scale. To see the real scale of the land mass, go to the moon and watch as the planet turns. The new world 100% is larger.
I'm hyped. I work nights, so I sleep when I get home. By the time I wake up tomorrow, the expansion will be live. And I'll be pigging out on homemade banana pudding because it's my cheat day.
As for what I'm most excited about… Well, this time around I regret to say it's not the classes. I literally could not care less about viper or pictomancer. I do appreciate the reference to Relm, though. Beastmasters is another story though. I'm itching to hear more about it. I've recently gotten into Blue mage and enjoy the non-standard play style, but the whole style of the class they went for isn't really doing it for me, but beastmaster sounds like more my cup of tea.
Other than that… I guess just learning more lore, and seeing the new story through. I won't be stressing or hurrying to do anything. I just play how I feel like playing. So I envision myself still parked in the old world somewhere trying to find someone to roleplay with.
Anyway, this was a helpful video. Appreciated.
Ye'll not be seeing me in Dawntrail any time soon as I've nae even started Heavensward yet. 48 hour maintenance doesn't help, but even if that wasn't a thing, the fact is I didn't want to refight Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan on harder difficulties and it turns out I only had to refight Ifrit and just unlock the difficulties for Garuda and Titan, so I dragged my feet on that one for nothing and delayed further by fighting Garuda and Titan on that higher difficulty anyway for no reason, and then, after doing my MSQs to a specific point, the game tells me I need to complete the Crystal Tower storyline, and I did not want to run the Labyrinth of the Ancients as a tank as my main job is Warrior and so tried to level Archer and Bard to 50 for it, but gear wasn't keeping up with my leveling, so I switched to Samurai to stop putting it off. And now I need to run Syrcus Tower, which is allegedly easier than Labyrinth of the Ancients, but I am still dreading the moment. And then there were all the non-maintenance days I just didn't want to play.
I'll be honest, the Blue Mage stuff has me the most excited. Please let it become a playable class someday!
Given that Tural looks somewhat Americas shaped, The nastiness of the Indigo Deep is fitting. The Atlantic at least has never been known to be a kind ocean.
The Tuliyollal architecture is so similar to "Rumah Gadang" of Minangkabau people I cant unsee it.
America analogue
Has oil
RAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH WTF IS A KILOMETER?????!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do wanna discuss the possibility that you may be unintentionally taking the dimensions seen in the newest map too literally. It's got a lot of visual similarities to real world pen and paper maps that were drawn by merely sketching the coastline as best as one could, a strong example of the errors that can arise from this is the Orontius Finaeus map. Compound that further with the lack of clear markings to clarify any distortions from adapting a spherical object to a 2D plane (like we see with modern maps today), then I find it hard to take the dimensions at face value.
I think it would be closer to the art team's vision to take even this new map, comissioned by Krile, with a grain of salt for its dimensions. With setting appropriate reasons for its inaccuracy, such as having no landmarks to gauge distance travelled other than "It took us a LONG time to get there."
We might see more "setting accurate" maps if the Loporrits or other institutions start mapping Etherys from sites such as Mare Lamentorum, wherein they can more comfortably account for the star's curvature.
Tural being smaller is actually an actual thing with maps! Things on world maps are actually quite often bigger and smaller than they actually should be, for a number of reasons. 1) Our planet is round, but maps are flat so some definitely is going to be lost, resulting in the equators of maps to be stretched and the poles to be shortened. 2) Most maps are made for Western countries and so, as a result, Europe and North America are often enlarged and inflated in size while places like Africa are shrunk down so it could easily be that Tural is, in fact, much, much bigger than it seems on the map. Hell, they could even be talking about both Turals as one continents which would explain the size thing, too.
Just want to see what Solution 9 is
Is it just me, or does the planet in ffxiv feel very small?