so ... it's possible that I missed it, because I was doing some of the msq while working, but do we know how caihua died?

cadcuia

cahcuia wow

mom

I don't think it was specifically brought up, no

Not that I recall anyway

thank you

Yeah I tracked down a German wiki that went so far in depth about her I think they were straight up inventing some lore, but they didn't say how she died

Soooo it's a mystery! For now anyway, maybe we'll learn more in post patches

/nooods

Cahciua | FFXIV German Lore Wiki | Fandomthe page

I did translate it to English so if you can read German you might glean a bit more info idk

so my biggest thread for Stuff from here onward is Preservation because we never found out anything else about them other than that Robor and Alayla worked for them and were hunted down after they were like, NOPE

so this will be veeery interesting.

okay none of that seems invented

half the lore was discussed before the dome with the friend of hers that Erenville looked up at the train station town

Okay I didn't remember the master of weaponry stuff, though it does fit

Anyway

that she was a master marksman yup I do remember that

I am also very interested in Preservation

I have. One more alt to get through before I start tackling the side quests and I'm sure some more hints will be dropped there

Yeah I need to get through the side quests in the last three areas

...and both cities lol

lmao yeaaah

I haven't even tackled the job quests

role quests. w/e it's early

see my biggest thread for stuff is that we... can't actually permit the soul cell system to continue?

because it'll gradually suck the souls out of the source into itself the same way it did their world

I mean we did kind of wrecked the facility

a little

Yeah we stopped the system

like post game people are still wearing their regulators but at least this far I've taken it more as comfort / having some leftover soul cells / habit rather than anything else.

Anyway ... I loved a lot of a lot of things here. My real crying was on.... the first area of last zone. (There were tearing ups at other points but my crying on first run was there)

Also they built those models dammit they're going to stay that way /out of universe reason

I cried so hard all through the final zone lmao

My big sadness was that they went in a direction with Sphene that was very close to Meteion, both visually and emotionally. The similar-yet-different attempt I think detracted from making her stand on her own. But overall, I did get pulled in emotionally

I probably would have gotten pulled more if I'd gotten further in ffix than like. Two quests into Lindblum, but still

A friend explained that it was supposedly in reference to what happens in 9/an au of those events

But it is very close to Meteion yes

yeah no, I did get enough of that

the final piece re Sphene, that the one we see was adjusted by Preservation, made a lot of what they were doing make sense (and the Meteion similarities stronger)

as in, she is, ultimately, a creation with a purpose she can't escape from and it breaks her

I might end up adopting two boys for rp. Possibly. Need to see if fussy little bunbun will stay in touch or just fuck off to adventures a la estinien

grandson lands squarely in my 'complicated kids' type

I looooved that we were now the mentor rather than the one doing the journey. I loved loved LOVED how much they let Wuk Lamat grow

It's not often that a male writer will take on a lady main character AND pull it off

OH also Ketenramm is making me consider making a male roe character for the first time

(And I say as having completed the msq first in .... four expansions in a row with my femroe)

overall. I was given a LOT of wondeful new characters to keep me engaged. I love all expansions, but this is the first one since stormblood that gave me so many side-but-important characters (in sheer numbers) that I adore. (Endwalker is complicated because it had an amazing side cast but the best of them had all been previously introduced)

... and on ew introduced characters

the fact that Koana was explicitly, Estinien and Alphinaud helped me get Vrtra here had me going all, OT3 OT3 OT3 (don't at me, yes, I know.)

COMBAT. The red popups during fight are kind of driving me nuts because it's a new thing I have to actually read and process

OTHER THAN THAT I'm liking the faster pace

the last trial took one wipe and I died ... a few more times than I should have (that's on me). Healer lb3 was used twice. I did go in as smn and was rezzing consistently, too

the walls section just broke my brain a little

oh oh oh. ALso someone said 'Wuk Lamat has her own Emet-Selch' and that was ver apt.

okay current theory:
key was created by azem in the days between zodiark and the sundering in an attempt for an alternative to rejoining

after it was used for the 5th calamity exodus, it ended up on the unknown shard

preservation is ascians prepping the shard for a rejoining, hence they could operate the key

I do not think the Alexandria shard is 12 th, as of now

i am leaning more toward it being not that yeah

but i do think it is a rejoined Reflection

they just found a way to put themselves in a bubble

I think the rejoined ones completely cease to exist

so there wouldn't be anything for the bubble to be in

but I may be very wrong about that

the implication they're gunning for is definitely that it is an unrejoined reflection

and I'm putting a tenner on "beyond the bounds of living memory" being where our A raid is

hmm, i suppose we'll see

alliance raid is ffxi not ffix but they might pull it off

yeah but it's also "echoes of" which implies some amount of Dead Stuff to me at this point

yeah I'm looking forward, even with the themed raids we've had mixes

chocoballs: the source for the info in that wiki:

I vaguely remember seeing it now, I just don't always parse things the first time I read them

Or perhaps I should put it like 'i don't always fully process information the first time I see it'

that's fair, I'm doing this on my second alt so I thought I might cap it

Thanks!

<3