I'm pretty sure the clouds were supposed to be a "here be dragons" thing since lower Othard was also obscured until Ivalice dropped. Some potential other territories include Valnain in lower Othard (where the remnants of the IVth Legion fled), Landis (where Noah is from), Dalmasca and whatever bordered Ala Mhigo.
Valnain iirc is near Dalmasca (as that is where Gabranth went I believe before he 'died' according to his fieldnote) which the Bozja storyline ended that whole plot, Dalmasca is effectively concluded with Bozja and it is in the wrong direction (going through The Burn makes more sense via air if we want to reach Ilsabard via Othard), and Ala Mhigo was bordered to Garlemald/Northern Ilsabard in the same way the three Othard nations bordered around northern Ilsabard (I believe it goes Bozja > Doma > Dalmasca in terms of distance from the border). I don't recall where Landis was so I'll give you that one.
I watched a little bit of this highlight and initially thought "Seems like a really dumb thing to get upset over. XIV's done these multiple-choice question quests several times during Make It Rain by now. Why is this dude acting like he's still brand new to the game?"
Yes, he dumped all his WoW merch in exchange for shiny and somewhat rare/expensive FFXIV tat, iirc he had a 1.0 collectors box which is worth a penny for an EN one, 80 bucks for a JPN one (on Ebay, atleast), several figurines too, iirc, plus some shitty posters and misc tat that could either be squenix store shit or etsy, couldnt tell ya which
He's also the same retard that missed blatantly obvious story cues regarding a character coming back from the dead and possessing a body and had a meltdown when his chat was genuinely confused he missed such an obvious story beat.
"GUYS DON'T YOU DARE CALL AU RA LIZARDS, FICTIONAL SCORES OF PEOPLE WERE GENOCIDED IN A FICTIONAL SETTING OVER THIS, THIS IS LITERALLY THE SAME THING AS NATIVE AMERICANS AND IT'S REALLY DISRESPECTFUL!"
The WoW crowd had 15 years to build up some sunk cost fallacy style thinking about the game (I've put in 15 years! The next patch/expansion will be good! Just hold on a bit longer!), but Pyro decided to speedrun it and end up there with XIV within only a few months. Fascinating stuff. Maybe the reason for some of his meltdowns too.
One of the first moments after the first big meltdown about WoW where I realized something was up with him was when he got to the final trial of 3.0 and had to stop and argue with chat for 15 minutes before doing it because he couldn't understand how Thordan had become a primal. The chat kept telling him to think about Ysayle/Shiva and he literally yelled at them about how it didn't make any sense.
I think you can sorta blame Wikis/fansites as a precursor to video essays too, i think the habits of just mindlessly browsing a meaty wiki page written by a fuckton of autists in a basement instead of actually interacting with a piece of media in any way sorta was the precursor to that, imo
They didn't crusade against the Au Ra the knights mistook a fleeing tribe of them crossing into their territory as an attack by weird dragonkin, so they attacked them and slaughtered them since the tribe was already in awful shape. Still a shitty thing and its one of the many things Ishgard did that was really awful during their war but to claim they launched crusades against random Au Ra is silly as hell.
I blame Ed Greenwood, aka the dude who created the Forgotten Realms.
I remember really early on during Pyromancer's patch ARR adventure he thought Ultima Weapon was the same as Omega Weapon during the cutscene they bring it up in 2.2 or 2.3 I forget which, yes really he legit confused the two despite him blowing up Ultima Weapon at about 10 or so hours of game time ago, and when his chat corrected him he went "See I wrote down the scene it says 'similar power to Ultima' so it is Ultima Weapon, not Omega there is no Omega Weapon." (A little paraphrased, but the same idea). Boy I bet he felt like an exceptional dumbass in 3.55...
The note taking was entirely pointless as well. I don't remember a single moment where he needed to look up something in his notes to get the full picture. FF14 is not like WoW, they don't have side quests that provide pivotal information to the lore. There isn't a macguffin or character you would only know about if you did side quest #403 in the lvl 30 questing area before the quest was removed in the fourth expansion.
To go all college education course on this, I think it's a simple Bloom's Taxonomy issue, memorization vs. synthesis. I should probably say just for some context that lore is not inherently evil and I thought Elpis was pretty good right up until the last little bit when we get propelled back toward the main plot of EW.
I'd say for the end of 5.0 to explain why the Crystal Exarch is around you'd want to know Alexander and Omega's story, as they provide pivotal rule explanation why he can exist due to interdimensional travel and time travel existing through these entities.
I think the real reason Xaela are less common is due to location each tribe occupies and how it relates to the Garlean occupation. Remember Xaela pretty much only live in the Steppe which Garleans don't show up in very much (something to due with the climate and terrain not being favorable for their magitek and the Steppe isn't valuable grounds anyway). Raen live everywhere else in the Doma/Othard area and don't necessarily have much to tie them to Othard as a whole, except for Yugiri's water people, so naturally when the Garleans run your shit down, you got to get the fuck out or get captured. So Raen leaving Othard to Aldernard becomes far more common due to this factor.
Yep. Xaela at no point turned into a diaspora in their history like the Raen did after the (alleged) war between their gods. So now you see Raen in many, many places because the many tribes settled all over. I do find it funny that the Xaela never conquered nearby regions since that's a common route many steppe peoples turned to in their history. They're instead very insular and divided.Zeke Von Gebu said:
Xaela have religious components where their land is considered sacred and thus only care about it, everywhere else is irrelevant to them which is a nice way to make them stand out and not just purely be barbarians. It is why I liked the Xaela tribes and they're my highlight in 4.0, yeah they're quirky and weird (like the people who marry their horse), but the main ones we meet just feel like weird alternates of religious people you'd meet anywhere else as opposed to being entirely backwards barbarians. Plus I find it cute how they effectively came to different conclusions with similar things in other cultures Like Azeyma = Azim, and Azim is male while Azeyma is female, or Sadu's people know the whole aetherial sea reincarnation process, but they're taken it in an entirely different direction where it is literal reincarnation.
I think this person's more talking about the misappropriation of the species towards reptiles which lore wise they aren't and they aren't dragonkin either rather they are their own race. And the native american to indian part might be referring to how native american's sometimes get misappropriated with the nationality of India sometimes. I personally am willing to play devil's advocate with my interpretation of this post and possibly say I agree, but you could be right and this is all about a harmless "lol lizert" short hand bitching. But I'm not getting those vibes.
