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Mo @ the Wandering Stairs 💫 @themoyouknow.etheirys.social · 3h

Given Orion's echo also conjures as premonitory dreams, he knew how Papalymo would die before he even met him. And because it was just a "wow my dreams are so fucked" thing for so long he didn't think about it. Even meeting him didn't remind him of it but in that moment it hit him so hard...

chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 1d

#wolqotd (now spelled correctly)

I don't know if this has been asked recently, but has your wol/non-wol echo-haver seen any visions with the echo outside of those we see in canon? If so, how do they respond to knowing things that they shouldn't about the people around them?

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🐱steak🐱 @mistswarden.bsky.social · 3h

Alright gang it's time to post "Steak discovers the Exarch's identity via Echo vision" again!

#steakposting

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chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 5h

Holds up the 'ask me about viera gender bullshit and the mist and also assorted nonsense about duskwights' sign

Z <The Exarch's Champion> comms open @exarchschampion.bsky.social · 12d

I know it's been asked before, but I wanna talk about it: what did YOU the player change/add to the race you play outside of canon? Can be an expansion of existing lore or something you just made up because it's fun~

#wolquestion | #wolqotd

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Sifaseven @sifaseven.bsky.social · 8h

Last night we helped a buddy through his first CT raid (Labyrinth)

1 Roegadyn (him) and 23 lalafells.

AT MINIMUM ITEM LEVEL (WITH ECHO).

It was INSANE. 😆 At min ilevel, mechanics do matter. Let's just say Tini played floor tank to perfection (yes, she went in as DRG).

#FFXIV #lalafell

One Roegadyn, 23 lalafells take on Labyrinth of the Ancients, at min ilevel with echo. Can we do it???

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aki @akiseri.bsky.social · 20h

oh godxarch....

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bops @bops.lol · 15h

back in the days of paradise everyone loved the traverse diplomat cream

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🦇kasutera🎃 @kasutera.bsky.social · 1d

scions: hey exarch how's the soul vessel coming along
exarch: oh it's going great after i carved pieces off my flesh to put on them
scions:

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caro⛈ @mythiclings.bsky.social · 1d

feo ul'ing doodle

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chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 23h

YEAH! YEAH!!! I have a lot of feelings about the wol being 'the pile of bones he left beyond the rift'.

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strawbonk vanillaconk (7.3 Spoils) @lesbianlizard.bsky.social · 1d

feo oomf

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Raine 🌙 @hyskaris.bsky.social · 1d

two of them
#ffxiv

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chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 23h

I GOTTA PARTICIPATE IN THE CATBOY DISMANTLING

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chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 23h

I don’t actually know where I’m going with this I was just sketching out ideas but also: Marcel trying to helpfully sweep up all the pieces and being surprised when the Exarch rebuilds himself makes me happy.

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chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 1d

I don't want to write a story I just want to directly blast my feelings right into people's brains

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chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 1d

There's a Feo Ul/Exarch/Lyna story in the new chronicles of light that everyone is extremely normal about!

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chesca playing Final Fantasy @bloodwhet.etheirys.social · 1d

I have a problem and it's 'drawing comics before I actually figure out the script or even the general vibe' oops

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blue 🐻🐰 gateway 306 @dreadwyrmtrance.bsky.social · 1d

(more old stuff) i miss grandpaw

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Em!! @emggily.bsky.social · 1d

Feo Ul!! #ffxiv

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Opteekaal @opteekaal.bsky.social · 1d

"If they are of no value to you, give them to me. These shards of your will-of mankind's determination. They are beautiful beyond compare."

Exarch sitting bent over as his arm crumbles. Feo Ul has a shard of his arm in their hands as they hover over him.

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Moment @ WOL keychains! @mmomentliveart.bsky.social · 1d

Rejoice for the kingdom of rainbows is forever young!
#ffxiv #ffxivart

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Saint Riot @saintriot.bsky.social · 1d

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

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naut. 🖤 @papernautilus.bsky.social · 1d

a snippet written in reaction to the new exarch story. 💎🔨 #crystalexarch
#nautwrites

He could not bring himself to drive the hammer down.

His breath rattled in his ears, hissing wetly on the exhale. He tightened his grip on the hammer; it was his off-hand, but it would have to do.

He could not feel the stone floor beneath his palm, only the intolerable seam between crystal and flesh, jagged crystal rending through muscle and fascia with every wrong move. Raha chokes on a sob, sweaty red strands falling into his eyes; he shoves them out of the way irritably with the back of his hand.

He hefts the hammer, aiming above his target. Bends his elbow back as he tests the weight. Swinging once. Twice. Always coming just shy of the crystal, glimmering faintly in the hearthlight.

It's a sculpture. It's not you. You cannot even feel it. He tries again to bend his fingers, to crook his thumb. There are no tendons nor nerves to convey the action. It isn't his arm anymore, he knows that. It's the Tower's cost.

Raha shoves the belt between his teeth, incisors biting into the leather as he swings the hammer down.

It clinks harmlessly against the sapphire. False start. That's alright. He has nothing but time to get this right.

$Three bedridden weeks wasted. Four sin eaters attacks he could not save them from. Twenty or more deaths. They were still digging the graves in the lilac hills. Saliva pools down his chin. He takes a long, shuddering breath, and drives the hammer once more. The hammer glances off one fractaled edge before spinning out of his hand, knocking over a stool as it spirals beneath the bed. Raha swears inarticulately through the belt. "Come on," he grunts, dragging the dumb, useless weight of his arm as he struggles to wedge himself beneath the bed. Staring at the cobwebs and moldering dust, Raha reconsiders his course. There were doubtless volumes in the Crystal Tower's libraries he hadn't accessed. There was no logic behind this choice. There was always another way. Crystal shreds through his flesh as he reaches for the hammer. He scrabbles out of the bed, staggering for a moment before collapsing against the wall, clutching the hammer as if it were the only thing left to him. His back slides down the wall, and he grimly presses the crystal arm down onto the stone floors. He couldn't sleep another night with this weight attached to him. He shoves the belt between his teeth, grinding down on his molars as he readies his arm again. He doesn't look at the crystal when he swings— instead he casts his gaze a little further. Told himself he would only drive the hammer into the stone floor. Raha's arm shatters in a profusion of crystal shards and viscera.$