The Rise and Fall of The White Raven

that was a great read and it puts the End of an era/new beginning video in better context. I cant wait to explore and adventure my way thru this story.

As someone who was never able to play 1.0, and has only really watched the important 1.0 cutscenes on youtube, this was an amazing read. I definitely feel like I understand the main scenario a lot better now. So a huge "thank you" and "amazing job" to those who worked on this!

This is just testament to how much goes into making the story for games like Final Fantasy. This is a great read!

I have to say, I totally missed the connection between the two names. I've never been good at cryptograms though.

*goes off to waste some time at work reading the article*

You guys did a really good job!

This is amazing! I am definitely a fan of this compiled lore! Count me in as a new fan of the Lore forum!

*(Applaudes)*

Brilliant work, Ferne... and brilliant work to Moose and every single one of you that contributed to this masterpiece.

Absolutely brilliant and it will find a home on my blog

Very well done, to all parties involved!! :D

Thank you very much for the kind words! /deepbow

To those who mentioned the connection between the names Bahamut and Dalamud, even I had to ask to be sure. When a member of my FC asked about the similarity, I thought it might have been a clever ruse because H and T and M and D in Al Bhed... but it turns out that was part linguistic similarity and part coincidence. The English localization team, especially, puts a lot of style and linguistic quality into the game, some of which you'd never see unless you were looking for it, and that's one of the things that I think makes XIV stand out.

Unfortunately, 20 years down the road, you don't be able to just pop in XIV and re-live the nostalgia, and this is why we're so into cataloging the lore while the servers are live. A record of text, images, and videos we'll always be able to go back for - and so much of this story is worth going back for!

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

The English localization team, especially, puts a lot of style and linguistic quality into the game, some of which you'd never see unless you were looking for it, and that's one of the things that I think makes XIV stand out.

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Seriously, the writing in this game is a work of art.