T'was the night before early access - The first finale
Hi fellow WoLs!
We've got a big finale starting tomorrow! So here's this expansion's "T'was the night" parody poem I do every expansion!
Be aware they are filled with spoilers with everything we've learned up to now
Previous entries:
A realm Reborn
Heavansward
Stormblood
Shadowbringers
T'was the night before Early Access - Endwalker
T'was the night before early access, the end now in sight
Dawn would soon break, our final chapter we write.
Hydalyn lay waiting, having groomed light with care
while Zodiark woke, bringing darkness to bear.
Fandanial lay nestled, with Zenos in sttride
in their mysterious towers, their time they did bide.
While Krile prepared Passports and papers
That we could set sail for our Sharlayan neighbors.
From ambiguous voids, there arose such a clatter
This lady of light portends warning, her essance then scattered.
Away to the moon, I flew like a flash
to prevent the final days, lest our world turn to ash.
Proof of existence all lost, like the city Amauraut,
Now Emet's burden we bear, that ancients not be forgot.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear?
but long forgotten structures upon the lunar sphere.
While from a cold stark land, our foes cried and called
I knew in a moment, it must be Garlemald.
And though they once stood as bringers of ruin
They fight now beside us 'neath a harrowing moon.
For once were they farmers, to grow crops in peace
till pushed from their home land, hard luck would not cease.
So took up the scythe, now they reap instead souls,
drawing strength from voidsent, reaper their new role.
But fighting so savage leaves us broken and burned,
thus we seek succor from the merciful learned.
Weilding volumes of knowledge, their aetherology high tech,
Sages stand guard using Noulith Mechs.
Though Sharlayan developed this powerful mender
they'll lift not a finger to stop us from burning like tinder.
So we seek us new aid, power in foreign lands
Traveling across Thavnair, to the great Radz-at-Han.
and the people we'll meet will be exciting and new
like the Arkasodara, and the Loporrits too.
But the challenges waiting on the globe and the moon
will pit us against the Magus sisters, and Anima's doom.
Gods born again and again, into their legends we delve,
In Myths of the realm, will we face now the twelve?
But old enemies return and the myths all have origins,
as ascians seek vengeance in the chaotic Pandæmonium.
And when at last we're allowed to relax
We'll visit island sanctuaries, and garden to the max.
And new adventurers will join us as we're given new faces,
of the male Vierra, and fem Hrothgar races.
Our Journey began on a bright sunny morn,
as we took our first steps through A Realm Reborn.
Then the cold light of day saw us raising our swords,
as we leapt to the skies battling Heavansward.
Thus twilight fell as we rally'd the good,
to fight the great war, a raging Stormblood.
From Astral to Umbral, night fell and yet lingers,
Across worlds we fought as Shadowbringers.
But the sun now shall rise, and we must march on
as we're coming full circle, we herald the dawn.
Fresh starts lay behind this climax of slaughter,
But first our Zenith, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.