Tataru is special?

This occurs when you 1st get into Ishgard and the manservant asks you, Tataru and Alphinaud to attune to the main Aetherite crystal.

When speaking to her she says this:
http://i.imgur.com/TqFvC4Zl.jpg?1

Not sure what this might mean, but it seems as if they're building Tataru up for something and that this is just one of many foreshadowing. Not sure about other languages, but her comment makes it seem the tingling sensation is common for her and not just due to attuning to that specific aetherite.

Who knows, maybe she'll be able to use her tingling sensation as a way to help find the missing Scions of whom she's given them those magical pearls.

I always try to speak with npcs for lore purposes, especially in between important scenes since their dialogue changes, but this one seems to be the most mysterious and very easy to skip over.

.... or the devs are just messing with us and it means nothing

I did not even remember that. Good catch. That is something to think about. Cannot wait to find out what it means. I think she is special somehow.

Or maybe it just tingles when she does.

I'm pretty sure it's an innocuous "magic tingles" thing. Tataru doesn't use much magic or field experience, so attuning to a new aetheryte would naturally feel a little weird to her. Conversely we've endured God knows how much punishment, both physical and magical, so it's not weird to us at all.

Or maybe she enjoys aetherytes a little 'too' much? Eh? Eeeeeh?

You see what I did there.

I saw it more as the same whenever I get a new pair of glasses. I get a tingling sensation on the sides of my nose when i first put them on until I get used to them.

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Originally Posted by Rannie

I saw it more as the same whenever I get a new pair of glasses. I get a tingling sensation on the sides of my nose when i first put them on until I get used to them.

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she also points out that no one else actually feels that. so it would be like you getting the tingling sensation, but the rest of the world-wide glasses wearing populace does not.

Lol which does happen to me as well lol

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Originally Posted by saber_alter

she also points out that no one else actually feels that. so it would be like you getting the tingling sensation, but the rest of the world-wide glasses wearing populace does not.

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I've worn glasses every waking moment for 15 years so I dont get that sensation. I do ocationally try to take my glasses off when Im not wearing them though. lol

So see I'm like tataru when it comes to the attunement of new glasses everyone else thinks I'm insane lol... and I've been wearing glasses for 29 years

I saw it more that she's just inexperienced in aetheryte travel, so she picks up on this kind of thing more than others. Could also have to do with her being a poor mage (maybe she's not good at using aether well) so magical things could affect her slightly differently

I also assume when she says "just me" she means of the Scions (or even just you, her and Alph); she'd be more like the "common" person who doesn't use aetheryte travel really at all, and attuning and using aetherytes may be "odd" to most. The other Scions, however, would be using aetheryte travel a lot in their work, so are numb to any "different" sensations it causes.

It has been mentioned previously that for normal people, Aetheric travel is more taxing physically, so they don't do it very often, thus why Airships are still big business rather than everyone using Aetherytes everywhere.

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Originally Posted by Lusavari

It has been mentioned previously that for normal people, Aetheric travel is more taxing physically, so they don't do it very often, thus why Airships are still big business rather than everyone using Aetherytes everywhere.

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Which would mean that Tataru is the opposite of special. Poor girl.

Tataru is evil.

In due time you'll see she is __________________

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Originally Posted by Lusavari

It has been mentioned previously that for normal people, Aetheric travel is more taxing physically, so they don't do it very often, thus why Airships are still big business rather than everyone using Aetherytes everywhere.

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You've got me wondering how taxing it could possibly be now. I thought about how they were only for people who possessed the echo but thinking further, that doesn't make much sense. BUT it still makes more sense then the amount of times where major characters could have used teleport but just didn't.

I know I know. Not teleporting makes this story more interesting. Just like people forgetting to use their phones in stories based in the real world. But the amount of times I've had to save people in teleport-friendly locations. Surely it isn't too taxing to teleport that it reaches the point of lethality.

I hope Tataru does have some gift beyond what we can already confirm. She has played the long game in terms of grabbing a part of the spotlight. First seeming like a minor character, less significant than Momodi and her counterparts and gradually to having story missions purely to bond with her, giving her a close-up in a CG trailer and being your second or third longest standing ally besides Alphinaud and Raubahn through most of the HW story. An admin with the Echo would be really useful.

If Tataru were being built up for something, I doubt it'd have anything to do with Aetheryte. This honestly just seems like her revealing her, "Civilian," status. To Adventurers and the likes, attuning to Aetheryte is no doubt second nature, but she does it so infrequently she's unaccustomed to the sensation.

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Originally Posted by Cooperal

You've got me wondering how taxing it could possibly be now. I thought about how they were only for people who possessed the echo but thinking further, that doesn't make much sense. BUT it still makes more sense then the amount of times where major characters could have used teleport but just didn't.

I know I know. Not teleporting makes this story more interesting. Just like people forgetting to use their phones in stories based in the real world. But the amount of times I've had to save people in teleport-friendly locations. Surely it isn't too taxing to teleport that it reaches the point of lethality.

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Well, for us to teleport it takes about 4 in-game minutes...without interruption...and we use it all the time. Think of how much more effort someone not used to doing it takes to teleport

She is super special. Its what makes everything switter and nicer after a terrible day ^-^

She's Special because she isn't special. She's our normal person, that isn't a great warrior, or great leader, or great spy. She's our great grounding device, keeping us level.

Remember at the end of 2.55 when she helps pull Alphinaud out of his stupor ((Sortof))? Because he can't be sitting there wallowing in defeat while Tataru is around. Not because she was super inspirational, or her sweetness broke through his grief, but because if he continued to let himself fall into despair, all it would accomplish would be to bring her down with him. Like how if he stopped trying all he would accomplish is letting the world fall around him, hurting the regular people, exemplified by her.

But somehow she's managed to teach herself Weaving well enough to give [SPOILER] some really interesting new clothes in the story between L57 and L58... next up: Goldsmith?

It really isn't that hard in game she probably just did a bunch of leves. She could already do some mining so she has a crap ton of shards and crystals and some of the mats to begin with are cheap at vendors sooooo