What "Tales from the EndWalker" -esque short story would you like to see? [6.0]

As the title states, what short stories for The Lodestone would you like or expect to see from Endwalker that fills in the gaps of things happening offscreen or past referenced events during the MSQ?


I'd personally like to see;

-A cute interaction between Tataru and the Scion's secret patron, Ameliance

-Any sort of flashback to Garlemald right before the shitshow, preferably involving Quintus, Jullus, or even Varis

-Hythlo calming down Emet after he stormed out of the conversation at Venat's place

-More dragon lore w/ Vrtra pls, especially Midgardsormr's thoughts about Hydaelyn being gone

We did get to see some of the madness happening in Garlemald prior to its current state. Just not with those particular NPCs. But the majority of it happened after Varis was killed. It was the catalyst to the nation's demise.

I would actually like to see the rallying of the remainder of the Garlean military led by Jullus for the battle at Magna Glacies.

Just about anything in Elpis that takes place off screen. Including this "volcanic excursion" Azem recently partook in.

I would have really loved to have seen this conversation that took place between Vrtra and his brood. Especially that small moment where Midgarsormr spoke.

Graha's venture into the forbidden section of the library in Sharlyan (that had to have been gold).

I'll also take anything involving the Loporrits.

Any of the Adamantite gathering groups, as it is a great plot-hook to check in on whichever ally they haven't written about recently and get their opinions on the Final Days, the Scions, and how far both groups have come and the bonds formed since ARR

Erenville and the Gleaners

Seconding Tataru and Ameliance and especially anything Thavnair and/or Vrtra

I agree about Tataru and Ameliance for sure.

Something with Jullus (and/or maybe even Quintus) delving a little more into Garlemald before and during the fall

Erenville would be a good add as well

Maybe something with Varshahn as the main character showing Vrtra's more day to day interactions (and the peoples' interactions with him)

And, for a personal want, a deeper dive with Krile and her interactions with Hydylaen (and the loss of connection therein). She makes mention of this in passing a couple of times and it really seems to impact her deeply but we never really get to learn more

Oh! thought of where in Thavnair I'd want a story, if it is a roughly contemporaneous tale (I'll have to wait for another EE to get any info on the first 'satrap'). Have the POV character be Nidhana and be it either the start of the anti-tempering research or something mid/post-msq. Thus we can get some Akasa info and Varshahn cameo.

Something dealing with the Convocation members we haven't met, like Altima. Altima's office deals with the arts, and I want to see what that entailed. Was it theatre, painting, sculptures, creations, etc? Did Altima have some sort of friendship with Azem due to Azem being able to travel all over the world to see different things?

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Originally Posted by Gemina

Just about anything in Elpis that takes place off screen. Including this "volcanic excursion" Azem recently partook in.

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We already did get a little of that 'incident' covered in a previous story on the Lodestone - it was the incident involving Azem 'borrowing' the Ifrita concept from the Bureau of the Architect via Hythlodaeus pulling strings to stop the eruption, just so that the island and "it's grapes that were especially sweet" could be saved, against the Convocation's wishes (SE then extended the gag further in EW by allowing the player to choose as a dialogue choice when asked by a loporrit in Labyrinthos "if they like grapes"; that "I would gladly charge headfirst into an erupting volcano just to save a vine of grapes!" (paraphrased) ;))

But yeah, definetely anything involving Elpis and maybe even more hints as to our Ancient counterpart has been doing would be amazing, including actual full coverage of their 'volcanic' adventure (and to be a fly on the wall during the inevitable dressing down they would have undoubtably copped from Emet and the Convocation afterwards ;)).

What I want to see is:

A tale that follows someone's point of view, hopefully Venat's, during the debate preceding Zodiark's Third Act, so that we get visibility into what the state of the world was at that specific moment of time and what the life of the planet that was on the line was like.

A tale told from Emet-Selch's point of view that reflects on the events of the whole game from an Ascian point of view after Zodiark is killed and he and Hytholodeus meet in the afterlife.

Something, anything, hopefully in one of the above stories I mentioned, that gives us more insight into Azem.

A report from a Meteion where she finds a planet that isn't depressing as hell but her report never makes it to the others for whatever reason.

The story of the Legatus who surrendered to the Eorzean forces off-screen and behind the scenes during the events of the Garlemald section of the expansion.

I'm very curious about Emet-Selch's "wasted years of his youth" that he refused to allow Hythlodaeus to elaborate on.

If we never heard anything about the Ancients again, I'd probably be happy. But we will, so my hope is that it's more about Venat or Hermes rather than Emet-Selch. I've had more than enough of him.

I expect more of Lorens from the Company of Heroes that we met in the melee role quest. That was definitely a dynamic they're keen to explore more.

A story from the Meteions' perspective might be interesting.

What I REALLY want are stories about Thavnair and/or Garlemald dealing with their disasters and rebuilding. Garlemald I expect to get a lot of in-game, but Thavnair... it actually faced a lot of destruction of stuff that's not easy to rebuild, like jungle. I wanna learn how they're dealing with it.

I also want to see the first international diplomatic summit where Vrtra turns up. That just sounds like a fun wrench to throw into the proceedings. "And now, everyone, please welcome... an immortal dragon that has outlived countless civilizations and will most assuredly outlive all of ours as well."

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

If we never heard anything about the Ancients again, I'd probably be happy. But we will, so my hope is that it's more about Venat or Hermes rather than Emet-Selch. I've had more than enough of him.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

I expect more of Lorens from the Company of Heroes that we met in the melee role quest. That was definitely a dynamic they're keen to explore more.

A story from the Meteions' perspective might be interesting.

What I REALLY want are stories about Thavnair and/or Garlemald dealing with their disasters and rebuilding. Garlemald I expect to get a lot of in-game, but Thavnair... it actually faced a lot of destruction of stuff that's not easy to rebuild, like jungle. I wanna learn how they're dealing with it.

I also want to see the first international diplomatic summit where Vrtra turns up. That just sounds like a fun wrench to throw into the proceedings. "And now, everyone, please welcome... an immortal dragon that has outlived countless civilizations and will most assuredly outlive all of ours as well."

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I think Lorens will be an NPC for a 7.0 New World/Meracydia Expansion so I'm not expecting anything with him until then. Depending on where the MSQ goes with Garlemald (especially the Xth Legion; I was beyond ecstatic to hear the Tenth introduced and positively shaking wondering which FFX (or X-II) character their legatus would be an expy of), I could see a short story for them, but one of the tales has to involve Vrtra.

Anything with Zenos. Hopefully what actually went down in Sharlayan.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

If we never heard anything about the Ancients again, I'd probably be happy. But we will, so my hope is that it's more about Venat or Hermes rather than Emet-Selch. I've had more than enough of him.

I expect more of Lorens from the Company of Heroes that we met in the melee role quest. That was definitely a dynamic they're keen to explore more.

A story from the Meteions' perspective might be interesting.

What I REALLY want are stories about Thavnair and/or Garlemald dealing with their disasters and rebuilding. Garlemald I expect to get a lot of in-game, but Thavnair... it actually faced a lot of destruction of stuff that's not easy to rebuild, like jungle. I wanna learn how they're dealing with it.

I also want to see the first international diplomatic summit where Vrtra turns up. That just sounds like a fun wrench to throw into the proceedings. "And now, everyone, please welcome... an immortal dragon that has outlived countless civilizations and will most assuredly outlive all of ours as well."

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I'd want more Hythlodaeous, even though we've gotten some already. He's just great. No more Emet pls.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

If we never heard anything about the Ancients again, I'd probably be happy. But we will, so my hope is that it's more about Venat or Hermes rather than Emet-Selch. I've had more than enough of him.

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Yeah, I'm on board with this. We're already getting more Ancients with Pandaemonium and, presumably, some tie ins with the 24-mans as well. I appreciate them as characters and do have some unanswered questions but it really is time to move on, especially since we are still getting more in game content dealing with them too. We don't need even more supplemental material wrapped up around them.

For the Ancients, I want The Twelve to tie into Venat/Hydaelyn's group somehow, be it more creations like The Watcher or the allies she gathered and trusted, and I do want a short side story next year when we've finished Pandaemonium and whatever story they write addresses something to do with the completed story of that raid. But as someone who never liked them to begin with and was sick and tired of Emet (and Hyth's fandom) before 5.3, please, anything but them.
Ugh, I can't believe I'm typing this, but frankly I'd rather have a 'Zenos internal monologue as he teleports into Sharlayan to find Krile thinking about his one nugget of character growth' than yet another story involving Emet.

My suspicions about the next expansion mean that I doubt we're getting anything with Tiamat yet as to not spoil.

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Originally Posted by Teah_Kaye

It's acceptable to not like Emet and/or Hyth, your opinions are valid, but they are hugely popular characters with the majority of the fanbase and there are a ton of people who'd be really happy to see more of them.

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I can understand that and also thing we've wrung that well dry at this point. Like, I feel like there's just NOTHING else worthwhile to cover for those two, and I don't want us to delve so far into that fanservice that we start learning about Hythlodaeus' favorite midnight snack.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

I can understand that and also thing we've wrung that well dry at this point. Like, I feel like there's just NOTHING else worthwhile to cover for those two, and I don't want us to delve so far into that fanservice that we start learning about Hythlodaeus' favorite midnight snack.

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You mean you don't wonder about that? I'm guessing it's grapes and why he helped Azem =P

It's either that.. or popcorn... yeah I can see popcorn as well.

Considering our "Tales from the End" are 100% coming after the Season 2 story starts in 6.1, I'd be interested in who/what they set up, considering it's also VERY likely the team is already thinking of the new areas for 7.0, so: people of Thavnair researching Akasa, Garlean efforts of reconstruction, the missing Legions and their Legati (like, say, a certain Noah who is presumed dead but whose ghost is conveniently sighted in Valnain...), what in blazes will Sharlayan devote themselves to now that they're not worrying about the End of the World, Limsa planning some more excursions into the NEW World, maybe...

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Originally Posted by StriderShinryu

Maybe something with Varshahn as the main character showing Vrtra's more day to day interactions (and the peoples' interactions with him)

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This 100%, it's stated that the people saw Varshahn as a delightful little boy, and he even played with the other children in Radz-at-Han. A flashback to Vrtra using his mammet body to mingle among his people would be an interesting read.

No matter what they will be about, there will be too little. I've always wanted more than four a year, but especially now.

I too would like more of ancient Etheirys (not just Elpis). I would also like to finally find out how the heck did the trio avoid being sundered. And much more...

I think we're well overdue for a tale involving Urianger – I don't think he's so much as been a supporting character in anything.

Either his time with the Loporrits or something from his past with Moenbryda would be good targets.

I want to know what all those scientists in Labyrinthos are going to get up to now that thier life's work is finished with the Ragnorak. Are they going to explore Ultima Thule and try to study Dynamis? It's supposed to be incredibly easy to move back and forth between Ethyris and Ultima Thule after all. Maybe they could eat at the cafe that Omicron opened.

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Originally Posted by KariTheFox

I want to know what all those scientists in Labyrinthos are going to get up to now that thier life's work is finished with the Ragnorak. Are they going to explore Ultima Thule and try to study Dynamis? It's supposed to be incredibly easy to move back and forth between Ethyris and Ultima Thule after all. Maybe they could eat at the cafe that Omicron opened.

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Would you you believe one of the sidequests in the game actually does cover this one!

The Studium capstone quest confirms that there's desire to pivot Labyrinthos into being a center for interstellar travel and communicating with alien species, with all the various departments from the Studium quests chipping in on how they do that; department of astrology charting the routes, departments of archaeology and language determining how to speak to an alien species while the department of anthropology figure out how to actually interact culturally, so on.

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Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage

what in blazes will Sharlayan devote themselves to now that they're not worrying about the End of the World.

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If you talk to Livingway, Urianger, and Thancred in the Ragnarok hanger post-EW, they mention the Lopporits and the forum are currently putting their heads together about how to make use of the moon and set up transit to it. So I think that might be Sharlayan’s focus for now.

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

If you talk to Livingway, Urianger, and Thancred in the Ragnarok hanger post-EW, they mention the Lopporits and the forum are currently putting their heads together about how to make use of the moon and set up transit to it. So I think that might be Sharlayan’s focus for now.

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Moon housing confirmed. XD

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

Moon housing confirmed. XD

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Yeah, I've been to Smileton. I bow out. The rest of you can have it. lol

So, I'll admit straight away that I'm totally biased because I've loved this little weirdo since I first saw him, but I'd really like to see a Fandaniel short story. I feel like we didn't get to see a lot of him as him before going on to meet Hermes, and there's a lot of potential for character introspection when it comes to someone who conceals so much of himself with melodramatics. What does he do when there's no one but him around, for example? What's going through his mind with regards to his partnership with Zenos? I have my fair share of thoughts on this, but it'd be cool to see how the writers handle that.

Aside from that, though, the other thing I'm particularly interested in (and it looks like I'm not the only one) is a story around Vrtra or Nidhana - the former is probably more likely, but I can dream of some Fun Times With Alchemists. Dragons in XIV are fascinating, and I'd really love to read something that explores Vrtra, especially because of the sheer depth of his love for his people. Considering what happened in Thavnair, though... it'd be likely to be pretty bittersweet, huh? :'^)

I wanna see that conversation between Krile and Zenos.

Also more about Azem. Like someone earlier said, it doesn't seem very Azem-like to just nope out when there's trouble going down.

Definitely would love an introspective short about Fandaniel, what his memories are and how they are causing him pain. The game insists he is in despair but we don't really get to see that.

I doubt Fandaniel will have a short. Hermes yes, Fandaniel no.

But I think he is one of the characters who most needs one since his pain is what started all of the nonsense happening in this expansion.

Venat finding people she trusts for Hydaelyn summoning

I doubt this will happen but a short story about Cid and Nero picking through the (presumed?) ruins of the Magitek Academy would be a nice bookend for the first short story we got about them.

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Originally Posted by Swilly

I doubt this will happen but a short story about Cid and Nero picking through the (presumed?) ruins of the Magitek Academy would be a nice bookend for the first short story we got about them.

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I believe the Magitek Academy is in Landis, meaning far from the ruins of Garlemald, if I'm correct.

Oh? LOL My bad--the impression I got from the short story ("A Display of Ingenuity") was that the Magitek Academy is/was in the Imperial Capital, but to be fair I haven't read it in a good while!

I think "The Hunt Begins" from Chronicles of Light short story collection should be released in Tales from Endwalker. It's an interesting backstory on Zenos.

https://store.eu.square-enix-games.c...icles-of-light

You can read it in reddit right now but it would be nice to have an official Lodestone release

I want one about Matsya personally, maybe raising his friends' baby.

I expect we'll get one about:
That gleaner viera
Vrtra
That blue haired Garlean, his name escapes me atm
Hermes and Meteion (maybe together, maybe separate)
Venat
Fandaniel (possibly tied with the Hermes story)
Loporitts
After that who knows

Maybe Zenos?

A story that shows Hythlodaeus calming down Emet or asking Venat about how she escaped the mind alter/WoL. A story revolving around Hermes.

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Originally Posted by Yuella

I think "The Hunt Begins" from Chronicles of Light short story collection should be released in Tales from Endwalker. It's an interesting backstory on Zenos.

https://store.eu.square-enix-games.c...icles-of-light

You can read it in reddit right now but it would be nice to have an official Lodestone release

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This. I still don't understand why it was never given an official release in the lodestone.

Hatchling First Brood adventure.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

I believe the Magitek Academy is in Landis, meaning far from the ruins of Garlemald, if I'm correct.

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It does give me hope that Landis will be a Hub city one day so we can finally get a magiteck city that is not destroyed.