Yoshi, Please Stop Killing Roegadyns

I’ve had enough. This was overdue. I’ll be vague as to the where and when’s for the sake of spoilers, but for a while now, I’ve noticed a consistent pattern that wheneeeeever one of my roegadyn or roegadame peoples pops up, death follows closely. I’ve grown vexed at having my strapping brothers and sisters bear the weight of your intrepid tales as emotional cannon fodder, as if we were the red shirts of your rpic Enterprise, the ill fated commanders of your Deathstar. Balance is required.

I don’t mean to point fingers, but you have so many other creative options. Billions of FAT lil lala’s just BEGGING to be on food platters (no, seriously, look at the names. ‘Tater tot, Evil Pickles, Mini Bites, etc) Elezen ears to snip off. 4 ENTIRE species of kitties to neuter, and don’t even get me started on the lizards whose tails grow back and the bunnies who can just repopulate in 2 days cuz they’re like, bunnies, anyway.

So the next time one of your writers is typing away late into the night and gets the idea to off one of my already painfully limited species, have a little insight to think that maybe, juuuust maybe, another of Eorzea’s denizens MIGHT just enjoy that prestigious privilege. Ain’t mad atcha, juuuust sayin’.

When was the last time a roegadyn died in the MSQ? Grynewaht in Stormblood? Do you count Cagnazzo in Endwalker?
The other recent roegadyn characters in the MSQ all live, as far as I remember. Even those who are remarked to be old, sick, wounded, etc.

For the sake of spoilers I can’t comment directly on it, but if you’ve done a fair amount of the content, MSQ and otherwise, you’ll know a few of whom I’m referring to.

completely unhinged
can't comment beyond that, but I know who you are referring to if it's the level 80 blue mage weapon

We need context.

I've never noticed Roegadyn being any more likely to be killed off than anyone else. Pretty sure the last named one to die was Grynewaht. Unless you count Branden/Blaenherz, but the Warriors of Darkness were technically already dead before we met them, so that one's complicated.

I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm all for more lala- uh... popoto salad. :)

+1

When was the last time a Roegadyn bit the dust? 3 expansions ago?

I wouldn't be calling for genocide against the others because of that.

Oh, look, more popcorn humor. Midlanders and Miqo'te tend to be killed off more than Roegadyns more than anything.

The Explorer guy that we hear about and see in DT (Srsly cant recall his friggen name atm) even gets a fake out death when "Someone" Ambushes him in Yaktel and we hear a sharp slash sound effect.

He's totally fine next time we see him, and he even comes ready to fight lmao

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The Explorer guy that we hear about and see in DT (Srsly cant recall his friggen name atm) even gets a fake out death when "Someone" Ambushes him in Yaktel and we hear a sharp slash sound effect.

He's totally fine next time we see him, and he even comes ready to fight lmao

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This way more prevalent and I hate it. I wish people who we see die in the MSQ stay dead. But Nah, everyone has to live happily ever after for the most part. Everyone is incredibly hard to keep dead in this game. They keep coming back.

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I don't know about any Roegadyn killing sprees, but I *did* notice it's the only "original" race with no permanent member in the Scions.

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You make Hoary Boulder sad.

We've had way more midlanders and midlander types die. "Types" will make sense if you're caught up in msq.

TMW Hoary Boulder joined the Scions so he wouldn't get killed off

It's true though, most of the mook enemies are Hyur/Roegadyn/Lalafell. Even the gravekeepers in PotD are reskinned Roes. How about some Hrothgar mooks?

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I don't know about any Roegadyn killing sprees, but I *did* notice it's the only "original" race with no permanent member in the Scions.

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This is the main reason why I picked Roe, I think this character was Elezen initially and I was disappointed when more than half of the Scions' main cast were some flavor of elf. Moenbryda was a breath of fresh air, and then she got disenchanted within the same level bracket ;'(. At least we had Hoary for a while, but we barely see him.

Only one I'm aware of in recent stuff is the villain of the Viper questline

I don't know how I stumbled on this but I know that style of writing. Especially the descriptors for Lalafells. Devil Panzerfaust I am onto you! Hehehehe

Elezen die *way* more frequently, since Elvaan were always a favorite target of plot related deaths in XI.

I appreciate the under-representation in the game, because I feel like I'm actually meant to be in the story.

Think about how every time there's an important male roe in the story they give them a unique custom face. They just don't like them at all and try to make them look like hyur lol.

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Think about how every time there's an important male roe in the story they give them a unique custom face. They just don't like them at all and try to make them look like hyur lol.

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Actually, Ketenramm had face 2 in any flashbacks he was featured in. So technically, he's just what an old Roegadyn would look like.

https://i.imgur.com/dt3V97F.png
https://i.imgur.com/CdVpWiv.png



Gosetsu, though...

I mean, Gosetsu's pretty old, too. According to Encyclopedia Eorzea 2, he fought in the first Garlean invasion of Doma 25 years ago, and was already a close advisor to the king then, so he must've been at least in his thirties already.

#RLM

:)

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Originally Posted by Ath192

This way more prevalent and I hate it. I wish people who we see die in the MSQ stay dead. But Nah, everyone has to live happily ever after for the most part. Everyone is incredibly hard to keep dead in this game. They keep coming back.

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Him staying alive wasn't even the problem, it would have been a massive waste of character. We finally found him only to be cut down unceremoniously? We already got Moenbryda to speedrun her death
But amthen we find him alive in a lame fake death following by saying that he was "knocked down". It felt like 2 scripts merged together, either have him already dead or work something better.

Actually BRING HOARY BOULDER BACK PLEASE I BEG YOU

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Originally Posted by Fredco191

Actually, Ketenramm had face 2 in any flashbacks he was featured in. So technically, he's just what an old Roegadyn would look like.

https://i.imgur.com/dt3V97F.png
https://i.imgur.com/CdVpWiv.png



Gosetsu, though...

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Oh, I completely forgot he looked "normal" in the flashbacks. Yeah, I guess it's just an old roe thing.

We were ROBBED of Moenbryda.

Does the Shadow Lord count if he’s a Galka?

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Does the Shadow Lord count if he’s a Galka?

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Even if he didn't, we do kill one of each FFXI race earlier int he raid...

Clearly an Au Ra, Viera and Hroth win there.

If all Roe's acted the way you do then i fully believe we need to purge them all

Nah, being killed off is an honor in FFXIV at this point. You either die a hero or live long enough to become a Scion.