The Origin and Lore of Equipment

[Anonymoose]

While we're on the topic of equipment lore, I've become curious about Thyrus. The quest says that it was a priceless heirloom of Gridania's Cant clan (assumed to be a Hyuran family, like the Senna, known for producing Padjal) until it was lost when A-Towa-Cant went missing a few decades ago. We're also told that it was crafted from petrified wood. However, color palette (white finish, gold trim, glowing blue light) is identical in every way to the garb of Allag healers. Even the teal glow of the Thyrus orb is identical to that of the Allagan Earrings of Healing...

How did the Cant clan come into possession of Thyrus?

It wasn't so long ago that Ishgardian nobles were parting with things priceless just for Allag coins, jewelry, and stones, and Gridania managed to hang on to this thing? I'd hoped to find a clue in the name, which led me to the Latin word thyrsus, from the Greek θύρσος (thursos). This refers to a fennel staff adorned with a pinecone that's associated with Dionysus. Some said the thyrsi to be wrapped in ivy and dripping with honey. That explains the visual aesthetic inspiration of Thyrus... but I've got nothing as to from where it might have come...

[Farryn]

Good thread, this was fun to read about. Lore behind equipment really adds to the game in my opinion, and I love the new equipment that drops in Crystal Tower.

[Anonymoose]

So, I'm reading this interview that says in 2.2, Rowena will no longer be selling Darklight for philosophy and it will drop in dungeons again. I wonder excuse we can make for the lore this time? After a brief but profitable fad, Rowena has stopped (allegedly) producing reproduction Darklight and moved on to something more profitable? And the stuff in new dungeons is from adventurers who bought from her and died before we got there!? OH THE HYURMANITY!

[Kyan]

If it is new dungeons where it will drop, we can only assume that these adventurers did not wait for Mr. Happy's YouTube run through and met bitter disappointment.

But no, seriously Mr. Moose. This morning when I was reading the translation of said interview, this was the first thought to go through my mind too

[DoctaruRavenbe]

Perhaps the cache of Darklight equipment was stolen and spread throughout the world by monsters or maybe the Illuminati took it.

[NoloeTazier]

So, I'm reading this interview that says in 2.2, Rowena will no longer be selling Darklight for philosophy and it will drop in dungeons again. I wonder excuse we can make for the lore this time? After a brief but profitable fad, Rowena has stopped (allegedly) producing reproduction Darklight and moved on to something more profitable? And the stuff in new dungeons is from adventurers who bought from her and died before we got there!? OH THE HYURMANITY!

Yeah I really don't get this Lore wise lol. Maybe it'd make sense if the Darklight again dropped from Cutter's Cry or a Cutter's Cry Hardmode...

[Alice_89th]

Cutters Cry Hard would make sense, but that wasn't announced right? (right?).

So I am really curious which dungeons they will drop from...

[NoloeTazier]

Cutters Cry Hard would make sense, but that wasn't announced right? (right?).

So I am really curious which dungeons they will drop from...

Yeah not announced but I could see it in the future. So yeah doesn't explain Darklight back in dungeons . As someone who loves the Lore and sees it in everything, it's just blargh.

[Andaeron]

What if Darklight gear is like Nike shoes, and there were other pieces made, and Rowena was just making mad bucks selling in demand back stock but ran out.

[RickiFake02]

Or she quit selling it in disgust after it started being found in dungeons. Harder for her to profit off of it when she's no longer the sole source!