Playable kids in FFXIV

[LyraKuroneko]

Dunno if true or not, can't find much on it.

Might as well try to ask, as I'm curious.

[Iscah]

It has apparently been said that since ARR, only 6month have passed. Dunno wether true or not.

"No time" has passed at all. The whole game operates in a weird time bubble where no matter how much happens and how much time clearly passes between events, the calendar does not progress.

It will always be "five years since the Calamity" even if you could prove from dialogue or events that several years must have passed since the beginning of ARR.

[SendohJin]

Playable kids in FFXIV

it's "kid", not "kids".

[LyraKuroneko]

"No time" has passed at all. The whole game operates in a weird time bubble where no matter how much happens and how much time clearly passes between events, the calendar does not progress.

It will always be "five years since the Calamity" even if you could prove from dialogue or events that several years must have passed since the beginning of ARR.

edit : weirdly enough you seem to be right.

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This person explain the things to me there.


Edit : this answer one thing though, Alphinaud is forever 16.

[Crushnight]

The biggest time jump we have had (since 2.0) has been in 3.3 where the government of Ishgard was reformed unless stated otherwise assume the entirety of SB to have happened within a few weeks

[WhiteArchmage]

The sea voyage between Eorzea and Hingashi is stated to last about 3 months (but I don't have the quote on that at the moment, sorry) yet we do the same trip both ways several times during 4.0 alone, even if the WoL can canonically teleport, but the other characters can not. But, as stated before, we're in a time bubble or Comic Book Time where it's always "now" even if there are quests that tell you "Go to bed and then talk to me tomorrow" or "Take some time while I do x" or "It's been weeks since we heard from X," mostly because a new player can breeze through the MSQ in a few days if they rush and have friends to help with the queues.

Also, I believe this was just a joke post, no need to read too much into it.

[Shougun]

I think that playing as Alpha was a bit different since we were stuck with a lot of limitations, vs getting to play an actual race.

Can't strip Alpha down and use the play dead emote in a shady part of the housing district .... So that wasn't an issue to SE to let us play him (but a race would be).

it's "kid", not "kids".

What? No no no, how else am I suppose to make a proper Mikoshi? (joking of course)

It just kinda weird though, traveling here, hopping there, flying here, drowning uh, swimming to the island over there etc etc. And all those events all in the expand of only 6 months.

I have no real reference to why I think it but I just imagine ourselves as some sort of primal brought forth, so we may be actively helping out in one area at the same time we're in another (many of us, like there are many of other primals).

It then all appears linear to us but we don't have a proper conception of time, it's actually all jumbled. Some days it is a long time since and other days it's not. I'm sure if I looked hard enough I could kill it but that's how I've always got about it all lol, sort of want to see the Tidus concept corrupted into us becoming a problem (like a certain Phoenix but much worse :3).

[UserHere]

Yeah going to need a source on this 6 month claim. To think that we overthrew the Archbishop then ended the Dragon Song War and afterwards watched Ishgard reform its government while they brokered peace with said dragons. Afterwards, liberated 2 countries on opposite sides of the world, not to mention the Enclave being rebuilt from a heap of rubble. There's also that small bit of MSQ where the Sultana is working to get Ala Mhigo economically back on it's feet starting with the salt fields. If all that happened in six months Eorzea's calendars have a lot of missing days in the Character Creator lol.

[Insertcoins]

I don;t understand the need to play younger looking characters when our PCs look like Teen anime heroes anyway.

[Insertcoins]

Yeah going to need a source on this 6 month claim. To think that we overthrew the Archbishop then ended the Dragon Song War and afterwards watched Ishgard reform its government while they brokered peace with said dragons. Afterwards, liberated 2 countries on opposite sides of the world, not to mention the Enclave being rebuilt from a heap of rubble. There's also that small bit of MSQ where the Sultana is working to get Ala Mhigo economically back on it's feet starting with the salt fields. If all that happened in six months Eorzea's calendars have a lot of missing days in the Character Creator lol.

Thats actually stated in lore books and in the lore part of the forum here. It's actually well known that ARR is taken within a time bubble. Hell there are interviews with Koji that explain just that. Yes.. ALL of the events we did up to 5.0 have only taken 6 months. Think of it like a nonstop action adventure. Just because we the player have large amounts of luls and years behind thegame doesn't reflect actual incanon time. Just like comic books plots can have world crashes one issue and in the same day on a different issue have monsters ripping thur time space.