Monsters That Creep You Out in FFXIV

[WalxAtNite]

From The Sunken Temple of Qarn?

That's it!

No idea why they're so creepy, but they give me serious heebie-jeebies.

[Blackthorne-INC]

I know you're both probably kidding, but isn't there some kind of fish in Azys Lla that implies it's some kind of Allagan creation that turns into Lalafell or some kind of Allagan waste that Lalafell died in and caused to mutate?

Aetherochemical Compound #123
"Unlike anything else on Eorzea, compound #123 is thought to be another of the Allagan Empire's failed chimeric creations. The creature seems to be harmless enough, feeding only on the tiny water lice which inhabit Azys Lla's aetherochemical pools. Its outer hide, however, has given many a naturalist pause as it bears a texture almost identical to that of a Lalafell's skin."

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/A...l_Compound_123

[Iscah]

Aetherochemical Compound #123
"Unlike anything else on Eorzea, compound #123 is thought to be another of the Allagan Empire's failed chimeric creations. The creature seems to be harmless enough, feeding only on the tiny water lice which inhabit Azys Lla's aetherochemical pools. Its outer hide, however, has given many a naturalist pause as it bears a texture almost identical to that of a Lalafell's skin."

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/A...l_Compound_123

Yes, but the writers love taking shots at Lalafells in flavour text.

(Potato jokes and proportions aside, I can't imagine them being any physically different to the other almost-human races.)

[Highwilds]

Aetherochemical Compound #123
"Unlike anything else on Eorzea, compound #123 is thought to be another of the Allagan Empire's failed chimeric creations. The creature seems to be harmless enough, feeding only on the tiny water lice which inhabit Azys Lla's aetherochemical pools. Its outer hide, however, has given many a naturalist pause as it bears a texture almost identical to that of a Lalafell's skin."

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/A...l_Compound_123

[Bright-Flower]

Shadowbringer spoiler.

Tesleen the Forgiven. Her transformation scene unnerved me in a way that no other scene in all of FFXIV has before. That's not to say I've never had emotional responses to the game or it's story, but it's really the only time the game unsettled me in that way, both with the scene itself and her design of her transformed form.

[KatieConnr]

I am somewhat terrified of spiders, so anything with multiple legs really.
Particularly when you can hear them scurrying about on the floor....shudders

[NessaWyvern]

So lalafell are descended from giant tardegrades, not potatoes?

[Sated]

The giant heads in Yanxia are still the most unsettling for me, I think. Why is it like... it's just a head. Where's the rest of it? There should be more. More of the body, not more heads. That's also part of why it's so gross is that there are just so many of these heads. If it was just one boss it might make sense but no it's like some giant accidentally up-ended their basket o' heads in Yanxia. I hate it.

I am somewhat terrified of spiders, so anything with multiple legs really.
Particularly when you can hear them scurrying about on the floor....shudders

Part of why spiders startle me IRL is that they make zero noise, so I'm actually a fan of being able to hear them in games. I know what to expect. One of my most vividly horrifying game memories was of some dinky little cave in Silverpine where at the back there was a spider tucked into the ceiling of the cave that I didn't notice until it quietly dropped down while I was going to loot something. Similarly terrifying was the giant-sized monster spider in Terokkar, but I was able to hear that one's legs idly tapping before I came around the hill to see it - at least I was prepared for a spider, just not one that size.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

The giant heads in Yanxia are still the most unsettling for me, I think. Why is it like... it's just a head. Where's the rest of it? There should be more. More of the body, not more heads. That's also part of why it's so gross is that there are just so many of these heads. If it was just one boss it might make sense but no it's like some giant accidentally up-ended their basket o' heads in Yanxia. I hate it.

Yeah, those guys are pretty creepy.

If it makes you feel better, though, their Triple Triad card mentions they're just golems made out of mud.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

I know they're a FF staple but Marlboros still kinda freak me out. #IwasScarredbyCassie