Frustrating relative lack of LGBT NPCs in this game

[Padudu]

Uhh...Estinien is for sure a big brother to Alphi. Idk where you got the idea that he may like him. And Thancred has never been seen flirting with men.

Considering Estinien is in his 30s and Alphinaud is 16 that's some real ick levels to even imply that there's some sort of attraction going on there lol..

[BrokentoothMarch]

Considering Estinien is in his 30s and Alphinaud is 16 that's some real ick levels to even imply that there's some sort of attraction going on there lol..

Not that it'd lower the creepiness, but Alphinaud should be 18 by now considering the timeskip in Shadowbringers.

The age gap would still be pretty aggressive though.

[Padudu]

Not that it'd lower the creepiness, but Alphinaud should be 18 by now considering the timeskip in Shadowbringers.

I forgot where I saw it, but wasn't it said that ARR-EW all takes place within a year? So at most 17 maybe. I'm pretty sure time in the First moves faster than the Source, but I don't remember at this point

[BrokentoothMarch]

I forgot where I saw it, but wasn't it said that ARR-EW all takes place within a year? So at most 17 maybe. I'm pretty sure time in the First moves faster than the Source, but I don't remember at this point

That would be... a horrifically bad timeline. If I'm to understand Final Days/Dragonsong War/The Ala Mhigan Conflict all happened in a year, none overlapping and instead happening back-to-back, that's a horrifically amateur way of constructing a story.

Even so, I was led to believe the time spent in the First before we were sent here was 2 years, albeit it only accounting for far less time in the Source. But now time in both are synced? They're doing a poor job of explaining this. I suppose it would be up to you to deliberate on whether 'compressed time' (spending a large amount of time in an ecosystem, only to leave it for another where far less time passed in comparison) counts towards age or not. It's all a bit confusing, I admit, and I subscribe to compressed time counting towards your age because, at least by my assumption, if you were to live out your age as an old man in the First, you would probably stay an old man coming to the Source.

[Oizen]

That would be... a horrifically bad timeline. If I'm to understand Final Days/Dragonsong War/The Ala Mhigan Conflict all happened in a year, none overlapping and instead happening back-to-back, that's a horrifically amateur way of constructing a story.

Even so, I was led to believe the time spent in the First before we were sent here was 2 years, albeit it only accounting for far less time in the Source. But now time in both are synced? They're doing a poor job of explaining this. I suppose it would be up to you to deliberate on whether 'compressed time' (spending a large amount of time in an ecosystem, only to leave it for another where far less time passed in comparison) counts towards age or not. It's all a bit confusing, I admit, and I subscribe to compressed time counting towards your age because, at least by my assumption, if you were to live out your age as an old man in the First, you would probably stay an old man coming to the Source.

The First time skip applied only to the Scions being sent there, as soon as you get sent there the time lines are perfectly in sync.
So Alphanaurd should be like 19/20 after shadowbringers while the WoL hasn't aged anything crazy.

[Padudu]

That would be... a horrifically bad timeline. If I'm to understand Final Days/Dragonsong War/The Ala Mhigan Conflict all happened in a year, none overlapping and instead happening back-to-back, that's a horrifically amateur way of constructing a story.

Even so, I was led to believe the time spent in the First before we were sent here was 2 years, albeit it only accounting for far less time in the Source. But now time in both are synced? They're doing a poor job of explaining this. I suppose it would be up to you to deliberate on whether 'compressed time' (spending a large amount of time in an ecosystem, only to leave it for another where far less time passed in comparison) counts towards age or not. It's all a bit confusing, I admit, and I subscribe to compressed time counting towards your age because, at least by my assumption, if you were to live out your age as an old man in the First, you would probably stay an old man coming to the Source.

We need XIV lore experts in here. :P

I really wish they would just give everything a defined time tbh. Not only then would we be stuck in a time bubble where no one ages, but I feel like it'd make it easier on the devs. RuneScape 3 did something to where they just labeled quests by their in-game lore year.. (.."this quest takes place in the past before big X event happened") to give some sense of chronology to it.

But yeah, it's incredibly poorly explained, likely intentionally so to avoid having continuity errors. Having no real "time skip" happen in the First though explains why the Scions haven't aged a smidge in the Source, imo. I think they say something like 1 hour in the Source = 1 year in the First, or something like that. So yeah synced.. but not synced. God this crap is confusing lol.

[Rannie]

Not that it'd lower the creepiness, but Alphinaud should be 18 by now considering the timeskip in Shadowbringers.

The age gap would still be pretty aggressive though.

Nah soul age doesn't equal physical age (only their soul went to the first and was there for around a year) they're still only 16 due the time bubble they're in being for the year 1577 a hell of a huge one but we've seen worse with the simpsons.

Otherwise thancred would be close to his 40's or in them, being a soul with on the first for 5 years... then again Cyella the bar wench has been there for 100 and never really aged due to being kinda the same as the scions... then *shrugs* and the only difference between cyella and the scions is her physical body is dead on the 13th.