Raimdelle Reborn: The Neverending Bestiary

[Catapult]

Time to be a little naughty, but it's all for the cause.

Back in those early testing phases, I had the pleasure of being able to chat a bit via /tell with a character called Ferne Halwes. (Yes, it was awesome, and no, it hasn't happened since.) We had a number of awesome conversations, one of which was about the [db:enemy=6938f84e580]Deepvoid Deathmouse[/db:enemy] found in South Shroud.

I pointed out, quite rightly, that there was no freakin' way this thing was a voidsent. I thought it was a LOC bug.

Ferne's response was essentially along the same lines of what the Eorzean's interpretation of the void is. Namely anything that is seen as being not of this world is thought to have a relationship to the void, no matter how rational its existance may be upon deeper examination. Those deathmice had essentially become so large and vicious that they were deemed by the locals to be unnatural and that's how that breed of mice got its name.

In short, something being called "Deepvoid <blah>" does not actually make it voidsent. More like it is seen as something that has been warped by the void, taken over by it, remade by it, or something else along those lines. It's still a beastkin.

/goes back into hiding, fearing retribution

[RolandDebreton]

[QUOTE=Catapult;1935782]Ferne's response was essentially along the same lines of what the Eorzean's interpretation of the void is. Namely anything that is seen as being not of this world is thought to have a relationship to the void, no matter how rational its existance may be upon deeper examination. Those deathmice had essentially become so large and vicious that they were deemed by the locals to be unnatural and that's how that breed of mice got its name.

[RolandDebreton]

Ferne's response was essentially along the same lines of what the Eorzean's interpretation of the void is. Namely anything that is seen as being not of this world is thought to have a relationship to the void, no matter how rational its existance may be upon deeper examination. Those deathmice had essentially become so large and vicious that they were deemed by the locals to be unnatural and that's how that breed of mice got its name.

In short, something being called "Deepvoid <blah>" does not actually make it voidsent

In essence it is not unlike our phrases, "hellish experience, hellhound, what hell did you crawl out of," etc. Sensible, save that these deepvoid ashkin popped out of the void. The best I can come up with is that they got gobbled up by the void at some juncture or someone cast Warp/X-Zone on them from FFV.

[Kyan]

What would be nice, is if we could see what happens to the body or aether of every monster or enemy when it dies.

For example, we'd know what was a true voidsent if, whence slain, it erupted into plumes of blue aetheric flames rejected by the Lifestream.

[Catapult]

rejected by the Lifestream.

O_O

/brainstorms furiously

[cearka]

what O-o this is awesome.

[RolandDebreton]

what O-o this is awesome.

Tis,' Anony did a good job! As did all the contributors and those who dropped info. Now hopefully we could do something to flag Ferne's aid. Here is my offering:



Ferne... I'm issuing this bad boy to you! We are in need of some lore certitude on Raimdelle's efforts. Cleaning up the uncertainties, the last few "whasats," and a boat load of, "its kinda this, and kinda that." No need for lore bombs, a few lore roman candles will do....

We are issuing a lump sum of gratitude and your choice of a fierce appreciation or teary eyed joy as a reward.

[Anonymoose]

<Guildleve Placard>

This is funny and awesome and I'm saving it forever.

Now hopefully we could do something to flag Ferne's aid.

If that which is heard around water coolers proves true, the Return of the Ferne is not yet at hand. I have a sneaking suspicion, though, that someone over there watches these threads, given how Patch 2.1 was careful to answer a handful of specific questions we'd been asking here for some time. For that reason I just keep digging and keep talking about the things for which digging yields no clues. In the meantime, Twelve know I've got plenty of transcripts to build...

[Kyan]

Oh, my! Hahahahaha. That's hilarious!

[RolandDebreton]

Had a few more treasure maps lately that gave me some Territorial __, and Alpha ___ I've never seen before thought I'd share them as categories:







All three were interesting because I thought that the alphas would be the overall genus, but they seem to be merely specialized species demarcations. The Death Gaze was also very interesting, their model is used very little so the few times I see it, it tends to catch the eye.