Archon Theorizing

[PArcher]

Well, most lore about elfish races is they live very long lives; sometimes a thousand years or longer. Others its just a few centuries, but still, usually elves live longer than humans. So seeing elezen not aging within 20 years isn't odd to me at all.

We also don't know lifespans of Hyur, Miqo'te, Roegadyn and Lalafell. Longer lifespans means signs of aging take longer to appear, shorter means its more noticeable.

[Falen]

Well, most lore about elfish races is they live very long lives; sometimes a thousand years or longer. Others its just a few centuries, but still, usually elves live longer than humans. So seeing elezen not aging within 20 years isn't odd to me at all.

We also don't know lifespans of Hyur, Miqo'te, Roegadyn and Lalafell. Longer lifespans means signs of aging take longer to appear, shorter means its more noticeable.

Hopefully we'll get lucky and they'll eventually release "aging" character creation options as well as aging lore for the races.

[Phyllo]

Okay my bad, I mis-phrased it and it ended up in me sayin no one ages after a certain age..
However even if they don't seem to age, there still are signs of aging for lalafells, such as papashan (the old sultan sworn, not sure the name is correct tho) he does have grayish hair and beard, but other than that he still looks like a child, I think there's also somewhere an Hyur that look somewhat old, but like papashan, it's just his features that make him look so.
SE probably was just too lazy to create other models than the basic ones for minor characters :/

Ooooh now I see who you're talking about.... Then? What's so great about him? He just looked like any random minor character to me.
If his character is indeed somewhat special (by that I mean that he really have his own "character" not the basic lines that seems like every single NPC that is not really important to the story have the same character mind)
I think I would have at least remembered him, I rarely skip any discution, especially in end game, however I can't even recall his face nor clothes nor where he is, all I can remember is that there is a male miqo'te in the camp, just like I remember the cloth seller in ul dah is a woman hyur, only because I passed by her quite a lot of times (or was she a miqo'te too?).

Oh, I'm not trying to say the character is not memorable, just that I don't remember him much and thus do not see why you like him.

[Phyllo]

Nah she always had silver hair, it's just that her outfit make her look older (and even with that, it's hard to believe she's 31... ^^''')

Waliel>>
Oh yeah Hamon, well he's the prime exemple of them aging, but we have absolutely no idea how old he is :/

[Waliel]

The Pugilist guildmaster, Something Whateverfist, is more than old enough to retire, I'd say. I do believe he shares a model with a couple of NPCs.

[gornotck]

Hamon HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLYFIST can't retire.

[Falen]

Hamon HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLYFIST can't retire.

The quest where you bring him up-to-speed...fantastic. Simply sublime.

[Valerathon]

I really wonder about the lyrics in both the Praetorium and Ultima battle (phase 2), and Mysteltain has been an amazing contributor over in this thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...g-lyrics/page3

in teasing out the Latin in the Ultima lyrics.

But lately, I've been wondering not just what those voices are saying, but who they are and to whom the ideas in those lyrics are directed. Are the voices exulting a future Archon rule in the Ultima theme?

I'd bet my last gil on two things:

1) the lyrics to both tell us scads of tasty info about both the Garlean Empire and the Archons;

2) that #1 is precisely why the lyrics were not released with the OST like Titan, King Moggle, Garuda, et al lyrics.

We need to break that code!