References in Heavensward

[Jonnycbad]

As a followup to an above poster, one moogle says something like "a hero from our past named Mog, used leaping attacks and wielded a spear"

Definitely an ff6 reference.

-Also 12 knights + thordan and their weird helmets look exactly like Knights of the round from ff7.
-Vault=Anor Londo...one of the bosses even looks like Ornstein
-Floating Continent = FF III and FF6
-Warring Triad from FF6
-Churning Mista resembles land of forbidden gravity from legend of dragoon
-Dragon's life energy coming from their eyes is reminiscent also from legend of dragon. In that game, gems shaped like dragon eyes called "dragon souls" allowed humans to become dragon knights

[AskaRay]

-Also 12 knights + thordan and their weird helmets look exactly like Knights of the round from ff7.

Their attacks even go off in the correct order, just like the summon.

[Takfloyd]

Some people are really in denial about the enormous amount of Game of Thrones references, probably because they haven't watched it, and fanboy over FF14 so much that they refuse to believe it copies so much. The trial by combat for example is obviously not taken from a historic context, but directly from GoT, since it invokes phrases used specifically in relation to trials by combat in GoT and only in GoT ("in the eyes of gods and men")

Copypaste from a thread I made about it before:

(Dusk Vigil is) literally, unironically the Night's Watch. Quest name is a direct reference (And All the Nights to Come), they copy the oath (We are the X on the wall), and the Lord Commander (note the title) has turned into an ice zombie... just like the Night's King. And then the boss comes along, and one of its attacks is called The Winds of Winter. Yeeeeeeeah....

-Also 12 knights + thordan and their weird helmets look exactly like Knights of the round from ff7.

They are literally called the Primal "Knights of the Round" throughout the game in the Japanese version.

[Nadirah]

Some people are really in denial about the enormous amount of Game of Thrones references, probably because they haven't watched it, and fanboy over FF14 so much that they refuse to believe it copies so much.

GoT was a book series long before it was a television show, and the fact that it's got a television show is the *only* reason most of you people even know it exists.