“Simply speak...” – Request for more in-depth contents

[Allistar]

For those of you who spammed through it all~

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Wandering Minstrel:
Ne'er till land consumes sun can sea bear moons,
Heavens spew crimson flame, hells seep black dooms.

I have walked the four corners of Hydaelyn, from the Gardens
of Xarakish, to the floating lakes of Voor Sian Siran, but never in my travels have I encountered such a fell prophecy. One need not to be an oracle to prevues the great ill which casts a shadow across this forsaken realm.

Yet… perhaps there is still hope for Eorzea.

When I arrived in this land, I was beset with peril day and night- forced to endure countless trials which tested my mind, my body, and my faith. And I am not ashamed to admit that I would have faltered, had it not been for the help of a handful of nameless adventures much like yourself. Honest men and women who proffered the hand of friendship to a weary soul and led him safe from the darkness.

I pondered long over how I could repay the kindness shown me…only to find the answer in the most unlikely of places- the final verse of the selfsame song that had so haunted me since my first days in Eorzea:

Souls from aether far, strangers from strange lands,
Yester with thine eyes, morrow by thine hands.

Had the gods led me to Eorzea for a reason? Might I serve a higher purpose, through which lives might be saved and order restored to the realm? I hoped that it might be so. For what better use may a man's life be put to than to serve as an agent of divine intervention? …But in what manner was I to play my part?

Seeking an answer, I prayed for twelve days and twelve nights until at last I collapsed of exhaustion. However, it was this moment that I was blessed with a vision- a single-horned beast leading a flock of chocobos from a burning forest. When I awoke from my revert, I knew what I must do.

Once, long ago, I was summoned to a wealthy satrapy far to the east to play in the royal court. When my performance was complete, the High Satrap was so moved that he offered me anything I desired in exchange for one more song. I humbly accepted, and for my reward requested knowledge of a secret that had been kept by the satrapy's military for generations- their method of taming gobbles.

Needles to say, the High Satrap was initially reluctant to grant me that which I had requested, but being an honest man, ever conscious of his obligation to set an example before his subjects, he soon relented and acquiesced to my terms. Since that time, I have kept his nation's secret, but now believe that as the sixth sun wanes and seventh moon waxes, it is mete that I should pass it on in hopes that the knowledge may be made to serve us all.

<<<You obtain a key item: a goobbue horn.>>>

With this horn, may you lead us from despair, and help usher in a new age. I put my trust in you, adventurer. Do not let me down.

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Personally I was much more interested in his mentions of the Gardens
of Xarakish and the floating lakes of Voor Sian Siran because it kinda reminds me of Sky/Sea from XI-
It seems a bit weird he's wanting to pass knowledge. Like he thinks he'll die in the next era or something and the fact he thinks that knowing how to summoning a goobbie will help us EL OH EL. (I'm all for it if my goobue can help me build my home faster in 2.0 /joke)

But who knows take what you will from it and Enjoy~ x3

So after reading this I'm think about the gardens and the floating lakes and also the satrapy part...which hints at ancient persia...look at how we ride the gobbue mounts...it may also indicate future references to things from the far east as in Indian, Persian or even Anciet World mythology...just my thought.

[Chrees]

So after reading this I'm think about the gardens and the floating lakes and also the satrapy part...which hints at ancient persia...look at how we ride the gobbue mounts...it may also indicate future references to things from the far east as in Indian, Persian or even Anciet World mythology...just my thought.

I wonder if he's talking about the small island nation of Thavnair and its capital city of Radz-at-Han, ruled by a number of noble houses, which is to the east across the Sea of Jade. If not, that's one more region we can add to our ever-growing list of undiscovered places.

[Mireille]

Personally I was much more interested in his mentions of the Gardens
of Xarakish and the floating lakes of Voor Sian Siran because it kinda reminds me of Sky/Sea from XI-

I really hope those are zones in 2.0 or an expansion.

It seems a bit weird he's wanting to pass knowledge. Like he thinks he'll die in the next era or something and the fact he thinks that knowing how to summoning a goobbie will help us EL OH EL. (I'm all for it if my goobue can help me build my home faster in 2.0 /joke)

The last line would seem to imply that we will play a role at least. Then again I guess we all probably knew that already XD

Oh and awesome pic in your sig

One thing that occurs to me having read this. It was much much easier to read that in this form than in the chat window in game. Long text like that should either pop up in its own window with a good background color to make reading it easier on the eyes, or be written to a journal that would let us read it in a friendlier format than the chat window. The text itself was worth reading but I found myself skipping past it in game because it was so hard on the eyes in the current chat format.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Walk freeeeeeeeeeeee~ Walk freeeeeeeeeeee~ Walk freeeeeeeeeeeee~ believe.

[ninesunz]

something about the sky

[HiirNoivl]

He said that some royal court traded him the secret of Goobbue for a song. Also that the poem that says present by thine eyes morrow by thine hands or something like it may have been talking about him or something.

[Onizuka]

Yoshida also mentioned that future mounts won't be so easy to obtain, so prepare yourselves! Another thing to pay attention to is what our friend the Wandering Minstrel actually says about it when you obtain it.

Thanks Rukkirii, that's exactly what I wanted to hear! It relieves me that at least you community reps understood the purpose of this Topic, that was “feedback for future contents”. And about the Wandering Minstrel's story, I read it thoroughly and saved it, and already went to stalk Fernehalwes on it (no, just reporting a typo).
Surely those two mentioned places, the Gardens of Xarakish or the floating lakes of Voor Sian Siran, particularly interested me. Also, the minstrel speaks about gazing at the night sky and looking at a world “not quite our own” (Dalamud or...?), hmm...

About the Goobbue, I can't say I could yet enjoy riding it, as I, as well as some other adventurers, am having an annoying glitch at the sky... If you can report on that, too, I promise that when the time comes I won't hesitate in slaying the renowned Opo-Opo stalker Lonsygg!

[Petdo]

Dang! I just spam enter as fast as possible and didnt even read anything =='

[Zezlar]

Good to know Rukkirii. Hopefully Ahriman is next, whenever that time will be.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Not everyone will have access to Goobbues either. Only players in 2012.