Sylphs on the First?

[MirronTulaxia]

Any hints or mentions of them? The other major tribes we see, or their absence is understandable (no Allagans so no Ixali presumably, and no Midgardsormr so no Dravanians). Just wondering if I missed something that explained them.

[thegreatonemal]

I'm sure they existed but most likely died in the Flood.

[Gula]

Likely all dead. Namazu were mentioned in the Qitari Beast Tribe quest line. The Flood really wrecked the shard all over.

[MirronTulaxia]

I guess I figured they’d be fine because the other Eorzean counterparts were. Just seems kind of odd.

[Morningstar1337]

The Pixies are the closest, but their absence is strange, however that could be chalked up to them dying in the flood, along with the equivalents of the HW and onward tribes such as the Vanu Vanu, Annata, Kojin, Gnath, etc.

As another use mentioned, the Flood of Light wrecked everything all around, even the edges of Norvrant weren't safe as Ahm Areneg can attest.

The other possibility is that the Sylphs were secretly descended from Allagan creations, but that seems more likely to fit the Annata if anything, and is rather farfetched besides.

[MirronTulaxia]

The others have the benefits of being in countries outside of the original five areas of FFXIV (Ishgard, Ul'dah, Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, and Mor Dhona). Of the ones who show up in the original, you have Moogles, Ixali, Sylphs, Amal'jaa, Sahagin, Kobolds, and Dravanians (I add the last as a meaningful one as they're the catalyst for Shiva to an extent). Only three of those don't pop up, and two of them are dependent on things unique to the Source, so Sylphs are just the odd man out. Not saying that them being killed in the Flood isn't the case, it just seems like a strange omission when the others all showed up. Would have been neat to see them with the Pixies and perhaps compare/contrast the two.

[Brightamethyst]

It's also possible that there were never sylphs there at all. It's not like we know anything about sylphic history. They may post-date the Sundering.

[RyuDragnier]

The Pixies are in most likelihood the Sylphs of the First. They act like them to a fault, with the only difference being appearance (and we don't really know why Sylphs have the appearance they do to begin with).

[Vyrerus]

Sylph's are unique to the Twelveswood, so my guess would be that the devs didn't want to cheapen that. They aren't really like the Fae, save that they levitate and have Fae like mannerisms, as they were FFXIV's first take on a Fae-like race.

I'd say that it's because either the Twelveswood counterpart, if you don't view it to be Raktika, was destroyed by the Flood, or that there was never a Twelveswood, so there were no Sylphs on The First. That's just my take on it though.

[Morningstar1337]

Sylph's are unique to the Twelveswood, so my guess would be that the devs didn't want to cheapen that. They aren't really like the Fae, save that they levitate and have Fae like mannerisms, as they were FFXIV's first take on a Fae-like race.

I'd say that it's because either the Twelveswood counterpart, if you don't view it to be Raktika, was destroyed by the Flood, or that there was never a Twelveswood, so there were no Sylphs on The First. That's just my take on it though.

That does make sense, if the Sylphs were created by the Elementlas (which would either ceased to be on the First or just flat-out never existed there) then they are technically in the same boat as the Ixal "artificial" lifeforms who emerged after the sundering.