Live Letter Thoughts

[Hurlstone]

To me it almost always feels like people trying to paint things in black and white, because they cant understand grey. Even though they say they love when characters and stories have grey moralities anyway and do a bunch of mental gymnastics over why Venat is the worst piece of scum ever, unlike our lord and saviors Emet-Selch, Lahabrea, Elidibus etc etc etc. I feel like there was at least some optional dialogue with the Scions where they did talk about Hyadaelyn's actions and how they ultimately felt about it but I could be wrong, but I somehow recall reading that.

Could you be thinking of the 6.1 Omega quests? I do feel I should replay Endwalker sometime, be it on NG+ or an alt, to see if there are moments like that I missed. But yeah. I never felt to me that they tried to make Hydaelyn the saint some people think we see her as. I personally see the Ascian’s as great examples of villains who have suffered and genuinely believe they are in the right, but I also see Veant/Hyde as a character who had to make a horrible choice for the greater good. Sure, perhaps the writing does not equally assign blame or shame but… in the end, this is a Final Fantasy story. Often they do end up as pure ‘Good Vs Evil’ fabels (See the whole Light vs Chaos motif common in several games and spin-offs) and at least XIV has taken great steps to show that its really not so black and white. Its one of the reasons why I rank it so highly as a MMO and FF game.

At the very least declaring oneself a fan of Venat should not really be seen as somehow more immoral as calling oneself a fan of Ascians...

Anyway back to 6.2 stuff, yeah I'm very excited for mystery reaper lady, and there's a good chance that she winds up being the elusive 1.0 fem-Meteor design people have been wanting finally being a canon character (due to how similar her face and hair looks from the short glimpses we see in the trailer).

Until we learn more about her, the neatest factoid about reaper lady is that she seems to be deliberately modeled after the Female Hyur default, much the same as Ardbert and company. Refuse to read too much into that, and I doubt she'll get more screen time than Lyna, at best Yugiri - but I echo the sentiment of delight to have another female melee dps-focused NPC.

Wait, there was a possible fem-Meteor design!? I did not know that! That would be awesome... plus if thats true, it could mean she has a even more important role and connection to our WoL then I first thought. I have never been a fan of the idea that MMO/RPG media has a 'canon' archetype for a player character, but I do like how FFXIV can use this in regards to the Shards. I know, should not read too much into it all but what can I say? In deepest despair I prefer to look for the light everlasting. Bring on the 23th!