Thread: For !.0

In 1.x, all three of the starting stories feature you wandering around town in 1572 having headaches and seeing people's memories of 1562, Ul'dah is just the most obvious of the three.

If it helps give you some structure watching 1.x cutscenes...

• If you hear a whoosh sound, you just entered or exited an Echo of 1562.
• You never see the Circle of Knowing (Thancred, Y'shtola, Yda, Papalymo) in the present day until you encounter Gaius in Mor Dhona.
• In Gridania, Khrimm and the Hermit of the Wood are the same person.
• In Limsa Lominsa, Sthalmann and Rostnsthal are the same person; Emerick and Blackburn are the same person.

Or you can read the transcripts we archived at Gamer Escape, in which we clearly marked the Echo jumps.

Ul'dah

• Flowers For All
• Court in the Sands
• Golden Sacrifices
• Calamity Cometh

Gridania

• Sundered Skies
• Souls Gone Wild
• Whispers in the Wood
• Beckon of the Elementals

Limsa Lominsa

• Shapeless Melody
• Treasures of the Main
• Legends Adrift
• Never the Twain Shall Meet

The present-day FFXIV story is Schrodinger's Warrior of Light. If you played 1.x, it presumes you are the hero who aided Louisoix in his last days. If not, the hero who aided Louisoix is one of the people who vanished in the Calamity. You can choose for yourself which you believe your character to be, though "official" 1.x players get unique cutscenes and a tattoo.

If your character was in 1.x, their age can be anything you want. They are always their age as-of 1572. They weren't really there in 1562, just seeing it in an Echo from 1572. And then Louisoix threw them into a pocket of the rift for 5 years, but those 5 years appear to have lasted but an instant from the Warrior of Light's point of view and do not seem to have aged them at all.