The Rise and Fall of The White Raven

[Fusionx]

http://gamerescape.com/2013/08/21/th...e-white-raven/

Anonymoose and some other members of Gamer Escape have been working on this guy for the last several months.

It's a huuuuge summary of FFXIV 1.0 focused around Nael van Darnus, and it's fact checked by everyone's favorite Ahriman Should be a great piece for anyone getting into FFXIV for the first time!

[echogame]

MOOSE AND CO, YOU ARE ALL SO MAGICAL. (ღ˘⌣˘ღ) *rolls around in happiness*

[RathSkybreaker]

Sweet baby jesus, .__. so good. Sending to all my friends who are coming fresh to the game.

[sumdonut]

*settles in for a nice, long read*

This is amazing, thank you.

[Leonesaurus]

Was a really, really entertaining read! I stayed up last night reading the entire thing! I couldn't stop after I got about a paragraph in!

Great job to everyone who worked on it so laboriously! I think a lot of new and old players will find this very helpful and insightful to what happened in the past game! Thanks!

[Avarax]

Hi. I am new to the game. So is AAR an alternate realm from where Bahamaut was at or does it have something to do with time travel?

[Urthdigger]

ARR is just the name for the new game. It's the same Eorzea that was in 1.0, but 5 years later. Bahamut causing his cataclysm and beginning the 7th Umbral Era is what ended version 1.0 of FFXIV.

[Sakasa]

Very good read I feel kinda epic fighting my way through all of it now that I look back even if I have no earring for my trouble. I didn't even put the connection together between the name Dalamud ~ Bahamut until after i read it...I am normally so astute! I blame NCIS!

[finiteHP]

Just finished reading it. Great job Anonymoose and everyone else who made the summary a reality! This is the summary we should point to for anyone wanting to know the Dalamud storyline. Best part for me was:

Though its name had been distorted by centuries of imperfect record, though knowledge of its nature had been lost to history, the great sin banished to the skies by the lost Allag was revealed.

Dalamud... Bahamut...
/slaphead I should have realized that one word was just the corruption of the other after thousands of years. Thank you so much for mentioning that.

[Nialle]

This is hands-down the best lore article I've read about 1.0; I never played it so all this info is really appreciated!