Lore to Know Before you play Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail!

another point for why we sailed to the far east before the new world is that it's a lot easier to sail along coastlines, where you have a constant geographic point of reference and places where you can stop to resupply or do repairs, then sailing the high seas where you're completely isolated and have to navigate by stars which fun fact, you can't see when there's a storm, which are far more common in the high seas than along coastlines

Your lecture format of presentation is a breath of fresh air in the youtube explainer-video space. I find that in formats where the author is reading from a script, I retain very little of what was said. In contrast, I remember everything you've shared and feel I could even explain it to someone else!

I love your mindset on the retcons in 14 being that sometimes the devs want to move in a different direction, and that's okay! Personally, it reminds me of the real world historians and scientists. As we are furthering our understanding of the world, things that we used to believe as facts has evidence to the contrary revealed. These things are never exact sciences, since we are working with the current knowledge base available.

I made a FFXIVxD&D campaign a few years back. It was set in The New World 40 years prior to the events of ARR. I had only two players so I had Matoya and Louisoix as NPCs to assist in combat a little. (Matoya wsa a moody brat and Louisoix was a proud father gushing about his newborn son Fourchenault.) I had four major areas it was set in: The city of the blue mages on the east coast and it was heavily inspired by Santorini. There were some Moblins who were summoning a primal. There was also a sprawling encampment in the southern desert-like area where an Alligan ship crashed ages ago and scholars and machinists were studying and salvaging. Very wild west inspired. There the players would face failed clones of Amon. Then there was the large city of Mamool Ja to the north where they summoned, you guessed it, a primal to defeat. And finally in the east coast I transplanted Insomnia from FFXV, made it smaller, and added a dash of Midgar. There the final Primal Jenova would be ushered in by Emet-Selch and he would monologue how this was all a test run anyways and he doesn't care if we destroy his toys and ports out for them to fight the biggest primal yet. Anyways we never did finish the campaign, but it was so fun speculating on what the New World would be like. I am so hyped for Dawntrail!

As far as the size of the continent issue, you can see that part of the landmass is still shrouded in the bottom left corner of the map. We will likely get more areas unlocked later in the expansion which will add to the size of the land mass over all.

So I finished the MSQ of Dawntrail the other day, mild spoilers for some of the first half of the MSQ. I'm the type to go in and experience it at my own pace, then watch lore deep dive videos and such wile grinding. One of my favorite parts of it was learning about all the people who live there and how they do things, as well as the local history and various cultural practices, and how we kind of become somewhat of a mentor too new best girl.

As a fan of Blue Mage, im hoping to see if we come across the Wahlaqee and learn more deeply about the origins of what we come to learn about blue magic.

Your attention to detail and the research gone in to make these videos are astounding. Always love your content and looking forward to more in the future.

Can't wait for my predictions to be wrong!

the first few seconds of absolute dead silence in this video had me fear that my audio was buggered up

Found your channel yesterday, i love this. You make an amazing job! Pls keep this channel going!

I imagine the Walaquee are in a separate section/nation than Tural. If only because the first person we learn of them and their practices from is Martin, and I'll eat his hat before believing he's 80. That said, I imagine we'll not be getting to the Walaquee this expansion beyond the blue mage quests.

I'm excited to learn about beastmastery

Happy dawntrail eve everyone 😂🎉

Looking forward to exploring and learning more about Tural! Also I wanna see more about the Blue Mage tribe and what they’re doing.

Synodic Scribe. "Then there is where we are visiting tomorrow, Tural." Maybe you are visiting Tural, Scribe, but my avatar is going to Old Sharlayan again to relive Endwalker as a Pictomancer tomorrow. ;)

The Tuliyollal architecture is so similar to "Rumah Gadang" of Minangkabau people I cant unsee it.

Ethys Asher would be proud of this lore dive!

I hope that with the next Blue Mage update we take our homeboy Martin to the new world and find the Walaquee tribe he studied from. Even if it's a secluded instance from the rest of the Tural map.

Super fast ff lore breakdown: once some guys who are the Greek gods lived on not Olympus. Not Hermes but actually Hermes got depressed, shenanigans ensued, planet got broken harder than medieval China dynasty’s. Que beginning of game, aeons have past, the not Olympians are trying to reform the world, via genocide, you are trying to stop them, via genocide. Everyone is depressed. Then you win, and they’re still depressed, but dead.