The streamer quiz show was fun
Now who’s ready for THE PRIMALS?!
Damn, what a great concert followed by an incredibly heavy end. The news about Soken was hard to hear, and YoshiP’s reaction broke me. We don’t deserve this wonderfully human dev team.
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That made me tear up a little bit too. Imagine working for an entire year with him without realizing he is actually in a hospital room battling cancer. That absolute dedication to his craft. And no wonder Yoshi-P cried on stage. Finding out about the cancer and hearing about the remission in one go. I can only imagine that emotional roller-coaster.
Seven hells, I didn’t expect to cry when this is over…
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To The Edge is the greatest gift he could have given us knowing he composed it from a hospital bed. It really showed in tonight’s performance, too
Yoshi knew, but he had to keep it from the staff. Still, Soken is his BFF. In the NoClip docs earlier, he even says that Soken was the one person he remembers very clearly from his first production meeting with the staff. They’ve been through a lot together.
And poor Koji trying to keep it together while translating 
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No idea when it will leave VOD, but here is the start of the concert timestamped for everyone. “To The Edge” is the second song.
I was under the impression Yoshi didn’t know either, considering he said he “had to tell nobody.” But even then, I can only imagine how it felt to finally share this with everyone.
And yeah, I noticed about Koji. He was desperately trying to keep it together.
To The Edge now hits differently knowing where it came from and the circumstances of its creation…
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Yeah, Yoshi mentioned it during his turn that Soken asked him not to let it out. But, like, Yoshi also JUST lost another good friend and even penned a big letter for it, as well as put the Gundam references in game in honor of him. It’s been a hard, hard year, and I think he just needed to let it out.
But, man, it’s also inspiring to see how close everyone in the dev team and by extension the community is. Watching the whole FanFest with friends and interacting with devs has been such a great experience overall
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The Au Ra are certainly a bit more fleshed out than others, but the lore books more or less give equal attention to all the races otherwise. I think the problem Viera and Hrothgar face is that they’re newer. I don’t know if they’re listed in the second lore book or not, but SE has always included naming conventions.
For the Viera, for example, I know at least one of the two clans uses the forest that is their home as their surname. When they leave their forest or are cast out, they can also name themselves anything they want. Quite a few just pick the first thing they see. Imagine being a 200 year old bunny amazoness, walking into a city, getting a drink and going, “This is delicious, what is this called? ‘Cherry Pop?’ From now on, my name is Cherry Pop too.”
Until you pointed it out, I hadn’t really thought about this, but you’re totally right. When the devs say they’ve heard we want something so high profile, they reiterate that they know we want it and when they promise it, we trust them. If there’s something they’re not sure of (such as large apartments, which is something we’ve asked for a lot), they say that it’s an interesting suggestion that they’ll look into — which makes us hopeful that they understand our problem, but gives us a reminder that they’re working with ancient spaghetti code and might not be able to implement something.
Anyway, Soken, one of the greatest composers in the world right now, performed Lahee and it made me absolutely lose it.
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1st lore book is ARR/HW, 2nd is Stormblood, so there’s no Hroth or Viera lorebook info yet. They’re working on a third (maybe they also want to futureproof it by making it Shadowbringers/Endwalkers?) that will presumably add the Hroth Viera information.
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Yeah didn’t the Kobold Patriarch pretty much directly call this out at one point? That the relentless racism and violence of the Grand Companies and the greed of city-states like Ul’dah are why the “Beast Tribes” (and he called that term out too) summon Primals in the first place, and even Alisaie (or was it Y’shtola) pointed out they have every right to want to defend themselves.
It always rubbed me wrong how the WoL is so often dispatched to kill their Primals, even if it’s only done for protect Eorzea in general, but no effort (that I’ve seen so far) has been made to build alliances with the tribes so they don’t have to do it for their own security in the first place.
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I always kind of figured that was part of what the beast tribe reps were sort of meant to represent, but I agree I would love to see kind of expansion of that that shows us helping them and the city states start operating together. Because yeah, it bugs me that the WoL doesn’t use their obvious connections to heads of state to try and help these tribes.
It could even make for great storylines with the WoL trying to like, petition Nanamo for the Amalj’aa and the monterists working to undermine it.
And it’s not like that would take out the threats of the Primals altogether. At the very least, you still have quite a few Tempered followers in every tribe that would still be trying to summon them.
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Well, you have to keep in mind that a significant problem is also tempering, which renders quite a large number of the beast tribes completely immune to such things as reasoning.
That said, keep on playing. I think you’ll find that the story of the beast tribes and their relationships with the rest of the world does continue to grow and change over time.
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That was my issue as well. Especially when even the Emperor himself calls them out and all they can do is kind of make half-hearted justifications and later lament the fact that he’s more well read on their history than they thought. That whole scenario was very interesting, though. Not often in fantasy games you see opposing sides sitting down to parlay as if they’re both reasonable and can come to a solution without bloodshed.
Fortunately, they move away from a lot of that in later expansions and the relationships other people have with their “beastribes” tends to be a lot more cordial and the conditions under which primals appear becomes a lot more varied.
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Man, I watched the part where Soken talks about his illness and his experiences
And everyone was crying
And I was crying
And my love for the devs increased 700000000%
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And I’ve settled on a nicer glamour for now. I was going for Red Mage Scion but I think the gloves have pushed him into Fat Old Hitman territory instead.
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Soken is the Warrior of Light and anyone who disagrees is 100% wrong.
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The Warrior of Light wishes he was half as cool as Soken.
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When I linked and rewatched the noclip documentary a couple weeks ago, the line where Yoshi-P recalled Soken as being the “we can do it” guy and how he remembered it so distinctly always stood out to me.
To hear it again in a current setting, especially with the current context, it’s overwhelming.
I don’t want to get too wordy. But it’s hard not to be emotional after all that. You go you funky little dudes.
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another good note to make is that viera are more or less a carbon copy of themselves from final fantasy 12, and while its certainly not a 1:1 between ivalice of ff12 and ff14
you can make the parallels.
hrothgar are getting more lore as well.
the thing is that racial lore matters less to the setting of ffxiv than, say… national lore. xaela get a bunch of lore because they are functionally also their nation. raen have “next to nothing” but that’s because they assimilate to the nations they live in. you see a lot of raen in othard and ilsabard.
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