Ffxiv As It Once Was

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DISCLAIMER:The following is a crash course for the plot of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. IT CONTAINS SPOILERS, it does not have any sort of personal insight, and is mainly meant as a tool for those who have skipped, forgotten, or want a refresher on the major plot points of the Realm Reborn narrative.JUMP TO PATCH: What You Need To Know From 1.0In the last days of the Sixth Astral Era, the Garlean Empire launched a full out assault on the continent of Eorzea. The Allied Forces consisting of the three Grand Companies attempted to repel the invaders only to learn that the true plan that in order to end what the threat of the Primals forever they would need to use the power of the ancient Allagan magic Meteor. (Lore Note: The Allagan Empire was a technologically and magically advanced society that ruled Eorzea during the Third Astral Era.)Spurred on by the mysterious beings known as Ascians, Nael Van Darnus led the VIIth Legion to Carteneau where they waged a bloody battle to cast Meteor and drop the moon, Dalamud, on the continent ending all life and the Primal threat. However, upon its descent it was revealed the Dalamud was no natural moon but a massive prison for the Primal, Bahamut.This effort was thwarted by the sage Louisiox and his disciples, who called upon the power of their gods, The Twelve, to help stop Meteor and Bahamut. Though the Battle took the lives of many, including Louisiox, Bahamut was cast down and the VIIth Legion annihilated thus severely crippling the Garlean Empire. The destruction wrought by Dalamud and Bahamut caused mass upheaval in the land, altering the landscape and weather.

Now that their names have been cleared, some of the Scions are heading back to the Rising Stones. For others, it is the promise of a new beginning - a new chapter in a larger story. Yet in the midst of all the excitement, Alphinaud and Tataru stand apart, strangely silent. Though many delight in the homecoming of the long-lost trio, Alphinaud thoughts remain with those who have yet to return.

This event became known as the Calamity. This began the Seventh Umbral Era.A Realm Reborn (2.0)Five years after the Battle of Carteneau, the Warrior of Light, destined to be the champion of the Mother Crystal Hydaelyn and received her Blessing of Light, arrives in one of the three city states of Gridania, Ul’dah or Limsa Lominsa. After performing heroic deeds locally, the Warrior gets noticed by one of the members of an organization called The Scions of the Seventh Dawn – a third party apolitical organization made up mostly of Louisoix’s disciples aimed at stopping the Primals and creating peace. The Scions invite the Warrior in to the organization and explain that they have the gift of the Echo. An ability that allows the Warrior to see and even in some cases interact with the past and to know the hearts of others. It also renders them immune to the brainwashing enslavement that Primals use called ‘Tempering’.

Because of this gift, the Scions send you to help track down and ultimately defeat the Primal Ifrit.Defeating Ifrit gains you to notoriety and fame across the Grand Companies who court you for membership. It also arouses the attention of the Ascians who view you as a threat to their unknown plans. There is also news that the Garlean Empire has returned under the banner of Gaius Van Baelsar in an attempt to conquer Eorzea.

As you continue your quest with the Scions, you learn of the nature of the Primals: that they are summoned by the prayers and sacrifice of crystals by their followers – usually beast tribes – to aid them against, more often than not, the Grand Companies. The kobolds are threatened by Limsa Lominsa’s intrusions into their territory so they summon Titan, requiring you to beseech aid from the Company of Heroes that once felled Titan long before.Next, the Ixal summon Garuda but before even having the chance to investigate the Garlean Empire re-emerges to assault the Scions of the Seventh Dawn at their own headquarters and injures, kills, or captures the majority of its members. Forced to choose between stopping a Primal or helping your friends, the Warrior of Light pursues Garuda.

In need a mode of transportation to breach the Howling Gale where Garuda dwells, the Warrior and Louisoix’s grand-son Alphinaud reunite with Cid Garlond, a Garlean that joined the Eorzean Allied Forces during the war with his homeland but went into hiding after his airship – the Enterprise – crashed in the frozen wastes of Coerthas.In the process of searching for the airship, the Warrior of Light inadvertently gets involved in the complicated and fanatical theocratic politics of the northern nation of Ishgard and earns the loyalty & friendship of House Fortemps in the process. You find and repair the airship and do battle with the vicious Garuda but find that victory is short lived as the Garleans arrive headed by Gaius who mocks Garuda and her Ixal followers, as well as the other beast tribes (many of which are hostages of the Ixal to force them to worship their ‘god’).

What results is the kobolds and the amal’jaa summoning their primals as well, and Garuda, Titan and Ifrit all assaulting the Garleans. Which is exactly what Gaius wants as he unleashes their newest discovery: an ancient Allagan machina known as ‘The Ultima Weapon’. The Ultima Weapon swiftly kills and absorbs all three Primals, fueling the machine to full power. Gaius departs with what he came for – a fully charged super weapon to conquer Eorzea with.The threat that the Garlean Empire poses can no longer be ignored. Alphinaud, Cid, and the Warrior of Light petition the aid of the Grand Companies to unite in a grand assault to stop the Ultima Weapon. The offensive is dubbed ‘Operation Archon’ and has the forces split to assault several Garlean strongholds at once to cripple their generals and the forces they command before going after Gaius himself, all the while attempting to break into the Eorzean headquarters of the Garlean invasion and free the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, where it is revealed that the Ascians are behind the stirring of the Garleans to invade.

That the Ascian pulling the strings is named Lahabrea, and even worse that the Ascians have no true physical form and possess mortals as hosts – in this case, it’s Thancred, a loyal founding member of the Scions!The final assault begins and the Warrior of Light not only defeats Gaius’ inner circle of Nero, Livia and Rihtahtyn, but also stops Gaius and the Ultima Weapon he pilots. In his defeat, Gaius curses Lahabrea who appears and the two clash, resulting in Lahabrea unleashing the spell Ultima, a power that rivals Meteor in destructive potential.

This wipes out the Ultima Weapon and Gaius, but not the Warrior of Light who is protected by the Mother Crystal, Hydaelyn, who has been gently guiding you your entire journey as Her champion. The ultimate battle is then fought between the Warrior of Light and Lahabrea – still possessing Thancred. You defeat the Ascian, driving him away with a blade of pure light bequeathed by the Mother Crystal herself and rescue Thancred.

The Garleans have been defeated, an Ascian driven back into the shadows, and the Grand Companies stand at an unprecedented time of unity and mutual respect. The base Main Scenario ends with Minfillia, the antecedent of the Scions declaring that the Seventh Astral Age has begun.A Realm Awoken (2.1)With the Seventh Astral Age upon them, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn are at a juncture. Due to the events of the battle with The Ultima Weapon and Operation Archon, the Scions – who once stood as a clandestine organization known only to the heads of the Grand Companies and a few others – have been ousted into the public. This poses the issue of how to maintain neutrality among the three city-state nations (a necessity considering how often they admonish the Grand Companies’ actions that provoke the Beast Tribes into summoning Primals). Alphinaud and others suggested relocating their headquarters from the shores of Ul’dah to another location. Namely Mor Dhona, a government-less stretch of land just outside of Carteneau and south-west of Coerthas. Minfilia is apprehensive however, since Ul’dah was her adopted home.

To assuade her fears of abandoning her home, the Warrior of Light reunites Minfilia with her adopted mother F’lhaminn who helps convince Minfilia that this is the right choice.The Scions must also deal with a more confusing problem. In the Twelveswood surrounding Gridania, the moogles have begun to stir. They have apparently through sheer will summoned their greatest ‘King’ from the Aether in much the same way that a Primal is summoned. But is this Moogle a primal? What if pure faith and devotion is all that’s truly required to summon something out of the Aether? Regardless, the Good King and his Mog-Guard pose a threat to the entire Twelveswood and the other moogles wish for the Scions help in stopping them.However, all is not well.

Minfilia is also contacted while packing the Tupsimati (the shattered staff of Louisoix that adorns the wall of Minfilia’s office) by a new Ascian garbed in white named Elidibus who calls himself ‘The Emissary.’ Elidibus states that he knows that Minfilia too possesses the Echo and that understanding the true power and potential of this ‘gift’ is perhaps the key to creating a peace between the Ascians and the mortals. Minfilia refuses to want to make any sort of bargain with an Ascian, and attacks only to be stunned by a blade of dark magic. She recovers when the Warrior of Light finds her, but this worrisome news of a new Ascian is only met with mroe bad news revealed by the Scion’s chief researcher, Urianger: they have lost contact with the Students of Baldesion – an order of scholars that are close allies and trusted advisors to the Scions’ and who reside on the Isle of Val between the Scions’ native land of Sharlayan and Dravia, the homeland of the dragons. The chapter ends with the Scions relocating to Mor Dhona and taking up residence in The Rising Stones, a base hidden behind the Seventh Heaven inn in the town of Revenant’s Toll.Through the Maelstrom (2.2)It would seem that the Garlean Empire is in a moment of strife. In the wake of the second failed invasion of Eorzea, a battle of succession broke out in the Empire and the fate of the Emperor in its wake is unknown. However, in the wake of the struggle, one of the Empire’s conquered territories – the Kingdom of Doma – attempted to break free of their imperial overlords.

Ffxiv As It Once Was A Man

The plan was folly however as the Empire was not as divided and weakened as it had appeared, leaving only a few thousand survivors of the entire land of Doma alive, exiled and stuck on boats until they reach Eorzea. There the leader of the Doman Exiles, Yugiri, a strange hooded ninja with horns and a tail, begs the Scions for aid. The Scions assist by helping Yugiri gain audience with the leaders of the Alliance. However, each one falls on deaf ears. While the Alliance was quick to lend any and all aid to Operation Archon, they now refuse to lend any stating that the resources are better used to tend their respective city-states’ own needs. However, a member of the Monetarists that aid the Sultana Nanamo in ruling Ul’dah by the name of Teledji Adeledji pledges his own support from his coffers to provide at least some food and blankets to the refugees despite the lack of profit from it.Meanwhile, the mystery of the echo’s true potential grows as an investigation into the possibility that the Ascian’s are spurring the Sahagin of La Noscea to summon Leviathan with the promises of immortality. Indeed, upon attempting to stop the summoning, the head priest of the Sahagin is killed but uses the Echo to possess another Sahagin and turn it’s form into the high priests.

Indeed it seems the Echo is more powerful than previous thought. But the revelation is short lived as Leviathan springs forth and devours the priest to fuel its power. Thus begins the struggle to stop Leviathan, a Primal who commands the very sea and can summon tidal waves that will level cities. The plan is to use a crystal powered device to neutralize the attack, but it would take two whole ships worth of crystals to do it.

Ffxiv As It Once Was A Time

Fashioning a massive ship from several others, you create both the vehicle and the device to stop Leviathan.The fate of the Isle of Val is revealed as well. Urianger reports that the entire island, and all of the Students of Baldesion have vanished from existence.

Ffxiv As It Once Was

The leading theory as to their demise?