I really appreciate the subtle nod to Seto there at the very end. Seto was definitely a highlight of SHB especially as things were wrapping up, and the way it used the Auspice lore to show how things were similar yet different across the reflections was super interesting to me.
Greetings professor. I'm in need of assistance. I've been through some stuff, but long story short, I've made a pact with a voidsent who's now whispering sweet nothings inside my head every now and then. I need to know... What it means to be a Reaper?
I actually first learned about the auspices from the most recent Christmas event; at the time, I was still very much a Sprout and had barely just started ARR. It’s nice how they integrated the lore of expansion packs into events that are accessible to everyone old and new.
It's a common real life Eastern cultural philosophy toward meditation and energy, in this case cultivation. In Chinese cultivation mythology, most living being have potential of cultivation including the lowest of the animal kingdom. Once they have reached a certain awareness and enlightenment their inner power manifest. Which is aether here in FFXIV
Many well known mythical creatures of our real world's lore could have (or are stated to have) come into being the same way, living past a normal lifespan and gaining power... And unfortunately, becoming monsters in some cases...
Imagine a lobster living for couple millennia, keep getting older, a rare genetic mutation allow it to continuously expand and strengthen its shell. If one day such creature arose from the deepest sea trench, human from time before modern science might even acknowledge such being as god.
Very interesting! Something I'd be interested in is the lore behind the classes. I know you have a series about jobs, but it'd be interesting to have a more focused look at what exactly all the starting classes are
I don’t know if you have a set order to job videos but I think the ones many people (including myself) are waiting on are Sage and Reaper. The job quests give a fair amount of their lore but I’ve come across a few extra nuggets from side quests as well.
I've been doing polls in my community tab as to what needs covering next. I can't do a Deep Dive on Gunbreaker, Dancer, Reaper or Sage yet because I use publications and game data for those videos. If I talk about the new jobs right now I'd basically just be parroting the Job Quest.
ENDWALKER SPOILER WARNING . . . . . . . given how little we know about the nature of the two relevant forces aside from the fact that theyre based on emotion, ive seen speculation about a potential connection between them and dynamis. given the obvious effect it has and that those forces themselves are iirc never directly attributed to aether i dont think its an unreasonable thing to speculate. i wouldn't go so far as to say their powers are dynamis based, but the idea that their forms, powers, and in some part behaviours, are shaped or influenced by dynamis, the same way limit breaks are speculated to be using dynamis to help shape the aether around you into a useful effect
I wonder why the auspice only seem appear in the Far East. Anyways thank you so much for the lecture professor I always found the auspice to be one of the most fascinating and strange beings to ever exist on or star. For the next lecture could you talk about the goblins? I’ve heard rummers that they possess a lust for knowledge said to rival sharlyan it’s self, but I always thought they were humble traders
You do see The Major over in Idylshir, as well as the squirrel from The Starlight They can appear anywhere in the world, but just happen to mostly appear in the Far East due to their culture
I love your videos! I'm fairly new to FFXIV and I needed someone to bing watch lore videos about! If you could I would LOVE a dancer video! I'm a bit fuzzy on their story bc I leveled them awhile back. Keep up the awesome work :D
Very appreciative of all the work and research you did. Especially loved the bits about the Kami and religion surrounding them. Any plans to do a full lecture on that subject?
My warrior of light is a Viera, and considering that they have a lifespan of three to four centuries, I'm hoping that his chocobo ends up becoming an auspices And as a Viera, he'll live long enough to see it
i wonder if auspic's awakenings are some form of echo developing in animals due to the rejoinings that have happened, an awakening that happens more acutely in animals due to them being more in tune with the world around them than the races of man
I find it interesting that a Tenzen existed in XIV and followed almost the same path of his life as his XI counterpart. Iroha is the daughter of Tenzen in XI and is imbued with the Celestial Avatar of Phoenix that gives her her red hair. Even funnier is that Iroha follows the same story as Graha Tia.
How many non eastern auspice are there? I think i've seen, ther squirrel from the starlight quests, but i believe he said he was visiting eorzea from the ruby sea, Is it a phenomna isolated to the eastern regions,? I sapose you could argue that rudy the little yeti from starlight, and the baby troll from endwalker sidequests, might be auspices?
interesting question. Is there a difference between crystals of light that WoL carry and ordinary aether crystals such as those used in summoning or crafting?
EW mild spoilers, side quest related to aetherial currents in a pretty early zone ... ... ... ... Isn't Shaggles similar to a young auspice? He's incredibly smart compared to other trolls even if his lifespan still looks normal (He's a baby troll, so cute) and he can communicate fully formed thoughts to us via our Echo. He's even starting to learn how to properly speak. He's smart enough to read books in a language that he had to learn alone from scratch and since they're Sharlayan books, I'm pretty sure they're super convoluted and full of obscure and specific words. He is even able to perfectly reason in a scientific way, he is clearly a true scholar. Which is... Very odd for a troll? No shade to the other trolls but they don't seem like scientists at heart. And he's still very young, that's a real prodigy here. If he indeed is an auspice and not just a case of "abnormally enormous-brained troll" I can't even imagine how powerful he could grow.
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I really appreciate the subtle nod to Seto there at the very end. Seto was definitely a highlight of SHB especially as things were wrapping up, and the way it used the Auspice lore to show how things were similar yet different across the reflections was super interesting to me.
Ah so good! Thank you for this. Id love to listen and learn more about each of the Auspices through your soothing and beautiful voice ^^
D'aw. Thanks for the compliment.
Greetings professor. I'm in need of assistance. I've been through some stuff, but long story short, I've made a pact with a voidsent who's now whispering sweet nothings inside my head every now and then. I need to know... What it means to be a Reaper?
This is one of my favorite story lines in the entire game. Thank you for covering it.
You're very welcome!
I actually first learned about the auspices from the most recent Christmas event; at the time, I was still very much a Sprout and had barely just started ARR. It’s nice how they integrated the lore of expansion packs into events that are accessible to everyone old and new.
Ah, another timely episode given the events of this year's Heavansturn
It's a common real life Eastern cultural philosophy toward meditation and energy, in this case cultivation. In Chinese cultivation mythology, most living being have potential of cultivation including the lowest of the animal kingdom. Once they have reached a certain awareness and enlightenment their inner power manifest. Which is aether here in FFXIV
This was such a good entry to your videos! I have been wanting to learn more about this topic - thank you!
Many well known mythical creatures of our real world's lore could have (or are stated to have) come into being the same way, living past a normal lifespan and gaining power... And unfortunately, becoming monsters in some cases...
Imagine a lobster living for couple millennia, keep getting older, a rare genetic mutation allow it to continuously expand and strengthen its shell.
If one day such creature arose from the deepest sea trench, human from time before modern science might even acknowledge such being as god.
@@Verpal Isn't there a group of people trying to do exactly that with a lobster?
Learned a lot about auspice. thanks prof.
That last bit gets me, knowing the four lords feel Tenzen in you.
Very interesting! Something I'd be interested in is the lore behind the classes. I know you have a series about jobs, but it'd be interesting to have a more focused look at what exactly all the starting classes are
Beautifully done!
Qitian Dasheng is read closer to “chi tien da sherng”. It’s the title self-given to the Monkey King Sun Wu Kong, which means Saint equal to Heaven.
Now you got me thinking about the new 24man
This feels particularly relevant to 6.1
I don’t know if you have a set order to job videos but I think the ones many people (including myself) are waiting on are Sage and Reaper. The job quests give a fair amount of their lore but I’ve come across a few extra nuggets from side quests as well.
I've been doing polls in my community tab as to what needs covering next. I can't do a Deep Dive on Gunbreaker, Dancer, Reaper or Sage yet because I use publications and game data for those videos. If I talk about the new jobs right now I'd basically just be parroting the Job Quest.
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given how little we know about the nature of the two relevant forces aside from the fact that theyre based on emotion, ive seen speculation about a potential connection between them and dynamis. given the obvious effect it has and that those forces themselves are iirc never directly attributed to aether i dont think its an unreasonable thing to speculate. i wouldn't go so far as to say their powers are dynamis based, but the idea that their forms, powers, and in some part behaviours, are shaped or influenced by dynamis, the same way limit breaks are speculated to be using dynamis to help shape the aether around you into a useful effect
I wonder why the auspice only seem appear in the Far East. Anyways thank you so much for the lecture professor I always found the auspice to be one of the most fascinating and strange beings to ever exist on or star. For the next lecture could you talk about the goblins? I’ve heard rummers that they possess a lust for knowledge said to rival sharlyan it’s self, but I always thought they were humble traders
Some appear outside of the Far East. Recently in fact.
You do see The Major over in Idylshir, as well as the squirrel from The Starlight
They can appear anywhere in the world, but just happen to mostly appear in the Far East due to their culture
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@@Heedfulconch3 never notice before, thank you comrade
@@jakelawrence6618 He means the Faux Commander in Idyllshire.
I just learned something new today
I love your videos! I'm fairly new to FFXIV and I needed someone to bing watch lore videos about!
If you could I would LOVE a dancer video! I'm a bit fuzzy on their story bc I leveled them awhile back. Keep up the awesome work :D
Very appreciative of all the work and research you did. Especially loved the bits about the Kami and religion surrounding them. Any plans to do a full lecture on that subject?
I plan on covering that when I talk about the cultures of Doma/Hingashi.
My warrior of light is a Viera, and considering that they have a lifespan of three to four centuries, I'm hoping that his chocobo ends up becoming an auspices
And as a Viera, he'll live long enough to see it
i wonder if auspic's awakenings are some form of echo developing in animals due to the rejoinings that have happened, an awakening that happens more acutely in animals due to them being more in tune with the world around them than the races of man
The Auspice kind of remind me of Japanese Kami and yokai in a way but thanks for the lesson I enjoyed this one.
I find it interesting that a Tenzen existed in XIV and followed almost the same path of his life as his XI counterpart. Iroha is the daughter of Tenzen in XI and is imbued with the Celestial Avatar of Phoenix that gives her her red hair. Even funnier is that Iroha follows the same story as Graha Tia.
How many non eastern auspice are there? I think i've seen, ther squirrel from the starlight quests, but i believe he said he was visiting eorzea from the ruby sea, Is it a phenomna isolated to the eastern regions,? I sapose you could argue that rudy the little yeti from starlight, and the baby troll from endwalker sidequests, might be auspices?
then again they' seem to be rather young, so many yeti are just injtelegent beastfolk?
interesting question. Is there a difference between crystals of light that WoL carry and ordinary aether crystals such as those used in summoning or crafting?
Yes, big differences. They make look similar but the amount of differences in types of crystals is crazy.
@@SynodicScribe Sounds like an interesting video topic huh? The different crystal types and strengths. :)
Do you think there’s a Bear Auspice in Abalathia’s Spine that inspired the Warriors?
Honestly, I wouldn't at all be surprised if a Bear auspice existed somewhere.
What if the Twelve are just auspices borne from mortal men?
if all that's needed to start thinking like people is to live 100 years, is every tortoise etc that doesn't get killed an auspice?
Depends if those 100 years were worth reflecting on. If nothing in their life inspired them, then no.
... "Companions", huh?
You don't say? UwU
EW mild spoilers, side quest related to aetherial currents in a pretty early zone
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Isn't Shaggles similar to a young auspice? He's incredibly smart compared to other trolls even if his lifespan still looks normal (He's a baby troll, so cute) and he can communicate fully formed thoughts to us via our Echo. He's even starting to learn how to properly speak. He's smart enough to read books in a language that he had to learn alone from scratch and since they're Sharlayan books, I'm pretty sure they're super convoluted and full of obscure and specific words. He is even able to perfectly reason in a scientific way, he is clearly a true scholar. Which is... Very odd for a troll? No shade to the other trolls but they don't seem like scientists at heart. And he's still very young, that's a real prodigy here. If he indeed is an auspice and not just a case of "abnormally enormous-brained troll" I can't even imagine how powerful he could grow.
I cant hear the word Arimitama without hearing Seryiu in my head "Ooooh arrramitamaaa"!
OH ARAMITUMMY!
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