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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- The first of three videos in my Final Fantasy XIV Lore series of videos designed to help new players get into the game, help returning players catch up, and give current players something to refresh themselves with.
I hope you enjoy, so much hard work went into this one!
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Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:48 - What is Hydaelyn?
05:47 - Our Star (Geography)
12:35 - The History of Hydaelyn
15:42 - Age of the Allagans
21:11 - War of the Magi
24:22 - Rise of The Empire - เกม
I so appreciate this, I just started this game two weeks ago and it is a little overwhelming.
I tried to keep it spoiler free for people like you. There are many twists and turns, and I would hate to ruin that for you
@@jessecox Thanks I'm in shadowbringers and I'm still confused about somethings much love
Welcome to the pit kid I’ve been down here for five years and I don’t plan on getting out
@@jessecox Ah so that's why, Will you explore The Ancients in a video?
Enjoy it...take your time...stick with it! SO so much fun if you dive into the lore of the game! Hope you have lots of fun!
Yes pls on an Astral/Umbral deep dive.
We need our Aetherologist Masters.
Second this! I would love more of these videos!
I would enjoy an Astral/Umbral deep dive.
agreed!
Okay but he has to do it all talking like Urianger.
@@KisiroKitsune Don't tempt him😁
Jesse: "leave a comment if you want a video abou-"
Me: yes jesse, yes we want a video about that, in fact we want 2 videos about that
moar! moar!
agree lol
110% This
Fully agree
“Let me know if you want a deep dive into Astral/Umbral.”
Jesse, I want you to embrace your past as a history teacher and teach me everything you can about this world. I’m a new player, didn’t know what the hell was going on, and now I’m fascinated by it because of this video. PLEASE do a deep dive on it, and literally anything else about the game.
Heartily seconded.
PLEASE make a video, I will gladly help with art hahaha :D
Don't know for sure, but wasn't Astral Passive and Umbral Active? The fact that people thought it was reversed came from the whole light good, darkness baaaaaad. But in SHB we learn that Astral energy makes Aether passive. While Umbral makes it active. It is also proved in the Black Mage rotation. Astral fire STOPS MP regen, Umbral ice greatly regens it
@@Lenaleeluna And maybe if you watched the video you wouldn't make spoiler comments ? :)
Same here! ✋
Interesting telling of Bahamut's story. Leaving out just enough detail to not spoil basically anything in heavensward or the coils raid, while simultaneously teasing coils. Also this was a nice refresher on some of the details I had forgotten about, especially the previous umbral/astral eras. I feel the 7th should have been at least been mentioned only to state that's the current one, and mentioning the element involved not really necessary.
@@gwynlionhart6392 I really wish certain things hadn't been shown regarding primals and showing certain characters that you definitely meet long before you have a clue they're going to be involved in that context... But yakno. I feel like something always gets overlooked.
I actually had to do a double take and thought "wait thats not right" then realized what he was doing and thought "thats genius"
Jesse: “I’m doing this like a history class!”
Me: Has already forgotten his homework
chocobo ate it
wait. we had homework? shit. whos can I copy real quick?
This is a FANTASTIC introduction to the lore whilst remaining truthful and not spoiling any of the huge reveals. Excellent work Jesse! Looking forward to more!
For a moment, the "4" tripped me up because I was nodding along and did a double take when I didn't hear The Big Baddies being listed haha. When in doubt, blame them :')
He also only said 3 in the video, leaving the 4th one out for a good reason.
I never realized just how closely tied the Alliance Raids are to the lore and history of the game. It’s really cool to see and I can’t wait to see what Endwalker’s Alliance Raids will show!
the Heavensward alliance raids are a big delightful halloween-themed loredump. ARR's is "we really liked FF3 and nobody in America ever played it," Stormblood's is "we haven't put Final Fantasy Tactics in this game yet, we should do that," and then Shadowbringers' is an epilogue to Nier: Automata, because Square-Enix wanted to do a promotional crossover and Yoko Taro feeds on the suffering of people who enjoy his games.
(FF3's big deal is that one of the three master sorcerors of the world, Xande, has slightly lost it on learning that he is going to one day die, and is so deciding to flood the world in darkness to stop time so he doesn't have to die. On beating him, you discover that whoops, he's been being puppeted by the Cloud of Darkness ever since he delved a little too greedily and too deep looking for a way to not die. People who have played through Crystal Tower may be entertained to know that the other two master sorcerors of FF3 were Doga and Unei.)
For the Stormblood one, FF12 is happening concurrently too but with the Garleans being the empire instead FF12s empire
The Endwalker Alliance raid has been confirmed to be about the Twelve. I'm excited!
@@xalrath + It gave them a great excuse to hurl the Square Enix office at players XD
@@xalrath ngl i think the NieR raids are my favorite, at least in part because they let Yoko Taro write it and there are no breaks on Yoko Taro's Wild Ride, only a second gas peddle
As a person who has played this game since 2.0, I have to say this is by far the most helpful lore video I have seen. I don't own the encyclopedia but this is way more open and welcoming than any other video. Thank you, you made it way more interesting and entertaining then anything out there. Thanks Jesse! 😁
I am surprised with how deep and detailed the lore is, even though I played a few FFs over the decades, I really never understood the lore.
Having been a avid wow lore reader since warcraft 3, getting slowly jaded of the poor writing destroying the potential that the old stories had but still impressed by the level of quality of wow content creators.
I look forward to having some old creators, test their mettle in this world where the lore seems to be much more fleshed out over the many games and learning the many quirks of each race.
Could not agree more. I've watched pretty much every lore video and series under the sun, and this is so easy to watch and understand.
@@dongster529 well, the thing about FF, each game has it's own self contained lore, outside of direct sequels like X-2. At most you'll see references, but it's mainly just stuff like chocobo's moogles and a few recognizable names like Cid and Biggs & Wedge.
Yes please. We need another. As a HUGE fucking Warcraft Lore nerd, seeing the state of WoW and trying to enjoy FF14 just...left me starving for some much lore based context of what I'm doing. I love this, thank you Jesse. We need more!
Wow story player???????? Ouf
holy shit, there's cleaaarly been times where the story has giving me like serious chills but the fact that i've played through it all and still get the goosebumps and feel like its the first time hearing it from a cliffnotes video on the lore.. ugh the story is so good man.
More. I need more. The feel of being taught to by someone with passion for the subject and for the profession of teaching is addictive to me.
I'd love a deep dive in to each race/class
Yeah Jesse has always been great when it comes to conveying lore in a clear and understandable manner, really looking forward to seeing him going even more into this.
It's at times like this that we can really see Jesse's teaching background rise up from the depths like Alexander.
Damn Jesse I really hope you continue these, I’m just starting now and this makes the lore SO much easier to digest! Love ya dude, excited to finally join you on Jenova!
I have watched this video multiple times .. and shared it with my friends ,,, I wish if you can continue this series ,, thanks a lot for this one ♥
As a long-time veteran of this game myself, this was a great refresher course. Can't wait for the other two :3
I played 3 different FF games, including FF14 and I had no idea about the depth of the connection on crystals.
I should really stop getting distracted by the card games and start reading the text.
God listening to Jesse talk about a lore of a mmo it takes me back to way back when he used to do WoW lore videos.
Ikr I almost cried when I saw he was doing it for this
I was literally just thought about that. He sounds just like he did during his Cata Zone Overviews
back when he was called omfgcata lmao
@@roman11777 and the old backronym "one moderately funny gamer"
Wow i love this i need more. We seriously need a good deep dive in to this game's lore that is complete and well narrated and you have gone above and beyond. Please keep going!
I love how you explain the entire history of fantasy XIV without spoiling anything and making it make sense to new players honestly I wish I watched this video when I first started playing as it would have given me better insight into things that happen later you are a true treasure
Holy crap Jesse this is exceptional. I can't imagine how much work this took. Instantly bookmarked it, gonna share with new players
This is great. Kinda works as a "what the warrior of light knows at lvl1" tutorial.
Mostly. The stuff about Allag and Xande is stuff we don't learn about until level 50 though.
@@Draeckon and even then, the stuff about the war of the magi might only be conceivably known by Thaumaturge, conjuror and Arcanist starters.
I've been playing this game since release of 2.0 and even I really appreciate this easy to digest video format for a refresher course. I cannot wait for more videos. keep em coming!!
Wow, this was awesome, everything makes so much more sense now. It is hard to piece everything of the lore and history together and this is brilliantly done, thank you, looking forward to more!
The worst part about this video is how well done it is. That means the next one is really far away.
Well done JC.
As someone who's been playing the game for about 7 years, this video is amazing and even clarified some confusion I've had about things for years. Thanks Jesse!
I'm so happy to see Jesse popping up in my recommended videos so often again! I recently started playing FFXIV with a couple of friends so your timing with this one couldn't be better!
Thank you for making this video. Putting this all in order makes it SO MUCH EASIER to understand.
I hope you do a lore video about the different races- I would love to know more about them.
OH! That would be awesome.
Definitely feel free to bring it up either here or via his stream. He will definitely cover races since its also a big part of the world including beast tribes and how essential they are especially msot recently
Some one should do deep dives on each of the Races, because there are a lot of strange histories of the Races, and even though we think of them coming from specific cities, many of them are not in fact Native to Eorzea. ie the original player racers Lalafell come from the mysterious southern continent originally, Hyur come from lands to the East, Rogyadyn come from islands far to the north, and Miqo'te come from the New World, meanwhile only Elezen are Native to Eorzea.
Jessie, this is a really good video. A detail that you prob didnt know, and be safe that this is not spoiling anything. During the 5th Astral era, there were originaly 12 city states on Aldenard, but the War of Magi lay to ruin all of them, leaving eventualy only Amdapoar, Nym and Mhach.
The War of the Magi included the destruction of Nym and Mhach too.
@@Vulgarth1 Ohh of course, I just tried to said that there were more citys than just 3, but all of them got destroyed during the war, leaving only the cities we know as the last ones still standing on the war, because of how powerfull they were, before the flood came and destroyed them all.
@@fredy2041 Are the names of the other city states known?
@@Vulgarth1 technically Mach and Amdapor were destroyed by the Calamity. Realizing that the aetherial balance was amiss, and too weakened to continue fighting anyway, they finally ended the war in a ceasefire, but by that point it was far too late. The Mhachi built the Void Ark to escape, which went... badly, to put it nicely, while the Amdapori (and those of the Mhachi who didn't get on the Ark) fled uphills. There is a boat in the Ala Mhigo part of Abalathia's Spine on top of the mountains that was built by Amdapori refugees and became a big part in Ala Mhigan lore for being THE vessel their ancestors arrived there, guided by their god Rhalgr the Destroyer.
@@seffay6875 I can look it up if you give me a couple hours. They might be mentioned in the lorebooks but I just finished lunch break at work and cannot look. But it is said that Amdapor especially kinda became a protector to surrounding nations, making them prosper not having to fear Mhach's expansionist tendencies. They basically conquered all the nations on their side of Aldenard until they came to Amdapor protected land, who had developed White Magic in advance as a protective measure, at which point Mhachi advance came to a halt. The situation continued to spiral out of control for the next decades or centuries until open war broke out.
That's what I remember off the top of my head.
This is such an amazing video!!! I own all the books and I love lore very deeply and this really sums things up so beautifully and presents it in an easy to digest manner - it’s so clear that you’re a teacher at heart!! I absolutely had to share this with my FC.
The amount of detail in this video is insane. Great job, would definitely like to see more lore videos please!
As a veteran player who is helping a friend get through the content while explaining it at break-neck speed, this helps out GREATLY. Looking forward to the rest in the series.
Been playing for 4 years and I couldn't figure out the difference between Eorzea and Aldenard.
Great video and it'll be a great series.
Keep up the great work Cox!
Great vid, Jesse. I appreciate all the work you put into this. Looking forward to the next part!
You are the best at explaining things in the simplest terms. Please give us MORE!
You're doing the Mother Crystal's work.
8:12 i love this part the L's in that font are so neat
jokes aside, can't wait for the other two parts! totally here for history/lore teacher Jesse!
YESSSSSS more deep diving, please never stop making these and go more and more in depth ❤️
Amazing work, I love it. Previously my ffxiv lore is just a group of floating abstract thoughts, but due to your video everything clicks for me. Definitely looking forward to more videos like this!
I've been playing since 11. You've truly done it justice, my friend. This is a much needed refresher that even the veterans can enjoy.
It feels like I'm watching classic Jesse the game nerd videos again with this series. I hope you make it as extensive and entertaining as possible because it's always great to watch a video where it's easy to tell how invested you are in the content.
Please do more of these~ This is truly amazing stuff
Wow! This video was SO informative and delightfully animated! Thank you so much! Really appreciating the elements of your experience as a history teacher being used here!
This is WILDLY useful! I've been playing for seven years and always watch the cutscenes, etc., but some of the proper nouns have always been so nebulous until now. I also imagine that a lot of this info was part of the old raids that folks don't necessarily have to dive into, so this is really great for catching up on that lore! I'm so excited to see more of these!
Yeah, and class/job quests. Lore on the War of the Magi can be found in the White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage, and Scholar quests, and the Shadow of Mach Alliance Raids (Heavensward 24 man's). Lore on Allag is from the Summoner quests, the Crystal Tower Alliance Raids (which are actually now mandatory to progress through MSQ), and various moments throughout the story in Heavenward and beyond. The New World is mentioned often in the Blue Mage quests, and Meracydia has been teased throughout the game very lightly, though most prominently in moments related to Bahamut and in the last few patches of Shadowbringers. ^_^
Even as an avid lore nerd, this video helped me clear out a lot of misunderstandings i had!!! Please please PLEASEEEEE MAKE MORE!!
Awesome vid. This really helped fill in some lore chunks I was either unaware of or had just forgotten.
I've played this forever and I LOVE how you ended it. Well done thank you!
I appreciate how well you know what can be revealed ahead of time (what some people might consider spoilers) without actually ruining anything.
Thanks for the summary, I even learned a couple details I hadn't realized, and I've been here for years! I'm ready for the next class Mr. Cox.
I started FF14 a couple months ago and I'm about 50-60 hours into it, so this was extremely helpful. Loving it so far. Can't wait for more lore videos!
This. Love it so much! Been playing a really long time and have *skipped* enough to get confused by things. This was a fantastic way to give an explanation to the timelines.
Awesome video, congrats! Looking foward to the next one.
Thank you for using real-world comparisons. Only the way a history buff could do ;) Found it actually quite helpful.
>found it
maybe ive been playing too much ffxiv but I immediately read that as "confound it"
I'm super new to the game, just having gone through ARR, and this helped immensely, and was just fun to watch! More please! :)
I've been watching your channel for years and its wonderful that you are here to help me as I just start this MMO thanks for the help. I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE SPACE BUTTERFLY!
This is so well done. Need part 2 and 3 in my life!
This is great, Jesse! Comprehensive FFXIV lore/history videos like this aren't very common, so I'm glad you're doing this. I'm looking forward to more!
Jesse my dude, this was awesome and I can't wait for the next one
Ditto.
Been playing since 1.0 Alpha and I am deep into lore and I appreciate this primer as a guide to new folks in the community. Glad you’re part of our community!
ffxiv lore is like the only history i will actually be willing to sit through a 3 hour seminar or lecture on
PLEASE MAKE MORE
Fantastically done Jesse! I've been playing this game for a few years, and even I was vague on some aspects of the early history. This video made a lot of things click, and I appreciate it. Can't wait to see your 1.0 video.
This is absolutely fabulous.
I've been playing for 8 years, and even then I find it hard to remember everything about the worlds lore.
I'm also loving the recent focus on scripted content. Please keep these up!
Same! I was in the closed beta for 2.0 and a lot of this lore was kind of vague for me until now; especially the timeline.
I've been playing for a week or so, and this is SO SO HELPFUL. Thank you!
amazing video great research, can't wait for the next ones! I have been playing this game for more than 5 years and you just teached me so much in 30min haha
This video is well worth the wait! I am loving this so far, Well done Jesse :D
Jesse can we have a current events lecture for msq. maybe subsection for every 10 levels? I would love a refresher course of everything that we as the player have experienced in game.
you are able to go into the hotel rooms and see the story so far, rewatch cutscenes and read summaries of every MSQ, job quest etc. 😊
@@Chocolate83Bunny oh I know about the book. My thinking is if this supposed to be a history class then a current events topic would be cool. Its a common social studies assignment in school where you share and discuss current events. I'm thinking more like an overview with a discussion of importance (ie, a what have we learned so far and why does it matter) rather then actual one by one go through of the entire story.
I think it would be interesting especially for players that story skipped or have been playing for a long time. Like for instance i've been playing since ARR phase 3 beta. That's a lot of information fed to players like me that we consumed slowly over 8 years.
Anyways just a suggestion.
This is informative. Well done! I am looking forward to more lore videos in the future :)
this is an incredible video. im so happy you joined FFXIV and stayed around and enjoy it.
as a new player who started getting confused about lore and dropped the game for a bit, seeing this video made me pick it back up again! ty jesse
this was really good, as a long time player this explained some of the parts of lore i was confused about for the longest time.
This video was great! I haven’t gotten through a lot of the raid content, so I enjoyed having this awesome history/geography lesson! I can’t wait to see more!
definitely gonna see the rest of this series!! great job!
Watched this as was downloading the game, it has me hyped as I loveee being absorbed into a world that is immersive. Great stuff, good format and easy to digest.
I've been playing FF14 since 2.0 started and some of this lore about the Calamities feels new to me. I'm sure a lot of it is buried in the game somewhere and I might have even read it at some point and just forgotten. Great video. Hopefully the next will have a few other facts that I didn't realize existed.
Old Alliance Raids and job quests. Especially surrounding Allag and the War of the Magi. Scholar, White Mage, Red Mage, Black Mage, and Summoner tie in to a lot of that.
Absolutely amazing video. Well edited and a delight to watch through.
Great job my guy and always good to hear from you!
Two critics I would make about the video is that it feels like while supposedly aiming at beginners, it does so through the scope of a veteran. It hits to wide to actually be for beginners, and not deep enough to be an actually reminder of how the world of FFXIV is.
Also the only other remark I would have to do to not use in-game cutscenes or some lore tidbits, I feel like some use of those were REALLY BIG spoilers for someone already midway in the know.
Addendum: 15:06 Going to require a citation for that one. Oldest reference to dragons I know of is the 3rd Astral Era, so should be in-between those 2, unless I'm mistaken.
Addendum 2: 23:52 There's multiple other hypothesis as what actually cause the flood. 1.0 also points out to the machinations of the Elementals as being the direct cause for the actual flood.
Damn, even as a player of 8 years this was amazing, still learning new things. You're a good teacher, Jesse!
More please. I fully plan on getting into this game at some point and I couldn’t think of anyone better to guide us through than the Big JC.
Bro this video is great! The story that pre-dates the game has always been hard to grasp but youre over here putting it into an easy to watch video! Thanks!
Here we go! Been so excited for this! 😍
This is awesome, good shit Jesse.
Incredibly well done thank you Jesse! I've completed msq over the course of the last few months and this was great clarification.
Actually the best video I’ve ever seen on the history of Hydaelyn! Thank you so much for this video 💕Sharing this to all my friends who want to know the history!
You got my like for the changes to ‘Garlemand’ & ‘Gridaynia’ 😂👍🏼 But for real though, I learned stuff I knew little about so thank you for this in-depth history lesson. 🙏🏼
This is probably the best lore vid I've seen out there so far as far as what I was able to fully understand and commit to memory. Great job Jesse.
This was amazing! I will watch anything you create because of how well this was put together. Thank you!
this is so great bc I didnt understand/couldnt follow most of the explanations when i first played and I even completely missed some connections of these places to the calamities, thank you so much for making this! really looking forward to more!
I had goosebumps the entire way through this video, man I can't wait for endwalker!
Love this style of content!! But, if I'm honest, I think I love all of your videos :) hope you have a great week, Jesse!
Really great video - with so much lore in the game, things easily slip through the cracks, and you give a hell of a lecture. Please do the Astral/Umbral deep dive!! Looking forward to the next video.
Please more of these videos! Thank you for this amazing re-cap!
This was SO helpful for a sprout like me. I’ve been dying to learn more about the lore but it’s so hard trying to keep myself spoiler free!
As someone who's played for years and years but I still love watching these because our world of Eorzea and beyond is the most incredible place of history and lore ever imo (even against LOTR ect ..)
I'd love to see a 2nd part to this - I've been playing about a month and just trying to catch up. I thought your breakdown was concise and really helped me understand what was going on. +1 to a part 2!
These videos and the History's mysteries are more than enough reason to know I'd watch full lectures of history from you Jesse, been watching for over years now and will continue to love your lore content.
Ahh I just started playing last month!
This is excellent, going in blind was interesting and fun but having more context puts the whole kinda thing in a better scope.
Thanks Jesse :)
I really hope you continue this series past the planned videos, one thing the FFXIV community has sorely lacked is a high quality lore series, a deep dive on things like Astral and Umbral, the lifestream etc would be incredible.
Sure there's Anonymoose, absolute lore god that he is, but he tends to stick to the forums and occasional guest appearances on Aetheryte Radio's sporadic Lore Train episodes rather than creating content.
Oh, and something I learned yesterday that may be useful if you're going to talk about the Ascians and the Void at some point: in one of the Guildhests (the one with the blue fire), there's a throwaway line that clarifies a LOT about the nature of the void and why Iggy's failure was SO catastrophic: "the blue flames are left behind by slain voidsent bodies and souls. For some reason, the lifestream rejects Voidsent."
Great work Jesse! I think this was a lot of fun!
I am HYPE for your next few episodes! Been playing for 2 years, and I didn't know half of what you have mentioned until now! TY for the insight :D