It's the best when music is both great and catchy, I feel like I'll never have enough of listening to it .. Truly, what an amazing song . Listening to your singing is like looking at colours I've never seen before ! I'm hoping the FFXIV team will seek you out in the future for more songs !
Well my guess is we got judged for some reason. Likely not because they wanted to but because one of the others (to keep with the lore syncronicity my guess is Azem) twisted their arm to because he is "The Judge" and thus is the best qualified.
Why? Because they know us. They know us very well. They know we love the challenge, we love the mystery, opportunity to uncover long hidden secrets and challenge ourselves against actual gods? It's the best gift they could give us for saving the world.
@@elijahgrimm8052 They're either using us to train for/decide a conflict among themselves, or they're going to invite us to become the thirteenth god of Eorzea. Which of course we will decline because "adventure, tho." We heard there was an erupting volcano nearby so gotta go, bye.
@@NebulonRanger Am musician too; I play electric guitar, drums, and I'm currently practicing piano. I never said that wasn't always the case. I just thought it was silly how easily impressed people were by a sound going along with the beat. I'll stop being a butthole about it.
thats what happens when final fantasy sound team suddenly decides to go Arabian Nights on us i guess .... but seriously now i was already blowed off the water by 6.0 soundtrack and now they do this for what is essentialy 1/3 of a side quest ....as for this moment i put absolutly no expectaions on any soundtrack on the way to 6.9 ...the bar has already been blow up into the orbit anyway
@@lunausagi8495 Im not looking for em, i merely describe how i feel about em i wouldn't call it Soken one upping himself, if i didn't feel that he did first.
Reminder that Koji Fox, the lead localization member that has been on the team since 1.0 and helped write a great deal of lore for the game, basically convinced the person coming up with lore for the game and its gods to make it so that Nald was actually two brothers, just so he could tact on 'thal to the name so he could have something that rhythmed with balls to make a funny sounding swear that he could use for the english localization.
And the majority of the ARR dialogue submitted to Sony to get the game approved for PS3 was just "Thal's balls" Dozens upon dozen's of text bubbles of nothing but "Thal's balls"
bless that player from the other alliance in the scales phase who realized that they were about to kill everyone with the double stack-marker and sacrificed themselves by running away, godspeed
After everything the WoL has gone through from the beginning of FFXIV to the end of Endwlaker, the notion that the Twelve have existed all along is pretty surprising.
It does bring up the question of just what else is out there. Since Venat was so focused on preparing for the incoming disaster behind Meteion and dealing with Zodiark. With the Twelve being real and existing does that mean other god like beings could exist on the other reflections. And even in Eorzea since we haven’t exactly discovered the entirety of it. Not to mention, it seems like they’re setting the next story as us going on a new adventure into another reflection. And we’ve got that new baddie to ponder about. So many new ideas and ways to go. It’s exciting. I can’t wait to see what’s to come.
As far as we know, the 12 are only the Eorzean gods. The new world / Meracidia might even worship completely different maybe-existing gods. Similar to the Kami even
@@guiliguilde I wanted to main a healer for msq, but I feel like they need an short and easy rotation for aoe and single target. We have enough healing spells, they can just increase healing potencies as traits for upcoming expansions.
The coins rubbing to the beat, "city of desert sands" and the mention of rubies and riches and the fact it's about Nald'Thal makes me feel like this should be the Ul'dah anthem.
I love the idea of this being a traditional song everyone in Ul'dah knows and sings along. I'm excited for us to get equivalents for Limsa and Gridania's deities.
@@hastur6446 We actually have the lyrics to part of a hymn to Nophica (Gridania's goddess) already "Sun's sweet smile and wind's cool breath, Both of these I send thee, To ripe thy fruit and spread thy seed, And nourish those that tend thee."
Basically the EW first part alliance raids were all about Ul'dah and Ala Mhigo deity Gods. Byregot, Rhalgr, Azeyma and Nald'Thal. I think the next one hopefully will be Gridania and Ishgard and the last one probably Limsa and Sharlayan closing with Oschon the 12th gods if they do it with clockwise it will ended up Oschon as the last boss fights. Can't wait!
Listening to this on it's own I'm observing that the song is written in two different time signatures. I would guess that Nald is represented by the 3/4 signature, which is commonly used in a waltz which someone could interpret as a dance of life, while Thal is represented by the 4/4 signature, more of a march of death.
3/4 is a waltz time signature whereas 4/4 is just a standard time signature. Unless funeral dirges are typically in 4/4 (and I don't believe they are) I'd like to hear more to back up this assertion
I mean, most music is in 4/4, it’s the most standard. As far as deciding if one section is life or death, the best I could find just listening to it is the line “may we find fortune after life” in the 4/4 section. If I could find a lyrics video that was accurate there’s probably other lines alluding to life or death but I just can’t catch the lines very well with everything else going on in the song
9:45 THIS was too perfect, not only did those healers revive everyone, but it's in perfect time to the lyrics "May embers cast and red-gold spark rise to new heights."
I managed to get into the raid at the end of day 1 on patch release. There was 1 person trying to call out mechanics and everyone immediately downed out his comments with spam of, na bro we wiping and listening to music today. You can call out mechanics next week. After wiping only 1 time on Nald'thal he left the raid. Much rejoicing and headbanging commenced. 3 pulls later we cleared.
@@jonathanborba9280 it's sad to see that the game has so much to offer but some ppl still look only on the bad side and get salty over having fun on this Awesome Moment
First time running this, we wiped twice on the scales. Someone got salty and others piped in that we got the extended cut of this song. I just like learning mechanics blind so I was enjoying it all.
@@keithfilibeck2390 my favorite FFXIV moment was when I was playing as a red mage and everyone died and in the few second I had before the boss auto'd me down was verraising a healer who then LB3 everyone back to life
@@themoistlad i had reverse situation this morning. Most pt wiped but healer and like 2 dps and theres incoming tower mech Healer use lb3, then die to fail tower mech while rezzed rdm and tank got immunity Immediately after that is multiple raidwide in quick succession Pld use passage of arm, while rdm vercure itself to rez, swiftcast rez, vercure rez, vercure rez Was panicked when hp drop to like 10% before suddenly filled again because rezzed healer do some miracle with ogcd healing Really feel epic
@@themoistlad That’s always a super good feeling! I was playing Summoner and raised a Healer on another Alliance team. They used their lb 3 and we ended up defeating the Cloud of Darkness. FFXIV is such a fun game!!!
@@themoistlad Oh no, that's nothing compared to when I was in a stream group that somehow almost lost to Shinryu normal. We had two RDMs including my sorry ass that got hit in the face with a mechanic because I got confused, but the other RDM was the biggest chad ever and popped Lucid to shit out 5 raises in a row, bringing every dead party member back in the space of less than a minute.
@@OniZell69 if they follow the order, menphina and oschon will be the final bosses. nophica would be the first boss of the second raid, and llymlaen the second last of the last raid.
@@shiroalter8975 ngl I'm rooting for that. Can you imagine fighting Halone herself with "GUIDE US O MIGHTY FURY, GUIDE US TO VICTORY" blasting in the background?
i mean technically it is already. it has both motifs from the 1.0 and 2.0 Ul'dah themes. In The Balance has bars of music that are sped up from both Ul'dah themes
@@futuristicentity2417 Well, they use a lot of mythology of different places, Dullahan and other monsters for example as adds and boss from European mythology. Eden last boss seems based on some statue, Artemis of Epheus, any many other examples. But they put it in very creatively and fitting all the time in their own image.
For the first time in ffxiv small history im more interested on 24 man raid than 8 man, everything is perfect the looks the fights and the awesome music
honestly have to agree haha. I've started to lose interest in the game because I just haven't been enjoying raiding this tier, but then the alliance raid came out and the new extreme trial and reminded me why I love this game so much and why I am willing to to savage raids in the first place, because the bosses and music they make usually has me wanting to get past them unlike p3s where I really just don't care about the tier. I am excited to see the trial series next patch again thanks to this alliance raid!
@Ahmad Ryan That's fair. Stormblood had Ivalice, which if you didn't play the source material I found it very zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. NieR was a mess that I don't want to think about, so technically our last in-world story Alliance Raid was Heavensward >_>
@@colnelScar2 Did you forget? Nald is Keeper of the Living and during the mechanic is in the position of Thal's Balls. Which means all those dropping balls? Nald is respawning them.
One detail I really love about Aglaia is sheer scale of the battles--and how they make perfect sense. I guess it's me being a nitpicky writer, but a lot of JRPGs have you fighting literal gods--sometimes as the final/true antagonists. Which is fine and all, but in pretty much every instance, these villainous gods are made out to be incredibly powerful beings...that you as the protag destroy either by yourself or with a very small party. For me it sorta defeats the idea of "nigh-omnipotent bad guys." So I definitely appreciate how The Twelve are handled in FFXIV. Having 24 players all fighting a _single_ god, and all the battles with these gods being long and arduous? Yeah, that definitely makes more sense to me. FFXIV's gods must be pretty goddamn powerful, lmao--pun totally intended.
The thing about the Twelve fights is that by the end, they don't even seem villainous, just that they're testing you. At least as far as we know in the story. Honestly would be a breath of fresh air if there was nothing sinister behind this raid series and they're just guardian dieties of Eorzea who want to test it's protector, the WoL.
To make what you are saying even better, these are not actually real battles, at least not from their perspective. They were just lifting their hands and feeling how hard the WoL and his friends can punch, and their answer was "not bad."
@@HCSR2 Yeah, it totally plays into this that, in the end, you're not actually beating them. They're still alive and well and just choose to yield after you've proven yourself.
@@HCSR2 In a sense, it reminds me of the optional bosses in Octopath Traveler. You have the four gods who test your worthiness to use the advanced jobs (Runelord, Sorcerer, Starseer, Warmaster), and they're all pretty tough...but then you have the true final boss of the game, Galdera, who's one of the 13 gods in the game--and you fight him to the death. He's still one of the _hardest_ bosses I've ever fought in an RPG in a long-ass time, haha. Maybe some other people here can attest to that; the difficulty spike is absolutely unreal. So if the Twelve are just testing you with battles that are crazy-long even with 24 players, what would a fallen god whom you have to fight to the death be like? I can see that being an Ultimate raid at the very least, but also the true/ultimate final boss of FXIV as a whole.
Oh twin gods bless this land To us treasure bestow City of desert sands Water and gold below Life’s blood are rubies red Precious coins cast their glow Your hands our fortunes mend That want we may not know And when we reach our ends To scales we gladly go Our fates are yours to bend To hells and heavens both Under arid sky With silk veils we weave rainbow Voices lifted high Dreams upon our backs we’ll carry When day beckons night As does restless time then slow Trusting hand in hand Life, death, will follow Stoke the Nascent flame Brighter burn Dance with souls afire May ember catch a red gold spark Rise to new heights May we want all that coin can buy Never see one’s river run dry May we find fortune after life For this We pray (x4) Twinfold Oh twin gods bless this land To us treasure bestow City of desert sands Water and gold below Life’s blood are rubies red Precious coins cast their glow Your hands our fortunes mend That want we may not know And when we reach our ends To scales we gladly go Our fates are yours to bend To hells and heavens both Under arid sky With silk veils we weave rainbow Voices lifted high Dreams upon our backs we’ll carry When day beckons night As does restless time then slow Trusting hand in hand Life, death, will follow Stoke the Kindled flame Hotter burn Sing till breath expires May those who wander lands in the dark Find firelight May we all as true equals die Never fear unjust favors bite May we be judged by what is right For this we pray (x4) Twinfold This is another version of the lyrics I found from a commenter on another video. I edited some bits and referenced Reddit as well.
A few things I hear differently: Life's blood -> Lifeblood What for we may not know -> That world we may not know (really not sure on this one) To hells and heavens both -> To hells and heavens flow May we want all that gold can buy -> May we want all that coin can buy (Still doesn't sound entirely accurate but it's closer) May we all as true equals fight -> May we all as true equals die I think the community's gotten really close to fully deciphering the lyrics this time, but I'm betting once the official lyrics release there'll be another "Wild shrieks" moment with some parts that everyone just got completely wrong.
@@masdrionalt I meant coin idk why I put gold lol. I edited two parts but for the others I think they could go either way. I’m like a 100% sure certain parts are right but I know some will turn out to be completely wrong when the lyrics drop. I still don’t hear “on our hearts engraved” at all in Close in the Distance :P
The trailer that played a portion of the song got me so interested and Thal's Fiery Balls it's worth the wait, been playing this song every chance I get.
@@loganreed23 yeah its abit unfair that soken just gets all the credit, like he's the only composer for a game that has over 500 songs. One of my favourite tracks in the game isn't even made by him yet people constantly praise soken still for it.
Honestly this is simultaneously great and dissapointing. It just feels like it could've used some more thought. The lyrics were written with very little thought of the rhythm, resulting in many words being unable to be sung. Also, I just feel like this would've made so much more sense as a duet.
Let me see if I got this right: *not only* is _FF14_ a better _FF_ classic series crossover than _Kingdom Hearts,_ it even has *better Disney songs?* Amazing.
Here's hoping since we've had the prayer of the Ul'dahn's that we'll hear the prayer of Gridania with Nophica and with Llymlaen and Limsa Lominsa. A lively working song for Limsa would be great!
I was already super hype about this song and now I’m just, I can’t seem to Understand why you’d be wrong, and now If we don’t get these I may go insane
@@GypcerosLikesBagelsI know this comment was a year ago, but can you please explain? I want to get into the crafting classes. What’s the deal with spiritbonded gear?
@@WolfDreamer101 When a piece of gear becomes fully spirit bonded, you can extract a piece of material from it. So it's free materia. And when it comes to expensive crafting materia, not noticing your gear is fully bonded sucks lol It's not related to crafting explicitly :)
Nald: I am Nald, the keeper of the realm of the living! me over discord vc: wait, where's thal camera: *flips* me and everyone over the discord chat: YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Let me say, this right here this sooooo good! I haven’t stopped listing to it all day! I walked 7 miles today listening to this and singing! Soken you mad lad! Genius!
I think they're only going to give that treatment to the gods representing the three city states. this is Uldah's patron, the next would be nophica for gridania or the one with the gaelic name (I forget) representing limsa.
@@harukodemon Not sure. They could be doing that. But the order of the bosses we had now was in the same order they are represented on both the wheel at Sanctum of the Twelve and the Aetheryte Gazebo in Omphalos. Which could mean that Menphina will be the final boss for the second raid, and Oschon the third. Another point is that the order may have just been coincidental the first time around as Nald'thal are the fourth guardians on those two structures, soo maybe? :D
The absolute legends managing to incorporate two concepts of elements at the same time: the destructive crackling bolts of Rhalgr and the conductive and productive fulmination of Byregot, the dancing impossibly bright sun of Azeyama and the all encompassing inferno of blue flames wielded by Nald'thal Paying off the Astrologian symbols, by having a scale in the fight operated by Nald'thal in the Heaven of Fire Naming attacks after the things referenced in game, giving a sort of back and forth idea even in the fights themselves. Really curious to know more about the Seven Hells now though.
My favorite thing about this song is that sounds like a normal game track, but also like the sort of song you'd hear actual people in-game singing at like a festival of Nald'Thal or something. Like if you were to take away the music and just. *Say* the lyrics, it's a prayer. And that's really beautiful.
One of my characters is a singer from Ul'dah and I've always had the mental image of her singing this at a concert she puts on post-EW at the place where the Little Ladies Day stage was this year.
@@lavenderrain3379 :O Me too! Well, not the singing bit, but one of my characters is a priest of the Twelve that was born in Thanalan, and whenever I hear this song, I get images of him presiding over a festival to Nald'Thal or something.
I'm glad i gave ARR another shot a few years ago. It sure has come a long way. From a game i could barely stand to play for more than an hour to one of my favourite games or just experiences ever made. It's sounds stupid, but this game has got me through some tough times.
Full lyrics have been posted on the Lodestone, here they are: O twin gods bless this land, to us treasure bestow City of desert sands, water and gold below Lifeblood and rubies red, precious coins cast aglow Four hands our fortunes mend, that want we may not know And when we reach our ends, to scales we gladly go Our fates are yours to bend, to hells and heavens flow Under arid sky, with silk veils we weave a rainbow Voices lifted high, dreams upon our backs we carry When day beckons night (day and night dancing), As does restless time we never slow Trusting hand in hand, life death will follow Stoke now nascent flame, brighter burn, dance with souls afire May ember catch and red-gold spark rise to new heights May we want for naught coin can buy Never see wealth's river run dry May we find fortune after life For this we pray, we pray, we pray, we pray twinfold Stoke now kindled flame, hotter burn, sing till breath expires May those who wander paths in the dark find firelight May we all as true equals die Never fear unjust favor's bite May we be judged by what is right For this we pray, we pray, we pray, we pray twinfold
I’m only in post ARR stuff so it’ll be a while before I can play this fight, but I picked Nald’Thal as my WoL’s patron by chance/head canon that my character was a former merchant and I’m happy to see my choice is super cool and has a banger attached
It took my first group half an hour to get the scales mechanic right. I would have lost my mind at that point but this music is just so good I couldn't walk away lol.
Oh! There's me at the bottom of the party :D Ended up running that raid for several hours to get the Orch roll but it was very fun. Can't wait for the rest!
Not even close to the music I listen to in the car, but so perfectly created that I can’t help but love it. Soken and his team of people are truly amazing creators and it is so obvious that they love what they do that it comes out in every note.
the first time i did this and the Nald says "I find you worthy!" sent fucking chills down my spine. thats the most praise ive ever gotten from aanyone ever
I heard this music start and almost gasped. I had no idea I was in for the best music in an alliance raid yet. Squenix just keeps outshining themselves.
Here we go! Not the offical lyrics, but reddit did a good job: O twin gods, bless this land To us, treasure bestow City of desert sands Water and gold below Life's blood and rubies red Precious coins cast in gold Your hands our fortunes mend Wherefore, we may not know And when we reach our ends To scales we gladly go Our fates are yours to bend To hells and heavens flow Under arid sky With silk veils we weave a rainbow Voices lifted high Our dreams upon our backs we carry When day beckons night As does restless time next flow Drifting hand in hand Life death will follow Stoke the Nascent flame Brighter burn Dance with souls afire May ember catch a red-gold spark Rise to new heights May we want all that coin can buy Never see one's river run dry May we find fortune after life For this we pray, we pray, we pray We pray twinfold O twin gods, bless this land To us, treasure bestow City of desert sands Water and gold below Life's blood and rubies red Precious coins cast in gold Your hands our fortunes mend Wherefore, we may not know And when we reach our ends To scales we gladly go Our fates are yours to bend To hells and heavens flow Under arid sky With silk veils we weave a rainbow Voices lifted high Our dreams upon our backs we carry When day beckons night As does restless time next flow Drifting hand in hand Life death will follow Stoke the Kindled flame Hotter burn Sing 'til breath expires May those who wander as in the dark Find firelight May we all as true equals start Never fear unjust favor's spite May we be judged by what is right For this we pray, we pray, we pray We pray twinfold
I do plan to add subtitles to this video once an official source for the lyrics is available. We can't have "freaks" and "shrieks" getting mixed up again, now can we? :)
@@riadirige7804 The official lyrics for Hic Svnt Leones (legally-distinct Dracula's theme) are "wild shrieks" despite there very clearly being an f sound.
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I’m so glad you all like the song! Thank you so much! ❤️
I really hope you realize just how big an impact this song is making throughout the player base all over the world. It is fantastic! Thank YOU
This is the best song. ❤️
Thank YOU :)
I loved it ! Amazing and unique voice!
It's the best when music is both great and catchy, I feel like I'll never have enough of listening to it .. Truly, what an amazing song . Listening to your singing is like looking at colours I've never seen before ! I'm hoping the FFXIV team will seek you out in the future for more songs !
> manifests into existence
> challenges the warrior of light
> refuses to elaborate
> leaves
Well my guess is we got judged for some reason. Likely not because they wanted to but because one of the others (to keep with the lore syncronicity my guess is Azem) twisted their arm to because he is "The Judge" and thus is the best qualified.
@@lyqueruss2715 Azeyma is the goddess of the sun that's the third fight.
Did you mean Nald'thal?
Or was it a typo of Althyk, the surveyor of change?
He just wanted to see whether the WoL could do mass calculations
We need a Byregot Gigachad meme, he's got the physique for it.
"Gods", am I right? 😅
9:42 That triple Healer LB3 was sick
and it was 3 different healer LB3s too
Wow, I didn’t know it was possible to use 3 at the same time 0_o I thought only one Alliance gets to do the LB?
@@Tioko Nah, every group in a alliance raid has its own Limitbreak, but the limit break works only for your group, like the healer LB3 in this case
@@kohlicoide2258 Oooh, that makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.
As a Healer main I can almost hear each of these healers shouting some variant of "This is why you don't stand in the bad mf'ers!" lol.
Gods: we challenge you warrior of light
Wol: why?
Gods: we'll tell you later
Wol: *visibly confused *
We have to *earn* the answers we seek.
Why? Because they know us. They know us very well. They know we love the challenge, we love the mystery, opportunity to uncover long hidden secrets and challenge ourselves against actual gods? It's the best gift they could give us for saving the world.
@@elijahgrimm8052 They're either using us to train for/decide a conflict among themselves, or they're going to invite us to become the thirteenth god of Eorzea. Which of course we will decline because "adventure, tho." We heard there was an erupting volcano nearby so gotta go, bye.
Actually they did say they couldn't tell us, that we had to figure it out ourselves. More of their laws no doubt.
@@elijahgrimm8052 I just want the loot
The coins clinking with the beat is such an awesome touch.
So is the We Fall motif being used for the end of the main song. It's even the same notes, just used in a different key!
Yeah that's kinda how music arrangements work.
@@jogo7947 Am musician, not always true actually. You can bend a motif quite a bit before it becomes unrecognisable.
@@NebulonRanger that clap back tho 😂😂👌🏻
@@NebulonRanger Am musician too; I play electric guitar, drums, and I'm currently practicing piano.
I never said that wasn't always the case. I just thought it was silly how easily impressed people were by a sound going along with the beat.
I'll stop being a butthole about it.
I have no idea how this game's sound team is able to keep one-upping themselves like this every patch but by God they just keep doing it
thats what happens when final fantasy sound team suddenly decides to go Arabian Nights on us i guess .... but seriously now i was already blowed off the water by 6.0 soundtrack and now they do this for what is essentialy 1/3 of a side quest ....as for this moment i put absolutly no expectaions on any soundtrack on the way to 6.9 ...the bar has already been blow up into the orbit anyway
Soken: **listens to his own music** Challenge accepted!
Passion creates the most wonderful of pieces in the right circumstances.
Stop looking for one ups and enjoy all music as they are. Otherwise you are setting yourself up for an eventual disappointment
@@lunausagi8495 Im not looking for em, i merely describe how i feel about em i wouldn't call it Soken one upping himself, if i didn't feel that he did first.
The flip into "I am Thal, keeper of the realm of the dead" was so visually stunning.
i am farming it just for that
I just ran it for the first time, and absolutely loved their presentation.
Puts "Thal's balls" in another interesting perspective. xD
I still prefer the animation where they split for the scale attack
cinematic and amazing, so is the part where they split apart as they judge us
Reminder that Koji Fox, the lead localization member that has been on the team since 1.0 and helped write a great deal of lore for the game, basically convinced the person coming up with lore for the game and its gods to make it so that Nald was actually two brothers, just so he could tact on 'thal to the name so he could have something that rhythmed with balls to make a funny sounding swear that he could use for the english localization.
And we have this great song because of it god bless koji
And then the joke came to full fruition this patch, when we finally get hit by Thal's balls
@@jacobkern2060 Wait..... technically with this model.....Isn't Nald......Thal's balls.....
@@Xehnas when he drops the meteor mechanic he’s Thal which I admittedly smirked at like “heh Thal’s balls”
And the majority of the ARR dialogue submitted to Sony to get the game approved for PS3 was just "Thal's balls"
Dozens upon dozen's of text bubbles of nothing but "Thal's balls"
bless that player from the other alliance in the scales phase who realized that they were about to kill everyone with the double stack-marker and sacrificed themselves by running away, godspeed
After everything the WoL has gone through from the beginning of FFXIV to the end of Endwlaker, the notion that the Twelve have existed all along is pretty surprising.
It does bring up the question of just what else is out there. Since Venat was so focused on preparing for the incoming disaster behind Meteion and dealing with Zodiark.
With the Twelve being real and existing does that mean other god like beings could exist on the other reflections. And even in Eorzea since we haven’t exactly discovered the entirety of it.
Not to mention, it seems like they’re setting the next story as us going on a new adventure into another reflection. And we’ve got that new baddie to ponder about.
So many new ideas and ways to go. It’s exciting. I can’t wait to see what’s to come.
The Twelve remind me of The Eternals, just watching an shite while the world comes to an end! Lol
@@TacoLex I mean, I wouldn’t be against the idea that the Kami actually listened to our turtle boy and gave us the ability to breathe underwater
It makes them assholes though. They could have stepped in yet refused and now are trying to snuff out the WoL.
As far as we know, the 12 are only the Eorzean gods. The new world / Meracidia might even worship completely different maybe-existing gods. Similar to the Kami even
This song just screams what it means to have a fun fight in this game without anything being at extreme risk.
Zenos was right after all
As a healer main, seeing a triple healer LB3 (with three different healers) brings so much joy to my heart. Makes the song even more amazing.
As a healer main it brings me agony 30 secs total downtime 😫😫
How do you deal with solo content?
@@lushdontu4015 I was an AST through all of EW MSQ. No issues with solo content at all.
@@lushdontu4015 It's a bit slower, but perfectly doable
@@guiliguilde I wanted to main a healer for msq, but I feel like they need an short and easy rotation for aoe and single target. We have enough healing spells, they can just increase healing potencies as traits for upcoming expansions.
The coins rubbing to the beat, "city of desert sands" and the mention of rubies and riches and the fact it's about Nald'Thal makes me feel like this should be the Ul'dah anthem.
I love the idea of this being a traditional song everyone in Ul'dah knows and sings along. I'm excited for us to get equivalents for Limsa and Gridania's deities.
You should give the 1.0 Ul’dah theme a listen then! It’s kinda vague, but you can hear some inspiration from it for In The Balance
@@melozules wow, it really does kinda take from the 1.0 theme!
@@hastur6446 We actually have the lyrics to part of a hymn to Nophica (Gridania's goddess) already
"Sun's sweet smile and wind's cool breath,
Both of these I send thee,
To ripe thy fruit and spread thy seed,
And nourish those that tend thee."
Basically the EW first part alliance raids were all about Ul'dah and Ala Mhigo deity Gods. Byregot, Rhalgr, Azeyma and Nald'Thal. I think the next one hopefully will be Gridania and Ishgard and the last one probably Limsa and Sharlayan closing with Oschon the 12th gods if they do it with clockwise it will ended up Oschon as the last boss fights. Can't wait!
Listening to this on it's own I'm observing that the song is written in two different time signatures. I would guess that Nald is represented by the 3/4 signature, which is commonly used in a waltz which someone could interpret as a dance of life, while Thal is represented by the 4/4 signature, more of a march of death.
good ear! that change in time signature is so seamless. thank you for pointing it out!
no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds good!
3/4 is a waltz time signature whereas 4/4 is just a standard time signature. Unless funeral dirges are typically in 4/4 (and I don't believe they are) I'd like to hear more to back up this assertion
I mean, most music is in 4/4, it’s the most standard. As far as deciding if one section is life or death, the best I could find just listening to it is the line “may we find fortune after life” in the 4/4 section. If I could find a lyrics video that was accurate there’s probably other lines alluding to life or death but I just can’t catch the lines very well with everything else going on in the song
I didnt even realize there was a time signature change in the music
They say Thal’s balls but Thal is the ball
it was a statement, Thal Is Balls
I hope that they can have the final bosses all be ones that have Eorzean curses attached to them. Nophica's tits 6.3?
Those falling fire orbs are clearly Thal's Balls lol
he is death main after all
Nah fam
When they say "thal's balls", they're talking about nald
9:45 THIS was too perfect, not only did those healers revive everyone, but it's in perfect time to the lyrics "May embers cast and red-gold spark rise to new heights."
exactly 👌
* Wipes to raid boss and has to start over* oh no..guess we have to listen to this masterpiece some more. 🤷🏻♂️
I managed to get into the raid at the end of day 1 on patch release. There was 1 person trying to call out mechanics and everyone immediately downed out his comments with spam of, na bro we wiping and listening to music today. You can call out mechanics next week. After wiping only 1 time on Nald'thal he left the raid. Much rejoicing and headbanging commenced. 3 pulls later we cleared.
@@jonathanborba9280 it's sad to see that the game has so much to offer but some ppl still look only on the bad side and get salty over having fun on this Awesome Moment
In The Balance (Extended Version)
Yeah no one was mad about the wipe to the scales day 1 because it meant we got to listen to this for longer
First time running this, we wiped twice on the scales. Someone got salty and others piped in that we got the extended cut of this song.
I just like learning mechanics blind so I was enjoying it all.
“Is this the limit of mankind?” 3 healers with a dream: “Not even close” *Everyone gets back up*
nothing will ever top Asmongolds Bahumat attempt where they pulled that off at the very end of the fight.
@@keithfilibeck2390 my favorite FFXIV moment was when I was playing as a red mage and everyone died and in the few second I had before the boss auto'd me down was verraising a healer who then LB3 everyone back to life
@@themoistlad i had reverse situation this morning.
Most pt wiped but healer and like 2 dps and theres incoming tower mech
Healer use lb3, then die to fail tower mech while rezzed rdm and tank got immunity
Immediately after that is multiple raidwide in quick succession
Pld use passage of arm, while rdm vercure itself to rez, swiftcast rez, vercure rez, vercure rez
Was panicked when hp drop to like 10% before suddenly filled again because rezzed healer do some miracle with ogcd healing
Really feel epic
@@themoistlad That’s always a super good feeling! I was playing Summoner and raised a Healer on another Alliance team. They used their lb 3 and we ended up defeating the Cloud of Darkness. FFXIV is such a fun game!!!
@@themoistlad Oh no, that's nothing compared to when I was in a stream group that somehow almost lost to Shinryu normal. We had two RDMs including my sorry ass that got hit in the face with a mechanic because I got confused, but the other RDM was the biggest chad ever and popped Lucid to shit out 5 raises in a row, bringing every dead party member back in the space of less than a minute.
All rise for the National Anthem of Ul'dah.
Ul' Dah continues to be the most relevant city-state.
love that the song sounds like its written universe .
Maybe the final bosses of the other raids will be Llymlaen and Nophica so Limsa and Gridania can get some love as well.
@@OniZell69 if they follow the order, menphina and oschon will be the final bosses. nophica would be the first boss of the second raid, and llymlaen the second last of the last raid.
@@OniZell69
Don't you dare get my hopes up like that
Halone might also appear as a final boss, which I’m hoping for a remixed Coethas or Ishgard theme :>>>>>
@@shiroalter8975 ngl I'm rooting for that. Can you imagine fighting Halone herself with "GUIDE US O MIGHTY FURY, GUIDE US TO VICTORY" blasting in the background?
This is now officially Ul'dah's anthem.
i mean technically it is already. it has both motifs from the 1.0 and 2.0 Ul'dah themes. In The Balance has bars of music that are sped up from both Ul'dah themes
@@youiri65 thats why it sounds familiar somehow.
@@youiri65 can't wait for Gridania's theme in one of the nextbosses... oh and Halone's theme is probably based on Ishgard eh?
“We need a theme for Nald’Thal”
“How about an Ul’dah theme?”
“We already have multiple of those”
“Well how about another?”
No doubt about it Square Enix knows who OSIRIS is and was inspired the boss and OSIRIS has the same traits....
To be fair, Steps of Nald and Steps of Thal are the 2 sides of Uldah
@@futuristicentity2417 Well, they use a lot of mythology of different places, Dullahan and other monsters for example as adds and boss from European mythology. Eden last boss seems based on some statue, Artemis of Epheus, any many other examples. But they put it in very creatively and fitting all the time in their own image.
Yes, Ul'dah/Thanalan has theme songs, but this feels like the most definitive one now. XD
@@SUPERSONICGIRLIFY That's because this theme is a remix of 1.0 Ul'dah theme.
O TWIN GODS BLESS THIS LAND!
TO US TREASURE BESTOW!
CITY OF DESERT SAND
WATER AND GOLD BELOW
@@jinenjuce LIFEBLOOD AND RUBY'S RED!
Precious coins cast to plow
four hands of fortune mend
That want we may not know!
For the first time in ffxiv small history im more interested on 24 man raid than 8 man, everything is perfect the looks the fights and the awesome music
I've been hooked on these since Stormblood. Ivalice Raids all the way. For me
honestly have to agree haha. I've started to lose interest in the game because I just haven't been enjoying raiding this tier, but then the alliance raid came out and the new extreme trial and reminded me why I love this game so much and why I am willing to to savage raids in the first place, because the bosses and music they make usually has me wanting to get past them unlike p3s where I really just don't care about the tier. I am excited to see the trial series next patch again thanks to this alliance raid!
Th Alliance raids are some of my favorite pieces of content for the whole spectacle of them, and the creative designs!
@Ahmad Ryan
That's fair. Stormblood had Ivalice, which if you didn't play the source material I found it very zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. NieR was a mess that I don't want to think about, so technically our last in-world story Alliance Raid was Heavensward >_>
Alliance Raids has always been my favs since Crystal Tower during ARR free trial :)
literally the greatest 24p raid and song in the game, idk how they did it
they have a soken-san
Song i agree, its a great raid, best for me is Nier Raid ;)
Agree. and topping Nier music is quite a challenge.
@@markhorriar1269 I think this raid is 100% better than nier raid
@@markhorriar1269 nier was unbelievably easy and braindead lmao
Finally, we understand where "Thal's Balls" coming from
Divine teabagging!
No one told us they exploded!!! And why are there so many balls!?!?
@@colnelScar2 Did you forget? Nald is Keeper of the Living and during the mechanic is in the position of Thal's Balls. Which means all those dropping balls? Nald is respawning them.
Me every time I find a new favorite in Soken's work: he can't possibly top this.
Soken every time I say this: Hold my sake.
Footfalls is better imo
One detail I really love about Aglaia is sheer scale of the battles--and how they make perfect sense. I guess it's me being a nitpicky writer, but a lot of JRPGs have you fighting literal gods--sometimes as the final/true antagonists. Which is fine and all, but in pretty much every instance, these villainous gods are made out to be incredibly powerful beings...that you as the protag destroy either by yourself or with a very small party. For me it sorta defeats the idea of "nigh-omnipotent bad guys."
So I definitely appreciate how The Twelve are handled in FFXIV. Having 24 players all fighting a _single_ god, and all the battles with these gods being long and arduous? Yeah, that definitely makes more sense to me. FFXIV's gods must be pretty goddamn powerful, lmao--pun totally intended.
the sheer scale of the battles is great from a lore standpoint, terrible for my computer which makes me lag the entire raid T.T
The thing about the Twelve fights is that by the end, they don't even seem villainous, just that they're testing you. At least as far as we know in the story.
Honestly would be a breath of fresh air if there was nothing sinister behind this raid series and they're just guardian dieties of Eorzea who want to test it's protector, the WoL.
To make what you are saying even better, these are not actually real battles, at least not from their perspective. They were just lifting their hands and feeling how hard the WoL and his friends can punch, and their answer was "not bad."
@@HCSR2 Yeah, it totally plays into this that, in the end, you're not actually beating them. They're still alive and well and just choose to yield after you've proven yourself.
@@HCSR2 In a sense, it reminds me of the optional bosses in Octopath Traveler. You have the four gods who test your worthiness to use the advanced jobs (Runelord, Sorcerer, Starseer, Warmaster), and they're all pretty tough...but then you have the true final boss of the game, Galdera, who's one of the 13 gods in the game--and you fight him to the death. He's still one of the _hardest_ bosses I've ever fought in an RPG in a long-ass time, haha. Maybe some other people here can attest to that; the difficulty spike is absolutely unreal.
So if the Twelve are just testing you with battles that are crazy-long even with 24 players, what would a fallen god whom you have to fight to the death be like? I can see that being an Ultimate raid at the very least, but also the true/ultimate final boss of FXIV as a whole.
9:50
Thal: "Is this the limit of mankind?"
All 3 Alliance Healers: *Snaps fingers and LBs* "We're just getting started.
Quote from someone I happened to be in run with: "This music is so good it made me forget my phantom pain for a moment."
RAID LEADER: "Banger incoming. Everyone turn up your music slider now!"
It's at max boss! o7
As if mine wasn't already prepped 😉
That trailer told me early hehehe
I did that this morning when all but me and my in game husband were new XD
Oh twin gods bless this land
To us treasure bestow
City of desert sands
Water and gold below
Life’s blood are rubies red
Precious coins cast their glow
Your hands our fortunes mend
That want we may not know
And when we reach our ends
To scales we gladly go
Our fates are yours to bend
To hells and heavens both
Under arid sky
With silk veils we weave rainbow
Voices lifted high
Dreams upon our backs we’ll carry
When day beckons night
As does restless time then slow
Trusting hand in hand
Life, death, will follow
Stoke the
Nascent flame
Brighter burn
Dance with souls afire
May ember catch a red gold spark
Rise to new heights
May we want all that coin can buy
Never see one’s river run dry
May we find fortune after life
For this
We pray (x4)
Twinfold
Oh twin gods bless this land
To us treasure bestow
City of desert sands
Water and gold below
Life’s blood are rubies red
Precious coins cast their glow
Your hands our fortunes mend
That want we may not know
And when we reach our ends
To scales we gladly go
Our fates are yours to bend
To hells and heavens both
Under arid sky
With silk veils we weave rainbow
Voices lifted high
Dreams upon our backs we’ll carry
When day beckons night
As does restless time then slow
Trusting hand in hand
Life, death, will follow
Stoke the
Kindled flame
Hotter burn
Sing till breath expires
May those who wander lands
in the dark
Find firelight
May we all as true equals die
Never fear unjust favors bite
May we be judged by what is right
For this
we pray (x4)
Twinfold
This is another version of the lyrics I found from a commenter on another video. I edited some bits and referenced Reddit as well.
Ul'dah anthem basically xD
A few things I hear differently:
Life's blood -> Lifeblood
What for we may not know -> That world we may not know (really not sure on this one)
To hells and heavens both -> To hells and heavens flow
May we want all that gold can buy -> May we want all that coin can buy (Still doesn't sound entirely accurate but it's closer)
May we all as true equals fight -> May we all as true equals die
I think the community's gotten really close to fully deciphering the lyrics this time, but I'm betting once the official lyrics release there'll be another "Wild shrieks" moment with some parts that everyone just got completely wrong.
@@masdrionalt I meant coin idk why I put gold lol. I edited two parts but for the others I think they could go either way. I’m like a 100% sure certain parts are right but I know some will turn out to be completely wrong when the lyrics drop. I still don’t hear “on our hearts engraved” at all in Close in the Distance :P
@@masdrionalt What for we may not know is "That want we may not know", meaning that the people are praying to never be without that which they need.
I'm inclined to think "arid" is correct but I keep wondering if it might be "amaranth", since there are so many red/sunset motifs in the song.
The trailer that played a portion of the song got me so interested and Thal's Fiery Balls it's worth the wait, been playing this song every chance I get.
Every time I hear a new Soken my mind flashes to that bit in breaking bad when Jesse is crying shouting “he can’t keep getting away with it”
He beat/is beating cancer. Getting away with it is his lifestyle.
I swear this song is long because Soken knows it's gonna be a long fight with everyone dying 🤣
The song is 2 minutes long lol it loops
@@Croyles I know XD
@@Calvinooi :P
@@Croyles nah it's 4 minutes long, but still :v
@@Croyles it's actually 4 minutes long, both parts sound similar but are quite distinct
I love how thal's balls ffxiv makes this one of the top searches
It's official, Thal's Balls is the name of this theme...
...NOT
@@myoumyou90 In Thal's Balls-ance
Soken continues to outdo himself, its insane how much talent this guy has. this is my favorite alliance theme by far.
Well, he has a team of great composers to help make all those soundtracks for the game. It's not like he does all the work alone.
@@loganreed23 yeah its abit unfair that soken just gets all the credit, like he's the only composer for a game that has over 500 songs.
One of my favourite tracks in the game isn't even made by him yet people constantly praise soken still for it.
@@loganreed23 It takes only one talented mind to think of a great musical piece, but bringing it to life is a whole other art in itself.
Honestly this is simultaneously great and dissapointing. It just feels like it could've used some more thought. The lyrics were written with very little thought of the rhythm, resulting in many words being unable to be sung. Also, I just feel like this would've made so much more sense as a duet.
@@frank3le can I ask you what your favorite track is? Is it dragon song cause I see a lot of people thinking Soken made it
Let me see if I got this right: *not only* is _FF14_ a better _FF_ classic series crossover than _Kingdom Hearts,_ it even has *better Disney songs?* Amazing.
Here's hoping since we've had the prayer of the Ul'dahn's that we'll hear the prayer of Gridania with Nophica and with Llymlaen and Limsa Lominsa. A lively working song for Limsa would be great!
If the Ul'dahns' prayer song is this badass, I personally can't wait to hear how the other two are handled.
If Llymlaen's isnt a sea shanty Im gonna riot
Hoping for a Halone too.
Intimidating Latin chanting as you get stabbed on the pointy end repeatedly.
@@Puddincess I'll be coming back here, come 6.5 better be a shanty.
I was already super hype about this song and now I’m just, I can’t seem to Understand why you’d be wrong, and now If we don’t get these I may go insane
i like everyone praising the song and all, but can we all take a moment of silence for their 100% spiritbonded gear? thats free money right there
I hate when I suddenly notice all white. ESPECIALLY on crafter/gatherers. Soul crushing.
@@GypcerosLikesBagelsI know this comment was a year ago, but can you please explain? I want to get into the crafting classes. What’s the deal with spiritbonded gear?
@@WolfDreamer101 When a piece of gear becomes fully spirit bonded, you can extract a piece of material from it. So it's free materia. And when it comes to expensive crafting materia, not noticing your gear is fully bonded sucks lol It's not related to crafting explicitly :)
A GIFT OF SONG FOR OUR CHILDREN!
I just hope for a little scene with your chosen god at the end of the story.
Worldbuilding by lyrics on bosses themes is the most gigachad thing FF XIV is going for
Nald : Hello me life
Thal : Hello me death
WoL : VIBING
Nald: I am Nald, the keeper of the realm of the living!
me over discord vc: wait, where's thal
camera: *flips*
me and everyone over the discord chat: YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
didn't ask + don't care
Ahhhhh sounds fun T_T
But does this mean Thal's balls = Nald tho.
@@Multxverse didn't ask + don't care
@@zannibalable Narrator: He did care. 😔
Let me say, this right here this sooooo good! I haven’t stopped listing to it all day! I walked 7 miles today listening to this and singing! Soken you mad lad! Genius!
Bruh same lmao, I just walked to class listening to this on loop. I was so hype I got there faster than usual
TH-cam keeps recommending me this video, which is good because it's an absolute banger lmao
I love the theme of both alliance and normal raids is being us reach to the peaks of heaven and intrude upon the prison of hell below.
good catch there
That's such a nice touch, mad I didn't notice before lol,
FROM THE DEEPEST PIT OF THE SEVEN HELLS
The vocals are 100% perfection; I can't imagine this song with a different singer
THEY DIDNT HAVE TO GO THIS HARD FOR THE SONG
Yes they did..they did it for us, the madlads
Seriously though this song had me grooving all throughout it’s so beautiful
I want the future raids to be even harder, i love how many mechanics they incorporated in each fight, i want more like that!
You talk like Soken knows any gear besides 'as hard as possible'
This song alone makes the 6.x OST an instant buy and that's not even counting the absolute stunners that are no doubt coming in the next two raids.
Yes. Yes they did. Because we dared say "What can be left after the end of 6.0 MSQ?"
And now we are being shamed for doubting.
I don’t care what noone says FFXIV has the best soundtrack on the market
This alliance raid is amazing. Only and very minor gripe is that it's sad that all of the deities didn't get the same amount of musical love.
I think they're only going to give that treatment to the gods representing the three city states. this is Uldah's patron, the next would be nophica for gridania or the one with the gaelic name (I forget) representing limsa.
@@harukodemon i was surprised naldthal was the final boss after all the grandstanding the builder did
@@harukodemon Not sure. They could be doing that. But the order of the bosses we had now was in the same order they are represented on both the wheel at Sanctum of the Twelve and the Aetheryte Gazebo in Omphalos. Which could mean that Menphina will be the final boss for the second raid, and Oschon the third.
Another point is that the order may have just been coincidental the first time around as Nald'thal are the fourth guardians on those two structures, soo maybe? :D
@@harukodemon Llymlaen the navigator.
@@Flendomo no way the God of fury isn't the final boss lol
The fact that the Limsa song will probably be a freaking sea shanty, and that this one was THIS good, has me so damn hyped for that!
Wdym by limsa song becoming a sea shanty?
@@FishySwordfish They mean Limsa's guardian deity might have a sea shanty-style song for their battle, like how Nald'thal's is Arabian.
@@ReesesBees It'd make sense for a deity associated with the sea and worshipped by PIRATES. :3
Anyone else born in Ul'dah shed a small tear before this fight?
This track filled me with the fiery pride of being from Thanalan
Me too, feels so proud to be spawn in UI'dah.
Don't even play this game but the OST goes so hard
play it! it's fun \o/
Im dancing flamenco style to this in my living room! Skirt flying wild! Feels so amazing and free!
7:58 is just a brilliant cinematic, when the silhouette breaks into two and they appear back to back XD
The absolute legends managing to incorporate two concepts of elements at the same time: the destructive crackling bolts of Rhalgr and the conductive and productive fulmination of Byregot, the dancing impossibly bright sun of Azeyama and the all encompassing inferno of blue flames wielded by Nald'thal
Paying off the Astrologian symbols, by having a scale in the fight operated by Nald'thal in the Heaven of Fire
Naming attacks after the things referenced in game, giving a sort of back and forth idea even in the fights themselves.
Really curious to know more about the Seven Hells now though.
9:45
Thal: "Is this the limit of mankind?"
3 Healers: "Yes... now watch us break it."
3 Healer LB3s going off is pretty sick
Yami from black clover was in the fight. "Surpass your limits right here, Right now"
Soken's ability to consistently outdo himself is fucking mindblowing
My favorite thing about this song is that sounds like a normal game track, but also like the sort of song you'd hear actual people in-game singing at like a festival of Nald'Thal or something. Like if you were to take away the music and just. *Say* the lyrics, it's a prayer. And that's really beautiful.
One of my characters is a singer from Ul'dah and I've always had the mental image of her singing this at a concert she puts on post-EW at the place where the Little Ladies Day stage was this year.
@@lavenderrain3379 :O Me too! Well, not the singing bit, but one of my characters is a priest of the Twelve that was born in Thanalan, and whenever I hear this song, I get images of him presiding over a festival to Nald'Thal or something.
@@EngiHvergi6097 oh cool!
I'm glad i gave ARR another shot a few years ago. It sure has come a long way.
From a game i could barely stand to play for more than an hour to one of my favourite games or just experiences ever made. It's sounds stupid, but this game has got me through some tough times.
When the 1.0 ost says it’s about time to become a super banger
Any idea what the original track is?
@@SINDRIKARL1 maybe twilight over thanalan or ul'dah's 1.0 theme?
@@TheRealmofthekings I can’t hear either of the songs in this. Can you gimme a time stamp ?
@@SINDRIKARL1 twin faces of fate
@@SINDRIKARL1 The twin faces of fate
Full lyrics have been posted on the Lodestone, here they are:
O twin gods bless this land, to us treasure bestow
City of desert sands, water and gold below
Lifeblood and rubies red, precious coins cast aglow
Four hands our fortunes mend, that want we may not know
And when we reach our ends, to scales we gladly go
Our fates are yours to bend, to hells and heavens flow
Under arid sky, with silk veils we weave a rainbow
Voices lifted high, dreams upon our backs we carry
When day beckons night (day and night dancing),
As does restless time we never slow
Trusting hand in hand, life death will follow
Stoke now nascent flame, brighter burn, dance with souls afire
May ember catch and red-gold spark rise to new heights
May we want for naught coin can buy
Never see wealth's river run dry
May we find fortune after life
For this we pray, we pray, we pray, we pray twinfold
Stoke now kindled flame, hotter burn, sing till breath expires
May those who wander paths in the dark find firelight
May we all as true equals die
Never fear unjust favor's bite
May we be judged by what is right
For this we pray, we pray, we pray, we pray twinfold
Thank you for letting me know! I'll add subtitles to the video shortly
Just did this fight, this is def my favorite alliance raid so far now
not only is this fight insanely fun but I've been humming this tune all day, yet another amazing piece of music!
He's a Disney princess, and you cannot change my mind on this.
This piece kicks so much fucking ass. I love you Soken, you glorious bastard.
I’ll never getting tired of listening to FFXIV’s music. I love how hopeful and optimistic this sounds.
I’m only in post ARR stuff so it’ll be a while before I can play this fight, but I picked Nald’Thal as my WoL’s patron by chance/head canon that my character was a former merchant and I’m happy to see my choice is super cool and has a banger attached
By far one of THE best soundtracks in the game! I always crank up the volume during this fight :D
This is basically Ul'dah's entry for the Eorzeanvision Song Contest.
HOLY SHIT...it's a bollywood/persian remix of Sultana Dreaming/A New Hope
It's apparently a remix of Twin Faces of Fate, Ul'dah's 1.0 theme.
@@jacobkern2060 It's neither. It's completely original.
@@Nexdex stop being a clown we all hear it
Maaaaan-
Not only does my WoL's patron deity look cool af, but they have the coolest boss music so far in the new alliance raid
And also started out as an immortal flame god damn it feels so good
Thal's Balls
Nald's Nuts
Nald's Nards is my personal favorite
It took my first group half an hour to get the scales mechanic right. I would have lost my mind at that point but this music is just so good I couldn't walk away lol.
I happened to go into this raid for my first time as a Dancer. I'm so glad I had a reason to dance along.
I can't believe they invented an entire story that comes with the soundtrack!
OKAY 07:49 was so perfectly timed I got chills.
love how these lyrics are referring to thanalan and ul'dah, fitting for the deity of uldah
Oh! There's me at the bottom of the party :D
Ended up running that raid for several hours to get the Orch roll but it was very fun. Can't wait for the rest!
Not even close to the music I listen to in the car, but so perfectly created that I can’t help but love it. Soken and his team of people are truly amazing creators and it is so obvious that they love what they do that it comes out in every note.
When 1 member of the alliance causes the scales to be unbalanced at the last moment with this sole reason...
...
...
...
the song
I LOVE YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS SO FAST
the first time i did this and the Nald says "I find you worthy!" sent fucking chills down my spine. thats the most praise ive ever gotten from aanyone ever
I like how this just sounds like a hymn to Nald'thal. It's a cool touch.
Something I just noticed. I like of both Nald and Thal’s eyes are closed continuing on that “Justice is blind” theme.
God tier OST!
Amazing song for an outstanding raid.
Loved this song, the whole raid honestly. The patch really lived up to the overall adventure theme.
How is this 2 years ago, time flies and also this theme slaps.
I heard this music start and almost gasped. I had no idea I was in for the best music in an alliance raid yet. Squenix just keeps outshining themselves.
The best part of this track is that they use the sounds of coins clanking against one another instead of cymbals to hold the beat together.
Here we go! Not the offical lyrics, but reddit did a good job:
O twin gods, bless this land
To us, treasure bestow
City of desert sands
Water and gold below
Life's blood and rubies red
Precious coins cast in gold
Your hands our fortunes mend
Wherefore, we may not know
And when we reach our ends
To scales we gladly go
Our fates are yours to bend
To hells and heavens flow
Under arid sky
With silk veils we weave a rainbow
Voices lifted high
Our dreams upon our backs we carry
When day beckons night
As does restless time next flow
Drifting hand in hand
Life death will follow
Stoke the
Nascent flame
Brighter burn
Dance with souls afire
May ember catch a red-gold spark
Rise to new heights
May we want all that coin can buy
Never see one's river run dry
May we find fortune after life
For this we pray, we pray, we pray
We pray twinfold
O twin gods, bless this land
To us, treasure bestow
City of desert sands
Water and gold below
Life's blood and rubies red
Precious coins cast in gold
Your hands our fortunes mend
Wherefore, we may not know
And when we reach our ends
To scales we gladly go
Our fates are yours to bend
To hells and heavens flow
Under arid sky
With silk veils we weave a rainbow
Voices lifted high
Our dreams upon our backs we carry
When day beckons night
As does restless time next flow
Drifting hand in hand
Life death will follow
Stoke the
Kindled flame
Hotter burn
Sing 'til breath expires
May those who wander as in the dark
Find firelight
May we all as true equals start
Never fear unjust favor's spite
May we be judged by what is right
For this we pray, we pray, we pray
We pray twinfold
I do plan to add subtitles to this video once an official source for the lyrics is available. We can't have "freaks" and "shrieks" getting mixed up again, now can we? :)
@@uvi- Shrieks/Freaks is going to be an eternal wound on the FFXIV playerbase, lmao
@@uvi- pardon?
@@riadirige7804 The official lyrics for Hic Svnt Leones (legally-distinct Dracula's theme) are "wild shrieks" despite there very clearly being an f sound.
Soken is a music GOD! The genius he has is incredible. Took everything I had to not headbang while trying to run this fight
The music of this game is one of the few things that can make me feel good and hopeful. It really is a beautiful experience.
This boss design is so Final Fantasy that no other MMO would even consider stuff like this.
Nald'Thal out here trying to force me to change guardian deities, holy fuck.
Using a fantasia just to change deity... Clearly the purpose of this raid was to sell more fantasias
I love how it seems like there's a clinking of coins among the instruments played
I swear this song is so dope. Can't get enough of it.