Masayoshi Soken - Close In The Distance (FFXIV) Ultima Thule
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- Whispers falling silently drift on the wind
But I hear you
Our journey, now a memory fading from sight
But I see you
Unbroken, promises we made so long ago
You're still here
Unspoken, Requiem for a river of tears
Flowing, winding, to one eternal sea
And yet hope remains
Guiding, lighting the way
No time for mourning
Rises on a memory borne from the ashes
With the heavens
To sunset, blood-red skies tranquil after the storm
Blessed shadow
Turning, winding, always night follows day
The sun will shine again
Walk on, never look back
Through you, we live
Talеs of loss and fire and faith
Everywhere our hearts and pain
In the dark, you will not stray
Forge ahead, till the end, we pray
![Bygone Serenity [Living Memory] - FFXIV Dawntrail OST (Extended)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iLJ2tGts9cY/mqdefault.jpg)
“If you need a push, I'll be right there behind you.” - Ardbert
Total bro...
WE FIGHT AS ONE!
Stop 😫
Idk how, but I managed to keep myself together through practically all the voices, but when I heard Ardbert at the end I just couldn't pretend anymore.
@@zullie9614 Haurchefant for me. Cool Bro and founding member of the WoL fanclub was there until the end.
"To whomever receives this message out there in the vast reaches of the cosmos...
"To Someone, i hope, who looks up at the stars with the same wistful gaze as mine...
"To you i say...forge ahead. May all our tomorrows be blessed with joy."
that switch from the instrumental version into the vocals, gdi 🤧this was like endwalker's true ending
We're not alone. Though short, this questline was great, a lot like the old Tales from the Dragonsong War questline, just the cherry on top of an amazing story.
I really wish we went to Ultima Thule during that quest.
It wasn't foreshadowing for some sort of threat, it wasn't a setup for yet another grand adventure, it was a cosmic passing greeting. A simple "Have a good day". And quite frankly, I cried like a baby because of that.
She got her answer in the end. This was the last bit of closure for me in this story. The kind you didn't ask for or expected. On top of that, Omega has his own answer and doesn't even know it but he indeed understands the concept of heart. He just hasn't figured out he dose yet. C:
For those we have lost, for those we can yet save.
In the dark, you will not stray.
Amen.
My father was diagnosed with Brain cancer while I was doing the end of the Expansion. The game literally pulled me out of depression before it could fully kick in, and I used that to be by my dad's bedside as he was being treated.
I'm glad to announce as of two days ago, he is in complete remission.
Glad to hear he's in remission!
Your still here!
That's fantastic to hear!
Bro, for real, look into the effects that fasting and removing sugar from the diet have on cancer. It’s a field of research rapidly picking up recently but the main stream medical field hasn’t acknowledged it yet so doctors aren’t allowed to prescribe it. There’s so many stories of people beating all types of cancer with it.
Basically, cancer cells augment themselves to have up to 90 times the glucose receptors than normal cells. They need sugar for their enhanced metabolism.
When you fast, your blood sugar levels don’t get the spike they normally do when digestion starts; on top of that, you just aren’t eating any sugar from food either. Your body will then switch into a fat burning state called ketosis where it uses fat as it’s energy source rather than glucose or carbs. That’s why the hunger pains go away after a few hours, because the body switched over to ketosis now that it realized it’s not going to get sugar or carbs.
Cancer cells can’t survive in ketosis like normal cells, their metabolism is too high and needs the easily processed glucose as fuel. The cancer simply starves to death. This is a huge reason why the Middle East has such low cancer rates: Ramadan fasting.
It’s a great practice for both beating current cancer and preventing possible future cases.
Good to hear! Happy for you and your father.
I had no clue what I was getting into as a WoW refugee… but I can honestly say with great confidence, after completing the Endwalker MSQ today, that that was the best story I’ve ever been a part of in my near 37 years of playing video games. Yeah, it’s just a fantasy game, but I have had exactly encouraging words and friendly advice I needed from these characters during a time when I needed it the most. That journey was next-level therapeutic, and here at journey’s end, I feel greater at peace. This song was the cherry on top of all of that.
I'm an ex-WoW player as well and I've never gotten so involved in the storyline of a game before and equally invested in the characters.
You told the pure truth. From 2015 to 2016, I faced a Leukemia, ICU and bone marrow transplant, months of hospitalization, minimal chances of recovery and, at the time, who helped me a lot to face these difficulties with my head held high and keep hope alive were the hundreds of hours playing (in the hospital room) final fantasy XIII, XIII-2 and XIII lightning returns, which many people criticize as one of the worst games in the franchise, but perhaps, having met him in such a difficult phase of my life, have a special place in my heart.
@@ToniusPlays Fellow warrior of light, I'm glad you survived your battle with Leukemia! My friend passed away from it a few years ago and knowing Soken fought cancer as well while writing music for FFXIV it hits different.
yeah, ex wow player here as well. my *omg shit* therapeutic moment was when Venat broke the 4 Wall and asked right in my face if my journey was a good one....
i stared blankly at the screen and began to cry. It was not. The game helped me escape from the real world i was in, my family in ruins, falling apart, my grandmom passed away, the only reason, our family still existed. it was in vain, though. i could'nt handle the rest of them. pathetic. family? no, they never were. they'll never be. my job cringing the hell out of me, taking all my free time and throwing cruel stuff at me, saying a death from my family is no reason to not work even harder.
This moment was the reason i took the headhunters call and changed jobs in reallife.
the reason i cut ties with many from this so called "Family" who only were there when there was something they could get out of...
the start of me saying what's on my mind and not remaining silent to everything. beeing dtronger for my own small family and just that.
and my journey came to a much better way.
i hope the way remains like this, i like it.
That's the power of Final Fantasy. Sure there will always be a debate as to which is the best. But at the heart if you don't feel anything from the story then you did not pay attention.
Enjoy the stay in the world of Final Fantasy.
Whoever you are reading this, I'm proud of you and glad you're with us. Thank you for participating in this shared journey, I hope you continue to walk this path for as long as it suits you and brings you joy. - Mia Tyrn'fae, Gilgamesh.
Thanks - judge magister, coeurl
"The stars above are limitless. As such, we always have journeys to take. Let the adventure never end" -Escah Faidhe, Brynhildr
"To the very end and beyond" - Haseo Longinus, Excalibur
Let's end the end! - Albedo Shirogane, Famfrit
I learned a lot from the scions. I learned that we must move on, even when we are at our lowest point we can rise up again and learn from the mistake that brought us down. Alphinaud taught me that. So always remember in your darkest moments there is still a fire producing light, that fire may be small but as long as you can hold it, nuture it, and feed it that fire will always grow brighter than the surrounding darkness. - Saphyra Skystar, Siren.
This song broke me, never felt so many things with a song, a total masterpiece
Just heard it in context. I’m absolutely broken.
I can't agree more. Twilight Over Thanalan stood for over 10 years as my favorite overall track from FFXIV, not counting battle tracks or remixes of other Final Fantasy songs (Like FFVI's battle to the death for example) and this song dethroned it hard. Don't get me wrong, Twilight Over Thanalan still has more sentiment to me and I guess you could say it's still my favorite in a way, but... god damn... THIS song really is amazing. I love it tons even though it literally makes me cry every time. I've honestly never had a song do that to me before. I mean sure, I've had songs make me cry (both happy and sad tears) but never one that does it 100% of the time.
To put things into perspective, I'm not really one to go out of my way to do the Shared Fates stuff that was added in ShadowBringers, I literally finished those a week before Endwalker came out, but... this song... as soon as I found out you get it using BiColor gems after maxing out Ultima Thule's Share Fates... I grinded my ass off for it. Did over 60 fates that night. Without hesitation. I even did it as my WHM (which was 80 at the time.) I went through EW with my AST.
But ultimately, since I did that for Ultima Thule I ended up leveling other jobs via shared fate (cause why not?) and maxed out every zone pretty early in this expansion. Literally all because of this song.
It's... a bit of a double edged sword though. I love this song a ton, and I desperately wanted it on my Orchestrion Playlist, which it is, but now... its difficult to go into my ingame house for fear of this song playing cause it always makes me cry xD.
EDIT: This is my favorite verse from the song:
Rises on a mem'ry borne from the ashes
With the heavens
To sunset, blood-red skies tranquil after the storm
Blessed shadow
(especially this part below)
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
Turning, winding, always night follows day
The sun will shine again
Walk on, nеver look back
Through you we live
Same I had to sit there for longer than I care to admit with the twins. I promised your parents I'd keep you safe.
I was crying like a baby the entire time this part of the song started.
I completely agree. After hearing this I IMMEDIATELY farmed the fates in Ultima Thule to get this song for my house.
I finished endwalker at 3am this morning. When this song played after G'raha's sacrifice I lost it. This was supposed to be just a game, but it wasn't. It's the most beautiful story I've ever read. Whatever they paid the writer for this story, it wasn't enough. it needs to be tripled.
Gotta remember; games have some beautiful stories now
And she is doing th me next expansion and FFXVI
@@j.r.cilliangreen4083 VERY SMART MOVE!!!!!!!!
@@j.r.cilliangreen4083 FFXVI writer is same guy that write Heavensward.
also fucking lost it when the vocal layer is added after G'raha. It even kind of sounds like him
My Mom passed away in the middle of this expansion due to Covid.
I hopped on FF14 to escape reality and just forget about everything for a couple days.
When I got to this part of this story and saw everyone passing 1by1 it reminded me of when my Mom passed.
I stood staring at the void for a bit while my gf and I were playing and listening to the lyrics, and I was crying.
This game really put me back on track in real life, and I ended up using this song for my Mothers funeral.
If Soken or Yoshida ever sees this, I just want to say..
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Thank you, you're the reason I could send my Mother off to a better place and the reason I could keep going forward right now. To me, this expansion and this song means everything to me.
Just finished EW yesterday, after one year I started ff14. This was more than a game, this was more than my character changing (I've never changed it), this was me changing with the story and in real life.
If that moment broke me, I can't imagine how you felt. Atleast you had someone close to you. I hope your mother is in a better place. Please, live for her.
My condolences friend.
My grandpa passed away in february, then I got diagnosed with something, had to move from my place and surgery at the same time. When I listened to this song again it made it immediately better. I know how you feel. We go on and they live forever with us in our memory.
stay strong fellow WoL, for the morrow is never promised. condolences friend.
Are these dead relatives stories even true?
the first sentence already teared me up...
I'm glad you could find the strength to send her off to a better place
"The sorrow of a thousand thousand worlds weighs heavy. And yet you can walk on" the song getting more clearer as you progress the ultima thule quest and then ending with this walk and everything after.. What a beautiful game and expansion.
Better yet, it's each Scion adding to the music as they pass on.
"I want you to make me a promise."
I knew that there was no way they were going to just kill off all the Scions but still seeing G'raha turn to me and ask me to promise to see him again, for the second time, broke me. We both knew he was about to die. And that stupid beautiful catboy still wanted to just go on an adventure with us.
Even though we're literally at the edge of the universe fighting the physical embodiment of Despair.
God I love him.
You better choose the right option in 6.1...
Could you imagine if they actually killed them off? The fan base would have probably RIOTED.
I'm probably in the minority here, but I think the conclusion to Endwalker would have been so much more impactful had they not pulled that deus ex machina with dynamis. I feel like it actually cheapened all of the emotional buildup during Ultima Thule. The moment when they all return during the battle with Meteios is cool, but it was still a cheap "power of hope/love" moment that has been done so many times already. I knew something like that was coming given how hard they pushed the idea of dynamis prior to Ultima Thule and how "controversial" it would have been for them to kill everyone off in one go, so it made all that emotional buildup feel kind of meaningless. It was fitting of the characters of course, but I knew it wasn't goodbye.
Had they actually killed off all of the Scions, I think the final leg of Endwalker would have left a serious impression on me. Not just within the game, but within fiction in general. Which is surprising to think about since I didn't actually become invested in the story until about half way in to Stormblood.
@@NickBaysingar I agree. I remember back in 2.0 when we were framed for the murder of the Sultana. Then the Heavensward trailer launched featuring that moment, only to undo all that drama and tension in a couple quests.
As if it never happened or mattered.
@@serinfirelight5469 If you go back and talk to NPCs, it is clear that no one really bought that you murdered her, but they had to go along with it because politics and stuff
@@francjirachi I did. The other political leaders try cover for you in the meantime. My point is that the entire plot and conspiracy was swept under the rug very quickly in HW.
How has it been 8 months and this song *still* brings me to tears?
Perhaps the saddest thing about Close in the Distance is that there will be many many people who hear the song and will not have experienced the story of FFXIV and will never know what they are missing. ❤️
When you first arrive in Ultima Thule, the music is quite distorted, but as events unfold, it clears up until you hear this version.
The initial version of this song straight-up gave me low-level anxiety the entire time. There is something truly unsettling about it.
@@kiraina25 I got strong Interstellar vibes from it.
@@kiraina25 for me it was more like an interstellar funeral
Music clears up as I tear up.
I’m so glad I wasn’t spoiled on this song before getting to this part in the game. I already thought the music in ultima Thule was cool when you first arrive. Then i thought I noticed the music changed when Estinien was the first to sacrifice himself. I thought Was crazy at first, but then it kept changing. I ACTUALLY lost it when the music erupted into this version
“The sun will shine again”. Can’t help but become emotional during that part. This game and this song helped me during a rough time in my life.
Always, night follows day.
This gets me because I wrote a book about assassins and one the things the main protagonist was told was that one death didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Time would not stop because of someone's death. The sun would come up, life would go on as if their death was just something that never happened. This brought the person who said this comfort, even if it disgusted the protag. But when I heard this line...I felt deeply connected to that because of that book I wrote.
"Strong art thou, mortal" - Stronger than any other of thy kind.
Same
Amen.
This song feels like it's as much about all the people you meet and eventually lose contact with in MMOs, with varying degrees of closeness, as much as it is about the events of the MSQ. FLOW feels like the insert song for Endwalker, but this feels like the insert song for FFXIV itself. Probably the most beautiful ode to MMOs ever.
really resonates with me
I spent so much time in this zone thinking about my journey that brought me to this point. I felt so many emotions. Soken your a legend.
Knowing he wrote this while battling cancer drives this even deeper.
When this kicked in, being alone with the twins...is when I realized my long journey with these characters was coming to an end in one way or another. My meta sense was saying yeah, sure, they're all coming back, 6.1 was live by the time I got here - but still, the *original* journey was ending.
And damn I absolutely lost it and just had to stay put for a sec and collect myself. One of the best moments, ever.
I finished last night and I had to take a break to go get aether currents. This was when I still had G'raha and the twins, but I knew what was coming and I wasn't ready.
"What we have sown in blood, we have reaped in suffering, and it cannot go on."
I think that this music will hit every warrior of light forever. No words are strong enough to explain what it means for us...
This is song that rips out your heart, after 10 year long journey, if you been aboard this ship, in this point you will crumble and see all those memories with this game, with friends... One adventure ends another begins yet... There will be hole until I die, after seeing this ending. This is truly a lifelong masterpiece in making.
Whispers falling silently, drift on the wind
But I hear you
Our journey now a memory fading from sight
But I see you
Unbroken, promises we made so long ago
You're still here
Unspoken requiem for the river of tears
Flowing, winding, toward eternal sea
And yet our hope remains
Guiding, lighting the way
No time for mourning
Rises on a land reborn from the ashes
'Neath the heavens'
To sunset blood-red skies, tranquil after the storm
Blessed shadow
Turning, wеnding, always night follows day
The sun will shine again
Walk on, nevеr look back
Through you, we live
Tales of loss and fire and faith
Every word on our hearts engraved
In the dark you will not stray
Forge ahead, till the end, we pray
Thank you
Months later I still can't listen to this without crying, what a beautiful song. Even besides it's plot relevence the words behind the song itself have so much meaning. Endwalker isn't just a great story, it's a triumph of philosophy and fighting the evil of this world by just keeping moving forward and being the best you can be.
The sun will shine again. Fuck! That line gets me every time.
Pure and good…I cry every time I hear this
FFXIV finally lifted me out of a dark time in my life, for years at this point I felt like everything I did was meaningless, all utterly pointless, and that I was failure as a Human.
But now, thanks to FFXIV, I've finally found happiness in life. I've had experiences I hold near and dear to my heart, convinced my friends to try the game and got them almost as obsessed with it as I am. This game showed me that life's worth living again even when all seems lost and you're just biding your time for death to eventually claim you.
To whoever is reading this that may also be in a similar situation as I was, don't give up, there are those out there be it family, friends, or those you haven't even met yet that are rooting for you. Forge ahead my friend, for when we're at our lowest- when we've hit rock bottom, there's only one place to go: up.
Thank you man , ironically I can't say I'm in the same boat but I will say this around 2 weeks ago I realized also I wasted my life for the past 15 years and ironically felt as a failure as a human as well. I didn't get to meet someone special like you though. I will be quitting the game in August 6.2 and try go back to college and move on in life.
Exactly.
Endwalker has such incredible music!
Songs that can choke you with tears in under 10 seconds
This song literally makes me sad everytime, ff14 has in my opinion best story in gaming history
"Through you, we live" - This one got me. The first time I heard this song the second the melody came into full effect, after everything that happened to the WoL's friends, it broke me.
I can't listen to this song without cry all of my tears. Everytime I go to Ultima Thule my heart beats fast and I start cry. I love. I'm deeply in love with Final Fantasy XIV. Thank you Soken and Yoshi for create a masterpiece.
watching your allies, no, your friends give their lives to Forge a path for you is just wrenching. yet inside all of us there is a power that stirs us to keep moving forward. like the song says, the sun will shine again.
"Walk on. Never look back...through you, we hear tales of loss, and fire....and faith...."
The countless dead singing to those who still live, telling them that life is too important to spend buried in grief for that which is already long gone
I have never turned off my mount music until I came to this area.
I decided to RP walk during the "ghost".
Tried running past everything when it got too emotional.
Finding out I was locked in walking mode got me good. I had been putting off beating the game due to what happens to a pair of twins in IV and hearing this after everything that happened was too much.
My God I thought I was the only one. Right before starting the expansiond I said to my fc "if they pull a P&P on us im gonna do what Her Inflorescence did to the squex building. But irl."
They didnt know what I was taking about, so I had to explain. They lived on the edge till the very ending and are still blaming me for it *wheeze*
I think my favorite part about the forced RP walk is that if you then decide to toggle your RP walk on (or RP walk normally on controller), you walk even slower. Never have I been so emotionally gut punched by a story than when I was forced to walk and listen to the voices of all of those who were depending on me, marinating me in an emotional mess by the time we reach the end.
"The sorrow of a thousand thousand worlds weighs heavy. And yet you can walk on."
Same, except I walked the entire way. Didn't even realize I was locked into walking anyway. lol
I mean to be fair. a set of twins did sacrifice themselves so that the main character could move on...
God bless Soken-San and his family for never giving up ❤️ We wish you only the best in the world you genius!
This game both the music and story is nothing short of a damn emotional masterpiece
“Let’s finish this” - Ardbert
I am crying
he got me. the first soul to speak with me ans i had to pause for 3 hours cause i was not able to see anything through those tears
This is Masayoshi Soken saying to his team.
Forge ahead
In the dark you will not stray
Through you we(Him) live
Masayoshi Soken has cancer and is Remission. There's strong indicator that his finishing line is coming. Masayoshi Soken has proven many time that he is an Amazing Artist.
the penultimate quest of the game, this song playing, and being forced to rp walk, this is what broke me
this is the best story in a video game, hands down.
This song is moving. Endwalker has really put the drama on lockdown in this expansion.
Happy new year, fellow FFXIV folks...make it a good one!
To me this song is like the end of a long hard journey when you finally see the fruits of the hope you held on to. They are not quite yet there but you know they will and it was all worth it.
"And so you venture forth onto the unknown.."
Absolutely incredible game design that they decided to slowly have the song change from an instrumental starting at the beginning all the way to this point as you reach the summit, absolute masterpiece.
This song is incredible. When I first heard it start playing, it absolutely pierced right through me. I had remained pretty stoic and distanced throughout the expansion, and I thought that the Scions got death-flag'd in the expansion trailer so I fully expected everyone to die when they were disappearing in Ultima Thule one by one to get to the final location. It tricked me into thinking this was actually the end for them, and slowly it just stripped me of my defenses. I absolutely collapsed into tears while the final walk happened with the revenants, seeing and hearing the people we had helped along this odyssey of a colossal journey.
Soken fabricates masterpieces at every turn throughout Endwalker's OST. His command of emotional throughput using music is bar none some of the most powerful storytelling in modern media.
I started playing FFXIV on March of last year and loving it all to bits all the way. If this moment and song itself managed to affect me so, I can only imagine how it is for people who have been around since the launch and have been following it all as it had been coming out...
It’s taken me a long time to get to the point where I could just hear this song
Anyone else excited to hear Soken rock this with his Otomatone next Fan Fest?
I literally just had my life flash before my eyes every time I hear this beautiful song it’s just art I never cried and questioned myself until now
This song, the"Final Duet" from Omori and "Ashes of Dreams" from Nier are the trio of songs that made me cry
Goddamnit... Everytime, I swear I'm not going to tear up. Every damn time.... But I do. I do.😢
last stanza- it's not 'Everywhere our hearts and pain'- it's "every word on our hearts engraved''.
POV: You sat at the final area and thought about your journey up to now
Rises on a land *reborn* from the ashes
'Neath the *heavens*
To sunset, *blood*-red skies tranquil after the *storm*
Blessed *shadow*
*cries in FFXIV*
I thought that it was "Rises on a land reborn" from the ashes, but that is amazing, and I can't believe I didn't notice that they referenced the expansions in the song till I saw this comment (Too busy being sad in ultima thule lol). Thank you for pointing this out it makes the song 100x better and it was already the best.
@@meitomiyazaki9848 official lyrics corrected me! (you were right!)
Fuck, it's MONTHS ago since the release, but my heart is still being ripped out whenever I hear this
The final walk somehow DIDN'T break me, if anything - the song gave me the courage to continue fighting (Plus, I didn't realise that the creatures were basically voices from the past - so I didn't give the quotes much thought - this, alongside my memory)
I was also confused at the fact that the WoL resurrected the scions with no problem, thinking it was a "Friendship is magic" trope - but then remembered that despite their material bodies being gone when they fused with Ultima Thule, their souls remained and as such - the possibility of creating material forms wasn't completely out of the question
This game is just perfect in almost every way.
I literally can't listen to this without sobbing, still. Played on release, cried more and more all zone. Still cry today. Lol.
Even though you knew everyone would be brought back eventually, this song is still a gut-punch.
In the end, the true Darkness wasn't the physical Darkness of Zodiark and his servants, but the darkness that festers in the hearts of mankind.
Just finished the expansion. What a great way to end a summer
This song is just one of those that makes you kinda choke up even if you're not sad. During that long walk up the bridge I had actual tears rolling by the time I got to the top even tho I didn't recognize half the voice clips when you interact with the shadows. I was thinking about my WoL and his travels and marveling that I can get extremely emotional over pixels lol
Through you, we live
I just finished Endwalker and 6.1 the other day, and I still haven't fully recovered from it lol
I was okay with 'the walk' scene for a minute, I just sat and listened to the song and smiled, then I started walking.. and the second I heard Ardbert's voice line I just MELTED into a puddle of tears.. This damn game😭 ....I love it so much
ultima: the last, the end.
thule: the farthest location in Greek and Roman mythology, the edge of the world.
At the end of your journey, seated at the edge of the universe, awaits a realm shaped by the emotions and desires of those who inhabit it.
Ultima Thule: the Final Fantasy.
Emotional trauma the soundtrack 😭
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
This whole expansion was emotional damage.
Dieses Lied berührt mich so sehr... in meinen Gedanken stehe ich an einem verlassenen Ort wie dem im Video und blicke in die Ferne. Dabei fühle ich mich leider einsam... als würde keiner dieses seelische Leid durchmachen, dass ich im Leben ertragen musste. Als würde mir diese Seelenverwandschaft fehlen... und die Welt sich um mich drehen obwohl ich genau weiß wie schwachsinnig und anmaßdend das ist. Ein innerer Konflikt bevor ich mich wieder nach dieser einen Seele sehne die mich erfüllt...
When people say that ffxvii was the best, I tell them that they have to play ffxiv. It's the best ff story that threw me in for a loop and tied all the paths together at the end. A sad and beautiful story that won't be replicated for years to come.
I haven't got to endwalker yet but this song hits me in so many levels. It's my senior year of college and have a month left to graduate. This song makes me feel happy and sad at the same time. Happy because it pushes me to keep going and moving forward but also sad because I think that the friends I made while being in college is going to end and it's something I value a lot. I see this song as an affirmation and its going to stay with me until I die 😭
I couldnt see barely any of ultima thule through the tears and the buildup of this song broke me as a man
The perfect song to pull all the threads of story together. You look back at your past journeys, to the present, to the unwritten future.
this one song broke me down and still do it just such a masterpiece
The singer is Jason C Miller
This Song fits perfect to endwalker. I LOVE AND WILL NEVER FORGET THIS
tears through this whole zone lol. what a beautiful song.
Greatest zone.....period
"A smile best befits a hero" I cried so many times during this game but Endwalker was the expansion that not only made me cry but scared me to no ends. Especially this cutscene. I was so scared that my WoL was going to die. And then i realized... I was afraid of being alone and this game brought so much joy to my life. It gave me friends and it even gave me my partner, my soulmate. Eleven years I have been apart of this amazing world. I started back with ARR just on the heels of Heavensward about to be released. I'm so happy to have been able to take this journey as this game helped me to grow even as a person.
"Talеs of loss and fire and faith" This line's melody somehow seems really nostalgic for me, like I had this melody in my head since forever. It turns out I actually did lol. There's this song called Rooftops from a band called Lostprophets from like 10 years ago. The pre-chorus ("Will we make a mark this time?") sang in almost the same melody lol. (took me a few months trying to recall this song.....)
Yeah, there's a lot of unsavory stuff about the lead singer - but you can NEVER discount the memories, the experiences that were yours. That ARE yours.
Strong art thou mortal
We've all been through a lot haven't we? IG and irl. This song reminds there's still hope irl. There are those who stand in defiance of the planet fading away. Much like the star itself.
Only look back to see how far you've come.
The only reason they had the conviction to do what they did, was because they believed in you. They had hope.
_"Tales of Loss, and Fire, and Faith"_
If you played the FF16 demo, that sentence explains alot of its story.
If you need a push, I'll be right behind you.
I wish FFXIV would end with this expansion, everything seems so well put together, it's a good ending for WoL. I wish we would get another FF online with a new beggining.
I cant put it into words i fist got there in ew i starded to cry all the mineres come back at onces love u all let you walk in the light of the crystal
i love this song
To whoever read this,
Life will eventually come to an end, inevitably, it’s easy to give up and wait for death but that is not purpose of life.
We live to enjoy and cherish moment while we live, create unforgettable memories with those we care, to overcome what fate set upon us and learn from it.
Whenever you need a strength to press on, remember that you are not alone, we are struggling with you in someway shape or form. We are here with you, as Eorzean, as Warrior of light.
Stay strong, give good dynamis to those you care. Honor those we have lost, and be kind to those we can yet save.
May you walk in the light of crystal.
Without a doubt this is my favorite song
May all the beauty be blessed
This song activated my eyes tearglands instantly
Needed this song after losing Venat
i only noticed now that "Rises on a mem'ry borne from the ashes
With the heavens
To sunset, blood-red skies tranquil after the storm
Blessed shadow"
Makes reference to all the expensions of FF XIV... "Memory borne from the ashes" => A Realm Reborn
With the heavens > Heavensward
To sunset, blood-red skies tranquilafter the storm => Stormblood
Blessed Shadow => Shadowbringers
how the fuck did I not notice that before lol
OOOOOOHHH MY GODDD
Let me relive your burden you sufered enough
Listening after omega quest feels….. different
holy shit. Usually I'm able to distinguish a game and real life. I've never really been sentimental over stuff in a video game, but this OST together with the events in this expension, my god it hits like a truck.
This game is a masterpiece and I cannot wait for dawntrail. The ending to a 10 year story with so many twists and turns throughout the journey. So many foes that turned friends because the WoL met them halfway. In short, just as the song said the game has “Tales of love.” Much love to everyone in the FFXIV community. 🖤
You will not silence my song of oblivion!
This song makes me think about my little brother and haurchefant damn onions...
Hard to believe that this guy also sang Rules of Nature from Metal Gear Rising. Such talent
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but i come back to the OST. goddamn the feels....