This topic right here - why haven't I noticed it before?
I absolutely love everyone's take on DRK. I must say, the DRK quests have been very emotional and awesome at the same time. When I first started playing FFXIV, I had always wanted Xydane (and his NPC brother Marcus) to go the DRK route. I was familiar of Dark Knights in past Final Fantasy games so I was slowly (yet carefully) having my character and his brother make their way towards this path. Though Heavensward didn't exist at the time upon initial release of the game, I had very little to work with.
For a little background information, the life of Xydane and Marcus started as a typical happy childhood with loving family and friends. Due to war and the everyday horrors of reality, the brothers lost everything and were the only survivors of their town. Forced to leave at a very young age, the brothers traveled and stumbled upon Ishgard nearly dead.
New friends became family and the brothers believed they were given a second chance at life but as they grew older and days became years in Ishgard, they were wrong. Once more, reality took over and loved ones die.
The will to protect loved ones and people, the drive to become stronger, the constant defeat of thinking "I was not strong enough to save him/her" would eventually drive one mad.
This ultimately became the path in which I can lead the brothers into becoming DRK. Their lust for strength and power - the drive and motivation to become the strongest weapon in order to never let anyone die again - would only lead to tragic, insanity, and ruin. Of course, the many paths of DRK can be dark and gritty or perhaps one of redemption and justice.
For those interested, the stories: "In Search of Melodies in Ruin" and "The Vale Brothers" tells of their current path to madness.
Now what I made interesting for readers and other RPers is that in the story "In Search of Melodies in Ruin", you can see that something happened to the brothers after they fell off the cliff, disappearing from Ishgard for months, and only to find out that they have traveled back home as Dark Knights. What happened to them? How did they discover this power? What there someone who was an influence?
I absolutely love everyone's take on DRK. I must say, the DRK quests have been very emotional and awesome at the same time. When I first started playing FFXIV, I had always wanted Xydane (and his NPC brother Marcus) to go the DRK route. I was familiar of Dark Knights in past Final Fantasy games so I was slowly (yet carefully) having my character and his brother make their way towards this path. Though Heavensward didn't exist at the time upon initial release of the game, I had very little to work with.
For a little background information, the life of Xydane and Marcus started as a typical happy childhood with loving family and friends. Due to war and the everyday horrors of reality, the brothers lost everything and were the only survivors of their town. Forced to leave at a very young age, the brothers traveled and stumbled upon Ishgard nearly dead.
New friends became family and the brothers believed they were given a second chance at life but as they grew older and days became years in Ishgard, they were wrong. Once more, reality took over and loved ones die.
The will to protect loved ones and people, the drive to become stronger, the constant defeat of thinking "I was not strong enough to save him/her" would eventually drive one mad.
This ultimately became the path in which I can lead the brothers into becoming DRK. Their lust for strength and power - the drive and motivation to become the strongest weapon in order to never let anyone die again - would only lead to tragic, insanity, and ruin. Of course, the many paths of DRK can be dark and gritty or perhaps one of redemption and justice.
For those interested, the stories: "In Search of Melodies in Ruin" and "The Vale Brothers" tells of their current path to madness.
Now what I made interesting for readers and other RPers is that in the story "In Search of Melodies in Ruin", you can see that something happened to the brothers after they fell off the cliff, disappearing from Ishgard for months, and only to find out that they have traveled back home as Dark Knights. What happened to them? How did they discover this power? What there someone who was an influence?
