Kaniko Niko

In this room where shadows live And ghost that fail learn time forgives Welcome friends please stay a while! Date: 21st bell; Sixteenth Sun of the Sixth Umbral Moon (December 16, 9:00PM Eastern) Location: The Rose Garden, Goblet Ward 1, Plot 60 (Main division) Event: A theatrical-musical showcase inspired by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Contact: Executive director U'vera Rahz, or any member for more information Our story starts with one small child Who spend her nights in attics dark As Menphina bathes Thanalan in her loving glow come hear a tale from a land of ice and snow. Because even as the seasons succumb to winter's chill, hearts and minds are loath to still! We Roses welcome, you! Come one, come all! An extravaganza of sight and sound with merry fervor to shoo The Faithful Hound; let us salve your spirits and warm your hearts so that you may brave the frosted ground~! Where dreams are stored like sleeping hearts

Your emergency summit on the post-2.55 global instability regarding the sudden political climate shift was my very first RP event. It's good to see you back.

Yes! Please. I know there are a billion and one theories to what causes the server lockout, but honestly it's not going away any time soon so it's not like it really matters. Make yourself eight characters and bring them all to Balmung with the one paid transfer! I mean, there's little reason NOT to since you can move them all in one go. And it's always good to have spares in case you don't like how things are turning out on one character! The point is to find out what works best for you~

Lady Leveva and Quimperain Evertrue. Even before the level 50 AST quest their subtext becomes... Text.

Juuuuust to clarify: Nald and Thal are the same being—Nald'thal. He also uses singular pronouns despite His title being a plural—The Traders.

Since this thread was resurrected by someone that wasn't me for once, I'll chime in! It seems to me like the concept of a soulstone would work much better if it wasn't just a generic crystal. Cases in point would be the Gem of Shattoto and the machinst's aetherotransformer. The Black Mage quest line shows that when one pushes thaumaturgy too far, the flow of aether in and out of the body will burn you, but there are specific means of filtering that aether in a safe manner—the/a Gem of Shattoto, a heat sink in essence. Most of the Goldsmith Guild's early quests were about using materials and gems to act as aether conduits for the thaumaturges. It's all worked into the lore of the game how this artifact would work. In the instance of the MCH's soulstone, it's implied that the 'core' of the aetherotransformer—specifically how the device pulls lightning-aspect aether from your body to power your skills, is the soulstone itself. Which also makes sense because it's literally letting your essence pass through it. Spiritbinding taken to the logical conclusion. Same goes with the Crafting Plaques. They're a physical representation of one's skill and notoriety in a field and can very well collect a certain 'essence' over time. The problem comes in instances like Paladin. Where it was essentially: "Hey kid. Wanna be a fighter for truth and justice? Take this rock."

One thing that it seemed that they were trying to go for, outside some of the new content, is that while the Player Character is something of a prodigy with being able to pick up so many skills it wasn't particularly atypical of an adventurer—the kinds of people that dabble in everything. However, it still seemed to make it quite clear that even though you're a prodigy, your superiors are just that—superior. One of the first guilds I joined was the Goldsmiths' and there are no less than two quests where Serendipity steps in to finish work beyond your level. Even the level 50 GSM quest where Serendipity declares you to be among the ranks of master goldsmiths? She chastises you for your actions in the quest and begs that next time, you leave it up to the professionals.

Funny how we got a crossover for a game that was promised to be released to the US three years ago.

Actually, she uses...

I can say that the idea has also crossed my mind long before Heavensward, and all signs thusfar do point to Shinto animism as the sort of driving belief system of Doma. However, there really isn't any concrete detail yet. But! The most important part is, of course, to have fun with it. You already have pieces to the puzzle, what harm can come about if you fill in the gaps?

Good luck on your ventures, and do be sure to continue to make use of the RPC. We're not really as Balmung-centric as history would lead you to believe. Promote RP er'rywhere.

I've been to like four weddings in the last few months. I have enough fireworks for it to be a felony for me to get to the hot springs through the port in Limsa.

Yeah. I think it's time for a trip to the hot springs. Count me in.

I'm an enabler. I get my kicks out of fleshing out an already established world. My mind is such a churning chaos of creativity that every attempt made and spinning something from whole cloth tends to fray and the threads snap. And the spinning wheel locks up. Then the loom collapses in on itself. Give me an idea. Your character. Your character's perception of mine. Your headcanon on how you think Magic A works. The fact Eorzea is such a huge, rich world is such a bounty for me that I can't even begin to explain it. There's joy to be found in pulling weeds in the farm in Upper La Noscea. Fun to be had in plastering up posters for the next big fight in the Coliseum. Slaving away in front of a forge? Yes, please! My confession is that I want to bask in the possibilities afforded to me.

I can't very well say much that's different. Like you, I'm fairly big on context. It's one thing meeting someone while roaming the Pearl Lane, it's another to just... RP without context. Why is a fairly important question.

I could be on to something. You could be on to something. But I think the true answer lies right here.

While not related to the lore specifically, the planisphere or "star globe" seems to be very much based off the feng shui luopan, a magnetic compass that uses multiple plates to chart stars and leylines. A number of plates and dials are used to line up with the flow of chi and is most commonly used in divination. As for the arcana themselves: the Seven Heavens. The Spire is very much the Manipura "jeweled city" chakra. The Bole corresponds well to Muladhara, the root chakra. It's a little vague, but there are definite parallels between the six base chakras and the six arcana of the Astrologian. The seventh chakra is almost explained word for word with the Seventh Heaven, about opening oneself up to the power cosmic of the universe.

Ayaya Foxyheart: Natters McBeef/Evangeline: Shananners Myrstear and Soybean Sukai: War-in-Castle (at the Grindstone): And let's not forget: Ul'dah Limsa Lominsa:

I've really grown to enjoy Black Mage and thaumaturgy in general.

Yeah. I still don't understand how it wasn't all of them if tempering was such an all-consuming threat that a Primal can just lay down on anyone not specifically immune to it. Sure, some of them could have hidden themselves from view. Others still could have been blessed with the Echo and never knew it. While I cannot dispute what has been given to us in game... I just can't help but feel that tempering seems to be most successful on those with weaker wills or who don't actually resist like members of that Primal's domain like the Amal'jaa, Sylphs, Kobolds and the Moogles. (The Ixali, on the other hand, do love their mother. They just seem to want to keep her at arm's length.) Edit: I... Just gave myself the image of Garuda as a Jewish Mother.

Though not a Summoner, I can offer a tidbit about Black Mage: Being a Black Mage isn't uniquely locked like the White Mage is. What IS locked, however, is the Warrior of Light's protection from black magic. There is very little difference between a Thaumaturge and a Black Mage storywise. The issue is that the way a Thaumaturge channels aether. Without the Gem of Shatotto, the Black Mage soul gem, you have a soft cap on how much aether a person can manipulate before his own inner life-aether reaches criticality and starts to get rather... Fissile. Boom.

It seems to me that the act of tempering seems to be a process rather than something that just happens due to a Primal's existence. Way back in the 2.0 content, you were captured and marched off to the Bowl of Embers to be tempered by Ifirit. When you were there, some were being tempered, and some were going to be. There was a line, really. This leads me to believe that tempering is much like indoctrination. Or Stockholm Syndrome. What was stopping Titan and Leviathan from simply just tempering the whole Company of Heroes years ago? Methinks its a matter of willpower. Those in the Company who were tempered were most likely those who had a moment of mental weakness upon realization they were fighting gods—fear of death or worse. In Ifrit's case, he may have been very well playing the Jack Bauer game and marching people into the interrogation room to be broken.

The post-50 Black Mage quests has a high ranking conjurer from Stillglade Fane itself, right in Gridania butting into your affairs. And the FIRST THING he does is try and arrest you. For being a Black Mage. For the record: THIS IS HOW THE FIFTH ASTRAL AND SIXTH UMBRAL ERAS ENDED. CONSECUTIVELY. Not even joking. White and Black Magic both got into such a tizzy that it caused the Fifth Astral Era to end so hard it basically skipped the Sixth Umbral.

I think you're making an adverse assumption here that's a little unfair. The OP was asking if there was a translation of the original Japanese anywhere that didn't have everyone "sounding British" like we see in the English script. Nobody has said that the Japanese script is "better." It's just that the English script is eye-rollingly bloated at times and it gives you a feeling like the grass might possibly be greener on the other side of the fence. I'm glad that you highlighted the untranslatable nuance with your very helpful example though because it gives a lot of perspective. It's just that the overly formal tone of the English script tends to make the characters' lines feel artificial or belaboured when they ought to be more spontaneous. "Is aught amiss?" is hardly something you'd hear a person saying frantically after seeing something shocking happen. It sounds more like something a person would say to another over a cup of tea and with general disinterest as to whether aught actually was amiss. Regardless of whether it's intended to "evoke an older time and place," it does the script a disservice by making it come off as less genuine. I'll freely admit that even after editing my post to seem less barbarous, it was still rather caustic. While I apologize if there has been some friction, I stand firm by my words and shan't take them back. However, there's another thing I'd much like to point out about the examples I've given since you've brought up a very good point about "how people really speak". Out of those five examples I've given you, only two of them are actually used in anything resembling modern Japanese—the first two. The other three of them, while grammatically correct, simply aren't used in the Japanese lexicon outside of fiction or someone attempting to be ironic. It's pretty much the Flowery Elizabethan English of Japanese. You may hear the Kansai dialect used in the last example, but mostly to stoke the fires of Osakan pride during Hanshin Tigers games. While I cannot rightly deny that the overall recording and voice acting of the Japanese version tends to be more polished in spots than the English version, to disregard the scope of effort that went into capturing the very essence of what the narrative calls for in the English version: the accents, the startlingly correct period-English, the transliteration of tropes into their Occidental counterparts... I'll say it again. It stinks of weeaboo.