Yeldir Melfusor

Yeah, when I grind, I grind. When I raid, I raid. There's no in between for me. Either I'm in there for loot as fast as possible, or I'm in there to RP, depending on who I'm with and what was scheduled. It's my intent to play every facet of 2.0 to its fullest, in terms of achievement and storytelling.

I really like the theme and the plans you've got going, Akki! To tell you the truth, I had initially planned to start my own commerce-themed RP linkshell, but your vision is so close to mine that I think I should just sign up, as you were here first! I really like the monthly bazaar and caravan events you have in mind. Bazaars, auctions, and economy summits would be a fantastic way to interact with Gilgamesh's community - any and all of it that wants to attend, and this would bring us a lot of curious recruits who want to give FF14 RP a try. (Something I consider super-important for our new community to flourish.) What's your stance on multiple linkshells, and raiding with other linkshells? Ideally, I'd like to do content progression with a no frills kill-the-boss get-the-loot type guild, and roleplay with you guys. Does this sound good to you?

Hey, I can't speak for everyone, just the people I know well enough who are going in with me. Let us be the entry level, the ball pit. No doubt you'll be able to spy new recruits that meet your needs from the big get-togethers that the friendly bro-face side of Gilgamesh RP plans on pushing. I'm thinking I'd make a good Silver Anvil man, myself. They seem dedicated to what they do, but also really open and flexible. I'll probably write up an app in a bit here. And lady - I don't feel like I'm sacrificing anything at all by being inclusive. My story is a rollicking Indiana Jones adventure that seems at every major turn to beat SE to their own plot twists, and anyone who wants in on it at any capacity is welcome to take a bite, or stay for the whole nine-course arc. That includes people who can barely type straight on their mountain dew-encrusted PS3 keyboard. I intend to serve as an example of my ideal.

Nel, there's something I've been trying to hint at, that's hard to get right out in the open without stepping on anybody's toes. It isn't all about legacy vs non legacy, 50 vs non 50. There's another strong element here, something closer to the want of a fresh start on a social level, not merely a game mechanic one. When the trailblazing is done, and everyone is more or less on the same page, progression wise, we'll have two peacefully coexisting communities with their own attitudes and "flavors" to choose from. I say this with a bit of certainty because I suspect Gilgamesh cannot survive operating as Balmung does. The server (Gilgamesh) is simply too hostile and eager to take a bite out of us. The Gilgamesh RPgoal is, to many people (myself included) a hybrid community that basically anyone can be a part of, at any level of roleplaying skill or interest. That means Reddit, Blue Gartr, and any volatile internet community that traditionally spends inordinate lengths of time trying to spoil roleplay for laughs - Gilgamesh's RP crew is going to have to integrate all of them, even while they're crashing our events. If Gilga RP accomplishes this, we will end up with a very different communal attitude - laid back, amused and amusing, and - dare I describe it this way - something closer to RP for bros. That can't work on Balmung, yet it is what many of us Gilgies want. I know you want a united community with maximum interaction, which is an absolutely noble goal, but there are fundamental differences of psychology at work here which cannot simply be ignored away. A split of some sort is unavoidable, and it's no one's fault. Don't worry about losing subs. People like you, they like your videos, and you haven't said or done anything that will offend anyone. You made your feelings known perfectly - and I think you deserve a +1 rep for it. Hey, you guys played Tactics Ogre, by any chance? Classic order/chaos branching path, am I right?

No problemo. I'm very easy-going when it comes to that kind of thing. You can practice with me anytime.

Ashren, we are not "bad guests" for wanting to start a new community on Gilgamesh. The powers that be are not going to step in to right the great wrong, because no one's wrong, here. Everyone's going to do what they enjoy most. Every new player who rolls Balmung because they want an established community is as good and right as every person who comes to Gilgamesh for the uphill battle of forging a new one. This site isn't Balmung-roleplayers.com, and the intent of the good folks who run the place is clearly to facilitate and unite. If you want to talk about division, then you need to look no further than your idea of withdrawing official support for Gilgamesh. You do that and we're off to make our own website. That truly is a worst case scenario. There is nothing about that situation that is good. As things are now, all the potential new roleplaying chums jumping on board have the opportunity to examine the situation on both servers, on one website, and make the choice that suits them best. That's how it should be, and that's how it is. I will agree that Gilgamesh has a tremendous challenge ahead of it, in establishing itself in potentially hostile territory. It will take a good deal of patience and good humor when the trolls come out to play.

That's a smart move. Either server has something unique to offer. Balmung, especially, will be more stable and less frustrating in the short term. Gilgamesh has the task of carving out a niche for itself in a wild and heavily populated environment. Hit me up in Eorzea sometime, for some light-hearted in-character banter!

Wark it, baby!

Welcome aboard, Zethie! I think your introduction was great. No need to be shy here. You're among career, lifelong weirdos, who want to befriend pretty much everybody! I played WoW and Rift a lot too, during their golden ages. They both had amazing world PVP for a while, which is something I've always enjoyed. Have you decided what server you're going to play on?

Considering how adamantly Yoshida declared that they would, I look forward to the video. ... If you come into this with the mentality that it's stupid or will suck, no explanation they give will ever be good enough. I'd rather chew my Asics for the amusement of the masses than spit on a clever bit of writing I publicly challenged before it was even written. I'm a man of my word!

Oh, hey Renna! As you can probably guess, I've decided to cast my lot in with the trailblazers and knuckleheads on Gilgamesh. I wish you well on your new adventure. Maybe we'll bump into each other again in the future. For you other Balmungians reading this, let me endorse her completely. She's a great gal, and a lot of fun to chat with. Look her up.

I will eat my own shoe on youtube and post the link in this very thread if SE finds a way to write this that actually makes sense in the context and lore set by Eorzea.

If you don't mind a challenge, you'll get plenty of it on Balmung, catching up with the 50 juggernauts. Balmung has always been pretty busy, so you're assured plenty of action there, and much of it with a strong rp context. Gilgamesh, on the other hand, is a good choice if you want to start from scratch, and help us build a solid community against preposterous social odds. Reddit, Blue Gartr, everyone's brother and their dog are all rolling there, including a lot of progression driven guilds. Action assured there, too.

I'd be glad to attend. This is a great way to make our start on Gilgamesh, and present ourselves as some cool guys who know our thees from our thous, and are just straight up good to play with. Yeldir is a goldsmith, and good jewelry is hard to find at the early levels, so I'll put together a fat stack of rings and shiny bits to distribute gratis for anyone who wants. I should stress that, as this server's first big event, it will definitely color how all the other groups on Gilgamesh see us. We need to do our best to be fun, welcoming and influsterable, so that we appear as a strong community that does bring fun and does not bring harm.

No, don't change it. Yeah, Gilgamesh will be total chaos. I'm not afraid of that, and we have the interesting challenge of building a community that can integrate peacefully with the colorful groups that will be making Gilgamesh their home with us. I'm strongly against the us vs. them mentality in that regard. I think Gilgamesh can be a great social hub for roleplayers, and that we can build a community that redefines how people see roleplayers in FFXIV, bringing new friends from unlikely places into our community. Gilgamesh is the place to do that, not Behemoth. Server locks are a real concern, though. Square has taken enough from the ingenuity of Vanilla WoW to know how to handle that. I'm sure we all have that classic queue-dance .swf bookmarked for the first week or two of launch...

Isn't it obvious? Some people want the split, for the split's own sake. Whether you think that's good, or bad, it is what it is. Now, this next bit is directed at everyone poised to make Gilgamesh their new home: I think our real concern now that many of us are invested in Gilgamesh to some extent, is how to make the best of things there. I made a Gilgamesh show yer rp pride post on the official forums, and it degenerated into mud-slinging so fast I didn't have time to find a hose. There is very real animosity waiting for us there, and we need to do something about it. I think we need to do something no one expects, or maybe even wants. We need to be inclusive and welcoming to the very groups people here are worried about. Reddit has a roleplay community, you know. They're as excited about this as we are. I think we, collectively, need to take special steps to show all of these new players that we are not the stereotypes they are dreading having to interact with - that we can be good in raids, that we respect how other people want to play, and so on... But most of all, that we're something they can appreciate and have fun with beyond event-crashing and nasty tells. These guys - they're the future of Gilgamesh, and we're the minority. I think - no, I believe with absolute certainty - that the success of our community on Gilgamesh depends on integrating well with the server's other inhabitants, with the intent of dispelling the stereotype of the gameplay-incompetent, lecherous, isolationist RPer. (If you need evidence of how strong this stereotype is in the minds of non-RP'ers, you need merely take a quick look at the thread in my sig.) How will we do this? We need a new kind of etiquette. We need to be open about our events, and we need to make them fun for casual observers and drop ins. The private-party exists to be crashed. Open doors, good humor, and an unflusterable sense of purpose cannot be crashed. When twenty or thirty randoms drop in just to see what we're doing, we need to have an attitude in our response to them that says "You have every right to be here; you do not break our immersion by being here, and we can improve yours. We are fun, and not a burden." In short, the easily-offended, elitist, isolationist roleplayer has got to go. When some trolls mobilize to crash events (and they will), we need to be able to laugh about it. Not ha-ha you're pathetic laugh, but genuine, bouyant, I think it's all good laugh. If we can do that, and respect how they want to play, they'll have the opportunity to look at RP in a new light. And if they do that, we'll have new recruits and new friends to tell tall tales with.

I. Basic Info Character: Yeldir Melfusor Linkshells: Limitless Sky, The Silver Anvil Primary RP linkshell: The Silver Anvil II. RP Style Amount of RP (light, medium, heavy): Light to Medium. I roleplay to accentuate and improve my game experience, and to further immerse myself in Eorzea and my character. I do not play FFXIV to roleplay. I roleplay because I am playing FFXIV. Expect to see me out of character in raids, duty finder, and FATEs, and in character everywhere else. If I am not clearing content, I can be approached at any time, any you can be assured of top quality banter. Yeldir is an off-beat intellectual type, and loves to discuss history, art, magic and architecture. Views on RP combat and injuries: At the discretion of the individuals involved. I do not generally involve myself in any RP combat that doesn't have a pre-arranged winner for the purpose of carrying a story forward. I have no interest in RP combat for other purposes. (This may change with the introduction game-based PVP combat.) Views on IC romance: :bomb: Views on non-romantic RP (family ties, etc): Harmless fun! Views on lore: I like to stay within FFXIV's canon. I am not opposed to extra-canonical elements, as long as they relate to and peacefully coexist with Eorzea and her story in a way that feels rooted in the game's lore, without contradicting anything important. Views on chat functions (/say, /linkshell, etc): Everyone is free to do as they like, as far as I'm concerned. I prefer to speak and act as Yeldir would in most situations, in any chat or channel. Respect the wishes of the people you're playing with, and everything sorts itself out. III. Other Info Country: USA Timezone: Central

The wipe is for accounts made for beta cycles 1-3, and to imported 1.0 accounts (legacy or otherwise). 1.0 characters were saved at the end of 1.0, and will be re-imported from that original save for beta 4. So anything 1.0 characters did after the final save is being wiped, but not the final save itself. 1.0 chars will be back in action as if beta's 1-3 never happened.

That sounds splendid, Eva! That's the one thing I've really been wanting to do - contrasting what others have written for themselves within the breadth of FF14's canon, and linking my stuff with theirs. Like plenty of others, I've tried to write an extra-canonical origin for Yeldir that avoids interfering with anyone else's works by virtue of isolation, which naturally fits into the Duskwight theme. It'd be fun if we all did a map at some point, as well. I don't have time to do a lengthy write-up at this exact moment (and I need a bit of time to review the new lore that has been released since I last played), but I will say that it plays on the canonical statement that the Elezen were the original inhabitants of Eorzea, before the (perceived) invasion by the Hyur. I've been trying correlate the Hyur migration and the subsequent dispersal of the Elezen civilization with the astral and umbral cycles - with partial success. Assuming I ever get around to really fleshing out Yeldir's story arc (and my interest increases with every Duskwight I meet =P), his story will feature this as a strong driving element - particularly the study of what his people retain in the seclusion of their cavern-homes, and how that relates to what they've lost. I think I'll gather up what I've noted reading about Eorzea's history, and how it relates to the Elezen, into a thread somewhere - when I have more free time. (I'm moving soon, so I'm dreadfully busy!) EDIT: I feel like I owe Oskar some proper recognition for his greetings. Hello! Thanks for posting. I notice most of you regulars are in Everwatch. What can you tell me about it?

Hah! It's a good thing we didn't do that last adventure in character, Derrick. Not sure how I'd RP Yeldir with a two foot hole in his chest. I think I found us a tank, though.

Yeah, more Elezen! Lore-wise, we're the original (and rightful) rulers of Eorzea. Are you Duskwight or Wildwood? I can tell you quite a lot about the two, particularly their relationship with the canonical history of Eorzea. My character is a Duskwight Elezen and an amateur Archeologist. I'd love to have a chat with you about this in character if you think this is something that would interest you.

Hi Benny. When it doubt, write what you know - you've got no stronger character, nor one you can understand better, than yourself. Sounds like you'd make a good jovial mercenary type, all butt-smacking, ale-swilling and axe-thwacking.

Thank you for the warm welcome. Pleased to meet you folks. Derrick - Why don't you tell me a little bit more about your character? How would he and Yeldir meet - arguing over wares in the shopping district? Or maybe you'd consider a bit of mercenary work? Aysun - I have a blast playing Yeldir. Tends to be real hit or miss for everyone else, though. He's either fascinating or irritating, without much in between. Nel - Have we met before? You seem familiar.

Hi. I'm returning to Hydaelyn to muck about for a bit before the impending Generic Fantasy Catayclsym. I'd like to Dalamud-gaze, try out some job quests, and make (another) big pile of gil on goldsmithing, and then waste it all on clothes for my man-dolly. My character, Yeldir, is an amateur archeologist/anthropologist with a bone to pick regarding the popularly accepted history of Eorzea. He originally hails from Bercedon, an (extra)canonical subterranean Duskwight city far beneath Thanalan. Bercedon is a city of isolation, tradition and overt racism that Yeldir finds stifling. He does most of his work in and around Ul'dah, although returning to his home city from time to time to study finds. He pays his way among the surface folk with a modest skill in Goldsmithing. Yeldir is convinced that he's on to something, but he can't really prove it, and this frustration really defines him as a character. He's a little snotty, as a result of this, but he loves to chat about what he does with anyone who will listen - actually, he likes to chat, period. This trait and the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Ul'dah make him feel at home there, although his mannerisms and attitude (and "foreign" sense of humor) make him a little awkward. (Write what you know. =P) I've got a badass arc written for him, but it may or may not ever be used. ... If you'd like to hang out with me in game, and would like to do a little light RP with Yeldir, speak up. We (He and I) like walks through Ul'dah, tea time and chit-chat by the fountains, scrounging for relics in awkward and difficult to reach locations, and finally blind, loot-mongering, point-increasing PvE. Yeldir will make for an entertaining companion in any endeavor if you enjoy a little bit of snark.