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The Steppes are some of my favorite quests, zone, and dungeon. They also built a PVP arena based on the Steppes and it shows up in the rotation for PVP Duty Roulette. But talking more about it would spoiler future events.
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The land is lovely, the music is gorgeous, the Steppe is just one of my favourite places to vibe in.
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Sep 18, 2022 01:23
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YggiDee posted:The land is lovely, the music is gorgeous, the Steppe is just one of my favourite places to vibe in. Ironically I was so into the world building in the Steppes I didn't really stop to appreciate the great music until later.
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Sep 18, 2022 01:36
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Hooray, the Steppes!
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Sep 18, 2022 01:38
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Sep 18, 2022 02:13
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Was it posted on the website or was it part of one of the Encyclopedia Eorzea that outlines every single Xaela tribe?
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Sep 18, 2022 02:17
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The only problem I have with The Steppes is that the Tribal Quest line doesn't give you a horse
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Sep 18, 2022 02:17
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SirPhoebos posted:Steppes are great. To build on the FF6 references... one of the characters was a samurai named Cyan (Kaien), who had a wife named Mina and a son named Shun.  Though if that sounds unfamiliar, in older translations they were Elayne and Owain, for some reason.
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Sep 18, 2022 02:39
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A fun fact and I forget if it's been brought up, but: In Final Fantasy 6, one of your allies was Cyan, from the kingdom of Doma, who lost his wife Elayne and Owain...in English. In the OG Japanese, it was indeed Kaien, who lost his wife Mina and his son Shun! The Steppes were such a breath of fresh air for me. This is the part I felt the "travelogue" aspect of Othard actually did pay off, in large part because we're not here to deal with ten stacking "open a door" problems, but to actually learn about the people who live there and experience the land they live in. Also, fantasy Mongolia isn't done too often, and is often done extremely poorly, with little more characterization then "horses and bloodlust," and the amount of detail the game is willing to go into here to truly buck that trend was deeply appreciated. It's my own favorite part of Othard, and I'd wager a lot of other peoples', too. EDIT:  Timing!
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Sep 18, 2022 02:39
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Excited to see what jobs Kheris goes for next. I hope she studies the blade!Melomane Mallet posted:To build on the FF6 references... one of the characters was a samurai named Cyan (Kaien), who had a wife named Mina and a son named Shun. Ted Woolsey's translation went full on Olde Englishe for Cyan (Mr. Thou!), so they went for more Arthurian names for his wife and kid. Rythian fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Sep 18, 2022 02:41
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lmao
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Sep 18, 2022 02:46
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My understanding for FFVI is that Cyan spoke in the ultra-archaic samurai pronouns, (because of course Japan has those), and it was translated as Ye Olde English* because there's only so much you can do with those tiny tiny text boxes. *I think it's Early Modern English or something but I don't know if anyone actually cares
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Sep 18, 2022 02:59
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Mordiceius posted:Was it posted on the website or was it part of one of the Encyclopedia Eorzea that outlines every single Xaela tribe? It may have been posted, but it originates from the first encyclopedia eorzea.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:11
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Oh right, there's a tribe of Xaela that marry horses. That's why the guy wanted that brush, they're supposed to treat their horses like their spouses.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:15
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quote:If we will, it won’t be in the next quest. Lyse was paired up with a squad of children for her task. Since they live on a vast plain, there’s not exactly an abundance of trees for firewood, so we’re collecting dung. At last, FF14 gives me the one piece of content I was most missing from World of Warcraft, Poop Collection quests! Point of order: this is at least the third or fourth time the WoL has been sent out to collect poop, though I forget if it is the first MSQ-required occasion. It is practically Our Hero's canonical hobby at this point. The Steppes is a gorgeous zone with chill music, and it's a fun place to just hang out in from time to time to relax. And yeah, Hien almost immediately checks out on pretty much every positive thing Yugiri and Gosetsu have mentioned about him, so it's clear why they think so highly of him. And on top of all that, he's hot. His outfit somewhat infamously has some pixellation issues up close though, due to running up against the limits of the engine when it comes to texture quality with that many different colors. Cirina is a treasure, though mainly due to things that haven't happened yet. I am also looking forward to Kheris finally Studying The Blade (and perhaps an entire post-length digression on the names of the actions).
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Sep 18, 2022 03:20
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Wrestlepig posted:the azim steppe owns. Its really great to see a depiction of steppe peoples and culture that manages to be fantastic without feeling a shallow schtick. They do trend towards eccentricity but stormblood really needs a depiction of vibrant, unoppressed culture at this point. Each tribe has really unusual ways of doing things because nobody's beaten it out of them. I play a Xaela, and I kind of knew about the Azim Steppe before I created the character, but my reaction to the Steppe was very much, "Yes, my character is from here, these are my people. Give me some more giant epic battles please!" My characters entire backstory as I've developed it was that her lover wandered into Doma and got killed by Imperial soldiers, so she left to get revenge, but caused enough of a ruckus that she decided that returning to the Steppe would possibly draw the Empire's attention there. So she went to Eorzea instead because it was the one place she knew that was still fighting the Empire. I love the Steppe, it's the best zone in StB by a long shot imo. We haven't even encountered my favorite character yet either. They packed a LOT of lore into the Steppe, and supplemental materials have added even more.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:23
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Sanguinia posted:It is fitting for him to be on this level. Hien’s name in Japanese means ‘swallow in flight,’ and in samurai lore, very few birds are as revered as the swallow. While the title of “greatest swordsman of Japan,” is as debatable as in any other nation, the shortlist would have to include the author of the Book of the Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi. The swallow is connected with the man said to be Musashi’s greatest rival, Kojiro Sasaki. Legend has it that the man once observed a swallow in flight (eh? EH?!) while crossing a bridge, and based on the movements of its tail, he created the Tsubame Gaeshi. i remember a while back reading the wikipedia about Musashi and Kojiro and thinking to myself, wait a minute, I have heard those names before... they're the japanese names of Jesse and James in team rocket
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Sep 18, 2022 03:31
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If there's one good thing I can say about Yotsuyu, she hasn't gone full Kefka on Doma. Granted, that might be because of Zenos, but still. Either way, here's Hien, who might very well just be Cyan from VI. He's alright, I suppose, though his outfit is odd.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:38
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You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to Yotsuyu.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:40
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I stumbled upon naming my character's surname Qestir through the random name generator, so imagine my surprise when the Steppes introduce the silent neutral Qestir tribe who oversaw Reunion. Which immediately led to me re-evaluating my character as having been masterly pantomiming every time she's spoken.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:43
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I love the Azim Steppe. I love all the characters you meet in this zone.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:44
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Major characters in the Steppe being deeply religious shouldn't really be a surprise. This part of the main story had Ishikawa as the main writer, the woman who wrote the DRK stories, wrote Ysayle back in HW, and went on to be the lead writer for Shadowbringers and Endwalker. And she has something of a type for her main characters.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:47
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Allarion posted:I stumbled upon naming my character's surname Qestir through the random name generator, so imagine my surprise when the Steppes introduce the silent neutral Qestir tribe who oversaw Reunion. Which immediately led to me re-evaluating my character as having been masterly pantomiming every time she's spoken. God that's beautiful.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:57
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Mordiceius posted:Was it posted on the website or was it part of one of the Encyclopedia Eorzea that outlines every single Xaela tribe? At the very least info on the major tribes was posted up on the official forums https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/63112-Race-Naming-Conventions To help people wanting lore appropriate names for their Au Ra PCs
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Sep 18, 2022 04:38
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I loving LOVE the steppes and I'm glad to see you here. I recall some of the sidequests being VERY interesting indeed too. I play a Xaela, so it was neat seeing a zone of "my people", even though my character was clearly an outsider (I don't even have a traditional Xaela tribe name). In the end, I decided that the reason my WoL tends to be so quiet is because her grandfather was a Qestir who never abandoned his tribe's disdain of words. She, not being raised there, is quite comparatively a chatterbox. and, yes, Hien! FF6 is my favorite game in the series and hearing the Doma theme blasting out when he was introduced made me grin from ear to ear.
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Oh my god I just noticed the edit, this is wonderous. EDIT: Thundarr posted:I am also looking forward to Kheris finally Studying The Blade (and perhaps an entire post-length digression on the names of the actions). Me-di-ta-te ProfessorCirno fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Sep 18, 2022 06:26
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FuturePastNow posted:I love the Azim Steppe. I love all the characters you meet in this zone.  I'm another one who just loves this zone and the people in it. I picked a Xaela Au Ra for my character, knowing nothing about this place, so it made me really happy to get such an awesome background filled in for me.
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Sep 18, 2022 09:47
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FuturePastNow posted:I love the Azim Steppe. I love all the characters you meet in this zone. It's my favourite zone in Stormblood for a lot of reasons but the characters are delightful. I'd completely forgotten those prophecies though. hoo boy they hit different having finished Shadowbringers and Endwalker.
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Sep 18, 2022 10:28
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Hooray, steppe time! This is still one of my favorite zones in the game to just chill out in.
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Sep 18, 2022 17:01
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Staggy posted:I'd completely forgotten those prophecies though. hoo boy they hit different having finished Shadowbringers and Endwalker. For Various Reasons that made sense at the time I started a playthrough on an alt a while ago, and I know exactly which line you mean and boy did it hit like a brick.
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Sep 18, 2022 17:10
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So, when I was making my Xaela, I picked from the Tribe list and went with Qerel, so it wasn't until the Stormblood Warrior questline that I ended up actually solidifying my girl's backstory. On a somewhat hilarious note, when deciding on a first name, I read that because the Steppe tribes don't have a formal system of writing, you'll often meet Xaela with very similar names who spell them very differently if they must be written. So I looked at a list of Xaela names, and ended up picking "Serena" for her name...as a variation of "Cirina." Needless to say, I was a bit surprised when I arrived at the Steppe.
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Sep 18, 2022 20:24
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I heard a story about a character who either predated Stormblood story events in the Steppe or didn't think it was a big deal named Cirina Oronir. The poor girl got hit on (harassed) everywhere she went from Oronir Roleplayers.
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Sep 18, 2022 20:37
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Kwyndig posted:I heard a story about a character who either predated Stormblood story events in the Steppe or didn't think it was a big deal named Cirina Oronir. The poor girl got hit on (harassed) everywhere she went from Oronir Roleplayers. You remember this anecdote because they're a goon lol
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Sep 18, 2022 20:41
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Ran Rannerson posted:I love final fantasy 14 sheep. They’re identifiably sheep but they’ve got enough weird about them that they’re a fun fantasy thing instead of just normal-rear end sheep. It's the new Japanese standard for sheep, between this game and Pokemon and at least one other title I've seen. 
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Sep 18, 2022 21:11
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Kwyndig posted:I heard a story about a character who either predated Stormblood story events in the Steppe or didn't think it was a big deal named Cirina Oronir. The poor girl got hit on (harassed) everywhere she went from Oronir Roleplayers. I was fortunately never harassed but I also went into stormblood with a character I started in Heavensward and let me tell you, sharing a name with a major story npc can make conversations very confusing.
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Sep 19, 2022 07:00
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Hien's interesting because he comes off as so "charismatic", for lack of a better word, so quickly. We've known him for all of 2 seconds by this point, and he's already immediately likable. For all FFXIV is talked about as having a ton of text, it's kind of funny how to the point their characters can sometimes be. Although we are kind of pre-primed to like him given the way other characters speak of him.
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AncientSpark posted:Hien's interesting because he comes off as so "charismatic", for lack of a better word, so quickly. We've known him for all of 2 seconds by this point, and he's already immediately likable. I kinda think this is a posture, though, or to be more accurate Hien performs charisma consistently. It's not that it's insincere per se, it's that he's very deliberately chosen to cultivate his personality to be the Charismatic Prince. He's likable because he wants to be liked - but note that within minutes of meeting him he's already talking about co-opting a third party and getting them to become his army, dying to reclaim his homeland to not necessarily much direct benefit of their own, while also explicitly lending aid to a relatively weak tribe so they get the credit for it instead of the tribe's own warriors. Stormblood isn't exactly a realpolitik story in the 4.0 questline - it's still very much a Story of Glorious Revolt - but it's also a story that is at least occasionally gesturing towards revolutions and war being a calculated, often ruthless process behind the stirring speeches and big Hollywood moments (such as the explicit mention of killing conscripts back in the Fringes), so I always look at Hien's big spontaneous gestures as not necessarily spontaneous at all. Jetrauben fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Sep 19, 2022 |
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Sep 19, 2022 18:55
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Yeeeees. The Azim Steppe is great. The Xaela are great. Cirina, in particular, is great. Hien is only okay but that's okay because everything else about this place is great.
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Sep 19, 2022 21:26
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I like Hien but I will admit he is a hard motherfucker when he needs to be. Need an army? Coop a sacred ritual combat that determines who will lead for the year in a mostly ceremonial position and rely on the concentrated power of the WoL to pull it off.
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hien is a little bit too Generic Protagonist Shaped Object for my tastes, but they can't all be gems
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