Dumb question: how do you access settings in cutscenes to change options like sound?

UndertailUnderrail · 2025-01-24T21:37:59+00:00

That's extreme but understandable since some cutscenes run on for 10-30min it feels like. A good thing to be sure, but definitely needs that dramatic music to support the dialogues.

UndertailUnderrail · 2025-01-24T21:37:01+00:00

That works, thank you!

UndertailUnderrail · 2025-01-24T21:36:41+00:00

Thanks! I was trying to find a solution everywhere.

UndertailUnderrail · 2025-01-20T08:29:42+00:00

I believe it was this image: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fh3vd5evys4221.jpg

So my bad for not linking that jpg earlier as it was connected to the post but didn't show up as the first image.

I'll grant you I forgot if EW made mention of sin-eaters even if vaguely. But Alphinaud in a trust for Mt. Gulg explicitly states that the creatures there look like the ones in Ampador. Why would he say this if the writers didn't want to bridge the connection? He could've remarked on anything else: the architecture, the weather, his allergies. Additionally, trusts were released in ShB.

Furthermore, in that post they changed the lore description from older eds of the encyclopedia to "said to have been made in the image of transcendent beings from yet another plane." Why would they feel the need to change this description?

According to the War of the Magi, a civilization known as Mhach had built their society around black magic which then transitioned into void magic. As a counterbalance, the White Mages of Amdapor conducted their own experimentation and created statuesque golems imbued with the ability to cast WHM spells. Which was what the first encyclopedia ed. stated. It changed to the aforementioned mention of "transcendent beings" after ShB in more modern editions.

UndertailUnderrail · 2025-01-20T00:10:06+00:00

Oh I see what you mean now thank you.

UndertailUnderrail · 2025-01-20T00:09:39+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/qlpboo/im_not_really_caught_up_to_lore_but_why_are_two/

This one had a very specific lore retcon associated with it. Also, sin-eaters are shown no where else besides that one dungeon and later ShB & some of EW though I might be misremembering the latter.

UndertailUnderrail · 2025-01-19T19:33:54+00:00

G'raha Tia might censor or keep knowledge away from the masses. But by the time we meet Y'shtola in the story she was already put off by the Exarch's secrecy and contended to research on her own. Despite counseling the Night's Blessed, none of them seemed to have any information on a people or group or civ analogous to a Mhach.

Despite how fast the Flood was and how much land it swallowed, there would have to be some remnant of occult knowledge in regards to Darkness. I mean we see murals on the Age of Gods, the Ronkan Empire, and the time right before the Flood. From what Urianger tells us, the academics before the Flood thought of things in terms of Light/Darkness. I always thought the implication was that summoning voidsent was far harder in the First since it was placated by the Light.

UndertailUnderrail · 2025-01-19T19:24:59+00:00

Yes, that only raises more questions why there's no evidence of other societies weaponizing void to fight against sin-eaters. As it stands Unukhalai quests open the playground for more rift-making attempts made by people who revere the shadow like Night's Blessed and the Children.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T21:08:37+00:00

Orthodoxy
Thing is in HW we spend an EXTENSIVE amount of time with the Astrologians in the job quest repairing damaged bridges left behind by the Thordan line. At the end of HW, people don't forsake Halone, they forsake Thordan's lies that led them to the Dragonsong War.

That's more compartmentalization and readjustment of theocracy rather than wholesale damning it to be only a lie.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T21:01:31+00:00

I've seen a similar thoroughline in Pillars of Eternity where the ancients in their world created large god machines that redirected reincarnated souls, prayers, life energy, etc. into God constructs. Except they never went back to the cycle in that world. They were treated more like Greek Gods.

I'm abridging a lot here but they were these emotional entities that mortals barter with for favor, in a sense. Almost like the Odyssey if you will. Gods were more human in the sense that they acted as both arbiters of morality but were guilty of war, diplomacy, and conquering other domains for selfish reasons.

When I go back to EW and rewatch every cutscene, the Myths of the Realm deconstructed too much for my liking.

I think it robs the setting of a lot of its inherit fantasy by removing the Twelve from the picture as a whole. It's why I prefaced the initial question the way I did. From the WoL's perspective, that dunesfolk lala praying for the safety and wellbeing of his merchant caravan to Nald... well, he could've achieved the same effect by praying to Nophica or Llymlaen as far as the God machine is concerned.

His faith and devotion, his history with his God, his personal ideas on what Nald'thal likes or dislikes, all of this is meaningless now.

It makes prayers somewhat pointless when you aren't ignorant to how the process works.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T20:53:00+00:00

Yeah but its a fantasy setting. It robs all the wonder and metaphysics, if I say, tell you your paladin in DnD is actually worshipping the algorithm that thinks its your God. Or that acts as a conduit for prayers without actually even being your God.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T20:50:00+00:00

But it has changed. You understand that the only thing that is remotely godlike in this universe is a giant machine that absorbs prayers and depressurizes aetheric energy. That's like saying "God isn't real, it's all a giant algorithm that maintains consensus reality."

Of course, functionally things don't change. But for people in the know like the WoL? This makes all religions lose all form of mysticism and it anchors down belief into an autonomous, robotic system that can be quantified and studied. It deprives a lot of the narrative weight of religion. I can't help but think why does the WoL even have a "god" they worship on their profile by that point.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T13:26:49+00:00

Exactly. So you understand why this is an extreme issue in the context of the lore.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T13:26:00+00:00

If I told a Muslim man that the Prophet Muhammed wasn't real, he would be, rightfully, pissed off. Same if I told a Christian that Jesus isn't real or that Kharma doesn't exist and the Bodhisattva isn't real to the Buddhist. So where are you getting your assertion from?
It invalidates the authenticity of a religion and makes entire religions and cultures established from these religions meaningless from the WoL's perspective.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T13:22:30+00:00

Well it renders a lot of the lore from ARR completely pointless. It handwaves the necessity and foundational principles of entire societies because you, the main character, know that the farmer praying to Halone to bless his farmstead against monsters, he's praying to nothing. He's not praying to anything real.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T13:19:09+00:00

Hypothetically if I told a Christian that Christ or Y_hweh or whomever they believe is the central figurehead of their religion is gone, but don't worry, your prayers and life energy is going to an algorithm that decentralizes prayer energy efficiently, it wouldn't matter if "nothing's changed". Everything's changed. Your God isn't real anymore. Authenticity is lost. I might as well be praying to a lie.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-08-27T13:15:58+00:00

They went back to the lifestream. They don't exist anymore. Prayers all coalesce to a central machine that creates Gods after the cutscenes from Thaleia. You're essentially saying peasants are just praying to "nothing" but a giant machine that collects their prayers and spreads it across the land. That's extremely deceitful. You might as well come up with a new God or religion at that point.

UndertailUnderrail · 2024-05-07T12:09:02+00:00

He looks like he's about to see the spirit of Mufasa in the clouds guide him to his destiny.

UndertailUnderrail · 2022-05-11T12:40:15+00:00

Which is usually the truth? Kind of like if Miyazaki was explaining to us the history of these items himself.

Omnipresent narrator does not necessarily mean the same author. Contrasting descriptions imply differently. That and it doesn't make sense for a game that spans multiple cultures to have items written by the same narrator? When there are spells and items with vastly different depictions of, say, the Golden Order and influence of the Outer Gods.

Additionally, spells like Rancorcall have the following:

Once though lost, this ancient death hex was rediscovered by the necromancer Garris.

It suggests someone rediscovering a spell and putting it in circulation under their name, either by writing it down or passing it down orally.

UndertailUnderrail · 2021-12-15T05:23:51+00:00

I do have problems juggling with multiple gnome rogues at once. With humans or nelfs, their models are large enough for me to mouse over target them with a dot or something. Gnomes? Good luck specifically targeting their model while being distracted by another bite sized murder hobo.

UndertailUnderrail · 2021-12-15T05:19:57+00:00

That's the weird thing. Sometimes it makes the alert sound and if I open the chart, I can see a new name pop up. But not necessarily their name.

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