FFXIV Adventure Log : Gridania

The Great Forest

I like Gridania. The greenery of it is always peaceful. Out of the three nations this is definitely my favorite. Might have to do with being a White Mage, mind you. I was a Conjurer when I arrived in Eorzea, but then I trained into the arts of Paladinship and Archery. I also recently added Arcany to my skills, although it's not my favorite. I like being rounded up. That's why I am training at Thaumaturgy and Black Magic as well. That way I can fill most roles that my friends might need help in.

I started my adventures in Uldah. It's much more brick and castle-style. It has its own charms, but it's not as relaxing. But the people there were nice, with Papashaun and the others always ready to help out. But once I reached the higher ranks of the Immortal Flames, I felt I had to move to learn more about the world too.

So I enlisted under the Twin Adders, as I currently am. A Lieutenant, I reached the higher ranks again. So I think I will be trying my luck with the Maelstrom next. Just to have my name known in all three armies. But I'll keep my home in Gridania still.

My Free Company, Dimensional Death, has passed some votes on where we might build our headquarters when we mass the money for it. Which we're not quite near enough for yet, but one day. We wanted to test the pulse of our teammates though. It seems pretty split, I have no idea where we will go. My vote is still at Gridania though.

Ultima in all of its fearsome glory

My friends needed my healing powers for an Ultima tonight. Well, the Bard Tale's version of it. While the Ultima we defeated, the one controlled by the Garleans, was a pretty mean fight, the recreation of the Bard is even beyond that. I am not sure what he imagined hearing the tale of my battle against it, but it definitely was not that stressful either! Epic fight mayhaps, but bards do tend to exaggerate the deed. Fortunately, recreating this story doesn't put my life in danger, but it is quite the exploit to win over once more.

We had a few repeated performances too, all victories. Got myself a shiny new choker for my bow-wielder too.

Shiny!

In no particular order, all Dimensional Death
Ayasu Lemieux, Saithe Laiste, Taber Tia, Cissnei Shisune, Laude Thievenaix, Beau Quitone and Fae Lindae

Also got a Band of Fending, Band of Striking, Choker of Fending and Choker of Casting too. All nice upgrades for our team exploring the depth of the Coils of Bahamut tomorrow.

FFXIV Adventure Log : While waiting

This is the first entry, so I'm not sure what to write. I've been travelling and adventuring in Eorzea for already how long? But they told me that I should keep a log of my adventures and people I meet. So, guess it's better late than never they say, right?

So what to write about...

Well, when I got out of the inn room today, I went on my usual daily tasks. Building reputation with the beastmen tribes is a chore, but someone has to help them. Well, by them, the Sylphs. I had to give some milkroot to some tipsy sylphs. I'm unsure if it was the milkroot or something else making them more tipsy, but oh well.

This is what they call sleeping on the job.

After that, my friends got ready for a run of Crystal Towers. Well, the Labyrinth of Ancients, at least. We haven't managed to find the way deeper yet, but we can visit that area for battle experience and some equipment. I had been watching for a chance to get more pieces for my Armor of Light set, but lucky, I got them today!

Spoils of war

But before we even got in, I stumbled upon a big bad guy while I had just finished a Duty Roulette as a Black Mage. Lazy Lawrence. Big mean Ochu, and no tanks in sight, he ate me like a snack. But I still managed to get a prize from it. This little cuddly thing here.

Other than adorable, not much to say about this.

But I already had one, so I couldn't use it, But while waiting on another Duty Roulette, I found someone that wanted to adopt it. Lucky thing! Kimiko, one of our newest recruits. She's working on getting Titan down for her first Relic, so we're all behind her of course!

Nice chest... Armor, I mean armor.

She's sporting alot of Darklight, but I think she's one of those that don't like the Darklight armor. So she's wearing the Lord's Cuirass. I must say, its rather stylish too. Ifrit's sword too, hopefully she can turn that into a lovely glowing Curtana soon!

Shortly after I got my Duty Roulette invite, so I had to leave her off. I stumbled on an Ifrit attempt, in progress. Which was odd, the healer was missing. Chatting a bit with them, it seems like the entire party got shuffled for some reason. 20 minutes gone, and it was a new party of 4. How odd. But we went for an easy victory afterwards, so can't complain too much either!

Belarosa Bellicosus, Jailbait Jonny and Xvim Shadewhisper.

There is much to do in Eorzea, even when you are already highly experienced. Lots of people to meet! Hope I got more to write next time.

FFXIV ARR : Adventure Log

Well, its already been 5 years since I last updated this blog it seems. But since its still here, might as well put it to good use!

I've had this idea for a while, but never gone around to actually working it in. I wanted to make a sort of 'adventure log' back in FFXI, but then the daily grind didn't really inspire me. But FFXIV is gorgeous, so I'll try to make this into a daily dose of In-Character reflections, Screenshots of the various travels and undertaking, people that I meet, but also things about my friends and Free Company.

For now I don't have much to say, but let's begin by an introduction to my character. Meet, Celedh Knight.

This is her Lodestone picture, so its probably going to change looks if you refresh it once in a while.

She started on Sargatanas in 1.0, under the name of Lifa Lockhart, which is a name I used in several places online, mostly in Role Playing communities. But by the time Beta of 2.0 arrived, I realized that it would be misconstrued as a miswriting of a well known character, so I changed it up. I used the name Celedh that I had in FFXI, and added Knight, which is both reference to my usual online nickname that you see here, and also a valid Hyur surname that I saw on lore-accurate name generators before official launch. I kept her looks as a sorta Tifa-lookalike without being too close either. Its in line with the general appearance of previously named Lifa Lockhart.

The name Celedh doesn't have anything special behind it. I used it in FFXI because I didn't want to be known as a "knight" when I could be a white mage, or plain as "Franck" in a fantasy world. So I looked up some old D&D character sheets and found this name that I had found through some online name generator. I figured it would work. It ended up being rather unique, even doing a Google search on it pretty much points only to things I've done. As a note, people pronounce it like "Cell-ed", but it looks Gaelic so it should be closer to "Say-lee" probably. Anyway, not gonna argue, I'm French :P

I didn't have much 1.0 experience, but I played long enough to get a power level to the 30s so I could get my Goobue Mount. I was a level 33 Gladiator that wasn't strong enough to unlock Paladin at the time, but completed most of the quests found in the 3 main cities. Conjurer 15, Marauder 15 to round up the abilities. I also had time to get all of the Summerfest yukatas, fortunately.

Now she's on the Excalibur server, Level 50 White Mage, Paladin, Bard and Scholar (Summoner is adequately geared but not much experience playing it).

Celedh's Diary will start tomorrow, recounting what will happen this evening. See you soon!