Zodiark

Yoshida privately said that he had some personal anxiety about what order to do the expansions in and when to end the story.

Because he doesn't want people to think that when Hydaelyn and Zodiark ends, that the game is over.

So I've been expecting a shock and awe level pitch to keep playing the game for years.

And when the time finally came to do post-Endwalker, and it was the New World, I was like, perfect choice.

I don't even know what.

But we were fighting this thing named Zodiark, and it's the first time we're all seeing this.

Oh, yeah.

This is the release of the expansion.

There are 13 reflections of our world.

And Hydaelyn and Zodiark had like a little like kerfuffle.

And that's why there are shards.

And her powers are waning significantly, so much so that Minfilia could no longer maintain her.

It was the culmination of, you know, a decade plus of Final Fantasy XIV storytelling, multiple expansions.

He wrapped up the Hydaelyn and Zodiark story arc, for the most part, dealt with the Ascians and took care of old femme boy samurai, Zenos himself.

And then we get to Dawn Trail.

And in Dawn Trail, basically, you meet a lady by the name of Wook Lamont.

This would be really good with the Hydalin card.

Hydalin and Zodiark.

Drawing off your legendary spells.

But again, the Final Fantasy set is totally a...

It can't

be Zodiark.

That can't be Zodiark.

I mean, it could be if she was really- No, it

wasn't Zodiark.

It was the different, it was the one in the Osmond Plain so you can walk into a mine.

Oh yeah, the Zertinian Caverns.

Yeah, Crystal, there's level 67 bats in there and all they do is hit you with drain to hurt you and heal them for about 2,000 to 2,500 a pop.

So there are Final Fantasy XIV worlds overall.

As the Ascians are trying to restore Zodiark whole from the Shards, they seek the Rejoining, which is another name for the Calamities.

And each Calamity in our world marks a Rejoining, which we already have known to some extent, but this is all spelled out now in clear terms, but also it's such a fucking info dump, it's hard to really

parse

Being dicks.

Evil schemers, not for being zealots for its own.

Well, actually, in this case, they are still zealots because Zodiark bad, evil dark god, etc.

Yeah,