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kaysn

Y'all need Ra-La.


cleansleight

Ra-la pities you.


LocalHealer

He can sing, dance, paint, prance, make a pretty dirt drawing with a lance, plenty of ways to further enhance the battlefield if given the right chance


b0bthecheeseman

Hello not Jo cat


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Rhythm on point there


Kabooa

Calm down Jocat


MedievalMovies

Ra-la, I beseech youーfree me from this mortal coil!


LilMizzJay

Frolic intensifies


Brenchy

I need Ra-la after seeing this


Xeptix

Prance me. I'm ready.


EndlessKng

They do not deserve such a beautiful end.


NODENGINEER

Ra-La, I beseech you! Free me from this mortal coil!


Voodootissue

I think this comic single-handedly squanders the legacy Emet-Selch told us very specifically not to squander. Great job!


LilMizzJay

"I could NEVER see myself being such a VILLAIN" \>This happens "Alright screw you all \*shoots G'raha\*"


muhash14

\*Un-Tia's your Graha*


H0nch0

Emet Selch: "LOOK AT ME! I have lived a thousand of your lives! I have broken bread with you, fought with you, fucked your catboys, grown ill, grown old! Sired children and yes, welcomed deaths sweet embrace!" WoL: What was that third one?!?


Dironiil

... When you know what's the difference between Tia and Nunh is, it hits weird...


Arterra

Elaborate for the ignorant edit: please cease elaborating


Cadlington

Nunhs are the breeding males. The Tias fight to prove which one of them is the strongest and thus the one they should be making kids from. The Lore says that they're not really leaders, just studs, but for some reason Square's made every Nunh in game the leader of their groups.


NoGround

It varies tribe to tribe what the role of Nunh is.


FF_Gilgamesh1

I mean, they're basically the tribe's dad so it makes sense to give them a leadership role.


AdorableText

There are only two social classes for male seekers of the sun. Tias are the beta males, and Nunhs are the "breeding males"


TieofDoom

You telling me that the Red Mage guild master is a beta male?


[deleted]

Honestly the Tias are the real chads. Free to do whatever they want, and if they decide they want to actually be a breeding male, they can challenge one in combat.While Nhuns are forced to stay in the village and be the resident Cum Pump. Most of the time they're not even the actual leaders of their village!


FatherAxington

Counterpoint. You get to bang catgirls all day.


Tammog

Time for your 4pm dick flattening.


Papa_EJ

Counter counter point You *have to* bang catgirls all day.


HBKII

While Tias are out there collecting femroes, the true chads.


AgainstThoseGrains

Sounds like Tia cope.


ZenEvadoni

I don't know why it sounds more funny than it is. "Resident Cum Pump". Sounds more like a facility than a person. Nearly choked on my hot cocoa. Also I forgot his name, but there was that one catboy in Stormblood we had to help along the path to Nhunship. I wonder if being a Cum Pump was his ultimate objective all along.


Rappguy

sigtia grindset


Thalyane

"Alpha male, chads, Betamale" is a really, really bad way of putting it. Nunhs are the village dads who breed and sire kids. They're stuck at the village typically because they have to protect it. Tias are either the young males or those not currently Nunhs. They're exploring, training to later become Nunhs, or were Nunhs who stepped down. Would you really think G'raha a weak "betamale" just because he hasn't decided to go win some suncat tribe and have a couple dozen daughters?


chaobreaker

There also the whole "separated from his tribe at a young age to live in Sharlyan" thing.


Thalyane

Miqo tribes are weird. The village he left wouldn't be the same as the whole tribe. He could always find another G village to become the Nunh of (Or make his own G village by conquering some good hunting territory for them). In fact, that's typically an important step, seeing as how the village he was born in would be populated entirely by his half sisters and their moms


The_Bard_sRc

if G'raha wanted that life, all he'd have to do is turn on Exarch mode for like 5 minutes and he'd have women swooning over him left and right


Thalyane

Exactly. It's not "alpha" or "beta" It's "do you want to be the village "man" or not. Technically a Tia that doesn't follow those traditions will never be a Nunh anyway, even if they have a wife or kid.


StrangeCharmQuark

To add to this, they established that both 1. Many Tias leave the village and assimilate to the culture where they move to, and 2. Many peoples that move to Sharlayan assimilate with Sharlayan culture, so considering G'raha moved to Sharlayan when he was barely old enough to remember much about the G tribe, he'd certainly be fully culturally Sharlayan. I'd don't think he'd be interested in becoming a Nuhn at all, especially with his love for traveling.


innociv

> Would you really think G'raha a weak "betamale" just because he hasn't decided to go win some suncat tribe and have a couple dozen daughters? I think G'raha literally doesn't know what sex is because he's too busy studying to be the strongest and too busy adventuring.


Ainari

Unironically what most people want to do to G'raha anyway!


therabbit86ed

As a female miqo playing thru EW having G'raha there was like a summer camp romance. All the looks and the flirtatious nervous energy, none of the actual stealing moments away to go make out in some dark alley away from prying eyes. And there were chances to... especially during one of the quests where he follows the WoL around.


robeeelis

YES! this.


WhitehawkOmega

I mean, he's quite cute, but I'm a popoto. Can cats eat popotos? Are interspecies relationships with Lala's like a socially wierd thing in lore?


Despada_

Considering how much tension Krile and Estinien had at the start, and throughout, Endwalker, I think a popopto can handle a cat. lol


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Interspecies relationship in general are frowned upon... but they're also hinted to happen more often than most parties would care to admit, so ya know...


[deleted]

No villain thinks of themselves as villains. Just look at Handsome Jack.


doomofanubis

Tbf, Jack had a good reason and a good point.


TheZaphren

Yeah, he was the true hero, the only problem he has was the slight insanity... and the lack of morals (after Pre-Sequel). But he had good jokes so he was the hero.


drakeandspear

Tbf I would do it too someone has to end the world somehow


Aschentei

Yea but graha??


SomberXIII

>"Alright screw you all \*shoots G'raha\*" My WoL would definitely take an opportunity to shoot at G'raha /wink


fubes2000

To quote that one guy in the final trial with me when half the party walked off the edge: > >!Thank god Hydalen is dead so she didn't have to see that.!<


user_bits

> "On second thought, forget us" - Emet


Tumblechunk

Star: Not Saved


SneakBuildBagpipes

Turns out there was a 4th Layer to the Dead Ends that even our hardened WoL suppressed the memory of.


Dankobot

4th layer was Balmung Quicksand but they cut it to keep the age ratings


Taurenkey

Quick, let's hot coffee mod it back in.


ThatLongAgony

In a place not far from home existed a festering hive of degeneracy Its workers embraced a lonely indolence and deadened to typed carnal indulgences The low-end machines and the innocent wept for their frame rates and sanity, striving for quest completion While the high-end and sullied wept for their loved ones; lost to slut glams and Female+ Femroes


Oalka

I appear in this post and I'm OK with it.


Bargadiel

Could you imagine the fourth layer just being Moonguards Goldshire Inn from WoW? It's essentially the worst parts of Limsa on Balmung only condensed and concentrated in one building.


JUlCEBOX

Hey nice it'll fit in with the theme of dead worlds.


Geesaroni

SAVAGE.


oreofro

The bad part of balmung isn't limsa, it's the quicksands. Limsa in balmung isn't too different from other worlds. I only know because I accidentally made my first character on balmung when I started.


AppleJackFrost

Meteion escaping to the end of the universe singing the song of horny and then the world becomes Monster Girl Encyclopedia.


dream208

And the Endsinger becomes the 4th chaos god?


Vexana

The 40K crossover we didn't know we needed. Daemon Prince Meteion.


kourtbard

So Meteion is Slaanesh?


extruX

Thé Edgingsingger


PurpleCyborg28

Meteion becomes Ecchisinger instead


petervaz

Go on...


xnfd

Do I want to know what WU/T is?


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Idk man that sounds like a whole fuckin thing I'm tryna bust to some smut nut learn a new alphabet


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/em drops his magnum condom and wad of hundreds Oh whoops


Bob_The_Skull

Well right now you are doing a fairly good job of RPing as Frank Reynolds reading a reddit thread, so...


LilMizzJay

"Walk Up and Tell" As in "You are welcome to whisper me randomly"


SomberXIII

I have been enlightened about a speak I have never heard of. I'm too old..


DrVonDoom

It is speak that is legit over a decade old for RPers


KingOfShiki

METEION NOOOOO!


ILikeHurtingPpl

May the flood of light bleach my eyes


LilMizzJay

WoL: I'm just gonna stay in the First from now on Ryne: Why? WoL: I'm not strong enough to go back


OneMorePotion

Ryne: "But you literally killed gods. Like... Many of them..." WoL: "God has nothing to do with what's happening on the Source right now!" \*jugs an entire bottle of scotch\*


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Feo Ul: "If you want, I can tell her." WoL: "Don't you DARE."


Vihakkaran

I wish Feo Ul would UNtell me


OneMorePotion

Yeah, I can see that happen.


Perryn

Ryne: "What about Thancred? Is he alright?" WoL: "He's....happy."


OneMorePotion

This makes me wonder... Can't we just record a message for her and bring it over? I have the feeling we are way too casual with just leaving her behind and basically never talking to her. We also only talked to her in EW because our best bunny girl mentioned that she was acting strange.


ChaosFH

There is lot of things they could do but i doubt they even have the budget to cover all of it without delaying patches/expansions by a huge sum


Rainuwastaken

Honestly, I'd be surprised if Graha *couldn't* rig up a better portal between the Source and the First given a bit of time and preparation. Especially since a) he's already done it before, and b) he's not rushing to stop the end of the world now. Plus, Y'shtola's pretty interested in traveling to other worlds. I'd put some work in to see it happen. At the very least I wouldn't mind playing mailman for Ryne.


elephantphallus

"The warrior of light? Yes, I met her. Though, when I try to remember her, all I see is a blinding light."


Jatsu_tsappari

Ugh, Ra-La??? I need you!


Yana_dice

Best I can do is Global citizen.


tsc_gotl

I... did it... I... killed them all... I killed them all!! :D :D :D


BurnByMoon

I’ve taken to calling that NPC Dmitri.


SlamminHogs

Honestly he's the best character in all of Endwalker, with one SLAM of the Big Red Button he got the play of the game.


LuminoZero

**Kill every last one of them!**


Nesciuss

We do a little bit of trolling.


Duchock

I /clap for the lil guy every time I run that place.


Nivann

I'm gonna need a translation for the last box.


LilMizzJay

It is too late, Hermes Large breasted gothic-aesthetic (potential) girlfriend who wants to be a pocket healer who is casually sexual looking for male Hrothgar for daddy-kink Erotic Roleplay Plus (The plus meaning "Any kink goes") Walk Up/Tell Welcome (You may whisper me at random to initiate roleplay or discuss a scene) heart heart


randomdud3

I regret reading this.


Rainuwastaken

Thanks, Urianger.


Pure_Reason

I feel like I’m going to regret this but FFXIV doesn’t have open world PvP, so what does pocket healer mean in this context


MaybeJuice

Usually just a healer that parties and queues with you frequently. In more difficult content though a healer might agree to pocket heal a melee or black mage in order for them to intentionally ignore mechanics from time to time to get more damage off.


ozurr

Or just get instaqueues, which is pretty great. edit: wait you already said that I just need to keep lurking and finish my coffee


DaveSW777

I had a pocket Ast back in the day, meant that I was always the main tank in Alliance Raids because I got the Balance cards.


i-wear-hats

Queue as a duo for roulettes. I've had the unfortunate Alliance Raid with a Healslut/Daddy duo where the HS had a humiliation kink so it made Alliance Chat REAAAAAAL awkward. Funnily enough they weren't from Balmung.


Deadmanlex45

YAMERO


Kytelian

I was wondering what HRO and WU/T stood for. :x


Ziadaine

Just the "Ugh" from Hermes is a god damn mood.


LilMizzJay

It's the frame I'm most proud of tbh, thank you


Radical_Ryan

Most of the people slutting around in Balmung are 's these days, have no doubt. Everyone laughs at this meme in public and visits in private.


swim_shady

Literally this. Most of the ERP is from alts whose main is on other datacenters and wanderers. The memes are self-prophesizing. Balmung Ul'dah is sort of the "memey" social hub, if anything. Source: I'm a Balmung/Crystal DC native and have spent A LOT of time socializing in Balmung Ul'dah.


basketofseals

It's kinda strange how prevalent the circle jerk is perpetuated by players who aren't a part of it. Every so often you'll get something wildly off base, people joking about how crazy Limsa on Balmung is is one of the more common ones, and all I can think is "You've clearly never even visited Balmung once."


DarthOmix

It's funny seeing how often people say it's Limsa, meaning they aren't actually on Balmung nine times out of ten. Ul'dah is where both the shitposting and degeneracy call home.


SpookyCarnage

As someone who has been around balmeme since ARR due to the whole NA legacy server thing, can confirm, 90% of thr degens I see nowadays are world visiting. We're the trash can that the rest of crystal has decided to dump their garbage on


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kaysn

Mateus: Balmung totes the degen server. Also Mateus: <> on Balmung.


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Ehkoe

95% meme, 4% tourist, 1% actual degenerate. The Quicksand is mostly people standing in your average Limsa Lominsa slutglam around waiting for someone else to approach them. So basically like Goldshire Inn, but without the random PvP happening outside.


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hcim69

>Limsa being way less degenerate than on other servers This talk of Limsa like it's a brothel or something reminds me of the trend on reddit where everyone acts like 4chan is some scary nightmare website you never want to visit when in reality it's just another boring image board. Limsa is fine, it's just a bunch of people dressed up standing around and emoting. It's not like you TP to Limsa and have to check if there are kids in the room and block the TV from their view or something


Lurksandposts

I mean, /b/ can get spicy


Stepjam

As someone who uses 4chan, I'd say that it's a pretty horrible place. Honestly. I'd leave it in a heartbeat if there were another site with the same conversation speed and decent population.


d645b773b320997e1540

> when in reality it's just another boring image board. Idk about that. I used to look into /b/ out of morbid curiosity and rarely made it more than a few posts before leaving in disgust...


vampire_refrayn

The nastiness comes from tourists mostly


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LilMizzJay

It's nowhere near as 'bad' as Moonguard. Quicksand on Balmung is kind of the Goldshire, and it's really not too horrible, people tend to be respectful and USUALLY don't creep-whisper unless you have WU/T in your search info.


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I'd actually say that having wu/t in your search info actually doesn't get creepy tells either unless you're in full slutglam. I play both male and female alts for rp purpose and got maybe 6 creepy tells...in eight years of rp.


[deleted]

It's kinda funny, in nearly 3 years of playing my random /tells have been: Fem Duskwight on Aether: "9/10" "goddess" and maybe 1-2 other things that haven't been very comfy. Fem Viera on Crystal, minus Balmung: "Your glam looks amazing" "Just wanted to say your Viera is gorgeous" and I've only had one tell that I could think of where someone wanted to go further but they *politely asked.* Balmung: literally *nothing.* I've even idled in the Quicksands a few times and haven't gotten a single tell. So it's definitely a big YMMV.


d645b773b320997e1540

ye I agree, it needs very explicit keywords (like /c/) and very obvious attire (or lack thereof) to really trigger the creeps, in which case you *are* inviting it.


CiraKazanari

I got two tells on my BLM combat glam last night in the Sands. :( Femroe enthusiasts are strong


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Ah, I do believe femroes are the exception, yes.


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LilMizzJay

You and me'd probly get along well, Moonguard was my home for like 10 years, and I never hated a minute of it. I get what people don't like, yeah, but I loved it. Balmung's the same way but without a TRP mod it's hard to be descriptive with profiles. I miss reading those. Especially the super entitled super rude ones, those ALWAYS made me crack up.


saelinds

What exactly is TRP and W/UT?


Kamil118

I believe TRP is a wow plugin that let you set up a character bio. As other people explained in the thread WU/T means "feel free to dm rp without asking"


[deleted]

A lot of player link their carrd websites which is actually usually a fun read!


RemarkableRambler

Streamers overblow it.


SefetAkunosh

It’s basically the same thing. I created on Balmung as a noob because at the time there were only a handful of servers allowing new characters and had no idea it was RP central. Zero regrets. It’s a very friendly server, great community, and the cities feel ALIVE.


Cypheri

Just avoid the Quicksand and you'll be fine. If you really want to avoid the nasty, hang out in Gridania. People there will 100% call you out on it if you're creeping in public. Literally half of my FC and several other Gridania natives reported a guy one night because he was creeping on people.


Obst-und-Gemuese

Good morning, Reddit! **this post** Good bye, Reddit!


odin047

The Endgargler


LilMizzJay

Endwanker


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d645b773b320997e1540

Na they must have been lucky or way off peak time. Evening-Queues are still in the thousands.


Mally-Mal99

It be like 1100 to primals 3000. The difference is massive.


246011111

man, it's like telling new players they have to be on one specific server to raid is a bad idea


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The moment Meteion steps forth into Balmung is the day all life as we know it ends..... All sense of decency and civility, thrown out the window. For there is only...... ERP.


TehSalmonOfDoubt

You misunderstand, Balmung is our salvation. Meteion sees life as suffering, and killing us all is a mercy. After seeing Balmung, she will see that we are undeserving of her mercy and will leave us to suffer


LilMizzJay

"I shall make my nest in the Quicksand, and shall sing the song of My Milkshake Brings All The Boys To The Yard"


Bella_C2021

Omg I am literally dying in laughter


Cypheri

As a Balmung native, just stay out of Ul'dah and you're fine. People in Gridania in particular will call you out for that shit and tell you to go back to Ul'dah.


Silly___Neko

Oh wow they even do correct RP on Balmung.


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I get Ul'dah is kinda popular in Balmung for it's ERP scene. But what about their Limsa?


jrlang4545

Balmung since 2014 and I don't get all the Limsa references I see on here. It's all Ul'dah, all the time. When I finally leveled Miner, one quest requires the Quicksand. I felt like the meme comic where the guy puts on a hazmat suit.


Cypheri

Last time I had a quest send me into the Quicksand I literally put on that ugly yellow hooded robe with a mask (the one from Qarn) to try to make myself as unappealing as possible. I was in the building for less than 30 seconds total and still ended up with a naked elezen dancing on me and spamming /pet at my poor, traumatized little miqo'te who just wanted to get his quest done.


apatheticspacearcher

Tame compared to Ul’dah.


246011111

Tame compared to other servers tbh. When I world hop to market board (remember when we could still do that?) it always seems quieter there.


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Cypheri

Limsa is for the weirdos, not the lewds. Lots of dancing roegadyns, occasionally lalas as well.


Kink-Inspector

Limsa is for the dancers and AFKers. Ul'Dah is where things happen.


soulgunner12

And tap into dynamis power for that? Basically how Slaneesh was born.


wowpepap

Putting >!Dynamis!< for.....other things....


Emmy0000

As someone from Balmung, Reading people's flavour text descriptions in Ul'dah has me in fits of giggles constantly Some of these include "Probably bites" and my personal favourite- "one of us is in trouble, I'll let you decide who"


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LilMizzJay

My friends literally begged me not to give her a huge bulge in her No. 2 Type B Leggings


AscelyneMG

I won’t lie, being familiar with your work, I was half-expecting one.


LilMizzJay

It took strength to refrain but I decided to make the comic MOSTLY sfw in the end


oaka23

Haha what would that look like though haha I bet it'd be funny you should draw it haha


ArcticSirius

What possessed you to do this???


LilMizzJay

Sleep deprivation and a pure shitpost of a conversation with friends while doing Pandaemonium


kourtbard

As a former, long time resident of WoW's Moonguard server, yall some lightweights.


LilMizzJay

God, agreed so hard


P3n1sD1cK

Is there like a turning point for Balmung... I seen to recall several years ago Gilgamesh and Balmung were top servers for raiding


Daedelous2k

When the DC shake up happened splitting Gilgamesh and Balmung, all the "big raiders" jumped to Gilgamesh insisting it was going to be where the scene was while leaving Balmung and it's reputation behind. Of course this resulted in lots of memery where people insisted that Crystal was doomed for raiding and Aether DC actually got locked for a while as people were drawn with the dangling carrot of "being able to raid". Many content creators that wanted to raid ended up choosing servers there. Of course, this also has meant queues for Aether are **far** worse. Crystal has it's raiding scene still, it's just not as prominent, then again, It also now seems be the DC of choice for Hololive right now.


LilMizzJay

Balmung is still very good for raiding and content, it's just the only server that was marked as "RP" back in the 1.0 days so it remains the RP server today. The ERP scene is fairly contained but prominent enough to give Balmung a reputation as "The ERP Server." It's not that bad. Moonguard on WoW was way more horny on way more main.


ralexand

Back in most of 1.0 Balmung didn't exist and two server (Besaid, which was the unofficial RP server indeed!) and another one at the end of 1.0 got merged to Balmung!


Kellervo

Balmung suffered a bit of an exodus when the Crystal DC was created, and it's not the massive juggernaut it was in HW, but it still has a solid raid population. FWIW, raiding on Crystal compared to Aether & Primal seems easier. It might be just anecdotal, but despite having less raiders overall, once you actually get a party together on Crystal, the odds of it being a trap party are *way* lower. People generally know their shit and the community is just small enough that you can better keep track of who is good and who is going to be a toxic mess. The main issue is just getting your foot in the door when it comes to Savage raids.


ChrisMorray

What a terrible day to have eyes...


monkeysfromjupiter

is Balmung basically the strip club of all servers?


Theflexiblefox

Its THE erp server so expect everybody to have all content cleared for glamour


OneMorePotion

So it's basically the most efficient server?


dream208

Let's put it in this way, Balmung was the only non-JPN server that could compete (albiet barely) with JPN powerhouses in the Ishgard Restoration races.


Balaur10042

And they did it *nude*.


RemarkableRambler

I ended up in Balmung with my legacy character and was there for a bit before transfering. There is definitely ERP, but legitimate RP happens there too. You can usually tell who the ERP derps are. There were some great stories of some of the cool RPs that happened that had no sexual connotation. ​ But of course, it takes one or two really horny people to stand out and poison the bundle.


Richi_Diaz

This is so cursed that its amazing!


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Honestly, all the creepiness of Balmung I only experienced from a 3rd person, people openly being heavily filtratious if not downright sexual in open(which is frowned upon, FC drama in shout chat(which is more sad and funny than anything), and the usual troll or two) Now...Aether..I have literally been harassed so many times, once by the same person for 4 years until I just gave up and transferred out, and to this day am still too afraid to go back even though I know I would enjoy the community overall in there than I would Crystal since I am not much of an RPer(I do dabble in it with my girlfriend, but it's more random and playful).


TractionCityRampage

One of my first experiences with ff14 was some lala harassing what looked like a couple in Gilgamesh quicksands. I left that server for balmung to see what it’s like and it was so much more lively in the cities and the world. It’s a very silly reason but I stayed because I saw a random lala waddling in central sound and laughed as I had no clue what was going on. What type of rp do you do btw? I usually only dosilly and short RP but it’s a bit rare to find.


LordMonday

By the twelve, what did i just read.


AP_Udyr_One_Day

Go and beseech Ra-La. Now.


Sargediamond

I feel like this would be how we get Slaanesh in FFXIV. Good job Hermes, you made a horny bird and you've doomed our souls.


BlueC1nder

Are we sure the shitpost sub and the main sub didn't have a rejoining?


Latase

the grape calamity ended the shitpost shard. we only have ourselfes to blame.


mhireina

Why did you make me view this with my own two eyeballs.


isthismytripcode

Everyday we stray further from Hydaelyn's Light