So she'd politely eat almost everything, even if it looks dubious and unappealing, without saying anything.
The only exceptions are if it smells like something poisonous or if it looks like some meatbread (she may have been traumatised by Eulmore). Then she'd decline and find a good excuse

Also when she began her adventuring career she used to be lame when came the time to cook. Hopefully, after few culinary incidents, some members of her FC tried to teach her the basics (so now it's getting better)

Eli got used to dubious food as a child: between her sharlayanese father who tried to reinvent the archon loaf at home and her Ishgardian mother who was definitely more talented to hunt stuff than to cook it, she learned early to endure bad food

Eli doesn't have retainers sensu stricto in her backstory.
In game her retainers are H'maro (her best friend) and Azem so the headcanon is that when she meets them they like to bring her back some souvenirs from their last adventures 😅 (it's often crap/random stuff because they like teasing her)

Elina speaks eorzean, ishgardian and understands some sharlayanese.

Sarmis speaks eorzean, thavnarian, hingashian and garlean

Ambre speaks alexandrian and some turalian dialect from the Dome

Wow this is such a stunning gpose 😍

Before fully becoming a DRK she used it unconsciously 3 times (in Coils, against Thordan and Titania) but she needed heavy heals after (basically the old drk invuln) but it's only after becoming DRK that she learned how to activate it consciously + heal herself out of it (so the current ig invuln)

Ambre could also give a hug to anyone. She's just a joyful young woman who loves to share happiness with everyone, especially those who need it

Eli could give a hug but only for people she knows and trusts. she's basically suspicious of everyone, even if they look in distress (she would help but hugging feels too personal for her and she's not confident with this)

Sarmis has the mom vibe so she would 100% give a hug to anyone needing one

I think I prefer the orchestra version of to the edge because I have the feeling that the song is freeing itself a bit more from the original musics it comes from, to fully become its own theme instead of only being the mix of Hades and Amaurot themes.

Using them all the time (and at a point that even if you're a novice about music you will notice it) decreases the impact of the time where it would be fully appropriate and aligned with the story

In my humble opinion, leitmotives are cool but when most of the songs are only made from previous songs it's making the full ost really repetitive... I understand the narrative choice behind it but i'm a bit sad that most of the ost revolved only around this trick at some point

I like the orchestra version but I remember being a bit disappointed of the original version of to the edge when discovering it on patch day because it's one of the first songs of FFXIV where I really felt heavily the mashup of previous ost of the game (which felt even more during EW)

An average day on Seal Rock unfortunately 🥲

A realm retold (13) - second part (aka more trauma for ARR!Elina)

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