Summary of Final Fantasy XIV's Story Up To Dawntrail (2.0 to 6.0)
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- In this video, I'll recap and summarize the entire story of Final Fantasy XIV up until the end of Endwalker, not including the expansion's patch content. While the events are largely told chronologically, I do reveal a few things ahead of time for the sake of quicker and easier to understand explanations. This summary doesn't include every single plot (such as most Alliance Raids and Raid series) and intentionally excludes some characters that aren't very relevant to understanding the story. A Realm Reborn and Heavensward are summarized a little bit more rapidly than Stormblood, Shadowbringers and Endwalker. The latter two in particular are just much longer than the other expansions as well, with Shadowbringers taking me nearly three times as long as Heavensward. For those who are curious how long it took to replay the game, the raw footage amounts to 166 hours for the main story alone, actively avoiding any and all blue quests (A Realm Reborn 29h, Heavensward 26h, Stormblood 32h, Shadowbringers 46h, Endwalker 33h not including the patch arc), all in all sitting at 2,5 TB of video files.
I wanted to release this before Dawntrail, but my mom died to cancer in February, throwing off my plans and delaying me getting through the MSQ a lot. Playing through the story again some time after definitely helped me move on a little, and it will always hold a special place in my heart. I hope you can enjoy this summary for what it is anyways, even if a lot of you will likely be done with Dawntrail by now.
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00:00:00 Important Lore
00:06:37 A Realm Reborn
00:14:19 ARR Patches
00:17:53 Heavensward
00:24:00 HW Patches
00:30:50 Stormblood
00:39:15 SB Patches
00:44:50 Shadowbringers
01:04:35 ShB Patches
01:12:55 Endwalker - Ігри
Bro..your channel has been a blessing for a returning player who haven't played since stormblood. Keep up the quality content.
+1
And this is why Shadowbringers into Endwalker will be the best pair of expansions ever.
i played all of DT and are coming back to shb videos and its insane to me how different they are , how icredibly good shb is and how dull dt is. the caharaters the story the villains its insanity, they should have let the woman who wrote shb and ew continue forever dt is bulcrap
I'm notorious for just skipping cut scenes and then I'm confused on story line, so this really helped fill in some of those gaps. greatly done and appreciated :)
As a returning player, and recently purchasing Dawntrail, this video was incredible.
It answered all of my story questions that I could not remember or follow along with due to taking long breaks (and I do like to skip cutscenes lol)
Thank you!
Found the evil cutscenes skipper!
@@firewoodloki Guilty as charged 😆
This is exactly what I needed without having to redo all the story.
Great summary, and great commentary!
Thanks for this. I was looking for a refresher before starting Dawntrail.
I needed this. I'm coming back after 30 month absence. I originally began at Gordias. Thank you-- and thank you to your Mother.
Thank you, I'm glad it's helpful!
Im so sorry for your loss Jolsn, big hugs.
I can understand now why you don't want to release another video as long as this one, such a big project! Good job and thank you for the video ❤
Thanks!
Excellent overview, thank you for putting in so much work to make this. It is very much appreciated!
I have a passive interest in FFXIV's writing but cannot stress enough how much I hate the way it gets presented in-game. Videos like this are an absolute godsend.
The way questing is don’t is boring but they did a great job in endwalker. Shafowbringers was great too. Except Dawntrail which not good at all in presentation.
Was waiting for this before I started Dawntrail MSQ. Thanks, Jolsn
Expertly done! I have always came to this channel for answers! thank you so much for your hard work!
Thank you so much for such a heavenly-sent work!! I rushed and skipped everything before level 70, your video filled all the gaps. Even I'm slowly replaying from start, to know the general story from your video is still soothing. Bravo!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
You fricking crushed this video mate. 100! and as someone who avoided doh/dol for 20 years (counting ffxi) your tutorials were clutch in my pre-dawn trail catch up,a and getting the lop hop emote. have super come to enjoy your work. mad respect.
Glad it helped!
Holy crap Jolsn, you've been cooking. Congratulations on such a big project, I'm thoroughly enjoying it!
This. This is exactly what i was looking for! Thanks
Amazing work !
Apparently they didnt know what to do with the ascians until shadowbrings. They were just bad guys doing bad guy things.
Absolutely fantastic video.
Quick apprechiation for your work. This video and generally your content is absolutely amazing, for new players especially. I skipped through most of the cutscenes until shadowbringers which I'm currently at, so I was looking for a video like this. I'm gonna leave it half watched until I hit dawntrail since shadowbringers & endwalker seem to be amazing by the word of the community but I will revisit the second half before playing dawntrail for sure!
Harchefont scene hit just as hard as the first time
You are amazing! Thank you so very much for this video!
That was a banger video.
Just as an FYI the calamities did not wipe out the entirety of the people on the source. The calamities caused alot of issue's on the source, and were caused by the other stars being destroyed that were mirrors of the source. As the the Alageon (Forgot how it's spelled) were not from the source. They were from the original, and they are what lead to the source and the mirror split. With remnants of their society on all of the stars. They were affected by a different issue then the calamities.
You are confusing the Allagans with the Ancients, I think. The Allagans came way after the Ancients, who were indeed the "original" inhabitants on the planet. What lead the reflections to be split from the source was Hydaelyn.
For anyone wondering if the moon bunnies became useful in a later story, they havent. They are still useless and we havent been back to the moon.
Good freakin job bro!
Thanks!
Bro amazing
thanks joseph
Thanks Thompson
I'm convinced that long form videos like these are just excuses by the creator to show off their glams 😉
Fun fact, I didn't unlock the glamour system all the way through the game. These are all the items I picked up as I played!
@@Jolsn Suuuuuure creator. . . Suuuuure 😉🤣
Thank you
Thank you for the ARR-EW recap.
dang u summed up the story in less than 2 hours!? my biggest gripe is how they changed msq for hydaelyn to fit endwalker
Missed opportunitty to use Meteor as the WoL. Still very good video loved how you narrated it.
Kinda forgot how attached I was to the story after being gone for almost 3 years.
Whoa what a video!
I have played since shadowbringers. that one was a damn banger
This was an enjoyable catch up, but it feels like something is missing. What happened after WoL went home?
I'm sorry to hear about your mother, its a few months late but my condolences. I'm curious if you've beaten dawntrail yet?
Thanks. Yes, I beat it a week ago or so. I thought the story itself was fine, but the pacing wasn't great this time around. What about you?
@@Jolsn I enjoyed the worldbuilding and setting and everything of the first arc. Cannot stand Wuk, I loved being in the mentor role this expansion that was really cool take. The story over all and sadly a number of the characters just don't have a justifiable payoff even though I did enjoy the journey for the most part. I personally think the transition scene in the final trial is the biggest slap in the face WTF moment the game has though. I'd agree heavily on the pacing too.
Without getting spoilery and given your event I wonder how you approached the last zone. I greatly enjoyed it as someone who does not cope well with the subject matter so it hit quite close to me.
GOAT status
Haurchefant sacrificing himself had me tear up doing HW.
Thanks for this, can you give transcript for in Lore video so that I can understand clearly about the name
You fit this into 2 hours fare play you deffo got a ff fan subscribed I own them all apart from ff13 and ff11 because I'm a playstation gamer I'm hoping they give ff13 soon I'm begging
Etheirys. The original name is what counts. (in my opinion at least)
ah yes, "the 100% cooler warrior of light" absolutely made me laugh! XD
I got so emotional from that intro alone. 🥹 Thank you for this useful and nostalgic video! 👍❤️ Over the years I’ve been playing this game (since 1.0), I’ve managed to forget a few tidbits here and there, and listening to the story in its chronological order along with its lore feels like hearing my FFXIV biography. 😂 Great job! See you in Dawntrail! ❤️
Did it ever get explained how the teleporter randomly appeared next to the WOL at the very end?
There is an optional dialogue with Urianger when you click on him after all this.
"I understand that, following thy clash with Zenos, the teleportation device thou had discarded fell to thee from on high. To return to thee in such a manner...I did confer with Wilfsunn and Bloewyda, yet they insist the device was possessed of no such capability. Twas a miracle befitting the nature of that place, where emotion becometh tangible reality. Whence, then, arose this timely wonder? Thine ardent wish...or another's fervent prayer?"
Ultimately it's not explained more, and it's up to interpretation. Could be Zenos who dropped it before the fight. Could be a final goodbye from Hydaelyn. The fellow Scions seemed surprised and didn't know about the device, so I'd rule them out. Your guess is as good as mine.
What about post endwalker?
thordan didn’t eat ratatoskr’s eyes? he killed ratatoskr and stole nidhogg’s eyes
Not only did Thordan consume Ratatoskrs Eyes, his entire gang of Knights Twelve did too and then ALSO stole Nidhoggs eyes. There's an entire flashback cutscene dedicated to it. After this, Haldrath, the first Azure Dragoon, took one eye (the one that Thordan takes from his grave in HW) and the other one stays with Thordan I and the Knights Twelve.
Man, i already "miss this story" after having finished dawntrail. Its just not on the same level of quality. Hopefully it will be when this new saga develops further but... ugh, i just cant see it. We dont even have a red thread yet. Not even a big mystery/mysterious characters.
I totally get that, but I do think they set up travel to other reflections. I think we'll deal with the restoration of the First, the Void and perhaps another place altogether, because it wouldn't be necessary for them to introduce the portal if we as the Warrior of Light can already travel to both of those places, right? I do wish they gave us more to work with, but my guess is that they want to use the 7.1 to 7.5 arc for that.
@@Jolsn Yeah i think so to, but that's not really enough. We need something on the level of what we had. Reflections was just a product of one part of the previous story. We need a world/universe ending threat again, something on the same line. Something really threatening for one who can deal with ancients/gods/original primals etc. You probably know what i mean :)
None of the dawntrail protagonists or events felt threatening at all. Almost like our characters went "Ok bro, you try that, see how it goes, lol" to a certain bad guy during DT. It also needs to be personal for both the WoL and the scions again. I dont even know why they were there this time, other than trust support and our personal cheer squad. Krile was the only one with a purpose.
Wait so the story picks up straight from the spaceship landing? Returning player here, left right around the time of all the jail-type instanced content being added, so thats not required content to Dawntrail?
edit: everywhere i look, guides and even the official patch notes point to requiring post-ew 6.1-6.5 all completed. Why you claiming Dawntrail picks up at 6.0 End?
It's in the description, the 6.1 to 6.5 arc is so removed from the story of both Dawntrail and everything up to Endwalker, that it didn't work with the rest of the video. There's a satisfying conclusion to the story, and the entire story from 6.1 to 6.5 is irrelevant to 7.0 from both a lore and storytelling perspective.
Hold on... the "In from the Cold" Solo Duty is "most hated"?
What is wrong with this community? This was one of the most interesting and challenging solo duties in the game... what is it hated for? THat you actually had to try and could brain AFK your standard rotation through it?
In front the Cold was genuinely some of the best storytelling in the game imo
I wasn't around when Endwalker first came out, but I hear that on first release, "In From the Cold" was much more difficult than it is now, and a lot of people were struggling to complete it. I've only experienced it after it got toned down a bit, but I agree that it's one of the most impactful solo duties in the game. Really enjoyed the stress/stakes.
The planet is called Etheirys not Hydalyn.
The name Etheirys is not known to the characters until much later. The planet is called Hydaelyn throughout all of the game until Endwalker.
Man I forgot about papalymo
You forgot the 6.x content.
I mention in the description that it's not included. It was actually already voiced and edited and included with the video, but I decided to cut it out because the entire arc is so removed from the previous plot which ended neatly with 6.0. I'd rather summarize 6.1-6.5 in an extra video
@@Jolsn Oh, okay. I never read the descriptions, lol.
Many hugs for your loss, I know the pain all too well myself. Thank you for bringing this lovely summary to us