The Ixal are still my favourite beast tribe to work with. They don't care about Garuda's wars or feeding her crystal addiction, they just want to build their airships. 10/10 dudes.
I never got far into it the last time I played FF14. But that was before I met my current long time boyfriend who is an airline pilot and before I got into aviation. Naturally I have something of a different perspective now. I really look forward to helping these Ixal obtain their dream of flight. They’re just like pilots with that same dream and connection with the sky.
heh, i kinda remember the quest that has you chase after an Ixal it Azys Lla, and how it REALLY fucked them up when they found out the truth, which to be fair, was a surprise to me as well, cause i kinda wasn't expecting them to go 'oh btw, these guys? yeah, they where made in a lab'.
I fell in love with the Ixal since my fist encounter on ARR and little by little I just found the deep they were inspired on the Nahuatl cultures, this video just made me see how HEAVY those roots are, thank you so much.
As usual, wonderful lecture from the sydonic scribe! Ehcatl Nine quests are rather tedious but dang the story points are lovely and they're a wonderful bunch. They just wanna flyyyy... You missed the bit at how the leading airship company in Eorzea partly used Ixali design on their airships. Really blew my mind when someone (iirc Alphinaud) mentioned in passing in MSQ that some creatures in the labs resemble Ixal. And then I unlocked Fractal Continuum for Gilly (I'm like, onsessed with magitek...) Matron's teats-the Iksalion were on museum exhibit! And then an actual Ixal actually gets to see the Iksalion for themself in Fractal Continuum (Hard)... I'm relived that Ehcatl Nine do not take this too hard and they were just like "Then Azys Lla, eff it! Find own paradise, we will!"
The lore of these peoples and their natural way of life continues to amaze me. Thanks for continuing to help teach me the lore of this world that I can't be apart of as much as I'd like. Think the Ixal may be my new favorite beast tribe after hearing this one^^
Yeah, when I found out their actual origins, my jaw dropped. It's *so* freaking tragic how horribly they were treated and misled. And now as a result we all have to put up with Garuda's incredible violence. *REALLY* fun lore!
What a sad story for the Ixal. Now I’m back in FF14 again I’ll have to do the Ixal quests. In a way they remind me of some of the pilots I know in real life. Those touched by the sky and the wind, forever seeking the go back up and experience it again. Though not touched by the sky myself, I understand. And now perhaps I understand the Ixal.
This is late but, I just started playing FFXIV a few days ago for the first time and I have learned a LOT from you. I wish I could play as an Ixal! Keep up the good work!
It is actually insane and really cool to see that the Ixal where these chimeras with a screwed up history and how that shaped their culture and whatnot. The fact that this is all in game and you can see it when you go to places like Azys Lla is really cool. Honestly might be one of my new favorite beast tribe lores.
I have a lot of hope for the future of Eorzea and the potential integration of "beast tribes" into a sort of Grand Eorzean Alliance, along with a hopefully reformed and rebuilt Garlemald. Just imagine what the Ixal could accomplish alongside Garlean engineering! Flight technology could take massive leaps and bounds in the near future, and that's just one such example of what a more unified and collaborative world could bring.
It's interesting how the Ixali religion seems to mirror that of the Ishgardians. They both serve a god that could be seen as a God of War or fighting. They both have a twisted idea of their creation / foundation stories. They both waged 'holy crusades' against a race or races that they'd been taught were enemies. They both have a social system that's a little similar, I suppose - nobles up in the pillars, poor down in the brume, and those that ascend these ranks through becoming a knight or having some other useful profession and some luck.
@@ridewild1956 The old Garuda was basically an entirely different character with the same name, like how there are two characters named Halicarnassus in XIV. The bird lady Garuda we're familiar with now wasn't introduced until XI, at which point she became more or less a mainstay.
Wasn't there some legend among the Ixal that they lost their wings when they invoked the Greenwrath? I feel like I remember reading that in a quest somewhere, but I don't remember clearly...
This is a bit late, but here is something on the name pronunciations. The names for the Ixal look to be inspired by indigenous American languages, namely Nahuatl in this case. So a name like "Hueloc" would not be pronounced like the English "Hue," but rather something like "Hwey-loc." The sound "tl" would also be its own letter, so "Cattlan" would be said like "Cat-tlan," with each "T" being pronounced separately. "Meyeann" is an outlier, so I'm not sure on that one. I love your videos, and I can't wait to see what you have to teach about the other tribes!
Not once during my several visits there for tribe quests have i thought much about them and their society (though the whole Azys Lla twist was pretty neat when msq introduced that), as well as the naming conventions and personalities tied to the names. A+ lecture.
so if the Ixal were created by Allagans in the 3rd astral era, then it makes sense we dont see a counterpart of them in the first, just like Zun or Mord which resemble our Amal'jaa and Kobolds. The Ixal didnt exist in the unsundered world
I had a theory which doesn't entirely hold water after I did a bit of looking, but that I still think is compelling enough to share. I would suggest that the Ixal's naming scheme suggests not only that their surnames are based on designations given by the Allagan, but that these were in fact the ranks generally used by the Allagan military, if not society in general. I say this because the suffixes of their surnames bear striking similarities to those of the Garlean empire, which openly emulates the Allagans. The Skysent have names that end in TL and are the highest ranking among the Ixal. The highest in rank during the days of the Allagans would likely have worked with or been second-in-command to General Garuda. The equivalent role in Garlean society is Tribunus Laticlavius, which bears the honorific ToL, as in Nero tol Scaeva. The Windrisen, the worker class, have names that end in AN and are the lowest rank among the Ixal, and therefore among the Garleans. What is the lowest rank among the Garlean empire? AhN. Note that the rank of Aan does not convey citizenship, belonging to slaves and people of annexed territories. What makes me question if this holds true is the Galeborne, whose names end in OC. Not only is the matching title Oen, which doesn't really map to OC, but in Garlean society these are generally rank and file soldiers rather than officers or managers of any kind. One could argue that an enlisted Oen would outrank and perhaps be given command of enlisted Aan, but between that and the less-than-ideal match in naming, I felt I had to mention that flaw in my theory. One could argue that the Allagan system changed over time and the new version was adopted by the Garleans, but with no way to prove that the theory does have a few holes in it. Nevertheless I thought it a striking enough resemblance to merit discussion, and maybe further inspection. Could the names of the Ixal and the Garleans share Allagan roots? I doubt we'll ever know for certain, but it seems a definite possibility, at least to me.
Hey professor, this just made me wonder if you’re planning to do some FF16 lore when it’s out. I’m gonna be devouring any content on it that can! If anyone from Eorzea could slip into mysterious world for study, it’s the synodic scribe. Thank you for this vid, the Ixal have some of the best lore! Never expected to really feel for them!
Where I'm from easternly wind most so the north eastern is dangerous and cruel often reaching 80 to 100 kms for days, so I had to chuckle. I never recall reading what Garuda was in the Allagn records so this was the final piece I needed to really get them. I always thought she was the first Ixal able to produce eggs since I did not know she was a general. Now I wonder how I missed that bit of data. Great vid as always.
Hey man! Love your content! I have a question for you but if you feel you could make a video of it by all means please do. Is there any clarification for exactly HOW the world was sundered? As powerful as the ascians are surely Venat wasnt able to make 13 entire alternate universes. Is there just like an orb every shard exists within but then they're all looking at the same stars in the sky? Did she just create the stars and then place them in 13 already existing alternate universes? What does this mean for Astrologians that aren't on the source?
As much as I'd love to make a video about that. The writers never elaborated on that or what the heck is going on. They were even embarrassed when they realized that couldn't answer that kind of question in interviews! But the current understanding is, no, Hydaelyn didn't create entire dimensions/universes. Imagine that the shards and the Source are all occupying the same space, but are invisible to one another. They can't see or interact with each other because of the Sundering's Magic, but it's still the same universe, same stars, etc.
@@SynodicScribe that's exactly what i was assuming, there is just no way that anything more than say, the solar system could've been affected. That also is the best way to explain how astrologians can still channel the same constellations
And that’s probably why I’m going to ignore parts of the lore or adapt it to suit my purposes. This isn’t a popular opinion but I *hate* Shadowbringers. It’s so horrible for me that it’s driven me from FF14 for roughly a year. I’m still thinking about just skipping the rest and Endwalker and just pretending none of it happened. The stupidity of the Scions was shocking. After three slain Lightwardens they discover the aether is bad even for the WoL. But they keep having her (mine is female) keep on. After the fourth one it’s clearly hurting the WoL but they still don’t care and have her go after Vaulthry. Why? You have another with the Blessing in the form of Ryne. So why not have her stick close behind the WoL until the fourth and/or Vauthry is down. She runs forward, the WoL runs back. Ryne absorbs the light aether instead. Boom. Problem solved. Five downed Lightwardens with the aether safely spit between the WoL and Ryne. I wouldn’t have minded if it had been the plan and Emet Selch ruined it but the callous disregard for the WoL was abhorrent. That aside I never liked the idea of a split world and split souls. It kinda seems messy. But… I love the rest of the game. From ARR until the start of Shadowbringers it was fantastic. Seeing from Dawntrail getting back to the way things were has brought me hope and maybe I can endure the rest to get to Dawntrail.
7.0 Aeromancer confirmed ? Also just a thought, could it be that their military base/operations during the allag days was actually the thing that allowed them to keep their wings ? i mean with them being the airborne division they must be exposed to a lot of wind aspected aether(do aether work that way ?) during their operations and maybe at their military bases too ? with the destruction of the allag empire the exalion might have been forced to leave those bases behind ? causing them to be exposed to wind aether less. and overtime their bodies adapted to their surrounding.
@@BranBal yep my thoughts was the same as yours. with beast tribes no longer "beast tribes" maybe they start to become more integrated with the humanoid races and share their knowledge
Isn't it in Griadanian Lore that the elementals took the Ixalian's wings? I mean those puffs of power can turn people into green stone. I'm sure they could also mess up their wings back in their prime.
Wait could that mean Garuda may look, hypothetically, look like the female general and possibly her third and second command have slight similarities to primal two minions? Generational trauma runs deep then….but hypothetically speaking
As descendants of chimerical beings, it should be asked. Do the Ixal have a soul? Personally I think they do, but I don’t have any official evidence to my knowledge. Do they have souls or is there evidence to support this? I mean they can be tempered. Can you temper someone who doesn’t have a soul?
I've never seen any data that suggests they don't have souls. After all. The Chimeras of Azys la were often soul baring races that were twisted into malformed beasts.
@@acgearsandarms1343 The only exceptions I can think of would be blasphemies and maybe voidsent depending on how narrowly soul is being defined. But the Ixal are just people. They reproduce, have emotions and memories and personalities. They learn and grow. That doesn't happen with a soulless race. The Ixal aren't automatons (though also automatons basically have rudimentary souls but anyway...).
@@the_exegete The original reason I asked is because their ancestors were potentially manufactured. So had to be sure. Not sure at what point you are in XIV but there are living creatures who do not possess souls or souls in a traditional sense. It’s been stated in game that souls are something that can’t be manmade. However there are cases where the conditions for a soul to manifest on its own is possible. Such is the natural order of things in XIV. For example, a primal can restore a body, but not the soul. You can also make recreations like Omega. You can make the conditions yourself, which is possible.
The Ixal are still my favourite beast tribe to work with. They don't care about Garuda's wars or feeding her crystal addiction, they just want to build their airships. 10/10 dudes.
The Ehcatl Nine are one of my favorite bits in the early game. I love how devoted and enthusiastic they are about that dang airship!
I never got far into it the last time I played FF14. But that was before I met my current long time boyfriend who is an airline pilot and before I got into aviation.
Naturally I have something of a different perspective now. I really look forward to helping these Ixal obtain their dream of flight. They’re just like pilots with that same dream and connection with the sky.
heh, i kinda remember the quest that has you chase after an Ixal it Azys Lla, and how it REALLY fucked them up when they found out the truth, which to be fair, was a surprise to me as well, cause i kinda wasn't expecting them to go 'oh btw, these guys? yeah, they where made in a lab'.
I fell in love with the Ixal since my fist encounter on ARR and little by little I just found the deep they were inspired on the Nahuatl cultures, this video just made me see how HEAVY those roots are, thank you so much.
As usual, wonderful lecture from the sydonic scribe!
Ehcatl Nine quests are rather tedious but dang the story points are lovely and they're a wonderful bunch. They just wanna flyyyy... You missed the bit at how the leading airship company in Eorzea partly used Ixali design on their airships.
Really blew my mind when someone (iirc Alphinaud) mentioned in passing in MSQ that some creatures in the labs resemble Ixal. And then I unlocked Fractal Continuum for Gilly (I'm like, onsessed with magitek...) Matron's teats-the Iksalion were on museum exhibit! And then an actual Ixal actually gets to see the Iksalion for themself in Fractal Continuum (Hard)... I'm relived that Ehcatl Nine do not take this too hard and they were just like "Then Azys Lla, eff it! Find own paradise, we will!"
The lore of these peoples and their natural way of life continues to amaze me. Thanks for continuing to help teach me the lore of this world that I can't be apart of as much as I'd like. Think the Ixal may be my new favorite beast tribe after hearing this one^^
Yeah, when I found out their actual origins, my jaw dropped. It's *so* freaking tragic how horribly they were treated and misled. And now as a result we all have to put up with Garuda's incredible violence.
*REALLY* fun lore!
What a sad story for the Ixal. Now I’m back in FF14 again I’ll have to do the Ixal quests. In a way they remind me of some of the pilots I know in real life. Those touched by the sky and the wind, forever seeking the go back up and experience it again.
Though not touched by the sky myself, I understand. And now perhaps I understand the Ixal.
A beautiful telling of a bittersweet tale.
I didn't know about General Garuda. That explains so much!
This is late but, I just started playing FFXIV a few days ago for the first time and I have learned a LOT from you. I wish I could play as an Ixal! Keep up the good work!
It is actually insane and really cool to see that the Ixal where these chimeras with a screwed up history and how that shaped their culture and whatnot. The fact that this is all in game and you can see it when you go to places like Azys Lla is really cool. Honestly might be one of my new favorite beast tribe lores.
I have a lot of hope for the future of Eorzea and the potential integration of "beast tribes" into a sort of Grand Eorzean Alliance, along with a hopefully reformed and rebuilt Garlemald. Just imagine what the Ixal could accomplish alongside Garlean engineering! Flight technology could take massive leaps and bounds in the near future, and that's just one such example of what a more unified and collaborative world could bring.
In regards to their food they actually really like cheeseburgers
Their favorite is Windy's with a slice of Garuda cheese
It's interesting how the Ixali religion seems to mirror that of the Ishgardians. They both serve a god that could be seen as a God of War or fighting. They both have a twisted idea of their creation / foundation stories. They both waged 'holy crusades' against a race or races that they'd been taught were enemies. They both have a social system that's a little similar, I suppose - nobles up in the pillars, poor down in the brume, and those that ascend these ranks through becoming a knight or having some other useful profession and some luck.
You didn't bring up the coincidence that is Amon recreating bird people after the disaster that was Meteon.
Ixal are actually better birds than Meteon! They weren't depressed and never committed galactic genocide!
Having just completed the Ixali tribal quests, I am impressed by this whole origin of the Ixal. :)
Ixali may have lost the freedom of flight, but in turn, they gained the ability of free will instead. 😊
I know that Garuda is relatively new to the summons roster, but she should be the definitive wind summon like how ifrit is fire and shiva is ice
she was first introduced in 3
@@ridewild1956 as a lightning boss
She is.
@@ridewild1956 The old Garuda was basically an entirely different character with the same name, like how there are two characters named Halicarnassus in XIV. The bird lady Garuda we're familiar with now wasn't introduced until XI, at which point she became more or less a mainstay.
Wasn't there some legend among the Ixal that they lost their wings when they invoked the Greenwrath? I feel like I remember reading that in a quest somewhere, but I don't remember clearly...
This is a bit late, but here is something on the name pronunciations.
The names for the Ixal look to be inspired by indigenous American languages, namely Nahuatl in this case. So a name like "Hueloc" would not be pronounced like the English "Hue," but rather something like "Hwey-loc." The sound "tl" would also be its own letter, so "Cattlan" would be said like "Cat-tlan," with each "T" being pronounced separately. "Meyeann" is an outlier, so I'm not sure on that one.
I love your videos, and I can't wait to see what you have to teach about the other tribes!
Oh for sure! The tribes are fascinating and I'm eager to cover the rest of them!
Yay, another beast tribe lore video! Oh happies^^
The more I learn about the Allagans, the more I believe they were far more monstrous than anything they created.
Not once during my several visits there for tribe quests have i thought much about them and their society (though the whole Azys Lla twist was pretty neat when msq introduced that), as well as the naming conventions and personalities tied to the names. A+ lecture.
so if the Ixal were created by Allagans in the 3rd astral era, then it makes sense we dont see a counterpart of them in the first, just like Zun or Mord which resemble our Amal'jaa and Kobolds. The Ixal didnt exist in the unsundered world
A lot of races didn’t exist in the Unsundered world. But yes, that is one reason they don’t exist on the First.
I had a theory which doesn't entirely hold water after I did a bit of looking, but that I still think is compelling enough to share. I would suggest that the Ixal's naming scheme suggests not only that their surnames are based on designations given by the Allagan, but that these were in fact the ranks generally used by the Allagan military, if not society in general. I say this because the suffixes of their surnames bear striking similarities to those of the Garlean empire, which openly emulates the Allagans.
The Skysent have names that end in TL and are the highest ranking among the Ixal. The highest in rank during the days of the Allagans would likely have worked with or been second-in-command to General Garuda. The equivalent role in Garlean society is Tribunus Laticlavius, which bears the honorific ToL, as in Nero tol Scaeva.
The Windrisen, the worker class, have names that end in AN and are the lowest rank among the Ixal, and therefore among the Garleans. What is the lowest rank among the Garlean empire? AhN. Note that the rank of Aan does not convey citizenship, belonging to slaves and people of annexed territories.
What makes me question if this holds true is the Galeborne, whose names end in OC. Not only is the matching title Oen, which doesn't really map to OC, but in Garlean society these are generally rank and file soldiers rather than officers or managers of any kind. One could argue that an enlisted Oen would outrank and perhaps be given command of enlisted Aan, but between that and the less-than-ideal match in naming, I felt I had to mention that flaw in my theory. One could argue that the Allagan system changed over time and the new version was adopted by the Garleans, but with no way to prove that the theory does have a few holes in it.
Nevertheless I thought it a striking enough resemblance to merit discussion, and maybe further inspection. Could the names of the Ixal and the Garleans share Allagan roots? I doubt we'll ever know for certain, but it seems a definite possibility, at least to me.
Fascinating peoples, the ixal...
Hey professor, this just made me wonder if you’re planning to do some FF16 lore when it’s out. I’m gonna be devouring any content on it that can! If anyone from Eorzea could slip into mysterious world for study, it’s the synodic scribe.
Thank you for this vid, the Ixal have some of the best lore! Never expected to really feel for them!
Where I'm from easternly wind most so the north eastern is dangerous and cruel often reaching 80 to 100 kms for days, so I had to chuckle.
I never recall reading what Garuda was in the Allagn records so this was the final piece I needed to really get them. I always thought she was the first Ixal able to produce eggs since I did not know she was a general. Now I wonder how I missed that bit of data.
Great vid as always.
There was a lot there I had no idea about. Great video :D
And here I though the Ixal were just meth-head Vanu Vanu.
Oh thanks.
Now it's my headcanon too, and I cannot unsee it.
You are so fucking eloquent, I love your videos ❤ appreciate all the effort you put into these 👍🏼
Happy to be of service as always!
'Now fall.'
My favorite beast tribe and yet, I've learned so much from this lesson. :) Thanks, professor.
Glad you enjoyed it! The Ixal are certainly fascinating.
Hey man! Love your content! I have a question for you but if you feel you could make a video of it by all means please do. Is there any clarification for exactly HOW the world was sundered? As powerful as the ascians are surely Venat wasnt able to make 13 entire alternate universes.
Is there just like an orb every shard exists within but then they're all looking at the same stars in the sky? Did she just create the stars and then place them in 13 already existing alternate universes? What does this mean for Astrologians that aren't on the source?
As much as I'd love to make a video about that. The writers never elaborated on that or what the heck is going on. They were even embarrassed when they realized that couldn't answer that kind of question in interviews!
But the current understanding is, no, Hydaelyn didn't create entire dimensions/universes. Imagine that the shards and the Source are all occupying the same space, but are invisible to one another. They can't see or interact with each other because of the Sundering's Magic, but it's still the same universe, same stars, etc.
@@SynodicScribe that's exactly what i was assuming, there is just no way that anything more than say, the solar system could've been affected. That also is the best way to explain how astrologians can still channel the same constellations
And that’s probably why I’m going to ignore parts of the lore or adapt it to suit my purposes. This isn’t a popular opinion but I *hate* Shadowbringers. It’s so horrible for me that it’s driven me from FF14 for roughly a year. I’m still thinking about just skipping the rest and Endwalker and just pretending none of it happened.
The stupidity of the Scions was shocking. After three slain Lightwardens they discover the aether is bad even for the WoL. But they keep having her (mine is female) keep on.
After the fourth one it’s clearly hurting the WoL but they still don’t care and have her go after Vaulthry. Why? You have another with the Blessing in the form of Ryne. So why not have her stick close behind the WoL until the fourth and/or Vauthry is down. She runs forward, the WoL runs back. Ryne absorbs the light aether instead.
Boom. Problem solved. Five downed Lightwardens with the aether safely spit between the WoL and Ryne. I wouldn’t have minded if it had been the plan and Emet Selch ruined it but the callous disregard for the WoL was abhorrent. That aside I never liked the idea of a split world and split souls. It kinda seems messy.
But… I love the rest of the game. From ARR until the start of Shadowbringers it was fantastic. Seeing from Dawntrail getting back to the way things were has brought me hope and maybe I can endure the rest to get to Dawntrail.
All you dang birbs. I bet this is Skire's favorite episode.
Awesome video! Made new character to rejog my memory of msq lore
I didn’t know this!! Thanks!!
I would love to add my thoughts to this, but what I have to say would be before history remembers.
Awesome class!
7.0 Aeromancer confirmed ?
Also just a thought, could it be that their military base/operations during the allag days was actually the thing that allowed them to keep their wings ?
i mean with them being the airborne division they must be exposed to a lot of wind aspected aether(do aether work that way ?) during their operations and maybe at their military bases too ?
with the destruction of the allag empire the exalion might have been forced to leave those bases behind ? causing them to be exposed to wind aether less. and overtime their bodies adapted to their surrounding.
Imagine how cool would be for the Warrior of Light learn tribe classes? /wow
With some form of aeromancer being the ixali class!
@@BranBal yep my thoughts was the same as yours. with beast tribes no longer "beast tribes" maybe they start to become more integrated with the humanoid races and share their knowledge
Would you please do a lore video on the viera! Your videos have helped me to understand this world of final fantasy so much better pure awesomeness
Isn't it in Griadanian Lore that the elementals took the Ixalian's wings?
I mean those puffs of power can turn people into green stone.
I'm sure they could also mess up their wings back in their prime.
Perhaps, but we have allagan logs mentioning their genetic instability leading to winglessness.
Possibly, but the Elementals are not above taking credit for stuff they didn't do. Like flooding the world.
That was, as we now know, Ascians.
@@TarossBlackburn I mean Ascians did everything, except the endsinger... oh wait...
LOVE THIS
It doesn’t help that the wind is blowing outside while listening to this video
Garuda is the best
Can't wait for the nath I love ur work keep great job
I'm going to the North shroud for a game of Triple Triad with my boy Sezul Totoloc. Care to come?
Err...is this going to be on the test?
It could be!
@@SynodicScribe Oh geez, I'm still working through the goblin lexicon- I mean sure! I'll be ready!
Wait could that mean Garuda may look, hypothetically, look like the female general and possibly her third and second command have slight similarities to primal two minions? Generational trauma runs deep then….but hypothetically speaking
Who knows? We don't know what the original General looked like. Maybe Garuda is similar, maybe she isn't.
The best summon!
As descendants of chimerical beings, it should be asked. Do the Ixal have a soul? Personally I think they do, but I don’t have any official evidence to my knowledge. Do they have souls or is there evidence to support this? I mean they can be tempered. Can you temper someone who doesn’t have a soul?
I've never seen any data that suggests they don't have souls. After all. The Chimeras of Azys la were often soul baring races that were twisted into malformed beasts.
If they didn't have souls they wouldn't be alive.
@@the_exegete Souls aren’t a requirement for every living being in XIV.
@@acgearsandarms1343 The only exceptions I can think of would be blasphemies and maybe voidsent depending on how narrowly soul is being defined.
But the Ixal are just people. They reproduce, have emotions and memories and personalities. They learn and grow. That doesn't happen with a soulless race. The Ixal aren't automatons (though also automatons basically have rudimentary souls but anyway...).
@@the_exegete The original reason I asked is because their ancestors were potentially manufactured. So had to be sure. Not sure at what point you are in XIV but there are living creatures who do not possess souls or souls in a traditional sense. It’s been stated in game that souls are something that can’t be manmade. However there are cases where the conditions for a soul to manifest on its own is possible. Such is the natural order of things in XIV. For example, a primal can restore a body, but not the soul. You can also make recreations like Omega. You can make the conditions yourself, which is possible.