From a scrap of paper fallen from a sheaf of notes sent by Archon Niniri Niri to Old Sharlayan via a boat out of Limsa Lominsa. One might find the roots of Ms. Qesh in the entertainment spaces of Ul'dah, where the songs she sung enraptured even the surliest of merchants within the city. The songstress had a rather grander ambition however, and had joined with a number of other young luminaries of the city to gather political power by courting public opinion. Amongst this group were F'lhaminn and her lover, Niellefresne Thaudour, a goldsmith of note who was responsible for managing a grand parade throughout Ul'dah. They resolved to release a number of wild beasts within this parade before personally gaining control of them once again, … [Read more...]
A Brief Primer on the Rulers of Eorzea
From a small pamphlet entitled ‘A Primer on Eorzean Geopolitics for New Researchers’ by Archon Niniri Niri. Kan-E-Senna - Elder Seedseer of Gridania Kan-E of the Senna family is a padjal of immense power and wisdom who leads the Seedseer Council, the presiding body of her forested home. Perhaps her most noted trait is the unprecedented ability for prophecy she has exhibited since a young age, a gift often attributed by her subjects to blessings from the elementals of the Shroud and the Twelve themselves. In her childhood, Kan-E was already protecting her home from catastrophe via her prophetic gifts, predicting fires and other such disasters with uncanny clarity. The padjal left her homeland to enter seclusion in the woods and commune … [Read more...]
Moggle Mog XII – The Good King
From ‘Thoughts on the Primals – Malignant Divinity’ by Archon Niniri Niri One of the less threatening primals of Eorzea on the surface, the Good King of the moogles is nevertheless a dangerous, aether-devouring creature in its own right. Moggle Mog XII caused a storm in his initial summoning by bucking the trend upheld in scholarly records of the Sixth and Seventh Astral Eras by being the first documented primal to be summoned without originating as a divine figure. The Good King was summoned by the mogglesguard, an order of martially capable moogles tasked with defending the moogles of the Black Shroud, through deceptions woven by the vile Ascians leading them to believe that the primal they summoned would be the authentic king of … [Read more...]
