Everything you Should Know about, The Shadow Lord

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@GavinAstraWolf Ай бұрын

"I didnt want to make this an hour long video" WE MISSED OUT ON AN HOUR LONG SCRIBE VIDEO!?!?!?!

@williek08472 Ай бұрын

Oh I would watch that

@the_cyberchill Ай бұрын

A series of hour long, lore recaps of ff14, and other games in the franchise for newcomers, would do pretty well imo.

@the_cyberchill Ай бұрын

I already listen to his videos on my tablet or tv to go to bed sometimes, never ending up getting to sleep.

@LupusArcavius Ай бұрын

Yeah because no one likes hour long videos they can listen to while driving, working or doing chores... C'mon Scribe big missed opportunity

@Alpacalips Ай бұрын

we were so close chat!!!

@thecrowonyourshoulder Ай бұрын

The Talekeeper kept an whole entire race's memories. Memories... we just dealt with this particular thing in Dawntrail. I have no idea if it'll bridge to anything, but its certainly making me ponder. Also, loved the video! The Shadowlord's story was my favorite when I played 11 as a kid.

@TheVoltDenatsu Ай бұрын

I'm actually pretty sure its setting up for a ff9 reference / raid later. Garland uses the cycle of souls to keep Terra alive and it has to do with memories, which could be the core of the ff14's universe, and this also opens up the possibility of using necron for a raid, which is ff9's final boss that didnt really get much explanation or development imo.

@TwinSpiritTV Ай бұрын

I was hoping someone I followed for FFXIV lore would do a video on FFXI stuff, considering 7.1's around the corner!

@SynodicScribe Ай бұрын

Wish granted!

@RaidenKaiser Ай бұрын

Imagine a ffXI collab where its instanced like bazja but plays like FFXI with a small campaign to crossover with XI to test the interest in a FFXI remake.

@TwinSpiritTV Ай бұрын

@RaidenKaiser I would love something like this! That's a great idea.

@ReaverPrime Ай бұрын

FFXI lore is so robust and heavy. I have always loved it so much. It breaks my heart that so many people will never be exposed to it because it was in an MMO.

@dafire9634 Ай бұрын

It just takes someone to do a "lore walkthrough" of the game for that, big project but worth

@SlvrStryker Ай бұрын

Gods, the moment you threw on Bastok's theme, I was *immediately* thrust back into my own childhood...the nostalgia is *very* strong.

@SynodicScribe Ай бұрын

I'll never forget the San d'Oria theme. Those bagpipes are burned into my brain. xD

@1jidion Ай бұрын

@@SynodicScribe i can still hear them, after all these years, that theme is burned into my brain as well

@Faux-Paws Ай бұрын

⁠@@SynodicScribeThose bagpipes were the sole reason I'd go into my settings and turn my BGM down, but upon returning not long ago I actually kinda love them!

@katarh Ай бұрын

@@SynodicScribe Raunfaure for me. So many happy memories leveling in the woods.

@JamesW609 Ай бұрын

We need the 1 hour long deep dive!

@joseangel6321 Ай бұрын

After more than 15 years playing FFXI and the announcement of a 24-player raid series, got me on tears and excitement... Ark Angels, Shadow Lord, sky, sea, Dynamis and see some of NPC from the game. I hope they do justice to the game since this game made it possible to enjoy FFXIV like we do today. Proud Galka player

@mishaelalucoji9620 Ай бұрын

Matoyas Theme (Mushroomery) Still brings me back to the joy of my childhood and hearing it for the first time.

@kayeelpayeel Ай бұрын

Odin granted The Talekeeper reincarnation and also gave his left eye. I did not know that you played! You are truly a blessing, thanks as always for what you do!

@AiyameXi Ай бұрын

Shadow lord might have the soul of an ascian similarly to Gaia-- it would explain his lasting memory of his people, malice, the ability to rally the beast tribes to his side, rebirth after defeat and his abilities in general during his fight in FFXI. this is all speculation though

@M0ssP1glet Ай бұрын

You did your very best with the summary, FFXI lore is super dense - and you still covered all the points that are likely to be touched upon in the raid since it's being reimagined for an audience that for the most part will know very little in the way of context for it all. I am interested to see where they decide to go as far as integrating it into FFXIV's world - will they tie it to Eureka at all, will it be its own self contained thing, or will it branch out and become integral to future narratives the way the Omega raids did? It was my first MMO so obviously I'd love whatever attention they're willing to give it. XD

@amandajacobsen306 Ай бұрын

Haven't been this excited for one of your videos in a good while. This was put together amazingly and gave a wonderful, while tragic, picture of the Shadow Lord's creation, reasoning, and drive. If you do make more XI content in the future, I would consume that content with a spoon. Thank you for the great work!

@Legocatshouse Ай бұрын

I beat Shadow Lord yesterday, and his lines, and character just reached me. Even during the 7.1 trailers, he stood out the most to me. After two clears of the raid, I was itching for lore, on him and FFXI. I'm happy Scribe never disappoints. 🙂

@ryokophreak Ай бұрын

This was really interesting. Thank you for the information. Had no idea what the Shadow Lord's lore.

@jrtime228 Ай бұрын

It's a longshot, but I get the feeling that the shadow lord may be an "entity" for XIV rather than a "person" who has turned evil. I think this because of the situation surrounding memories and souls in DT. I imagine the mass disappearance of so many memories at one time like what occurred in DT, COULD be a catalyst of sorts. The issue I run into with this theory is that the elf character we have been shown, is an unknown factor to me. And I get the feeling they will play a very important part in the questline.

@TheAzureGuardian Ай бұрын

Considering there was a little event in the past called The Maiden's Rhapsody (which originally ran in November 2015 but had a couple reruns) involving an FFXI character by the name of Iroha who was displaced in a similar manner to Noctis from FFXV and Clive from FFXVI, I think this Alliance Raid story is going to kind of build off of that and be another sort of merging of worlds like what happened with Alexandria.

@cnkclark Ай бұрын

It takes place in Yak'Tel and involves memories of a world not our own now buried in the woods - my hope is that it will involve those incredibly suspicious irradiated meteors that created the cenotes and messed up the land the Mamool Ja inhabit. We know Bakool Ja Ja is involved so problems in his homeland make sense.

@astrealbrizbee9815 Ай бұрын

You've probably seen me comment plenty of my FFXI times and theories. Thank you a ton for covering FFXI

@williek08472 Ай бұрын

OK, your channel artist outdid themself with this one

@AAG_Vanitas Ай бұрын

Another great video!! ❤

@Varizen87 Ай бұрын

As revealed in Wings of the Goddess, Odin played a part in the creation of the Shadow Lord. Raogrimm was dying not far from the Dark Proto-Crystal. In the shadow era time line Lilith fights to preserve as the true time line, it is revealed Odin granted a similar power to The Dark Rider and escaped the Dark Proto-Crystal to then return to Aht Urghan to continue his war with Alexander. Of course that version is reconned in to explain the Dark Proto-Crystal that is found broken beneath Xarcabard during the events of Chains of Promathia, but I don’t think it’s ever a retcon. This stuff was built on over time.

@kajin86 Ай бұрын

Man that ff11 intro always did me dirty, RIP sister, never forgotten.

@Faux-Paws Ай бұрын

Emelyn..? *Orcish grunting* ✊🏼✋🏼🪨 😭

@Saif6301 Ай бұрын

Actually that sister isint dead, she lost her memory from that attack and can be found in-game in the small fishing town of Selbina under the name Mathilde. Her Brother Aldo is the one you work with in the main story and is the leader of the Tenshodo in Jueno. When you first meet him He had adopted a girl named Verena who can speak in beast tongue and pretends shes his sister from the trauma. They never find out the truth but you the player do.

@HaddaClu Ай бұрын

I'll admit that I hope its more in line with how they did the Neir Raids. That being from another universe / dimension; instead of being a shard or shoe horned into being one of the previous eras. Being an MMO that is ongoing; means it would be hard to squeeze into Etheirys' history, and making it a shard just doesnt feel right either.

@Ephremjlm1 Ай бұрын

It feels good song FFXI continue to get love throughout the years. As someone who has gone back to play classic servers I can say it is well deserved.

@HaitaniMasayuki Ай бұрын

To be honest... I would absolutely love FF11 in the Synodic Scribe's style as well! FF11 has been sooo long ago and I only remember glimpses of its story. There are barely any channels that properly summarize 11's story. Some of these don't even have voice over because they were created so long ago :o

@FarelForever Ай бұрын

I played FF11 for years, but this still gave me more insight than I ever had in the story

@Syogren Ай бұрын

I really really REALLY need the settings of these two MMOs to be connected in some way. I want this alliance raid series to somehow completely recontextualize everything we thought we knew about both settings while contradicting nothing.

@NenoMugen Ай бұрын

I never played FFXI, BUT I immediately recognized the music because I played FF Dissidia on the psp!! This is over 20 years old! Damn I feel old 😂

@SystinaFF Ай бұрын

Super awesome video, I especially loved the illustrations of the relevant characters. Where's the 1 hour edition? 👀 Hope to see more lore when we know more what Echoes of Vana'diel is all about!

@Onime86 Ай бұрын

Oh yes, very well done! I'd love to see more XI lore XD

@kingsilvergrass8751 Ай бұрын

I can only assume the Shadow Lord would Separate within FF14 than his arrival in FF11. also, Yes. Please bring more FF11 Lore, it gives Novices Players like me a shot and leg up on what the story of FF11 is and was, once upon a time.

@Vithaar1969 Ай бұрын

the memories man :) cant wait for the new raid

@MisterVyle Ай бұрын

Hell yeah new lesson from the scribe. and this is lore I don't know at all

@HatofInquiry Ай бұрын

We were robbed of a hour long vid, damn

@lostinphantasy4562 28 күн бұрын

Thank you for giving us a brief summary of the Story behind the Shadowlord :) I never played FFXXI and I think I wont start it any time soon, but I really would love to learn more about their story and also to see more related content in FFXIV. Why not implement the whole main story of the game itself? :D

@mindfighter1 Ай бұрын

Given the presence of auracite in both ffxi and ffxiv I could see the storytelling team being able to weave the two stories together if they want to. I could see them going either way but would personally like to see it at least somewhat involved in the history of shards.

@qtscorpkid Ай бұрын

Omg Bastok theme hits hard. Feels like home

@brianbell8382 Ай бұрын

I'm thinking that Square might weave the world of Vana'diel into Etheirys. This alliance raid series may show that Vana'diel was probably the other world that Sphene was trying to access through interdimensional fusion.

@GundamPharmacist Ай бұрын

My stepbro played XI a lot and I enjoyed the little snippits I saw. I do want to try playing myself, but spending money on both XI and XIV is asking quite a bit, especially considering XI seems to also rack up a charge per character you have.

@dafire9634 Ай бұрын

It might also fit back with the fact we had void lore in the EW patch quests, and this is a continuation in part of that

@SigmaTheWhiteFlame Ай бұрын

I do not have found memories of FFXI but then again I was a monk main.

@redcloud16 Ай бұрын

Considering they introdcued the concept of Dynamis....the Dynamis Lord should be trying to invade the universe of Etheirys Also the Shadow Lord is my fave FFXI character, he's sooo coool, I can't wait to see him...

@EagleCeres Ай бұрын

I wonder if Prishe will bring us into "current day" Vana'diel, or will we somehow be part of the van that fought against the Shadowlord's troops back in the era of the Shadowreign (Wings of the Goddess)

@SirVyre 29 күн бұрын

FFXI veteran here: I think you went into adequate detail from a lore oriented standpoint. Particularly with how the FFXI raid actually turned out.

@brandoncain Ай бұрын

I admit, the only Shadow Lord I knew was the one from Nier/Nier Replicant, so I thought they were doing a Neir 1/Neir Replicant crossover at first. Still, this was really enlightening. Looking forward to throwing down with this poor forsaken soul in the raid!

@DefenderX Ай бұрын

Wasn't it due to the Galkan living by a mountain that interrupted Galkan's souls returning to the source that caused someone to be reincarnated with previous Galkan experiences? Very similar to how the Mol in Azim Steppe. And the purple structure that looks very much like electrope in the crooked coin could very well be the reason for this locally interrupted flow of souls. Also, the symbols on the structure in the crooked coin may be found in Solution 9. Which also has the theme of unnatural flow of souls and memories. And since FFXI seems like it will be introduced via memories of long lost worlds in Yak'tel. I'm really looking forward to delve deeper into how memories work and how they may be affected by potential rejoinings.

@Apt23-v8u Ай бұрын

Thats the dorthal not the mol, and only the dorthal reincarnated unless the they off themselves in the allagan syphon

@Kaslo25 Ай бұрын

I didn’t realize how much I missed that Bastok theme ; ;

@jentomobi Ай бұрын

I could see the world of ffxi being part of a shard that like before was on the verge of destruction and the calamity dropped part of them in Alexandria. They were then absorbed into the pool of souls and one of the talekeepers reemerges as a threat.

@lushdontu4015 Ай бұрын

I cant wait for patch 7.1! Will we also get a video about seraphism? Many people say that it doesn't make sense lorewise

@motorolasamurai1635 Ай бұрын

I hope it follows a similar structure as the Nier raids, with side quests in between so we can get a more fleshed out story ( although the Nier raids missed that mark)

@StevenStumpf-k4z Ай бұрын

Well we have had a prior FF11 crossover event, poor samurai gal didn't get to go home though. Perhaps Vanadiel will be a reflection still standing!

@astrealbrizbee9815 Ай бұрын

You forgot that Odin, the Dark Divinity (That Eureka recreates btw) gave Raugrimm his Shadowlord powers. Eureka not only recreated one of Vana'diels GODS, but recreated what equates to Zodiarks/Promathia's angelic servents that watched over one of the Zilarts sacred cities. I think that's how Galuf understood they could recreate the Mothercrystal if they wanted to. My theory is that the Zilart are a sect of Ascians/Ancients that tried to enact some sort of plan on the 11th Shard and screwed up and got trapped in constant time loops. Echoes of Vana'diel might be the first case that Vana'diel has broken out of his time loop cycles, especially with the Cloud of Darkness's push back to the 13th. Overall I'm excited to see how Vana'diel faired after I completed Rhapsodies of Vana'diel.

@gratuitouslurking8610 Ай бұрын

Beings my only real touching of 11 came in FF14's crossover quest they did a few months back, and also Dissidia, I'm interested to see where this alliance raid goes when I hit Dawntrail. With that said, I'm already hoping for a remix of Awakening that can match the Record Keeper remix.

@Gunni4091 Ай бұрын

So the TL;DR is that the entirety of the events in XI's early history with the Shadow Lord were caused by an incel Hume. Imagine being so toxically insecure about yourself that you bring about a world-ending scenario just because you're jealous a Galka has more rizz than you.

@mrblackjacker32.03 Ай бұрын

14:44 Those damned magicites... Giving problems ever since 2002

@maxkid6446 Ай бұрын

this story is a reminder of the consequences of envy also will you do a lesson on the zil'art?

@pimsutter Ай бұрын

That is hard to say, since we know the raid of 11 is memories dug up in the forest in Yak Tel. So this might be memories from 11 somehow arriving in the 14 universe. It's highly possible that inter dimensional fusion draw those memories into the source and arrive in Tural and somehow been effected. Since we did saw Prishe in a new form with oversize spiked boxing gloves, so it might be some after effect of been a memory of her and form into a being similar to the twelve? 'm just spit balling here, but it is possible that the shadowlord we know might be also a memory and mutated by some force. My biggest bet is that this Shadowlord;s memory got infected by the Void's Aether and mutated into something more dangerous.

@mrblackjacker32.03 Ай бұрын

The meteors, specially the Azure Tears from Yak T'el... Was the Deepsky Cenote a red herring for a Echoes of Vana'diel?

@pimsutter Ай бұрын

@@mrblackjacker32.03 it’s possible, we can’t rule that out. But at this moment we have so little info of what really is going on here.

@mrblackjacker32.03 Ай бұрын

@@pimsutter Friday can't come soon enough! And I need to see those glams!

@pimsutter Ай бұрын

@@mrblackjacker32.03 same, but I’m also excited for the story and where it will go.

@Apt23-v8u Ай бұрын

I mean he need to buff because we are so powerful now that he is a chump besides us

@starofaetherius Ай бұрын

Hell yeah ffxi lore!!!!!

@25xxfrostxx Ай бұрын

I'm guessing the "echoes" in the title is likely somewhat literal. The auracyte in the Yak'Tel meteors is likely what contains the memories of this other world, possibly no longer in existence as the rocks came from somewhere in space.

@Mighto Ай бұрын

I just don't want it be integrated in the world like the Ivalice Raids. "Jeuno was part of Etherys all along".... I would hate that. We already know from the Shantotto and Iroha Collab that Vana'diel is a different World and I would like this to stay true. Maybe I could accept it as a Byproduct of Interdimentional Fusion.... but please don''t make it that Vanadiel was always part of Etherys.

@Leemmmm Ай бұрын

i had never heard the word "feculent" in my life before playing this raid

@RockR277 Ай бұрын

They say "memories of a world not our own". I'm wondering if that means the 13th (given the similarities to voidsent), another reflection, or another star (I've heard people speculate the meteors in Yak Tel are the source of these otherworldly memories). 13th is probly the most boring answer for a lot of people, but it's the one I'm most interested in. Whatever the case, I'm wondering just how he'll appear and in what way he'll threaten Hydaelyn. Will this be some kind of dream realm, akin to the ancient Giants' dreams of the Golden City? Will we travel to another star or reflection? Or will this end up being some lost/forgotten place that currently exists on Tural? And will he have a similar backstory and "everyone is my enemy" mentality, or will he exist in a brand new context? And, importantly, do we truly defeat him in the first raid and make way for even greater threats from XI, or does he pull a Golbez and survive the fight to continue scheming?

@RockR277 Ай бұрын

I guess that last part is also made on the supposition that we fight him at all in the first raid, which I'm not sure if that's 100% confirmed. But the throne room screenshot is probably decent indicator.

@spectreshadow Ай бұрын

I never played 11 so thank you for this video!

@shybluehope894 Ай бұрын

I don't think they'll do anything too wild. It'll probably be like the Ivalice raids: lore in a jar. I don't think it'll have a huge impact on anything outside the raid.

@lindthechaoticheretic8708 Ай бұрын

That's strange. Didn't they already do a NieR raid series?

@brandoncain Ай бұрын

I thought the same, but apparently this is a different Shadow Lord, one that doesn't involve evil books or dying daughters/sisters.

@GrimDarkHalfOff Ай бұрын

I mean people like your style it's very lecture based like my own, I promise if you do an hour or even hour an a half long video people will watch it. Attention spans don't start capping out according to YT statistics until about the 3H mark.

@TheCorpusDelicti Ай бұрын

Ahem... please, sir, I want some more.

@indemmar2244 Ай бұрын

I'll see this video , but after plating the raid. I kinda want to be in the group of people who wil discover in fight and learn mor afterward. Well, it was already my state of mind in every raid, but still XD

@thegentleman4284 Ай бұрын

I think the Shadowlord's presence is a red herring. It's not like the XIV team to show off the big bads so early, especially if you know that they are big bads. I'm sure we'll have to fight him or a version of him, perhaps as the 3rd fight of the raid, but I sincerely doubt the 4th and final.

@IaconDawnshire Ай бұрын

We need a real raid. Dynamis style

@1jidion Ай бұрын

i would have loved an hour long video lol

@1jidion Ай бұрын

im really hoping vanadiel is a reflection of etheirys

@toychristopher Ай бұрын

I only got to level 10 as a white mage before my lack of friends halted my progress and caused me to quit ffxi. I wish I would have continued.

@EyeOfLyger Ай бұрын

I legit wouldn’t mind hearing you talk for an hour, Professor.

@Lulink013 Ай бұрын

I wonder if the magicite played a role in making the party of 6 split and turn on eachother. Surely a party of respected heroes would do better in such a context?