The First Tears of Dawntrail Have Been Shed

[@edeonsaint9938]

I mention this every time I can! Xibruq Pibil is inspired in a real mexican technique of cooking (Actually a mayan technique) which implies cooking under the earth a dish wrapped in banana leaves. The most popular is the Cochinita Pibil. They really did a nice job researching the cultures.

[@terabellum]

I've heard about underground ovens before! It's something I absolutely want to experience before I'm gone.

[@alioness-w-noregrets7471]

The only time I ever heard about an underground oven was when I learned about beggars chicken. I never had it before but I heard it’s quite tasty. And now looking at this makes me wish I had some pibil too, except I can’t find any restaurants that serve it near me…

[@NSUSashiel]

I enjoyed the line my character got from Kryle before the cookout for having exploded my inventory to level Culinarian.

[@hkoizumi3134]

FF14 never fails to deliver a reminder to us all. Because of current events around the western world, we are divided more than ever. This MSQ/journey is a lesson for us all to understand one another to bridge the gap that we have built. It's a message that we can all heed to.

[@Krim04]

Being able to sympathize with Bakool was not on my bingo card, but being a twin who survived birth whilst my brother did not.. this scene had me laying in bed shortly after it.

[@winterfall1021]

I saw someone on Twitter mention Wuk Lamat's fear of heights and sea sickness... and how she was pushed into a cenote as a toddler... 😢

[@terabellum]

OH- HOLY CRAP.

[@camiart_casual]

wait- hang on- wait- 😭

[@jestana]

Waaaiiiiit. 😰

[@WhywolfSenpai]

I saw that too and now every time I see her get freaked out or queasy about it I just wanna give her a hug 😭

[@erockbaby3000]

Oh that’s not… 😭😭😭

[@zerosolis6664]

When you discover that Lamaty'i was pushed into a cenote as a baby, and remember that she has a fear of heights and easily gets motion sickness/seasick....Man people don't give DT enough credit at all.

[@Deuzen_FIN]

The frightened yelps at a "several cutscenes" warning never fails to amuse.😂

[@elaine_of_shalott6587]

Honestly, I had been raging about Doctor Who mishandling adoption stories and placing biological parents over adoptive parents who did the hard work of loving and raising the child so I loved the acknowledgement that even though bio-dad was proud of her he recognized that Galool Ja Ja remained her real father. In my experience adoptive children with loving relationships with their adoptive parents always view them as the real parent, even if they may be interested in meeting and getting to know their biological parents those relationships remain secondary.

[@kayleelives]

bio dad’s every intention is the best for his daughter, keeping her safe by giving her up, and reenforcing it by not burdening her with any obligation to him (especially in the middle of the rite)

[@IndianaWright]

The moment i see Bakuul as a perfect example of a redeeming villain, not because there was reason for his actions or behavior, but because they want to change. "I want this to end. I don't want any more to die!" That cemented it for me

[@jjc101]

Yeah he's been a shitty person(s) partially because of his upbringing and partly because of desperation. I like that he's never excused for his actions but he's allowed to try to make up for them. There is good in Bakool Ja Ja and I'm glad the story let him try for it.

[@serisothikos]

I really like the part after the Bakool Ja Ja face turn where Wuk Lamat is like "hey, yeah, so I don't *forgive* him, I just want to give him a chance to prove himself." I needed that bit of qualification rather than just naïve acceptance.

[@karlrassmann4604]

Hey Terra, friendly lil lore reminder about the Echo, if you're interested! In Elpis, when peering into the past with Venat to see Hermes sending off the Meteia, Venat explained that there are TWO ways to use the Echo. 1. Peer into the echos within a person's soul to experience memories from their POV 2. Peer into echos of a moment imprinted upon the land. (This was how we experienced the past then, since Hermes wasn't there to echo through, and is how we viewed Galool Ja Ja bringing peace)

[@terabellum]

That's right I had forgotten! However, I still strongly believe the person behind that tree triggered these memories for us. Take special note of their feet (appears to be a roegadyn in sandals with white tattoos.) I'm sure they'll show up again soon!

[@karlrassmann4604]

@@terabellum Ah, I never noticed the feet! Neato-o Feet-o! :D

[@camiart_casual]

This is true! But we also needed Venat's help to use the second kind, and so far the WoL has shown no ability to do this by themself. So Terra's theory is still pretty sound!

[@karlrassmann4604]

​@@camiart_casual That is true, but the reason Venat helped us was specifically because we cannot control when we use the Echo. Ancients like Venat could, so she helped us channel it purposefully.

[@RothAnim]

@@camiart_casual I don't know if that's true. IIRC, we saw the aftermath of Nidhogg's defeat in Heavensward without one of the memory-holders present (unless maybe we got it from Nidhogg's eye?) I do think the fact we can't control it is why Venat helped us in Elpis.

[@dawnwalkerwolf9655]

During the solo instance as Wuk Lamar, you can see your WoL off to the side during the fight, I think to the left. It's a cool feature that our character is watching someone else fight, a fight similar to that one instance in SB against Zenos

[@aquaauraelezen]

He has come!!!! (to the emotional rollercoaster)

[@Benaveil]

When I first saw the Azure Forest, I was like, "Is THAT Macalania Woods!?!?" The whole area was really pretty, the entire game and its areas are simply beautiful. So full of color.

[@terabellum]

WOW. The woods from FFX right? Now that you point it out it DOES feel very similar!

[@acgearsandarms1343]

I thought of something else when we got to the Ja Tiika Heartland. Xibalba…

[@TerenceLight]

5:40 - Good news: that is a mount. 🥳 Bad news: it costs what amounts to 50,000 bicolor gemstones _or_ upwards of 75,000,000 gil on the market board.😭

[@terabellum]

You raised my hopes and then dashed them quite expertly.

[@MidnightEkaki]

dont forget to add that you cant even buy the vouchers that you buy the mount with until you max out the fates in all areas in dawntrail first which is over 400 fates in itself!! 😇 i think its better to think of it as a long term reward for daily fate grinding rather than aiming to get it. might take you a year or so but at least you get something cool in a year or so good news the vouchers sell for lots of money on the MB so you might be better off just selling them and buying a bunch of other mounts you want more from vendors or the MB with the money. or if youre rich you can buy some vouchers and grind the rest and get the mount with it that way (you can make the money back up by selling vouchers anyway)

[@TerenceLight]

@@MidnightEkaki: You can’t buy the vouchers directly right away, but you can get them off the market board (going for about 130k a pop in my area). What I did was used my gems on the vouchers from Endwalker (still selling for about 100k or so), sell them on the MB, and put that profit towards buying Turali Vouchers until I unlocked the Turali Vouchers directly. It’s definitely a long-term grind; I’m going at it a small bit at a time and have 171/500 right now.

[@MidnightEkaki]

@@TerenceLight oh thats a good tactic!

[@natebroadus8474]

Eugenics is such a horrifying concept. In our world, it was disproven years ago, but not before it was used as the basis for human atrocity. In a world like Hydaelyn where it's not just a concept, but proven fact? It leads to the Mamool Ja. There's a mamool ja mother in Tuliyollal lifting her child up into the air to play with him. Children are precious to the mamool ja, so imagine the pain of conceiving generations of them, knowing most will die in the shell... This was such a heavy part of the MSQ for those who were paying attention.

[@throgdarthebrute]

The stinkeye Urianger and Thancred gave Graha Blast (Koana) when he was going off about being a Sharly-weeb

[@elaine_of_shalott6587]

The Wuk Lamat duty may be a bit corny, but it also felt so cinematic with the limit breaks and the active time maneuver and then going into the aoes.

[@RaideDuku]

If you have culinarian leveled up high enough, you get extra snippets of dialogue.

[@elaine_of_shalott6587]

So the huge fate grind mount this expasnion is a sugar glider like the one you were cooing over at the beginning of the video.

[@terabellum]

My hands are tied, I must obtain sugar glider.

[@tatateppu3259]

Love your reaction and your understanding to story❤. So many people failed to understand what is it the story trying to tell us. All their thoughts is "it doesn't make sense" and finds it's cringe 😅(sorry for my english)

[@WhywolfSenpai]

1:22:37 Just so you know, in the teleportation menu there's a setting you can use to make it automatically use aetheryte tickets on anything that costs more than a gil value you choose, that way it stops asking you every time you teleport somewhere. Loving the reactions so far and was especially looking forward to this one! Can't wait for you to see the rest! 👍

[@DanielWalker-jo2kr]

In some ways, Bakool Ja Ja's story is that of the Dawntnail story-skipper, who eventually realises that it's all about the story. "Why should I bother with any of this? I can cheat my way to the goal, leaving Sopermariocart bombs in my wake?" he says, not realising that it is the journey, and not the goal, that matters.

[@FroggyQC23]

I can forgive Bakool Ja Ja for cheating, stealing and realeasing Valigarmanda. But it still take a lot of time to heal the pain of losing my soft taco.

[@robikkupegasus7039]

Man, I absolutely love this expansion - a pox upon the discourse, I came out of it feeling a whole lotta good things...this part absolutely had my attention! ♥

[@SarahExpereinceRequiem]

Echo memories are memories etched on the aether, either of a person's soul or on a place. We've experienced both in our journey and Venat explained it outright quickly in EW. Someone pointed out something interesting to me the other day. The two things Wuk Lamat can't handle are heights and water and what happened when she was 3? She was pushed from a great height into a cenote. 🤔 I think the biggest qualification Wuk Lamat has that the others lack is that she's the only one who wants to listen to what her people want. Everyone else has decided what they think is best and wants to tell them what they want.

[@acgearsandarms1343]

Hear, feel, think.

[@gregbrown8881]

I'm so glad I finally found a reaction to this part of the game, and you literally touched on everything that I was hoping to see. I loved your reaction to the Mamool Ja just walking away when you first try talking to them. I pretty much did the same thing. Bakool Ja Ja's speech about what his tribe was doing really stole the show for me, because I just didn't see it coming. He was the last person I was expecting to feel pity for, but he deeply deserved it on a level that I can't even put into words. I honestly felt it when he said he never should have been born, and how he wanted the deaths to stop. In fact, the whole scene was so heart-felt and emotional I felt bad for laughing at him when he ran away after the fight with Wuk Lamat.

[@CRes-i1x]

When talking to Bakool's mother or father I wonder many stillborn children they had until Bakool Ja Ja was born. How much pain his mother went through.

[@cparle87]

4:45 The Erenville shade continues. 5:25 Yup, water tech is much improved. 11:18 Ding ding ding ding... aww so close. 13:00 ^.^ 18:35 80 years ago. Garlemald was just kicking things off with their conquests iirc. 31:21 There's none to be found, except the ones left behind if you went out to learn about the culture. Being pushed into a cenote as a toddler certainly explains her seasickness and fear of heights. /sadge 41:05 The most terrifying phrase in the FF14 player vocabulary. 42:40 Why do I get the feeling they're only protected until their feats are complete. 49:04 Bakool ain't happy his underlings are interfering. 57:00 Thancred and Urianger's character development in Shadowbringers and Endwalker showing up here. 1:06:15 He's gonna start his villain arc for sure. ^.^ 1:08:14 So THAT'S where he learned it from. 1:16:55 A 99% infant mortality rate and they keep trying. Remember when the dad said Bakool was as useless as his siblings? His... stillborn... siblings.

[@lancevonalden5585]

Can you believe, Terra, that there are people that don't like Wuk Lamat? And I simply don't get it. She is a great character, and so damn cute, x3.

[@Nasuradin]

Large Cat, Small Taco

[@kayleelives]

MY FRIENDS ARE MY POWER

[@hellohumansss]

20:21 my mind went to Solus when it said warlord of the east, i miss emet selch so much

[@staffordandsuch]

Remember the Mamool Ja in Tuliyollal, holding their tiny child up to the sky? That's who we're doing it for. A people freed from the worst bitternesses of the past, embracing a joy that they've denied themselves.

[@MissKashira]

Yeah, he's trying to stop her from having an identity crisis in the middle of the biggest contest of her life. I've watched a lot of playthroughs and a lot of people are confused about what he's doing in that scene.

[@GamingFoodie]

It's been so wonderful and refreshing watching your playthrough. Thank you for your work and kindness.

[@bransonchic678]

Yay , ya posted sooo excited ! Soo true whenever I travel with my parents the first thing we do is try the food of the different cultures!

[@camiart_casual]

Lvl 94 is just reveal after heartbreaking reveal! I wish the game had taken a little more time with some of it, especially Bakool Ja Ja's turn, but I'm still glad that we got it at all. (btw isn't the music in that forest just haunting? And it sounds like it's sung by a child...)

[@acgearsandarms1343]

How foreboding.

[@itssnowingonmtfuji5808]

36:56 The way I kept on checking my messages lol

[@MidnightEkaki]

'you are so precious!' you say as the cute animal tries to cut you in half

[@eury_15]

1:00:51 Terra here making me cry my eyes out due to this message 😭

[@itsrainingcats9365]

idk if you saw it, but if you talk to alisaie after the feat of repast begins she wonders if bakool ja ja and zoraal ja would wear matching aprons

[@darkmirror21]

1:13:17 special fate in yedlihmad iirc. it's a mount we can get if you want one

[@verdantnekomoya7965]

Great to see your reactions again! Catching up on my reactors since endwalker 💖 I do want to say though, a lot of the turali names are based on the indigenous people of peru, the Quechua people. In Quechuan, the “X” is pronounced with the “sh” sound. So words like Xbr’aal is pronounced as Shbraal, instead of Zibraal. Anyways, good to see your reactions again! Have fun trailing the dawn!

[@sakuram69]

My favorite zone in the whole game so far ❤ it’s just so pretty

[@PaladinArndt]

Bakool Ja Ja is one of the better characters in this expansion. I didn't get the praise for him at first when I started DT, but when I got to this point in the story, I understood.

[@Valerie.T.M]

I've said it once and I'll say it again. Bakool Ja Ja getting redeemed is fine because as shitty as the things he did were, no one died because of them. We were able to clean up his mess before it because a big enough to be unredeemable problem. And it's clear he has to still do the work to be redeemed.

[@emceen8566]

And given that this game has frequently made us empathise with and cheer or cry for people who HAVE actually killed others (Yotsuyu, Fordola, Emet, Elidibus), Bakool is pretty small Ja Tiika bananas by comparison.

[@giannabrown867]

Bakool Ja Ja redemption arc gave me a very realistic life lesson: if you're a bully, and a menace, just cry, tell your sad childhood story to tug sympathy and people will forgive you, and even give you a job in the military.

[@Valerie.T.M]

@@giannabrown867 Truly you have the empathy of a sea cucumber

[@linnilotus]

Wished this part had been drawn out a bit more and wasn’t so fast but I loved how they handled it and Wuk’s development

[@tsuribachi]

the first part: MasterChef: Felids vs Squamates the second part: why hybridization does not work all the time IRL and why eugenics is bad.

[@jonathanzimmer725]

13:15 its not alphinaud. its sam hydaelyn

[@kayleelives]

Terra, do you have an upload schedule for these or is it just when you finish an edit? I get so excited to see a new one in my subs. 😊

[@terabellum]

Saturdays are my guaranteed upload, additionally a Thursday upload if things are going well, and Tuesday if I'm WAY ahead of schedule! Thanks for asking. 😄

[@HakumeiKira]

Wuk Lamat used Dynamis Explosion on Bakool Ja Ja. It was super effective! (That's what I call all crazy LB-actions from now on XD) Here come the emotions. Wuk Lamat certainly has Anime-Protagonist energy but I think she is a really good character in her own way! She seeks to understand everyone, no matter how great the divide may seem. Also, if I remember correctly, didn't Galuf Baldesion die when the Isle of Val sank? It is very unlikely that he still alive somewhere I think. Not impossible, given this is FFXIV, but still. I am also very glad I am not the only one who got tricked by the game concerning....certain things. It will make for a true WTF-moment when the truth is revealed XD.

[@amUusTV]

3 dads? Oh boy!

[@pengwinsRus]

3 dads... SO FAR

[@perro79]

Hmm... This made you cry? You havent arrived at the Golden city yet? Okay... Okay...