I am so stressed about today being January 6th, that I haven't been able to finish Act I. But final edits ARE on Scene 3, so we're close.

At the end of Scene 2, you get Maxx waxing frustrated at U.S. politics from the POV of a FFXIV original character.

So please enjoy while I finish the rest! 💙

THE LINE

I will this night
In several posts upon his pad alight,
As if they came from several citizens,
Writings, all tending to the great opinion
Allag holds of his name, wherein obscurely
Kæsar’s ambition shall be glancèd at
And after this, let Kæsar seat him sure,
For we will shake him, or worse days endure.

THE FOOTNOTE

This is all a very pretty way of saying, “I’mma do a social media misinformation campaign!” And I think we all have a lot to be grateful for that social media’s only just starting to be a thing for us. Pray for your players, though; they’ve gotten so good at misinformation, some of them elected a Spongebob Squarepants-shaped Roegadyn who dyes his marmot-fur toupee every Loporrit’s favorite color to be their head of state.

Humans are a problem in every multiverse, I swear.

#FFXIV #FFXIVRP #BardOfSagon #KeeperOfTheMoon #Shakespearean #IambicPentameter #Allag #CalamityJan6 #SocialMediaMisinformation #WritingCommunity #LiamMeriaMorvelet #WorldBuilding #OCRP

Maxx will never NOT break the fourth wall. Check out this footnote!

Soul of Allag,
Brave son derived from honorable loins,
Thou like a thaumaturge hast conjured up
My mortifièd spirit. Now bid me run,
And I will strive at trials impossible,†
Yea, get the better of them. What’s to do?

—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (II.1)

† A feeling that likely every Eorzean adventurer’s player can relate to.

Tee-hee. 😈 💙

#FFXIV #FF14 #FinalFantasyXIV #Eorzea #Shakespeare #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #Allag #Thaumaturge

Holy shit the LOREEEEEE:

BRWTUS
No more, I pray you.—
Mesalå, I have here receivèd transmits†
That young Oktoẁỹs and Marq > Ant'wyns
Come down upon us with a mighty power,
Bending their expedition toward Yẁalånn‡.

—Julỹs Kaĩsar (Act IV, Scene 3) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet

† Wireless transmissions delivered via aethernet directly to an addressee’s personal datapad.
‡ Although the closest onomastic correlation we could find in the historical record is a reference to a mythical, ancient kingdom named Ivalice, it was always believed this kingdom existed far to the east (a region that includes southern Dalmasca and parts of Nagxia) of the location actually described in the text, which is the ancestral home of the Garlean people, Corvus. We considered it irresponsible to draw conclusions from this data at this time.

That would be it....if Maxx weren't the lead translator and a fucking MESS. Genius, but a mess:

Although… if the lead translator were to engage in what he might call “educated speculation,” a very interesting conclusion includes the possibility that Ivalice predated the Allagan Empire. If so, it puts the probable existence of Ivalice some time between the Solar Scathe (the Third Umbral Calamity) and the start of the Middle Allagan Period. By the time Julỹs Kaĩsar is set in, Ivalice had already become a kingdom lost to a localized, umbral calamity of an unknown nature. By the time Morvelet was writing, it was a miracle he was able to name it even a little.

*cough* Ultima, the High Seraph *cough*

#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVLore #Allag #Ivalice #Shakespeare #JulỹsKaĩsar #Radpunk #Bard #Corvus #EorzeanVerse #Endwalker #Stormblood

I spent the day immersing myself into the Third Astral Era to bring you Julỹs Kaĩsar.

It will be a complete translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into the sociopolitical landscape of the Allagan Empire. I'm not just swapping names; I'm performing an in-depth study into the linguistics of betrayal.

Excerpt: Act III, Scene 1

KAISAR: Doth not Brwtus bootless kneel?
KASKÅ: Speak, hands, for me! (As Kaskå strikes, the others rise up and stab Kaisar.)
KAISAR: Gwyk m'mågt, Brwtus? —Then fall Kaisar.

The Ask

I am rewriting the fall of tyrants while trying to prevent my own collapse. If you enjoy this level of unhinged lore-crafting and want to see Act IV and more besides, please consider donating. It buys me the time to translate "0" into "Art."

Among other things, cuz the art is just ONE of the MANY avenues I'm exploring for growth and financial convalescence.

http://cash.app/$CeruleanArc https://venmo.com/joanburgos

It's a little urgent right now so no GFM for now. This'll help me move myself around Pittsburgh tomorrow to get more med refills (I still need new Bupropion for my depression), do errands, and prepare for my job interview on Friday. 💙

#FFXIV #CreativeWriting #Shakespeare #Lore #Allag #MutualAid #WritersOfMastodon #Crowdfunding

OMG I just hit another major milestone in my adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for the FFXIV universe: Julỹs Kaĩsar by Liam Meri'a Morvelet.

It's Marq Ant'wyns' famous speech:

Friends, Allagans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Kaĩsar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.
So let it be with Kaĩsar. The noble Brwtus
Hath told you Kaĩsar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Kaĩsar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brwtus and the rest
(For Brwtus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men),
Come I to speak in Kaĩsar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me,
But Brwtus says he was ambitious,
And Brwtus is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Allag,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Kaĩsar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Kaĩsar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brwtus says he was ambitious,
And Brwtus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Drunken Feast
I thrice presented him epaulets,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brwtus says he was ambitious,
And sure he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brwtus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?—
O judgment, thou art fled to vile beastkin,
And men have lost their reason!—Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Kaĩsar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

#FFXIV #Shakespeare #JuliusCaesar #Allag #BardRP #JulỹsKaĩsar #Eorzea #AllaganEmpire #CreativeWriting #FFXIVWrite

What would you say if I told you I was rewriting William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into a diegetic #FFXIV play named Julŷs Kaĩsar and set in the early middle Allagan Empire?

Because I may be doing just that. 😝💙

Beware the plexus of Thaliak!

#Shakespeare ​#JuliusCaesar ​#Allag ​#WritingCommunity ​#JulỹsKaĩsar #BewareThePlexusOfThaliak ​#Adaptation #CreativeWriting #Diegetic #FinalFantasyXIV #AllaganEmpire ​#Thaliak #FanFiction #WorldBuilding

Soon, I will have to share the tale of #Skuggabaldur, the Blue Fox, child of an ancient ancestor of the miqo'te and a nine-tailed fox auspice named the Wintry Fox.

#OCLore #Miqote #Viera #GShade #FFXIVRP #FinalFantasyXIV #FFXIV #FFXIVRP #Roleplay #FFXIVScreenshots #OriginalCharacter #BlueFox #WintryFox #FFXIVLore #Auspice #MiqoteLore #WolfTribe #SeekersOfTheSun #Allag

It is a long tale, and it begins in the First Astral Era, in his homeland of #Meracydia. It was during the Second Umbral Era that his pranks led to Father Wolf's death, and to make up for it, he pretended to be the Wolf Totem of the Seeker W-tribe for centuries.

He went into a long period of hibernation during the Fourth Umbral Era out of fear and shame. Fear of #Tiamat's wrath, and shame for showing her the magic that would loose the Elder Primal #Bahamut upon the star.