IT'S UP! IT'S UP! GO SEE! 💙
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Explore Act I of Ĵwlŷs Kæsar, a masterful FFXIV reimagining of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Dive into the Allagan Empire's conspiracy with deep-dive annotations on aetheric science, High Allagan culture, and the Echo.
Ya'll. That is dedication to the fandom.
Literal. Fucking. Tears.
I have never felt so seen to hear someone talk about my work like this. I fucking love this fandom, and I just wanted someone to notice and care that I did, and this stranger on BlueSky, and I'm fucking crying. 😭 💜
Aw, man. I dunno how I managed to figure out how to emotionally numb to shitty comments while also remaining THIS sensitive to positive ones, but I'm very glad for it tonight. I could not be more grateful for it. 💙
This is the article they're quoting, btw. Just cuz why not reshare? It's a reshare moment.
Now, then. I promised an Act I today, I believe.
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I rewrote some of the tragedy I've been working on moving from Shakespeare's 16th century to Morvelet's Fifth Era.
You see, Morvelet didn't write in Eorzean. Or even Early Modern Eorzean. He wrote in Middle Eorzean. And so his REAL language goes a little like this:
Ye blockes, ye stones, ye duller than bestaille!
O ye harde hertes, ye felouns of Allage,
Knewe ye nat Pompêy? Many a tyme and ofte
Have ye y-clumben up to mansiouns hye,
To railes and landing paddes, ye, to vent-stackes,
Your infantes in your armes, and ther have sat
Al the longe day, with pacient expectacioun,
To seen grete Pompêy passe the stretes of Allage.
Read more: https://taper-project.jijivisa.org/#find
Yeah. I fucking turned Shakespeare into Morvelet into FUCKING CHAUCER, then I kept the iambic pentameter anyway.
I can do motherfucking ANYTHING! 🎆
#TheTaperProject #BardOfSagon #Morvelet #FFXIVWrite #MiddleEorzean #IambicPentameter #Prosody #Linguistics #Chaucer #FFXIVLore #Worldbuilding #CreativeWriting #Allagan #Sharlayan #WritingCommunity
Spearheaded by the adventurer and philanthropist Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri, our primary mission is to restore the lost works of the "Bard of Sagon," Liam Meri'a Morvelet, ensuring that these ancient narratives—long buried beneath the sands of the Sagolii—can once again be performed for modern Eorzean audiences.
Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
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New lore just dropped!
button
An archaic word meaning “butt,” as in the butt of a joke. Notably, Allagan fashion had not used buttons in several decades, and buttons on one’s clothes had become a symbol of poverty or being out of touch with the times: a subject of mockery and ridicule. The last piece of common Allagan fashion to lose buttons was the undergarment, which retained a button-flap until it was replaced entirely by the advent of the zipper and other magitek adhesives. This is likely how the word “butt” became associated with the human rear end, and later with other objects that taper to a blunt end. Eorzean appears to have adopted the word “butt” in place of the earlier word “arse” some time during the Fifth Astral Era.
it was Ekkadite to me
In the Fourth Astral Era, many early scribes became proficient in ancient Allagan but had little to no knowledge of the Ekkadite alphabet or language. When a scribe or student encountered an Ekkadite quotation in an Allagan text, they would write “Ekadý pwgt; nå şadag tw’gyv.” Literally, this means “Ekkadite it is; it, one does not read.” The indirect pronoun gyv means “it,” and the contracted pronoun preceding it, tw’, is the direct third person pronoun “one.”
(I guess technically the translation of the second half is "doesn't read one-it." 🤔 )
#FFXIV #FFXIVLore #Allagan #Worldbuilding #Linguistics #Shakespeare
And who can forget the most important line in the entire play, voiced by
Gwyk m’mågt, Brwtus?
You might be wondering WTF. That statement is adapted from ancient Egyptian phonemes, and ancient Egypt is the culture I've based Allag on. (Think, like, a radpunk Egyptian society.)
Here's the rest of the related footnote so you can understand the work I've put into this. 😊
"Gwyk m’mågt, Brwtus?" means "And you, Brwtus?” spoken aloud in the ancient Allagan language. It is likely pronounced, “Goo-ik m-muhgt, Brootus.” The “m” ahead of the indirect form of the Allagan second person singular pronoun “mågt” is an abbreviated first person possessive pronoun ("mẽkh"). Consequently, “m’mågt” is an intimate, even affectionate, indirect pronoun, and the literal translation of “gwyk m’mågt” is “and my-you.” The use of this grammatical construction further emphasizes the impact of Brwtus’s betrayal of Julỹs Kaĩsar.
#JulỹsKaĩsar #Allagan #Conlang #Radpunk #FFXIVLore #Egyptology #WorldBuilding #Shakespeare #Morvelet #CrystalTower
Also, this play takes place centuries prior to the Crystal Tower's construction and yet mentions it all the time. Shakespeare/Morvelet and his anachronisms, am I right? 😉
two familiar shards, back in the third astral era...
#ffxiv #ff14 #gpose #wol #azem #grahatia #allagan #hyur #miqote
This arrived in the mail today - my Allagan Tomestone phone charger! I was surprised to see that it lights up while it's charging, and for a few minutes after you remove your phone!
Greetings Etheirys! #Introduction
This is a character account for the cloned form of the Allagan Technologist, Amon, detailing his #FFXIV misadventures.
🎵Always SFW
🎵Not Spoiler-free
🎵Light RP, Banter & Good Vibes
🎵Not Always IC
🎵#Allagan Antics
🎵Mateus Server
🎵Blog & Story: http://spotofmummery.com
Story originally established back in 2018, long before the changes to Amon's canon in Endwalker. This Amon is not Fandaniel.
Ellis C.A. Arcwolf (Author)
Julian 
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Aywren
Amon D'Syrcus
Aywren ❄️