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This will be sort of a fusion narrative wherein many locations from different Final Fantasy titles exist in the same world, which we'll just call Earth. The are six main continents, and the one we'll be focusing on will be called Eorzea, named after the similar location in Final Fantasy XIV.

This will be sort of an adventure/action/slice of life type RP starring the members of an expedition to colonize Eorzea, sometimes called the New World. Our particular group hails from the Archadian Fellowship, based in the Free City of Archades. Because this city-state is separate from the dozens of kingdoms it shares the continent of Spira with, it serves as a neutral zone for alliances and treaties. Thus, the Fellowship includes members from nearly every major nation.

So, our characters start off in the Free City of Archades on the eastern coast of the continent of Spira, preparing for their long voyage across the Noscific Ocean to the continent of Eorzea. Once they land, they set up what becomes the Midgar Colony, though eventually they explore other parts of the New World and found other colonies as well. As for the reasons behind this effort, we'll say a team of previous explorers discovered Eorzea some time ago, and upon returning to Spira with a plethora of Aetheryte crystals, it was decided to mount a full-scale expedition to mine this extremely valuable and powerful resource and set up colonies near potent sources. To prevent the kingdoms of Spira from fighting over it, it was mutually decided that the Fellowship would handle it since they were all equally represented within its ranks.

But a Final Fantasy story is no fun without conflict, right? So there will be competing expeditions from a few of the nations that are not with the Fellowship, such as the Holy State of Ishgard and the Dravanian Imperium, though they will land much further north and we won't encounter them at first. Our main antagonists in the beginning will be wild beasts and conflicts from within caused by a handful of mutineers. And there will also be members of a dark cult we eventually run into.

Feel free to use existing characters from any FF titles, or create your own. Just make sure they fit within a mostly fantasy/medieval-type setting. There will be some magical technology, but nothing that would be considered too modern. To start, I will be playing two main characters and three NPC-like characters. Names and images are still pending, but I created them all in FFXIV. My two mains will be Kogatomaru Kanzo, a male miqo'te ronin mercenary who was exiled from his homeland, and Aedarya Tamreone, a female viera summoner who can call upon spirits from the Feywild, a separate plane of existence that dwells deep within the Lifestream from which all Aether flows.

My three NPCs will be Captain Ellavere Kurgis, a female roegadyn sailor and former pirate who commands the ASV Blue Falcon (Archadian Sea Vessel); Commander Ephraim Vathano, a male elezen paladin who serves as the military head of the expedition; and Doctor Mykal Gharlan, a Hrothgar alchemist and Aetheryte expert who serves as the lead scientist.

I look forward to seeing what you all come up with for your characters! If there is enough interest, I'll create the main thread and post the template for character sheets.
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Here are my character images as of now, but I may change them since some of these outfits have zippers and clash with a fantasy/medieval aesthetic.

Kogatomaru Kanzo


Aedarya Tamreone


Captain Kurgis


Commander Vathano


Doctor Gharlan


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Definitely interested


Awesome! I'd love to hear your character ideas :D.
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Hmmm okay...interesting...I'm going to just uh show my interest on this. Love me some Final Fantasy
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Awesome! So we got two interested players.
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Are we going to need a Healer? I main Scholar in FF14 and could play our Healer lol.

Otherwise I have other ideas.
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I am...tempted
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Are we going to need a Healer? I main Scholar in FF14 and could play our Healer lol.

Otherwise I have other ideas.


Sure! Your character could be a medical specialist on the expedition if you'd like. I imagine they would have some alchemy experience for medicines and potions, so perhaps your character is close friends with Doctor Gharlan. We could say they attended Dravenmore Academy of Advanced Alchemy together in their youth before splitting off into their respective fields, or if you want your character to be younger, perhaps Gharlan was a professor at the Academy for a time and they were his student before they split off into a medical specialization. Then when it came time for the expedition, Gharlan put in a good word for them with the Fellowship. That is, of course, just an idea, and you are free to choose whatever origin you'd like for your character.
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Would you mind if I offered another idea?

And bring in an equivalent to Old Sharlayan? Something like another neutral party. I'll think of a name for them. I'm hugely enamored of the Old Sharlayan aesthetic right now.

What with it being a nation of scholars, students, researchers and inventors. Maybe a contemporary of Dr. Gharlan? A Sharlayan League Aether-tech researcher. Rival schools perhaps kinda deal. And the Sharlayan league has sent my character as a kind of foil or attache to take part in the expedition.

He'd of course bring the latest in Sharlayan League research and healing gear. wink wink

Well that's what I'm thinking anyway.
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Would you mind if I offered another idea?

And bring in an equivalent to Old Sharlayan? Something like another neutral party. I'll think of a name for them. I'm hugely enamored of the Old Sharlayan aesthetic right now.

What with it being a nation of scholars, students, researchers and inventors. Maybe a contemporary of Dr. Gharlan? A Sharlayan League Aether-tech researcher. Rival schools perhaps kinda deal. And the Sharlayan league has sent my character as a kind of foil or attache to take part in the expedition.

He'd of course bring the latest in Sharlayan League research and healing gear. wink wink

Well that's what I'm thinking anyway.


Yeah, that would work! Since there are dozens of kingdoms allied with the Fellowship, you could model one after Old Sharlayan. Each nation would be completely independent with their own leaders and government, but they would send an Ambassador to Archades to sit on the Fellowship High Council and agree to a basic set of principles, similar to the United Nations in our world.

If you're thinking your character will be older and on par with Gharlan, you could make him the chief medical expert on the expedition. Once they land, he could set up a clinic in the Midgar Colony. Though, if you're also wanting your character to go off on adventures with the lower ranking members of the expedition, it might be a good idea to create two characters, perhaps a master and apprentice. The master could be older and wiser and run the clinic in the colony while the apprentice joins the adventurers to go hunt down possible sites for Aetheryte mines and combat monsters.

Doctor Gharlan invented crystal-lens goggles that allow them to detect the auras of Raw Aetheryte from a distance, even while it's still underground, so that helps them determine where to start digging. I imagine the expedition would have multiple small teams to fan out and search for potential mining locations. As for the exact number of people on the expedition, since establishing a permanent colony and developing a successful mining venture are the priorities, there would likely be around six hundred people total spread out over several ships, with the Blue Falcon as the head of the fleet.

There will obviously be the adventurers and combat experts, but also people to build the colony, set up farms and ranches, work in the mines once they are established, hunt and gather food and resources, etc.

However, you mentioned a possible foil, so if your character is on a secret mission to sabotage the expedition, perhaps the Old Sharlayan government has plans to slowly dismantle the Fellowship from within. Perhaps they have a secret alliance with Ishgard or Dravania, or maybe they have just grown concerned over the amount of power and influence the Fellowship High Council has cultivated. Ultimately, it's your decision.
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Well no not like a sabotage the colony thing, more like a rival to Dr. Gharlan.

And I guess I could try and play two characters. The main medic guy and his apprentice.

I'm already sniffing around on the idea of major patriotism kinda deal going on here.

I'll think on it.
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Ah, okay. He could be a rival, but the overall priority would be a unified collaborative effort. Since there are dozens of nations with citizens on the expedition, they probably wouldn't take kindly to a rivalry so apparent that it could interfere with progress. There's also the fact that, most likely, your doctor and Gharlan would fill different roles within the expedition, so their rivalry would probably be more of an intellectual one. Perhaps they play something like chess on their off time, always trying to better the other in games of strategy.

And I say different roles because, if your character is a healer, his work probably wouldn't overlap with Gharlan's very much. Gharlan is the lead scientist on the expedition, and if you notice the pics I uploaded in the second post, I actually gave him a Sharlayan-like outfit, hehe. He's an Aetheryte expert and spent quite a lot of time analyzing the crystals brought back from the first expedition, which helped him fine-tune his crystal-lens goggles.

Though I am curious what you meant by major patriotism? Were you thinking your character would be loyal to Old Sharlayan over the Fellowship, or that some of the characters would be more loyal to the Fellowship itself over individual countries? I'm sure there will be room for many variables of that nature, since one of the early plot threads will likely deal with mutineers.
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Rivalry and Loyalty. Working with the Fellowship sure. But you probably know what I mean. The whole Soviet and American thing comes to mind.

Sure they're there to work together but can you not see the Old Shar League (I'm trying out names here) being all, "Sure the Fellowship made great advances. But the Shar League steps into the topic are easier to produce and much more sturdy."

Things like that.
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Hello! Dropping an interest here. I've actually recently played through and finished FFX and playing through FFX-2 right now. I'm down to play any role, though I'm specifically interested in classes like: ninja, thief, white mage, black mage, blue mage, summoner, bard, samurai, chemist or dancer. I'd say gunner perhaps, but I'm not sure if you'd be open to bolt-action rifles (maybe powered by the crystals?).

I'm usually a person that likes to round out a team since I have so many interests. In terms of races, are we restricted to what's in XIV?
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You can use any race from any FF game, feel free to let your creativity fly! :D. As for the gunner idea, I'd be okay with that if the rifles are magic-based, powered by crystals like you suggested. We could say the expedition is armed with a number of weapons provided by Magitek Ironworks.
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I'll start working on character ideas now, if this is still going.
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I’ll tentatively add my interest to this, to see where it goes.
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Hello everyone! I was holding out for a larger group, but I think we have enough people interested to at least get started. If you could, can you each describe what kind of character you want to play (for those who haven't already specified that). I want to decide how best to fit our characters into a single party, and knowing what role each of them fills on the expedition will be beneficial in that :D.
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Character ideas I'm playing with right now:

🟆 Qu Blue Mage (or Black Mage for something a little different).

🟆 Tonberry (undecided job, though wouldn't it be great as a bard or dancer?).

🟆 Yuke Summoner (under the implication that Summoners are a thing in this RP -- I mean to ask if they would be similar to FFX on some grander scale or would Summoners be more like D&D and the like where it's just various creatures/elementals?).

🟆 Moogle Thief, kupo!

🟆 Chocobo, kweh!

🟆 Al Bhed Gunner.

I'm not really a silly RPer. Would these do well as comedic relief? No doubt. But I want to assure everyone that I'll still take writing them fairly seriously. There may be certain limitations, I understand, such as being a Chocobo. I just think about how you can play as one in the Chocobo's Dungeon games and it even has a variety of jobs like the mainline FF games!

You guys let me know if any of these sound intriguing. I usually cut my characters from a different cloth, but I still want to be part of a group that everyone has fun with!
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