Ok, so few points for originality then but I still maintain the delivery and the execution is top-notch. I also think we are being pushed towards believing this most recent account as being ‘the truth’ – perhaps a little pandering to video game audiences typically uncomfortable with ambiguity. It’s basically Rashomonic I suppose, though the ‘historical events’ angle is probably common in the real world and maybe is a trope in fantasy – R Scott Bakkar stuff, SoIaF I suppose too. I can’t decide whether to write ‘for a video game’ after that sentence. This level of writing and storytelling is really something. We retreat to ask Cid for aeronautical help. Unavoidable parallels with 2018’s political world.Īnd so, plan B: violence. The characters touch on the lifetime/timescale issues: Nidhogg is the same person as he was 1000 years ago, not a descendent like us that can easily renounce and set aside our forebears’ actions.Įstinien asks my questions about the story: Why should we believe it true? Isn’t it convenient that it paints the dragons as blameless? Hraesvelgr’s reply is superb, frustrating, and practical: it doesn’t matter if it’s true it’s what Nidhogg (and implied, dragonkind) believe. Nidhogg o Nidhug, aparece en la mitología de los dioses nórdicos como el dios que vive en una de las ramas del Yggdrasil, árbol sagrado del que se sostienen los nueve mundos y donde habitan los dioses que conforman la mitología nórdica. This telling is important because it means our plan of ‘offer Nidhogg his eye back in exchange for peace’ is a complete non-starter: we had the wrong idea about his values and motivations. Alphinaud is immediately far more regretful about killing all those dragon troops now he knows some of them were once Elezen. Nidhogg appearing in the Dragons Aery, its natural habitat. Nidhoggs (, Nzuheggu) also called Heg, are a recurring enemy in the Final Fantasy series since their debut in Final Fantasy VII. In a terrible tragic detail, it is the thread of Ratatoskr inherited by today’s Ishgardians that causes them to become Dravanian and join Nidhogg’s horde on tasting dragon blood. His longer-term revenge is the war, to destroy the descendants of the rest of the knights that today make up the people of Ishgard. Nidhogg’s immediate revenge was to kill Thordan and some of the knights. Nidhoggr is the evil dragon from Norse mythology who gnaws at the roots of the World Tree, Yggdrasil. In this telling, there was indeed initial conflict ended by Shiva X Hraesvelgr, followed by peace until Thordan and his knights attacked and slew the dragon Ratatoskr, sister of Nidhogg and Hraesvelgr. The main event though is another variation on the origins of the war. The Ascians have been up to no good for a long time but don’t seem to have accomplished that much. Hrasevelgr mentions in passing that once upon a time his people were convinced by the Ascians (remember them?) to attempt a resurrection and ended up summoning something else. the moogle king primal again.) Shattering for her. Rather she has convinced herself of that and created a mini-primal from her own beliefs and desires. Slightly surprised that we finally met Hraesvelgr rather than being sent off to another castle.įirstly and sadly, Ysayle has not summoned the spirit of Shiva.
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