Though you get transported to this world, and are unknown, once you hear of the people’s plight, it’s not long before you’re making waves in the Lights stream. Night no longer graces the skies in this washed-out world of perpetual Light. The bulk of The First has been decimated by The Light, while its people – those who yet survive – are slowly being infected and transformed into Light-spawned monstrosities known as Sin Eaters. There is no balance in The First between the primal forces of Light and Dark and, without one to balance the other, The Light has proven itself just as deadly when left unchecked. The Light, through dastardly Ascian machination, has flooded the world and is close to bringing about its destruction.
PARALAX BACKROUNDS IN HEXELS PATCH
Through events setup during the patch quests at the end of Stormblood, the Warrior of Light has been called away to another world, The First, which is on the brink of destruction. It’s an astounding achievement rarely seen outside of novels. Suffice to say, your journey is no longer merely about saving one world from the games main antagonists, The Ascians, but rather the fate of Final Fantasy XIV’s version of the multiverse.
Story plot threads begun in the game’s first expansion, Heavensward, not only set the stage for Shadowbringers, but begins to culminate emotionally as well. And believe me, this is a journey that you don’t want spoiled at all. Plot threads begun in one expansion usually pay off in another or the games patch quests between expansions, making it all the harder to truly talk about the story without eliciting spoilers. Like life, the base game and each expansion has flowed seamlessly from one into the next, each plot thread, each connection made or lost is just another step in the journey of your digital life. How Square have managed to, not only, maintain a level of storytelling excellence but also raise the quality with each expansion, is simply mind-boggling.įinal Fantasy XIV’s story has, from the beginning, been one long tale about the Warrior of Lights journey. Not least because of the amount of content that Square have managed to bless this MMO with, but because the story has been an amazingly crafted tale that, just when you think it can’t get any better, outdoes itself. Getting to Shadowbringers, Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion has been an incredible journey.