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curiositykilledthecats) wrote2015-07-24 10:41 am
curiositykilledthecats) wrote2015-07-24 10:41 am
Application (Drift Fleet)
OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Hannah
Contact: lastbastion @ plurk
Reference: Already in game!
Other characters: Nightingale (SS Caprine)
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Miah Lanbatal
Character journal: curiositykilledthecats
Series name: Final Fantasy XIV (player character)
Canon notes: From the end of 3.0 storyline, before Alexander. Shares the storyline with a few other people, and it's assumed they've been collectively together through the whole experience as opposed to the canon single warrior of light.
Species: Miqo'te! Cute small people with cat features. Miah is a Keeper of the Moon, which means she's got round pupils, but fangs, the longer feline ears, and a fluffy as fuck tail.
History: Born in the Black Shroud forest, Miah belonged to a hidden clan of Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te in the deepest, darkest parts of the forest. They were entirely self-sufficient through hunting and gathering, having only a couple of families, and contact with outsiders was forbidden until adulthood, and even then none were allowed to give hints to their origin. The isolated clan needed to stay isolated. Mostly, outside contact was only made to conceive a child, and then they vanished once more.
Unfortunately, Miah was a curious child, and soon took to exploring. Even as her elders told her not to, she still did. She thought she knew better, and she had to know everything. And she thought this curiosity rewarded when she found a group of men in red and black uniforms, strangely without tails or ears like hers. They had strange machines she wished to learn about, and so she approached them without fear, not realizing they were deserters of the Garlean Empire's invasion of Eorzea. She spent a couple of weeks talking to them and learning more about them, until they said they had to leave. But they didn't have food- they would never survive without help. So, they asked, could Miah lead them back to her clan so they could trade, their amazing technology for provisions to get home? She agreed- she wanted that technology like nothing else.
The Imperial soldiers then promptly killed everyone there, sacking their homes for the supplies and burning everything to the ground- They were deserters, and they couldn't leave any survivors who could say where they'd been, after all. But, Miah didn't know that. All Miah knew was their uniform, and that they had lied to her, and were burning her whole world down around her. She couldn't even fight back. Impaled on two swords, her mother managed to grab her and simply told her one thing: To live on, for their blood was on her hands.
With that, her mother cast a forcible teleportation magic. Without any warning, Miah found herself standing in the aetheryte plaza of Gridania, which... Well, a screaming child covered in burns and blood tends to gather attention. She was quickly gathered up and huddled off to talk to the Conjurer's Guild to heal her, and the Wood Wailers to describe exactly what happened.
Given that she was still a young child of about six years old, they couldn't exactly kick her out, and the Elementals gave permission for her to stay. Lacking a home, she was housed at the Adventurer's Guild, and took up conjury- the art of healing. She could never, ever fight again. Traumatized as she was, she was unable to attack anything, nor was she able to even stand up for herself. She became withdrawn, focusing entirely on helping others, and only ever doing what she was told. After all, doing things by her own will had gotten everyone killed. (Current "everyone dead" count: 1)
She was eleven years old when Dalamud fell and the Calamity changed the shape of the forest. This was when Miah first gained the power of the Echo, though she didn't know it at the time- she simply watched the moon fall, and prayed, like everyone else.
The rest of this section will be extremely abridged, as you don't want detailed accounts two full expansions and several content patches.
- At 16, she had learned a lot and set out for Ul'dah.
- Having just missed the first defeat of Ifrit by the other heroes, she instead was captured for tempering by a small band of Amal'jaa using a very small number of crystals. The Ifrit that resulted from this summoning was extremely weak, but still a Primal. Miah had to fight back alone, having discovered her immunity to tempering, and was able to defeat it.
- (Vocab time! Primals are gods summoned from crystals and worship, and tempering is the process where a Primal brainwashes someone into worshipping them. Tempering can only be fixed by killing the tempered. Fun times!)
- This was when she was discovered by the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, investigating this summoning. Naturally, they were surprised by this timid teenager having soloed a Primal (though being strictly honest, anyone tempering-proof probably could have managed) and brought her to meet their group and explain everything.
- Even still, she's temper-proof and did solo a Primal, so they sent her off to La Noscea once she was adjusted to the scions to investigate the emergence of the next one, Titan.
- As Titan had last been defeated by the Company of Heroes, Miah investigated a large man who said he had been part of the Tidus-slaying crew. Completely unable to doubt others, Miah was swindled into doing his chores for several days until another band in similar circumstances showed up.
- Her prowess as a healer, as well as their similar goals, meant Miah joined this new group, the Free Company Chimeriad. They also protected her from getting scammed like this again.
- With this, they did several stupid fetchquests for like five levels and then finally slayed Titan and went back to the Scions.
- Everyone was fucking dead again. (Current "everyone dead" count: 2)
- The company scattered, and Miah went into hiding with Ranmaia and Marhi, two members of this company she had quickly grown attached to- a bard and a scholar, back-line fighters who she had been with.
- Fuck around for a while, find an amnesiac engineering genius, then hide out in Coerthas for a while.
- Find out that oh shit, yet another Primal is being summoned, and you need Cid's airship to get it, so let's go find the ship.
- A whole lot of pointless bullshit happens, but to summarize, Coerthas is fucking awful and they will murder you if anyone even thinks you might maybe not hate dragons with every fiber of your being constantly.
- But they get the ship and kill Garuda.
- Then they go into a camp and bust out the captured Scions from the Imperials, at which point Miah flips her shit because she has massive anger issues relating to Imperials from the time they killed everyone.
- She melts some fuckers down.
- She is then pulled aside by their company leader and told that hey, uh, he's actually a reformed Garlean, maybe let's not murder each other?
- They go ahead into the Praetorium where they kill the shit out of a bunch of Imperials, blow up an ancient Allagan weapon, and rescue the useless pretty boy from the jackass evil entity possessing him.
- So all is happy and everything is good!
- Then the moogles fucking summon their own Primal, Good King Moggle Mog XII (lord of all the land).
- So they kill a gigantic disco moogle king.
- Then another Primal happens. (are you sensing a pattern yet?)
- They try to go fight the Primal Leviathan, and through a series of shenanigans, end up with a horde of ninjas loyal to them.
- They then hatch a brilliant plan to fight Leviathan at sea: Strap two boats together, fill them up so full of magic crystals they fuck up gods, and point them (slowly) at Leviathan. This has no bearing on the app, I just wanted to point out that this is the kind of plans they come up with.
- And somehow, it fucking worked.
After this, yet another Primal was summoned, and Miah and the others were dispatched to face it. By this point, Miah had become rather complacent- she followed the orders she was given, stayed in the back, and healed from a positon of (relative) safety. But this wouldn't be allowed to continue. Ramuh wasn't happy about their presence there, and he didn't believe they were strong enough to fight the darkness as the Warriors of Light. Miah especially, lacking the connection to the sylphs the others had, was a prime target for Ramuh, who minced no words in telling her that a coward as a Warrior of Light would certainly cause Eorzea to fall, and that she must not be so timid. He then made them prove they were worthy to defend the world from darkness in combat, as he was a Primal and needed to be defeated anyway.
Miah took these words to heart after a hard fight where she couldn't simply rely on the others. She had to get stronger, or she'd lose everyone- again. But even so, the power to fight wasn't precisely what she wanted. With this, she went to Ul'dah and began to learn the ways of the Paladin, to protect everyone.
Months passed for Miah to learn how to have confidence in herself, and gain the skills she needed. She ended up becoming closer than ever to Marhi and Ranmaia, and even took the Ceremony of Eternal Bonding (read: marriage, but still allowing Square-Enix to retain plausible deniability to placate homophobic watchdogs, because cats and gnomes fucking are okay as long as they aren't gay. also she’s 18 by this point) with Ranmaia, and the three of them split off to join a different Free Company, quickly rising through its ranks. At this point, an ally began organizing a new military force, the Crystal Braves, unbeholden to any country, because that can't possibly go wrong.
The city-state of Ishgard, notorious for its xenophobia and general assholery (remember Coerthas earlier? it's part of Ishgard and less extreme, even), sent a report asking for aid, as someone was summoning another god damn Primal up there. As tempting as it was for the player to scream 'hell no, fuck you', the characters were actually good protagonists and agreed to help, and this was when Miah rejoined her allies.
They went to find the heretics doing the summoning, and found instead an elf named Ysayle, who was gifted with the same power of the Echo that they had! Instead, though, she had decided to use it to side with the dragons and kill Ishgard, because fuck Ishgard. She then summoned a Primal, Shiva, but rather than summoning it as a god, she channeled it into her own body, allowing her to control the Primal. Even so, Miah helped protect the group in the ensuing fight, and Ysayle left, despairing over the fact that she'd been beaten up by protagonists.
There also turned out to be traitors in two different protagonist groups, including the Crystal Braves, so that was fun.
Finally, following Ysayle's words, they went to investigate the dragon Midgardsormr to find the origin of the war. Instead, Midgardsormr called them idiots and stripped them of their blessing of light. Which kind of sucked, because then another new ally was killed rescuing another when you might have been able to do something before. Oops!
The Sultana of Ul'dah then held a banquet and invited the Warriors of Light. Unfortunately, someone then poisoned the Sultana to death and framed them for it, especially Marhi who was in a private audience with her. The Warriors and Scions then had to flee the banquet, but the Scions all perished to allow the Warriors to get away. (Current "everyone died" count: 3)
- So with everyone dead again, the Warriors of Light fled to hide out in Ishgard, hiding within the house of one of their noble allies.
- In order to placate Ishgard's politics they began to make themselves useful and help out.
- The other Warriors followed a trail of heretics and found Ysayle again. Midgardsormr's words cause her to stop fighting and talk, and she explains herself.
- Miah found yet another beast tribe and their Primal, Bismarck, and ended up getting a scar over her eye then.
- The Archbishop of Ishgard invites the Warriors of Light to inform them that he's trying to trick the Ascians (the aforementioned evil possession guys who are responsible for most bad things)
- They then try to summon Ysayle to join them as they go to attempt to convince the leaders of the dragons to stop their attacks, along with Estinien, the realm's most famous dragon-slayer. So, I mean, this is going to go well.
- En route, they encounter another beast tribe and another Primal, the insectoid Ravana. It's slain quickly to allow them to progress.
- They meet one of the ancient dragons who sided with humans in the first war 1200 years ago, at which point the dragon (Hraesvelgr) tells them to get fucked, and also that everything Ysayle believed was wrong.
- Discovering that the leader of the current dragon attacks (Nidhogg) would not be deterred by anything, the Warriors of Light and Estinien go to kill Nidhogg.
- Nidhogg dies, and the Echo reveals that Hraesvelgr was the one who enabled Nidhogg's attacks on humans, destroying the last bit of hope Ysayle had. Whoops!
- Even so, Ysayle's subordinates attack Ishgard without orders, so Ysayle and the Warriors return immediately to try to stop things peacefully, which they manage.
- However, another ally has been imprisoned by the Archbishop, so they had to go rescue him.
- Having broken through the Vault (basically vatican prison), they confront the Archbishop, but a surprise attack from his knights leads to the death of their most steadfast ally in Ishgard, Haurchefant.
- In attempting to follow the Archbishop, they discover the key they need is in the belly of the primal Bismarck.
- They kill the primal and retrieve the key, but instead the Archbishop appears out of nowhere with an Ascian, kicks their asses, and takes the key.
- So, trying to figure out what to do next, they discover one of the allies who had been supposedly killed at the banquet was actually alive!
- "Alive" turned out to mean 'lost in the Lifestream and in imminent danger of having her very soul dispersed into a billion pieces'. So, I mean, not fun.
- She was revived, though! And was immediately put to work building an aetheric ram, to blow up a barrier now that they lost the key.
- It was also revealed that she's blind from her time in the Lifestream, and was burning away her very life to see.
- Still, they blast through the barrier to follow the Archbishop, and Ysayle sacrifices her life in the process.
- They end up killing an Ascian, and then the Archbishop shows up and steals the kill of the Ascian we wanted dead most.
- The Archbishop then reveals that he and his knights have channeled a thousand years of faith in the war, and become a Primal in their own right: The Primal Knights of the Round.
- Being that it's their job, and the Knights were kind of evil as shit, Miah and the others killed the Knights and banished them to where all the dead Primals go.
- Which is great, except then at the very end, Nidhogg's spirit possesses Estinien and transforms him into the dragon, who then flies off to continue fucking everything up. (Current "everyone dead" count: 4)
- Still, they return to Ishgard to get Ishgard back into the Eorzean Alliance.
- And because no one gets nice things, it turns out the goblins summoned their own Primal, a mechanical giant named Alexander. But as it was trapped under a barrier, they never got inside to kill it before ending up in Drift Fleet.
Personality: Miah is at her core a curious, caring girl, but repeated loss has toughened her to the point where she is almost unrecognizable to her past.
She is quiet, seldom speaking unless spoken to, and then often using as few words as possible. She opens up more to those she is comfortable around, but even so, her words tend to be brief. Her speech is quite formal, relaxing only around her very closest friends, and even then only slightly. This can make her seem longer-winded than she actually is.
She’s quite humble, though not quite down on herself. She doesn’t see herself as special! Merely that she does what must be done. She doesn’t view herself as much of a leader, though she is technically in a high rank in Amos. Her level-headedness and good judgment have won her the respect of many, and she strives to live up to their respect, as well as the reputation she has gained as the Warrior of Light, without letting it go to her head.
Though no longer quite naive, she still believes the best in people. It takes a lot to make her decide that someone is not a good person, though significantly less to exhaust her patience. She will risk her life for people she just met, as she knows these people are Good, and they deserve life! The only ones she is willing to outright kill on sight are the Tempered, as otherwise they are literally a threat to the world, and the Garlean soldiers, as she still has lingering anger issues there.
She has extreme anger issues towards the Garlean empire, however! She used to go absolutely raging berserk on sight of them, but after her Paladin training to calm herself, she retains her own sense of mind, but she hates them with a passion, and will not hesitate to kill them before they do any harm. The Garlean invasion of Eorzea has caused too much suffering, after all.
She has extreme survivor’s guilt as well. She isn’t willing to throw her life away, and in fact, she feels as though she has to live in order to atone for the lives sacrificed for her sake. She has to do everything she can to survive, but she also has to ensure everyone else survives- The guilt and despair from so many sacrificing their lives for hers controls her below the surface.
And on top of all of this, she fears she’s becoming something else. She’s helped kill so many Primals, beings of great power. The Ascians have told her they’ve become more powerful than mortals should be capable of. Miah fears she’ll be something inhuman (in-miqo’te?) and is beginning to fear her own strength.
Under all of this, however, she’s a surprisingly normal girl. She likes reading, especially romance novels, and her home is covered in books. She has a fondness for fashion, and enjoys wearing pretty clothes (oftentimes the ones she makes herself). Her idea of a perfect day would be a quiet day spent at home with Ranmaia and Marhi.
Abilities: Miah is one of those naturally gifted people who is good at nearly everything she tries as long as that doesn't actually involve talking to people much.
She's an extremely skilled white mage and paladin, making her well-versed in healing magic and swordplay, and has minor proficiency in lances, axes, fistfighting, bows, arcanism, and thaumaturgy.
She's also got a lot of levels in crafting, specializing in weaving and leatherworking, but extremely capable in carpentry, and smithing (armor, weapons, and jewelry all). She’s got no patience for alchemy nor cooking, however..
Her most important ability is the Echo. It's a blessing of light which allows her to: understand all languages spoken to her, be immune to brainwashing, and allows her to faint at inopportune times to see other people's memories of past events (or possibly just directly viewing the past? the game is kind of unclear.) Basically, it's Protagonist Status.
Also, as a Final Fantasy character, she’s capable of carrying a ridiculous amount of items in her bag that makes no sense.
Augment Skillset: Security augment
Sample: A post taking place at the beginning of Heavensward.
Name/Handle: Hannah
Contact: lastbastion @ plurk
Reference: Already in game!
Other characters: Nightingale (SS Caprine)
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Miah Lanbatal
Character journal: curiositykilledthecats
Series name: Final Fantasy XIV (player character)
Canon notes: From the end of 3.0 storyline, before Alexander. Shares the storyline with a few other people, and it's assumed they've been collectively together through the whole experience as opposed to the canon single warrior of light.
Species: Miqo'te! Cute small people with cat features. Miah is a Keeper of the Moon, which means she's got round pupils, but fangs, the longer feline ears, and a fluffy as fuck tail.
History: Born in the Black Shroud forest, Miah belonged to a hidden clan of Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te in the deepest, darkest parts of the forest. They were entirely self-sufficient through hunting and gathering, having only a couple of families, and contact with outsiders was forbidden until adulthood, and even then none were allowed to give hints to their origin. The isolated clan needed to stay isolated. Mostly, outside contact was only made to conceive a child, and then they vanished once more.
Unfortunately, Miah was a curious child, and soon took to exploring. Even as her elders told her not to, she still did. She thought she knew better, and she had to know everything. And she thought this curiosity rewarded when she found a group of men in red and black uniforms, strangely without tails or ears like hers. They had strange machines she wished to learn about, and so she approached them without fear, not realizing they were deserters of the Garlean Empire's invasion of Eorzea. She spent a couple of weeks talking to them and learning more about them, until they said they had to leave. But they didn't have food- they would never survive without help. So, they asked, could Miah lead them back to her clan so they could trade, their amazing technology for provisions to get home? She agreed- she wanted that technology like nothing else.
The Imperial soldiers then promptly killed everyone there, sacking their homes for the supplies and burning everything to the ground- They were deserters, and they couldn't leave any survivors who could say where they'd been, after all. But, Miah didn't know that. All Miah knew was their uniform, and that they had lied to her, and were burning her whole world down around her. She couldn't even fight back. Impaled on two swords, her mother managed to grab her and simply told her one thing: To live on, for their blood was on her hands.
With that, her mother cast a forcible teleportation magic. Without any warning, Miah found herself standing in the aetheryte plaza of Gridania, which... Well, a screaming child covered in burns and blood tends to gather attention. She was quickly gathered up and huddled off to talk to the Conjurer's Guild to heal her, and the Wood Wailers to describe exactly what happened.
Given that she was still a young child of about six years old, they couldn't exactly kick her out, and the Elementals gave permission for her to stay. Lacking a home, she was housed at the Adventurer's Guild, and took up conjury- the art of healing. She could never, ever fight again. Traumatized as she was, she was unable to attack anything, nor was she able to even stand up for herself. She became withdrawn, focusing entirely on helping others, and only ever doing what she was told. After all, doing things by her own will had gotten everyone killed. (Current "everyone dead" count: 1)
She was eleven years old when Dalamud fell and the Calamity changed the shape of the forest. This was when Miah first gained the power of the Echo, though she didn't know it at the time- she simply watched the moon fall, and prayed, like everyone else.
The rest of this section will be extremely abridged, as you don't want detailed accounts two full expansions and several content patches.
- At 16, she had learned a lot and set out for Ul'dah.
- Having just missed the first defeat of Ifrit by the other heroes, she instead was captured for tempering by a small band of Amal'jaa using a very small number of crystals. The Ifrit that resulted from this summoning was extremely weak, but still a Primal. Miah had to fight back alone, having discovered her immunity to tempering, and was able to defeat it.
- (Vocab time! Primals are gods summoned from crystals and worship, and tempering is the process where a Primal brainwashes someone into worshipping them. Tempering can only be fixed by killing the tempered. Fun times!)
- This was when she was discovered by the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, investigating this summoning. Naturally, they were surprised by this timid teenager having soloed a Primal (though being strictly honest, anyone tempering-proof probably could have managed) and brought her to meet their group and explain everything.
- Even still, she's temper-proof and did solo a Primal, so they sent her off to La Noscea once she was adjusted to the scions to investigate the emergence of the next one, Titan.
- As Titan had last been defeated by the Company of Heroes, Miah investigated a large man who said he had been part of the Tidus-slaying crew. Completely unable to doubt others, Miah was swindled into doing his chores for several days until another band in similar circumstances showed up.
- Her prowess as a healer, as well as their similar goals, meant Miah joined this new group, the Free Company Chimeriad. They also protected her from getting scammed like this again.
- With this, they did several stupid fetchquests for like five levels and then finally slayed Titan and went back to the Scions.
- Everyone was fucking dead again. (Current "everyone dead" count: 2)
- The company scattered, and Miah went into hiding with Ranmaia and Marhi, two members of this company she had quickly grown attached to- a bard and a scholar, back-line fighters who she had been with.
- Fuck around for a while, find an amnesiac engineering genius, then hide out in Coerthas for a while.
- Find out that oh shit, yet another Primal is being summoned, and you need Cid's airship to get it, so let's go find the ship.
- A whole lot of pointless bullshit happens, but to summarize, Coerthas is fucking awful and they will murder you if anyone even thinks you might maybe not hate dragons with every fiber of your being constantly.
- But they get the ship and kill Garuda.
- Then they go into a camp and bust out the captured Scions from the Imperials, at which point Miah flips her shit because she has massive anger issues relating to Imperials from the time they killed everyone.
- She melts some fuckers down.
- She is then pulled aside by their company leader and told that hey, uh, he's actually a reformed Garlean, maybe let's not murder each other?
- They go ahead into the Praetorium where they kill the shit out of a bunch of Imperials, blow up an ancient Allagan weapon, and rescue the useless pretty boy from the jackass evil entity possessing him.
- So all is happy and everything is good!
- Then the moogles fucking summon their own Primal, Good King Moggle Mog XII (lord of all the land).
- So they kill a gigantic disco moogle king.
- Then another Primal happens. (are you sensing a pattern yet?)
- They try to go fight the Primal Leviathan, and through a series of shenanigans, end up with a horde of ninjas loyal to them.
- They then hatch a brilliant plan to fight Leviathan at sea: Strap two boats together, fill them up so full of magic crystals they fuck up gods, and point them (slowly) at Leviathan. This has no bearing on the app, I just wanted to point out that this is the kind of plans they come up with.
- And somehow, it fucking worked.
After this, yet another Primal was summoned, and Miah and the others were dispatched to face it. By this point, Miah had become rather complacent- she followed the orders she was given, stayed in the back, and healed from a positon of (relative) safety. But this wouldn't be allowed to continue. Ramuh wasn't happy about their presence there, and he didn't believe they were strong enough to fight the darkness as the Warriors of Light. Miah especially, lacking the connection to the sylphs the others had, was a prime target for Ramuh, who minced no words in telling her that a coward as a Warrior of Light would certainly cause Eorzea to fall, and that she must not be so timid. He then made them prove they were worthy to defend the world from darkness in combat, as he was a Primal and needed to be defeated anyway.
Miah took these words to heart after a hard fight where she couldn't simply rely on the others. She had to get stronger, or she'd lose everyone- again. But even so, the power to fight wasn't precisely what she wanted. With this, she went to Ul'dah and began to learn the ways of the Paladin, to protect everyone.
Months passed for Miah to learn how to have confidence in herself, and gain the skills she needed. She ended up becoming closer than ever to Marhi and Ranmaia, and even took the Ceremony of Eternal Bonding (read: marriage, but still allowing Square-Enix to retain plausible deniability to placate homophobic watchdogs, because cats and gnomes fucking are okay as long as they aren't gay. also she’s 18 by this point) with Ranmaia, and the three of them split off to join a different Free Company, quickly rising through its ranks. At this point, an ally began organizing a new military force, the Crystal Braves, unbeholden to any country, because that can't possibly go wrong.
The city-state of Ishgard, notorious for its xenophobia and general assholery (remember Coerthas earlier? it's part of Ishgard and less extreme, even), sent a report asking for aid, as someone was summoning another god damn Primal up there. As tempting as it was for the player to scream 'hell no, fuck you', the characters were actually good protagonists and agreed to help, and this was when Miah rejoined her allies.
They went to find the heretics doing the summoning, and found instead an elf named Ysayle, who was gifted with the same power of the Echo that they had! Instead, though, she had decided to use it to side with the dragons and kill Ishgard, because fuck Ishgard. She then summoned a Primal, Shiva, but rather than summoning it as a god, she channeled it into her own body, allowing her to control the Primal. Even so, Miah helped protect the group in the ensuing fight, and Ysayle left, despairing over the fact that she'd been beaten up by protagonists.
There also turned out to be traitors in two different protagonist groups, including the Crystal Braves, so that was fun.
Finally, following Ysayle's words, they went to investigate the dragon Midgardsormr to find the origin of the war. Instead, Midgardsormr called them idiots and stripped them of their blessing of light. Which kind of sucked, because then another new ally was killed rescuing another when you might have been able to do something before. Oops!
The Sultana of Ul'dah then held a banquet and invited the Warriors of Light. Unfortunately, someone then poisoned the Sultana to death and framed them for it, especially Marhi who was in a private audience with her. The Warriors and Scions then had to flee the banquet, but the Scions all perished to allow the Warriors to get away. (Current "everyone died" count: 3)
- So with everyone dead again, the Warriors of Light fled to hide out in Ishgard, hiding within the house of one of their noble allies.
- In order to placate Ishgard's politics they began to make themselves useful and help out.
- The other Warriors followed a trail of heretics and found Ysayle again. Midgardsormr's words cause her to stop fighting and talk, and she explains herself.
- Miah found yet another beast tribe and their Primal, Bismarck, and ended up getting a scar over her eye then.
- The Archbishop of Ishgard invites the Warriors of Light to inform them that he's trying to trick the Ascians (the aforementioned evil possession guys who are responsible for most bad things)
- They then try to summon Ysayle to join them as they go to attempt to convince the leaders of the dragons to stop their attacks, along with Estinien, the realm's most famous dragon-slayer. So, I mean, this is going to go well.
- En route, they encounter another beast tribe and another Primal, the insectoid Ravana. It's slain quickly to allow them to progress.
- They meet one of the ancient dragons who sided with humans in the first war 1200 years ago, at which point the dragon (Hraesvelgr) tells them to get fucked, and also that everything Ysayle believed was wrong.
- Discovering that the leader of the current dragon attacks (Nidhogg) would not be deterred by anything, the Warriors of Light and Estinien go to kill Nidhogg.
- Nidhogg dies, and the Echo reveals that Hraesvelgr was the one who enabled Nidhogg's attacks on humans, destroying the last bit of hope Ysayle had. Whoops!
- Even so, Ysayle's subordinates attack Ishgard without orders, so Ysayle and the Warriors return immediately to try to stop things peacefully, which they manage.
- However, another ally has been imprisoned by the Archbishop, so they had to go rescue him.
- Having broken through the Vault (basically vatican prison), they confront the Archbishop, but a surprise attack from his knights leads to the death of their most steadfast ally in Ishgard, Haurchefant.
- In attempting to follow the Archbishop, they discover the key they need is in the belly of the primal Bismarck.
- They kill the primal and retrieve the key, but instead the Archbishop appears out of nowhere with an Ascian, kicks their asses, and takes the key.
- So, trying to figure out what to do next, they discover one of the allies who had been supposedly killed at the banquet was actually alive!
- "Alive" turned out to mean 'lost in the Lifestream and in imminent danger of having her very soul dispersed into a billion pieces'. So, I mean, not fun.
- She was revived, though! And was immediately put to work building an aetheric ram, to blow up a barrier now that they lost the key.
- It was also revealed that she's blind from her time in the Lifestream, and was burning away her very life to see.
- Still, they blast through the barrier to follow the Archbishop, and Ysayle sacrifices her life in the process.
- They end up killing an Ascian, and then the Archbishop shows up and steals the kill of the Ascian we wanted dead most.
- The Archbishop then reveals that he and his knights have channeled a thousand years of faith in the war, and become a Primal in their own right: The Primal Knights of the Round.
- Being that it's their job, and the Knights were kind of evil as shit, Miah and the others killed the Knights and banished them to where all the dead Primals go.
- Which is great, except then at the very end, Nidhogg's spirit possesses Estinien and transforms him into the dragon, who then flies off to continue fucking everything up. (Current "everyone dead" count: 4)
- Still, they return to Ishgard to get Ishgard back into the Eorzean Alliance.
- And because no one gets nice things, it turns out the goblins summoned their own Primal, a mechanical giant named Alexander. But as it was trapped under a barrier, they never got inside to kill it before ending up in Drift Fleet.
Personality: Miah is at her core a curious, caring girl, but repeated loss has toughened her to the point where she is almost unrecognizable to her past.
She is quiet, seldom speaking unless spoken to, and then often using as few words as possible. She opens up more to those she is comfortable around, but even so, her words tend to be brief. Her speech is quite formal, relaxing only around her very closest friends, and even then only slightly. This can make her seem longer-winded than she actually is.
She’s quite humble, though not quite down on herself. She doesn’t see herself as special! Merely that she does what must be done. She doesn’t view herself as much of a leader, though she is technically in a high rank in Amos. Her level-headedness and good judgment have won her the respect of many, and she strives to live up to their respect, as well as the reputation she has gained as the Warrior of Light, without letting it go to her head.
Though no longer quite naive, she still believes the best in people. It takes a lot to make her decide that someone is not a good person, though significantly less to exhaust her patience. She will risk her life for people she just met, as she knows these people are Good, and they deserve life! The only ones she is willing to outright kill on sight are the Tempered, as otherwise they are literally a threat to the world, and the Garlean soldiers, as she still has lingering anger issues there.
She has extreme anger issues towards the Garlean empire, however! She used to go absolutely raging berserk on sight of them, but after her Paladin training to calm herself, she retains her own sense of mind, but she hates them with a passion, and will not hesitate to kill them before they do any harm. The Garlean invasion of Eorzea has caused too much suffering, after all.
She has extreme survivor’s guilt as well. She isn’t willing to throw her life away, and in fact, she feels as though she has to live in order to atone for the lives sacrificed for her sake. She has to do everything she can to survive, but she also has to ensure everyone else survives- The guilt and despair from so many sacrificing their lives for hers controls her below the surface.
And on top of all of this, she fears she’s becoming something else. She’s helped kill so many Primals, beings of great power. The Ascians have told her they’ve become more powerful than mortals should be capable of. Miah fears she’ll be something inhuman (in-miqo’te?) and is beginning to fear her own strength.
Under all of this, however, she’s a surprisingly normal girl. She likes reading, especially romance novels, and her home is covered in books. She has a fondness for fashion, and enjoys wearing pretty clothes (oftentimes the ones she makes herself). Her idea of a perfect day would be a quiet day spent at home with Ranmaia and Marhi.
Abilities: Miah is one of those naturally gifted people who is good at nearly everything she tries as long as that doesn't actually involve talking to people much.
She's an extremely skilled white mage and paladin, making her well-versed in healing magic and swordplay, and has minor proficiency in lances, axes, fistfighting, bows, arcanism, and thaumaturgy.
She's also got a lot of levels in crafting, specializing in weaving and leatherworking, but extremely capable in carpentry, and smithing (armor, weapons, and jewelry all). She’s got no patience for alchemy nor cooking, however..
Her most important ability is the Echo. It's a blessing of light which allows her to: understand all languages spoken to her, be immune to brainwashing, and allows her to faint at inopportune times to see other people's memories of past events (or possibly just directly viewing the past? the game is kind of unclear.) Basically, it's Protagonist Status.
Also, as a Final Fantasy character, she’s capable of carrying a ridiculous amount of items in her bag that makes no sense.
Augment Skillset: Security augment
Sample: A post taking place at the beginning of Heavensward.