Less to say about this bit, but it felt light the calm before the storm. Ironic given that a birb of deadly storms woke up,but that feels like an expected thing for the WoL. Ancient evil wakes up, hit it until it stops being a problem. I'm sure Yak Tel will be nice and calm too, and nothing will go wrong.
Tidbits and nods that I loved: Inca Empire was while not as famously expansionist as the Aztecs, a relatively recent and very expansionist empire conquering far afield into the Amazon. Which makes the Yok Huy conquering into Tak T'el a nice nod I instantly noticed. The final death of memory - I think between Coco and the Book of Life this cornerstone of Mexican culture is well-known (and why I compared Living Memory to the world's most messed up and expensive perversion of an ofrenda). Disease! and the giant chasm stopping the GABI means that it makes sense. Also my favorite thing about the Golden City is how it ended up having multiple access locations if we include both gates to reflect how even though nowadays media adds it to "Mayaztec" El Dorado fantasies in a mishmash of Central America and the Amazon and combines it with the stories about the gold-filled lakes in Columbia, the actual El Dorado myth that the conquistadors searched for was the disaster expedition to the North Am Southwest in around the NM/AZ/Colorado area.
Death/memorial practices are an unfortunate blind spot for me in multicultural knowledge, so thanks for mentioning the ofrenda; it really is pretty close. El Dorado's also a pretty interesting source myth to use for all those reasons, it's honestly weirdly respectful a pick for a myth to tap into for something like this, given even the 'real' El Dorado was itself most likely a lie to send the conquistadors on a wild goose chase. If the truth's that dumb, you can do whatever you want.
@@EinDose prehistoric Native American history is a comparative blind spot (but Aboriginal AU more so) so it’s mostly what I learned in high school and what you know living in the region (the prehistoric *biology* however, I’m sad they didn’t go even more ham into). But Texas History does spend time on Cabaza de Vaca and Esteban aka the first Europeans to reach our state, and that’s who hear the El Dorado rumor and led the expedition. Which when that historical fact is your first exposure to the El Dorado myth, all the later pop culture versions are uninteresting and easy to understand why it’d be a landmine. So XIV pulled it off in making a respectful nuanced and interesting version.
@@EinDoseEl Dorado, or “The Golden Man” was, from my knowledge how the rulers of parts of Central America (I don’t remember what off the top of my head, I’m not going to name any especially) where they’d cover their bodies in a gold dust and jump into a body of water to wash it off; literally a man of gold, instead of a city, old Spanish is wack, because some words don’t translate properly
for Valigarmanda to appear on Dawntrail's cover art, i was hoping he'd fill a larger role in the overall narrative instead of being the first instance boss
Yeah the cover art and trailers have almost nothing to do with them game I noticed, apart from those people being in the game. Nothing happens like that. It's not even red herrings or anything it just literally does not happen in any way like any of the trailers.
Having trust healer red mage had me feeling pretty upset given all of the talk of healers before launch. Granted the combat design in DT over all has been enough to make me not care about the strike since it addressed many of the concerns, but that doesn't kick in until dungeon 3. Also the fact that ex 2 is possible before crafted gear with 7 DPS and a paladin is a bit of a bummer.
@@bendonatier I've been doing Vali EX, and I have a firm belief that a party that just replaced the healers with tanks would have an EASIER time with the mechanic that targets healers.
@@EinDose I personally think of the two Vali needs healers just thanks to all the dots. There's no single target, and the occasional lux solaris solving that fight, unless you run 8 tanks, which has been done.
Valigarmanda is a fight I wish I did as a machinist. I went through all of Dawntrail as monk, and while I enjoy it, I just prefer scholar and machinist the most. I just refuse to do trusts as anything other than tank or dps.
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Less to say about this bit, but it felt light the calm before the storm. Ironic given that a birb of deadly storms woke up,but that feels like an expected thing for the WoL. Ancient evil wakes up, hit it until it stops being a problem.
I'm sure Yak Tel will be nice and calm too, and nothing will go wrong.
Tidbits and nods that I loved: Inca Empire was while not as famously expansionist as the Aztecs, a relatively recent and very expansionist empire conquering far afield into the Amazon. Which makes the Yok Huy conquering into Tak T'el a nice nod I instantly noticed. The final death of memory - I think between Coco and the Book of Life this cornerstone of Mexican culture is well-known (and why I compared Living Memory to the world's most messed up and expensive perversion of an ofrenda). Disease! and the giant chasm stopping the GABI means that it makes sense.
Also my favorite thing about the Golden City is how it ended up having multiple access locations if we include both gates to reflect how even though nowadays media adds it to "Mayaztec" El Dorado fantasies in a mishmash of Central America and the Amazon and combines it with the stories about the gold-filled lakes in Columbia, the actual El Dorado myth that the conquistadors searched for was the disaster expedition to the North Am Southwest in around the NM/AZ/Colorado area.
Death/memorial practices are an unfortunate blind spot for me in multicultural knowledge, so thanks for mentioning the ofrenda; it really is pretty close.
El Dorado's also a pretty interesting source myth to use for all those reasons, it's honestly weirdly respectful a pick for a myth to tap into for something like this, given even the 'real' El Dorado was itself most likely a lie to send the conquistadors on a wild goose chase. If the truth's that dumb, you can do whatever you want.
@@EinDose prehistoric Native American history is a comparative blind spot (but Aboriginal AU more so) so it’s mostly what I learned in high school and what you know living in the region (the prehistoric *biology* however, I’m sad they didn’t go even more ham into). But Texas History does spend time on Cabaza de Vaca and Esteban aka the first Europeans to reach our state, and that’s who hear the El Dorado rumor and led the expedition. Which when that historical fact is your first exposure to the El Dorado myth, all the later pop culture versions are uninteresting and easy to understand why it’d be a landmine. So XIV pulled it off in making a respectful nuanced and interesting version.
@@EinDoseEl Dorado, or “The Golden Man” was, from my knowledge how the rulers of parts of Central America (I don’t remember what off the top of my head, I’m not going to name any especially) where they’d cover their bodies in a gold dust and jump into a body of water to wash it off; literally a man of gold, instead of a city, old Spanish is wack, because some words don’t translate properly
21:14 hearing this part after finishing DT is very interesting in knowing what all that refers to now.
Folks seeing the giant leader for the first time. - whoa, big! Me - hehe, garlic beard
for Valigarmanda to appear on Dawntrail's cover art, i was hoping he'd fill a larger role in the overall narrative instead of being the first instance boss
Yeah the cover art and trailers have almost nothing to do with them game I noticed, apart from those people being in the game. Nothing happens like that. It's not even red herrings or anything it just literally does not happen in any way like any of the trailers.
@@madambutterfly1997 They never spoil too much early on, so it wasn't that surprising to me. I always assumed 'first trial, before things get weird'.
Having trust healer red mage had me feeling pretty upset given all of the talk of healers before launch. Granted the combat design in DT over all has been enough to make me not care about the strike since it addressed many of the concerns, but that doesn't kick in until dungeon 3. Also the fact that ex 2 is possible before crafted gear with 7 DPS and a paladin is a bit of a bummer.
@@bendonatier I've been doing Vali EX, and I have a firm belief that a party that just replaced the healers with tanks would have an EASIER time with the mechanic that targets healers.
@@EinDose I personally think of the two Vali needs healers just thanks to all the dots. There's no single target, and the occasional lux solaris solving that fight, unless you run 8 tanks, which has been done.
Valigarmanda is a fight I wish I did as a machinist. I went through all of Dawntrail as monk, and while I enjoy it, I just prefer scholar and machinist the most. I just refuse to do trusts as anything other than tank or dps.