That transition with the tears running down the mask into him appearing is still the most sinfully smooth and satisfying boss transition they've ever done, goddamn. Never gets old.
@@hectorgarcia3675 Lorewise? Hephaistos is not trying to kill the Warrior of Light, his goal is to revive Athena. And the way to do that is by forcing us to mix his creations into the Phoenix, killing us and getting revived by it as proof of concept. That's why when we revive after Ego death he says "Yes...Hehehe...At last!"
@@markkondilis9237to further add on:It's implied the reason he doesn't enrage immediately again is because he's "testing the waters" and making sure your fully complete with the last few mechanics. The moment he believes he's 100% sure he immediately starts enraging as your not needed.
I've listened to this hundreds of times, and there are two elements that I absolutely love and that I just want to take the time to highlight. First, the twin guitars in the opening, playing slightly different notes in slightly different rhythms on separate stereo channels, fuzzy and heavily distorted. Second, the full on drum attack that comes in at 0:50, manic, frenetic, almost random at times, but still building up to a tumultuous storm of percussion. These elements contribute to a track that becomes a chaotic, violent, energised battle, and by god do I love it so much.
"Roughshod riding, overdrive, tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind" The story of Don Qixote is about a man who does absurd things, most infamously charging windmills on horseback because he's convinced they're monsters, to win the affection of a woman he barely knows. This part of the song is very likely a reference to that, meaning Hephaistos's own boss theme is calling him a delusional simp.
To be fair, the Don Quixote is the story of a Senile old man who believes himself in a medieval fantasy world, he rides a Donkey believing it to be a mighty horse and he fights for a random woman who he believes is a fair princess, also the windmills are Dragons in his head. The man wasnt a Simp, he had an actual mental disease out of old age and... reading a lot of Medieval Fantasy Books.
Yeah a story about the extreme paths that love can lead you to go down when your partner uses and manipulates you, making you lose sight of yourself and reality is just "delusional simping". 🙄
@@madyunie That's the path he started down, but that's not how it ended. He didn't even wind up a simp. He winded up a delusional maniac. Look at Lahabrea later. He went so far as to obtain the Heart of Sabik to get his dead gf back and that very thing turned him into a violent maniac. Jumping bodies so often, as Emet-Selch put it, that it started to mess with his head.
The lyrics are very much about losing one's self, one's perception of reality. Basically as the enrage puts it, pure ego death. The windmills are very much Don Quixote, who fought them thinking they were giants. At this point of the fight, Hephaistos has lost his vessel, and in order to get Athena back, he pushes himself to the brink. A complete loss of identity reflected in the lyric : "To the man behind, prithee pay him no mind." There's no use trying to reason with him, because he's long gone, reflected in another lyric "Roughshod riding, overdrive". He only has one goal, to make the Phoenix, and get Athena back. And you're the windmill that's gonna make the grist that makes that Phoenix.
I really like this take! Especially considering that in the fight, after you make Phoenix for him, he goes immediately into trying to kill your party. Nothing but pawns for him to reach his goal
I love it! There's also stuff about his megalomania, like him comsidering himself to be a paradigm shift, and a reference to "The gods mill slowly but finely" as if he's delivering his own divine retribution to you, probably related to the payback he mentions in the other stanza. Even adding "marking time" as if he's holding himself back to experiment on you instead of unleashing his instant kill with Ego Death. By the Twelve, the lyrics are some of the most telling out of any FF14 song.
Interesting interpretation, I do like the idea hephastos could be telling himself not to think about who he used to be with the “man behind” line. Not sure about the grist refering to the concepts that create phoenix though
There's not much other meaning in the Grist line that I could think of besides referring to the Phoenix. Considering that's kinda the story going on in the background in Aspho and Abyssos. It could just the obvious of "the grist is player's blood" but I don't think that's as interesting.@@shawnscouten5184
"the man behind" could well also refer to Athena - she had mentioned that she'd willingly done that final soul merge with him to help plant the seed in his mind of wanting to see through what she started, and Hephaistos is completed focused on her and getting her back. on some level he knows this is something he considered madness (tilting windmills, rotten grist) and yet...here he is anyway, consuming something he knows isn't going to do him any good.
To me with the title and context I think the song it about the creation of the Heart of Sabik. Auracite is usually a white crystal, but the Heart is unique in that its a black piece of auracite. White stone to black.
My mind is snapping to the process of creating the philosopher's stone. One of the steps calls for the creation of a black stone (nigredo), then it goes white (albedo), then yellow (citrinitas), then finally red (rubedo)
Wonder if they intend to tie Ultima to the black/white materia theme of FF7. They seem to imply Ultima and the Heart of Sabik are extraterrestrial beings. Feels like Jenova, coincidence or intentional?
I wish there were more bosses like this. Knowing full well if they throw away what they were before JUST for this fight, it'd be a one way ticket. "Even if this vessal crumbles, I shall take hold, of my reward!" Such a HARD line bro.
Phew, extreme opinions much? :P Ahem, jabbing quip aside this was also my favourite Endwalker track! ...theeeen Fleeting Moment happened next raid tier
It's wild to think that this is what only *half* of Lahabrea was capable of back in the day... ...And then remembering the Lahabrea fight in old Praetorium that only took five seconds lmao
in fairness, we get told outright that lahabrea as he was when we fought him had diluted his own essence so much by bodyjumping so often that he was barely any better than the sundered ascians in terms of power. this just puts that into perspective, really
The new solo duty Lahabrea fight they added in 6.1 is actually pretty hard for new players, all friends I have that have started since after they changed Praetorium have had trouble with that one so Lahabrea is correctly portrayed as being powerful.
I swear to god, it sometimes feels like Soken and his team are writing music specifically, personally for me, catering to my own idiosyncratic tastes and preferences. It's as if they can just reach in to my brain, perceive the sort of music that will most effectively activate the audio centres, and then create exactly that music. It's miraculous.
Peak moment of this expansion (for me), finally seeing the transition in person after so many snake / dog wipes in P8S PF cuz ppl can't be consistent. And hearing the "RECIEVE OF ME DEATH AND BE HONORED" line even after wipes still gives the chills
"Silence warning us to violence / Violence swearing us to silence" is such a strong sentence. Silent violence is everywhere: it's the kind of violence no ones talks about, the one naturalized. Losing everything to a world that cares little about you is silent violence. Suffering abandon is silent violence. Being unable to express the pain inflicted upon oneself is silent violence. It's usually the cause of itself: often because you don't have someone to talk to or rely upon, secrets most suffered alone. Violence, swearing us to silence. That silence denounces violence. Sadly it's often also ignored to a point of no return. To my understanding, this song is about many things but, mainly, about Athena (which makes sense of having the lyrics revealed only after the raid is fully released): Roughshod riding over everyone, she not once cared about the integrity - emotional, physical and mental - of anyone around her towards a goal too abstract to grasp fully, forcing Hephaistos to not only kill her, but to separate part of his soul she had tainted with her ill selfishness. Her death - and the use of the Heart of Sabik - remained a painful secret ever since, forcing him down a path where only Lahabrea - a man of duty and little else - existed. Until the events of Pandaemonium. Rejoining with the part of his soul tainted by Athena's consciousness, Lahabrea became his own villain, sacrificing anything and anybody on the way towards his goal - the rejoining - much like Athena once did with hers. So it comes to this: A delusional abomination dreams of reuniting with it's lover. Made of nothing but the corrupted part of a soul, left behind by it's true self, it's the product of silent violence - Hephaistos' emotional refuse, torn apart so it could not haunt him from his duty. "Roughshod riding, overdrive tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind" Feeling trampled, betrayed, without any choice, "Milling slowly, grinding fine all the rotten grist upon which I dine" one is forced to go against his beliefs, violate their feelings for duty and sacrifice everything - only to receive nothing of it but the need for secrecy, "Black mark payback, marking time with a stone of white do we mark up the night" for a stone so meaningless but of cost so high to take so much, "Shadows shifting, paradigm to the man behind prithee pay no mind" leaving nothing behind but a husk of a man who was once full of dreams and life, but no longer. And with that I come to the conclusion that the Ancient Amaurot had no therapists. No wonder Amaurot is an anagram of "Torauma".
It's also the cycle of abuse. The silent calm before the storm, walking on eggshells to avoid the sudden and inevitable explosion. The violence itself swearing those abused into silence lest there be even worse to come if they reach out to someone.
I love the atmosphere of this song. It gives off a corruption-vibe. As if something is infected. Well... Lahabrea's obsession with Athena really messed with his brain. Poor guy.
He literally was "infected" with Athena's obsession by her final soul merge with him. She reveals afterward she purposefully tricked him into doing it so he'd forever be implanted with the desire to continue her work. The reason Lahabrea created Hephaistos was to try and sever that part of himself, he is Lahabrea's obsession with Athena given flesh.
0:35 This guy reminds me of playing Parasite Eve back in the day ( well the footage does, I'm still all the way back in ARR content, gonna be awhile before I get to this guy )
The context adds so fucking much from this song and it was already great Someone's gonna deep dive the context of these lyrics for sure, and I was already talking with my friend about it for like an hour. So fuckin' badass, dude. Also the end of this song is one big fucking making bread joke and you can't convince me otherwise. My friend told me this madman theory, and I swear it can't be a coincidence.
The white stone they refer to is auracite, but past that I don’t really know. I assumed the silence swearing us to violence was about lahabrea hiding the truth, maybe this song is about hephaistos speaking to lahabrea and trying to convince him to follow Athena’s plan, by trying to convince him his life as it is is worthless? The “twisting windmills grinding fine, all the rotted grist upon which I dine” could be a metaphor for that? honestly, Im not very sure on this one. I do think that line was probably intentionally using a bread metaphor for the pun, I just doubt thats all it means
@@shawnscouten5184 "Silence, warning us to violence/Violence, swearing us to silence" very much sounds like it's about an abusive relationship - maybe Hephaistos to Lahabrea, or Athena to Hephaistos. I think the second one makes more sense, with the windmills metaphor referencing Hephaistos as Don Quixote, famous for attempting to fight windmills on horseback in order to win the affection of a woman he barely knows. That, with the making bread lyric, could be about how Athena was merely using Hephaistos to get what she wanted while he was completely blind to the truth. He, blinded by his love for her, attempted to fight windmills to win her affection, and all he ended up doing was turning the mills of Paendemonium to lead to her ascension as a god.
Had this tune stuck in my head for a bit. Couldn’t figure out where it was I picked it up from. Thank you! Can’t believe I managed to clear this and farm mount when it was fresh and current content. I think the trauma of pugging my way through this as a sage made me repress it lol
I see people talking about hephaistos being delusional with the din Quixote allusion, I feel more like he is the imaginary giant when he is nothing but a figment corrupted by Athena’s desires.
Most of the time the second phase of the final fight of a tier is just a little bit of added flavor for the normal mode storyline so you're really just missing some mindbending puzzle mechanics that party finder struggles to do consistently. 😅 With a static though it becomes insanely fun to prog through and finally get the kill.
@@vert5807how do you recommend I get into it? I'd like to start with pandaemonium Savage, but it seems everyone has all but abandoned it in PF for p9-p12. I would like to prog it with like-minded blind players
@@aiellamoriIt's had unique music since Stormblood. Just look at Neo Exdeath, God Kefka, and Final Omega and their themes. Granted the first 2 are remixes of earlier games' music, but still
Nice to see lyrics for a song I loved from the first beat. I'm gonna have to still look up the underlying rap part though too. Was so undecipherable it seemed before haha I just kinda jammed to it.
You're missing the main lyrics at 1:04 (Silence, warning us to violence) Roughshod riding, overdrive Tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind (Violence, swearing us to silence ) Milling slowly, grinding fine All the rotten grist on which I dine
Honestly hephaistos did so well in every aspect that athena kinda felt lame in comparison. This track is amazing Edit: nothing against the Athena fight, I just think p8s did better, phase 1 was pretty good but phase 2 drags the whole thing down I feel.
Ehh I think Athena's fight and theme are still very cool, but I do agree it's hard to compete with P8S. Arguably the best fight in the entire expansion.
I know what you mean... In the end it felt to me like Athena as a boss fight was just kind of hijacked by Ultima which, for me at least, was rather... boring?
I thought phase 1 for athena was incredible. It's phase 2 where I agree with you. In a vacuum a remix of the final boss from fft is excellent. But our crazy girl boss deserves to go full eldritch abomination with a sick beat like hephaistos did.
at 0:38 you can clearly hear that the lyrics say "silence; makes violence" and not "silence; warning us to violence", gotta be careful when using a remix's lyrics as a basis for the normal version!
It's not new, it's what was run on Japanese servers since very early on. It's called Nukehai strat. It's actually quite safe. People see the tiny area on the west for 2-3 or 1-2 to stack and think it's dangerous compared to NA that has the entire northwest corner open, but there's plenty of room to fit both stacks into the east gap as long as you know what you're doing.
As a healer, this position make me easier to heal (less walk time to the center and everyone stay closer). And able to reach with target heal in case of someone not top up or being hit with Ifrit dot.
this boss design is my absolute favorite it is both resident evil and also warhammer 40k as fuck it legit looks like nightmare fuel and the music track for the fight is epic the fight itself isnt too rough either a tad heavier w mechanics but they dont feel cheap or too much
i prefer it like that honestly. i can read the line and understand it quickly, and then the next line appears so i have context to understand the vocals immediately. i was watching some lyric videos on other channels recently and felt that the lyrics appeared way too late, this is perfect for me
@@timestopMachinist Idk if its a different channel but ive seen videos where the next line appears in a smaller font just under the current one, so you can read ahead. Its a bit distracting though
This is common sense and not unusual for karaoke. You need to load the next line in your brain ahead of time or else your start is always going to be rushed and fumbled. Besides you should already have a general sense of the lyrics ahead of time.
I never cleared this but this is one of my fav fights in a mmo ever, from the mechs, to the music, to the theming (Especially the theming). That Athena wasn't bad but just kind of felt OK, Especially ph2 music
this boss, the bost that makes me rage, and brings the worst in me the door boss is hard as fck in pf, everything is snake 1 prog, even pt "p2 fresh or p2 a2c" all is fcking snake prog I almost uninstalled the game, but I did manage to clear it in pf ~ but this boss made me quit the next savage getting the mount from here, is like the best achievement for me
I don't know where people get the lyrics cuz this video has a set of lyrics and some other sources have a different set and it feels like some of the lyrics of this video fit partially but the lyrics on the other sources also fit partially.
They didn't have official lyrics. The FFXIV channel just uploaded the Primals band version of this song which comes with lyrics in the CC, which are now presumed to be the official ones. Before it was just what people thought they heard.
I'm seeing what could be either BiS or pretty much BiS, and they still saw the enrage cast animation, despite the fight almost 100% mandating zero deaths. No matter what anyone says, this fight was overtuned to hell even after the nerf. No wonder people burned out.
You don't know at what time this footage was recorded. If it was pre nerf then of course you will see enrage. If it was after the nerf you are still gonna see enrage if your group dps is average, but the fight became wasy easier
@@Yokai_Yuri The HP/Vitality of each member would suggest Abyssos BiS, or at least whatever was possible without the Savage Weapon, and they still saw the Enrage cast animation with zero deaths. The 1% difference made the fight clearable with zero deaths and decent DPS, it didn't suddenly make it balanced or well-tuned.
This fight wasn't overtuned even before the week three nerf. It was extremely rare for groups to get to the second phase and struggle with the DPS check before they decreased the HP of each phase. The first phase is the one that was too high on release and benefitted greatly from the change. Truth of the matter is that the OP's group just didn't do great damage on this clear and that's why they saw the enrage go off. I cleared this a ton of times in both statics and PF I don't think I saw enrage go off once after about week three or four.
visually speaking, I hate just about everything in this boss The grotesque design, the sickly brown background, those weird floaty things and the dirt-like particles that accompany them, the way _every single eye on the boss is twitching_ I wouldn't queue for this raid even if I had the skills to clear it whoever designed this- I hope they got a fat bonus and a decent vacation
Literally the most visually interesting Ascian. Compare everything Hephaistos has going on compared to Hades and his generic big evil monster appearance. I'll wait.
@trustytrest you'll be waiting forever then Because I'm somewhat disinclined to delve into the details of the 2nd best depiction of a Lovecraftian horror I've seen after Bloodborne (fun fact, monsters in H.P Lovecraft books are as colourful as Hephaistos) And if the last line didn't make it clear- my comment is basically backward praise, you have to do a _very good_ job to make something this repulsive - like, I'm hard pressed to find a more intentionally grotesque boss *in the entire FF franchise*
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That transition with the tears running down the mask into him appearing is still the most sinfully smooth and satisfying boss transition they've ever done, goddamn. Never gets old.
someone can explain me why boss like to offer to us a big square plateform and stay on the edge ??? it's very kind from them ...
@@hectorgarcia3675soken promised them a banger theme if they did
@@hectorgarcia3675 Lorewise? Hephaistos is not trying to kill the Warrior of Light, his goal is to revive Athena. And the way to do that is by forcing us to mix his creations into the Phoenix, killing us and getting revived by it as proof of concept. That's why when we revive after Ego death he says "Yes...Hehehe...At last!"
@@markkondilis9237to further add on:It's implied the reason he doesn't enrage immediately again is because he's "testing the waters" and making sure your fully complete with the last few mechanics.
The moment he believes he's 100% sure he immediately starts enraging as your not needed.
I've listened to this hundreds of times, and there are two elements that I absolutely love and that I just want to take the time to highlight.
First, the twin guitars in the opening, playing slightly different notes in slightly different rhythms on separate stereo channels, fuzzy and heavily distorted.
Second, the full on drum attack that comes in at 0:50, manic, frenetic, almost random at times, but still building up to a tumultuous storm of percussion.
These elements contribute to a track that becomes a chaotic, violent, energised battle, and by god do I love it so much.
that first muffled background use of the "rough shod riding" verse behind the "silence/violence" chant is my favorite
"Roughshod riding, overdrive, tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind"
The story of Don Qixote is about a man who does absurd things, most infamously charging windmills on horseback because he's convinced they're monsters, to win the affection of a woman he barely knows. This part of the song is very likely a reference to that, meaning Hephaistos's own boss theme is calling him a delusional simp.
To be fair, the Don Quixote is the story of a Senile old man who believes himself in a medieval fantasy world, he rides a Donkey believing it to be a mighty horse and he fights for a random woman who he believes is a fair princess, also the windmills are Dragons in his head.
The man wasnt a Simp, he had an actual mental disease out of old age and... reading a lot of Medieval Fantasy Books.
Funnily enough, my original main from 2.0 Has Quixote in her name. Now it feels like things finally come full circle.
Yeah a story about the extreme paths that love can lead you to go down when your partner uses and manipulates you, making you lose sight of yourself and reality is just "delusional simping".
🙄
And "delusional simp" isn't far off unfortunately 😭😭 One can only go so far into the abyss to seek out knowledge before totally losing the plot
@@madyunie That's the path he started down, but that's not how it ended. He didn't even wind up a simp. He winded up a delusional maniac. Look at Lahabrea later. He went so far as to obtain the Heart of Sabik to get his dead gf back and that very thing turned him into a violent maniac. Jumping bodies so often, as Emet-Selch put it, that it started to mess with his head.
The lyrics are very much about losing one's self, one's perception of reality. Basically as the enrage puts it, pure ego death. The windmills are very much Don Quixote, who fought them thinking they were giants. At this point of the fight, Hephaistos has lost his vessel, and in order to get Athena back, he pushes himself to the brink.
A complete loss of identity reflected in the lyric : "To the man behind, prithee pay him no mind." There's no use trying to reason with him, because he's long gone, reflected in another lyric "Roughshod riding, overdrive". He only has one goal, to make the Phoenix, and get Athena back. And you're the windmill that's gonna make the grist that makes that Phoenix.
I really like this take! Especially considering that in the fight, after you make Phoenix for him, he goes immediately into trying to kill your party. Nothing but pawns for him to reach his goal
I love it! There's also stuff about his megalomania, like him comsidering himself to be a paradigm shift, and a reference to "The gods mill slowly but finely" as if he's delivering his own divine retribution to you, probably related to the payback he mentions in the other stanza. Even adding "marking time" as if he's holding himself back to experiment on you instead of unleashing his instant kill with Ego Death.
By the Twelve, the lyrics are some of the most telling out of any FF14 song.
Interesting interpretation, I do like the idea hephastos could be telling himself not to think about who he used to be with the “man behind” line. Not sure about the grist refering to the concepts that create phoenix though
There's not much other meaning in the Grist line that I could think of besides referring to the Phoenix. Considering that's kinda the story going on in the background in Aspho and Abyssos. It could just the obvious of "the grist is player's blood" but I don't think that's as interesting.@@shawnscouten5184
"the man behind" could well also refer to Athena - she had mentioned that she'd willingly done that final soul merge with him to help plant the seed in his mind of wanting to see through what she started, and Hephaistos is completed focused on her and getting her back. on some level he knows this is something he considered madness (tilting windmills, rotten grist) and yet...here he is anyway, consuming something he knows isn't going to do him any good.
This song would not feel out of place in a Devil May Cry game.
I’m glad someone was thinking what I was thinking
you could slot it right into dmc4s soundtrack specifically and it would be right at home
@@dumbsterdives FACTS
Today I learned that there is a GIANT EYEBALL IN THE BACKGROUND during Hephaistos' "phase 1"/Normal fight.
And dna strands… don’t forget the dna strands
To me with the title and context I think the song it about the creation of the Heart of Sabik. Auracite is usually a white crystal, but the Heart is unique in that its a black piece of auracite. White stone to black.
My mind is snapping to the process of creating the philosopher's stone. One of the steps calls for the creation of a black stone (nigredo), then it goes white (albedo), then yellow (citrinitas), then finally red (rubedo)
Additionally, its name in Japanese is “Kuroseiseki Sabik”, literally “Black Holy Stone: Sabik”
Wonder if they intend to tie Ultima to the black/white materia theme of FF7. They seem to imply Ultima and the Heart of Sabik are extraterrestrial beings. Feels like Jenova, coincidence or intentional?
I think a lot of the lyrics are about Hephaistos suffering ego-death
auracites are just space rocks, they're not made
I wish there were more bosses like this. Knowing full well if they throw away what they were before JUST for this fight, it'd be a one way ticket. "Even if this vessal crumbles, I shall take hold, of my reward!" Such a HARD line bro.
Best track of the expansion
Hard disagree. Borderline the worst
@@enyaliosares4301 lol
Phew, extreme opinions much? :P
Ahem, jabbing quip aside this was also my favourite Endwalker track! ...theeeen Fleeting Moment happened next raid tier
@@enyaliosares4301it’s good but I prefer in the balance and one amongst the weary more
Did you have your music off during the first phase? Embers goes incredibly hard
It's wild to think that this is what only *half* of Lahabrea was capable of back in the day...
...And then remembering the Lahabrea fight in old Praetorium that only took five seconds lmao
in fairness, we get told outright that lahabrea as he was when we fought him had diluted his own essence so much by bodyjumping so often that he was barely any better than the sundered ascians in terms of power. this just puts that into perspective, really
The new solo duty Lahabrea fight they added in 6.1 is actually pretty hard for new players, all friends I have that have started since after they changed Praetorium have had trouble with that one so Lahabrea is correctly portrayed as being powerful.
Soken pulls noise out of the screaming void and forges it with a hammer and anvil it until its music
I swear to god, it sometimes feels like Soken and his team are writing music specifically, personally for me, catering to my own idiosyncratic tastes and preferences. It's as if they can just reach in to my brain, perceive the sort of music that will most effectively activate the audio centres, and then create exactly that music. It's miraculous.
Same
Peak moment of this expansion (for me), finally seeing the transition in person after so many snake / dog wipes in P8S PF cuz ppl can't be consistent.
And hearing the "RECIEVE OF ME DEATH AND BE HONORED" line even after wipes still gives the chills
Fuck p12s.
P8s was so good!
"Silence warning us to violence / Violence swearing us to silence" is such a strong sentence.
Silent violence is everywhere: it's the kind of violence no ones talks about, the one naturalized. Losing everything to a world that cares little about you is silent violence. Suffering abandon is silent violence. Being unable to express the pain inflicted upon oneself is silent violence.
It's usually the cause of itself: often because you don't have someone to talk to or rely upon, secrets most suffered alone. Violence, swearing us to silence.
That silence denounces violence. Sadly it's often also ignored to a point of no return.
To my understanding, this song is about many things but, mainly, about Athena (which makes sense of having the lyrics revealed only after the raid is fully released): Roughshod riding over everyone, she not once cared about the integrity - emotional, physical and mental - of anyone around her towards a goal too abstract to grasp fully, forcing Hephaistos to not only kill her, but to separate part of his soul she had tainted with her ill selfishness.
Her death - and the use of the Heart of Sabik - remained a painful secret ever since, forcing him down a path where only Lahabrea - a man of duty and little else - existed.
Until the events of Pandaemonium.
Rejoining with the part of his soul tainted by Athena's consciousness, Lahabrea became his own villain, sacrificing anything and anybody on the way towards his goal - the rejoining - much like Athena once did with hers.
So it comes to this:
A delusional abomination dreams of reuniting with it's lover. Made of nothing but the corrupted part of a soul, left behind by it's true self, it's the product of silent violence - Hephaistos' emotional refuse, torn apart so it could not haunt him from his duty.
"Roughshod riding, overdrive
tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind"
Feeling trampled, betrayed, without any choice,
"Milling slowly, grinding fine
all the rotten grist upon which I dine"
one is forced to go against his beliefs, violate their feelings for duty and sacrifice everything - only to receive nothing of it but the need for secrecy,
"Black mark payback, marking time
with a stone of white do we mark up the night"
for a stone so meaningless but of cost so high to take so much,
"Shadows shifting, paradigm
to the man behind prithee pay no mind"
leaving nothing behind but a husk of a man who was once full of dreams and life, but no longer.
And with that I come to the conclusion that the Ancient Amaurot had no therapists. No wonder Amaurot is an anagram of "Torauma".
It's also the cycle of abuse. The silent calm before the storm, walking on eggshells to avoid the sudden and inevitable explosion. The violence itself swearing those abused into silence lest there be even worse to come if they reach out to someone.
I love the atmosphere of this song. It gives off a corruption-vibe. As if something is infected. Well... Lahabrea's obsession with Athena really messed with his brain. Poor guy.
He literally was "infected" with Athena's obsession by her final soul merge with him. She reveals afterward she purposefully tricked him into doing it so he'd forever be implanted with the desire to continue her work.
The reason Lahabrea created Hephaistos was to try and sever that part of himself, he is Lahabrea's obsession with Athena given flesh.
This is my favorite song in endwalker (if not in the whole game)
Gods damned agreed.
Amen
i don't know what you did but my god this sounds clean
It's the official release from the Endwalker EP2 CD so it has better quality than all the game rips from other people.
@@LZ02-OVERTUREbut we still don’t have the albums released on any music platforms
@@Ironsidesengineergamingit’s on iTunes
@@IronsidesengineergamingI think it's on itunes but I'm not 100% sure
@@spirto1279 from what I’ve seen we’ve only got up to that shadowbringers extra thing
0:35 This guy reminds me of playing Parasite Eve back in the day ( well the footage does, I'm still all the way back in ARR content, gonna be awhile before I get to this guy )
Just a heads up, you only see him like this in the Savage difficulty of this fight.
Have fun with the game!
@@emmawaters8380 Thanks for the info! I really only have time to play a bit on the weekends, but I'm not in any rush to get through all the content.
The context adds so fucking much from this song and it was already great
Someone's gonna deep dive the context of these lyrics for sure, and I was already talking with my friend about it for like an hour. So fuckin' badass, dude.
Also the end of this song is one big fucking making bread joke and you can't convince me otherwise. My friend told me this madman theory, and I swear it can't be a coincidence.
The windmills thing is equal parts Don Quixote and bread
This requires at least some TL:DR summary! Don’t leave in suspense! I love to hear the theory!!
The white stone they refer to is auracite, but past that I don’t really know. I assumed the silence swearing us to violence was about lahabrea hiding the truth, maybe this song is about hephaistos speaking to lahabrea and trying to convince him to follow Athena’s plan, by trying to convince him his life as it is is worthless? The “twisting windmills grinding fine, all the rotted grist upon which I dine” could be a metaphor for that? honestly, Im not very sure on this one. I do think that line was probably intentionally using a bread metaphor for the pun, I just doubt thats all it means
@@shawnscouten5184 "Silence, warning us to violence/Violence, swearing us to silence" very much sounds like it's about an abusive relationship - maybe Hephaistos to Lahabrea, or Athena to Hephaistos. I think the second one makes more sense, with the windmills metaphor referencing Hephaistos as Don Quixote, famous for attempting to fight windmills on horseback in order to win the affection of a woman he barely knows. That, with the making bread lyric, could be about how Athena was merely using Hephaistos to get what she wanted while he was completely blind to the truth. He, blinded by his love for her, attempted to fight windmills to win her affection, and all he ended up doing was turning the mills of Paendemonium to lead to her ascension as a god.
for as much as I got to hear this song during prog and 16 reclears it's surreal to finally know what the lyrics are. Hell yeah.
It’s about time it’s one of my favorite endwalker tracks
Those tears... they're painted in red!
Man, that boss design is so creepy and badass.
reminds me of a resident evil boss
@@smightercal Bro literally has that one thing BOTH Wesker and Krauser did with their arms as part of his transformation.
@@smightercalI believe that's intentional considering some of his attacks have tyrant at the beginning of them.
FINALLY!!! I was waiting forever for this one.
Had this tune stuck in my head for a bit. Couldn’t figure out where it was I picked it up from. Thank you!
Can’t believe I managed to clear this and farm mount when it was fresh and current content. I think the trauma of pugging my way through this as a sage made me repress it lol
Late comment but that was a sick clutch. You were IN the enrage animation when you cleared.
I see people talking about hephaistos being delusional with the din Quixote allusion, I feel more like he is the imaginary giant when he is nothing but a figment corrupted by Athena’s desires.
I did not know how much content I've been missing by not participating in savage content, this looks insane
Most of the time the second phase of the final fight of a tier is just a little bit of added flavor for the normal mode storyline so you're really just missing some mindbending puzzle mechanics that party finder struggles to do consistently. 😅 With a static though it becomes insanely fun to prog through and finally get the kill.
@@ArtForSwans I'm mostly talking about music, I didn't know savage had unique music
I recommend you try it sometime! It’s my favourite content in the game by far :)
@@vert5807how do you recommend I get into it? I'd like to start with pandaemonium Savage, but it seems everyone has all but abandoned it in PF for p9-p12. I would like to prog it with like-minded blind players
@@aiellamoriIt's had unique music since Stormblood. Just look at Neo Exdeath, God Kefka, and Final Omega and their themes. Granted the first 2 are remixes of earlier games' music, but still
man this fight was so damn fun and incredibly stressful to heal lol
Best Endwalker track right here
In my heart the savage forms of fights are the canon ones…
Even ultimates are canon in my heart…
I always wished the savages were the canon ones. There's so many more cool mechanics and even sometimes story info that's in them!
How do you even canon-ify DSR?
God DAMN the lyrics are even cooler than I thought!
Nice to see lyrics for a song I loved from the first beat. I'm gonna have to still look up the underlying rap part though too. Was so undecipherable it seemed before haha I just kinda jammed to it.
Someone took the g virus
Was gonna say, he got that Birkin arm
Been waiting for this!
You're missing the main lyrics at 1:04
(Silence, warning us to violence) Roughshod riding, overdrive
Tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind
(Violence, swearing us to silence )
Milling slowly, grinding fine
All the rotten grist on which I dine
Honestly hephaistos did so well in every aspect that athena kinda felt lame in comparison. This track is amazing Edit: nothing against the Athena fight, I just think p8s did better, phase 1 was pretty good but phase 2 drags the whole thing down I feel.
Ehh I think Athena's fight and theme are still very cool, but I do agree it's hard to compete with P8S. Arguably the best fight in the entire expansion.
I know what you mean...
In the end it felt to me like Athena as a boss fight was just kind of hijacked by Ultima which, for me at least, was rather... boring?
Hephaistos sprinted so Athena could walk.
@@hereniho Like a true Wife Guy
I thought phase 1 for athena was incredible. It's phase 2 where I agree with you. In a vacuum a remix of the final boss from fft is excellent. But our crazy girl boss deserves to go full eldritch abomination with a sick beat like hephaistos did.
Athena cooked these fools so hard they became the best unknown DJ's of ancient times.
Shame the lyrics on screen move on a little too fast. I tried singing along and forgot the last word of every line before it was said in the vocals x3
Skill issue
@@schmidth.
Agreed. The audio quality is brilliant but everything else looks like it was rushed. Missing lyrics, badly synced lyrics etc.
@@Mewla_Aliapohwell they tried.. and if they need to they can try again
If you think this is fast try learning the lyrics for Forged In Crimson
at 0:38 you can clearly hear that the lyrics say "silence; makes violence" and not "silence; warning us to violence", gotta be careful when using a remix's lyrics as a basis for the normal version!
I just came here to say the boss design is one of best of the ff series.
SE is missing a trick by not selling statues of this.
And here I thought Landslide was the DMC music
but this just SCREAMS Devil May Cry 4
Gives G-Virus vibes with the eyes and such, really dig it.
Me, jamming out and noticing the new P8S strat in the back: 😮😮😮
Honestly it looks less safe haha, it might be an older strat.
Pretty sure its the Elemental/JP Strat
It's not new, it's what was run on Japanese servers since very early on. It's called Nukehai strat. It's actually quite safe. People see the tiny area on the west for 2-3 or 1-2 to stack and think it's dangerous compared to NA that has the entire northwest corner open, but there's plenty of room to fit both stacks into the east gap as long as you know what you're doing.
As a healer, this position make me easier to heal (less walk time to the center and everyone stay closer). And able to reach with target heal in case of someone not top up or being hit with Ifrit dot.
Easily the coolest fight in the entire raid series. Shit, I'd call it the coolest savage raid in the game so far.
Kefka/Exdeath are tied for my favs
@@AnAverageBox I love Kefka Savage as a huge ff6 fan, but what I love about this one is that it's storytelling through gameplay
eden titan is still my number 1 followed by this then p4 then e12
Been trial and erroring P8S phase 2 for absolute ages now. Thank god the music is an absolute banger so it isn't actually torturous to go through lmao
It's a real simple song. But damn do i love it.
First time I heard it I thought it was shit. Then I progged with it and it clicked HARD. Top 5 track in the game for me
this boss design is my absolute favorite
it is both resident evil and also warhammer 40k as fuck
it legit looks like nightmare fuel and the music track for the fight is epic
the fight itself isnt too rough either a tad heavier w mechanics but they dont feel cheap or too much
Glad someone pointed out the Resident Evil vibe, this boss has some G2 Birkin vibes for sure o.o
The most DMC song I've heard in the soundtrack to date heh
The lyrics go by a bit fast, don't they? They skip to the next line before the singer's even done singing them
i prefer it like that honestly. i can read the line and understand it quickly, and then the next line appears so i have context to understand the vocals immediately. i was watching some lyric videos on other channels recently and felt that the lyrics appeared way too late, this is perfect for me
@@timestopMachinist its too fast for me, i like reading each word as its sung
@@timestopMachinist Idk if its a different channel but ive seen videos where the next line appears in a smaller font just under the current one, so you can read ahead. Its a bit distracting though
@@Nazuiko It's this same channel. Don't know why he dropped the ball on this one since earlier lyric videos were much better.
This is common sense and not unusual for karaoke. You need to load the next line in your brain ahead of time or else your start is always going to be rushed and fumbled. Besides you should already have a general sense of the lyrics ahead of time.
I never cleared this but this is one of my fav fights in a mmo ever, from the mechs, to the music, to the theming (Especially the theming). That Athena wasn't bad but just kind of felt OK, Especially ph2 music
The fight looks so cool but I won’t be touching it until 7.3 at the very least
Shame. It was a fun fight in content.
This is straight up a Resident Evil boss
Fittingly, with a Devil May Cry song.
That fight was so good ngl
peak music
I like how nobody heard the "us" in the lyrics
this boss, the bost that makes me rage, and brings the worst in me
the door boss is hard as fck in pf, everything is snake 1 prog,
even pt "p2 fresh or p2 a2c" all is fcking snake prog
I almost uninstalled the game,
but I did manage to clear it in pf ~
but this boss made me quit the next savage
getting the mount from here, is like the best achievement for me
i can't wait to hear this in pandemonium ultimate
Gives me the same vibes as a Devil May Cry 3 or 4 song.
Das a resident evil boss right there
This is the first time I’ve seen other way to deal with High Concept!
while i very much love the insanely high quality for the music, it's weird how the lyrics shown for the track are almost completely off-point
It's literally the lyrics taken directly from the official music video.
i meant that the timing is off but i may be stupid@@hereniho
@@NuclearNecro karaoke usually has the words leave before you finish the line
Okay listen... The way you guys do High Concept is wild, but I'm not against it :D
The official theme for terminal illness
It's like Devil May Cry and Parasite Eve had a baby and then injected it with the G-Virus. I love it.
I really thought it was “To the land behind we pay no wonder”
this didn't uave lyrics until now???
I don't know where people get the lyrics cuz this video has a set of lyrics and some other sources have a different set and it feels like some of the lyrics of this video fit partially but the lyrics on the other sources also fit partially.
"They're lifted from the music video of The Primals version of the song."
They didn't have official lyrics. The FFXIV channel just uploaded the Primals band version of this song which comes with lyrics in the CC, which are now presumed to be the official ones. Before it was just what people thought they heard.
Took over a year for them to release the official lyrics, everyone was guessing until now 😭😭😭
anyone know why the Invincible from FF9 is in the back?
I'm seeing what could be either BiS or pretty much BiS, and they still saw the enrage cast animation, despite the fight almost 100% mandating zero deaths.
No matter what anyone says, this fight was overtuned to hell even after the nerf. No wonder people burned out.
You don't know at what time this footage was recorded. If it was pre nerf then of course you will see enrage. If it was after the nerf you are still gonna see enrage if your group dps is average, but the fight became wasy easier
@@Yokai_Yuri The HP/Vitality of each member would suggest Abyssos BiS, or at least whatever was possible without the Savage Weapon, and they still saw the Enrage cast animation with zero deaths.
The 1% difference made the fight clearable with zero deaths and decent DPS, it didn't suddenly make it balanced or well-tuned.
This fight wasn't overtuned even before the week three nerf. It was extremely rare for groups to get to the second phase and struggle with the DPS check before they decreased the HP of each phase. The first phase is the one that was too high on release and benefitted greatly from the change. Truth of the matter is that the OP's group just didn't do great damage on this clear and that's why they saw the enrage go off. I cleared this a ton of times in both statics and PF I don't think I saw enrage go off once after about week three or four.
visually speaking, I hate just about everything in this boss
The grotesque design, the sickly brown background, those weird floaty things and the dirt-like particles that accompany them, the way _every single eye on the boss is twitching_
I wouldn't queue for this raid even if I had the skills to clear it
whoever designed this- I hope they got a fat bonus and a decent vacation
Literally the most visually interesting Ascian. Compare everything Hephaistos has going on compared to Hades and his generic big evil monster appearance. I'll wait.
@trustytrest you'll be waiting forever then
Because I'm somewhat disinclined to delve into the details of the 2nd best depiction of a Lovecraftian horror I've seen after Bloodborne (fun fact, monsters in H.P Lovecraft books are as colourful as Hephaistos)
And if the last line didn't make it clear- my comment is basically backward praise, you have to do a _very good_ job to make something this repulsive - like, I'm hard pressed to find a more intentionally grotesque boss *in the entire FF franchise*
This fight is why i was so disappointed with the phase 2 for p12s, I was hoping they would top this and (in my opinion) they did not.
I wanted to see Athena become something different, not her "god self" being fused to Morbol tentacles.
Godhood is within my grasp
I need only reach…
The dark knight's anthem!!!
How many of us got the chorus wrong 😅
catJam catJam catJam
Make the tree
okay anyone else get Resident Evil vibes from that boss?
song's great and all, but wtf is that HC strat? Is that JP?
wideVIBE
FastChad.
RESIDENT... EVIL! 😂😂😂😂
Could you please reup with the lyrics actually synced correctly?
Tracks like these belong in fight that are not tab targeting. Music too good for the game its in lmao.