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Reinhardt hit 100 and got his dragoon armor!

back on my dragoon bullshit

(theorycraft for level 92 ability, Rise of the Dragon)

A technique that varies depending on the dragoon who uses it. Rise of the Dragon permits the wielder to summon a remnant shade of the First Brood they have partaken of blood from, dealing major damage to/or annihilating groups of enemies. Dragoons who have ingested Nidhogg's blood will summon a shade of Nidhogg, while those who have partaken of Hraesvelgr's blood via his brood will summon a shade of Hraesvelgr.

dappled sunlight and cherry blossoms

late-night dragooning--level 100 AF armor

(me coming in on my bullshit)

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So. The level 100 dragoon AF armor.

...Why have the ass wings returned, SE. The HW armor was forgiveable, cuz those wings were on the hips. But these are directly on the ass, SE. Why.

Anyway.

We know absolutely nothing about this armor and it's going to stay that way until DT hits. From the offset it looks like a combination of drachen mail and leather, but it could be similar to the Pteroslaver on the fact that it's non-draconic scale being used. Given where we're going I'm suspecting that could be the case, but honestly the children of McMiggy can go wherever they please and let's be honest if we don't run into any of the First Brood in Tural I'm going to be very surprised.

Ass wings aside it's a fairly solid design, we've got the sleekness of the Tiamat set with a nod to the previous drachen mails. Two dye channels for sure.

Finally got all the dragoon gear from Thaleia

*cries in happiness*

Ever since Stormblood dropped I've wanted the dyable Trueblood armor for Reinhardt, but couldn't muster the will for Eureka and didn't have friends to run it with me. I've had to rely on crime tools to show him in the gear. But today I finally have it 😭

I'm so grateful to @driftward for organizing Eureka events for the FC and @saesama helping me grind out that last lil bit today 😭😭 Lookit my baby 😭

DT NEW ABILITY BRD AND DRG

DRAGOONS SUMMON THE SHADE OF NIDHOGG LETS FUCKING GOOO

Knight-Dragoon timeline (as pulled from Encyclopedia Eorzea)

Hee :D

So it occurred to me today that the possible Knight-Dragoon timeline (condensed) isn't really like...established anywhere so you know what? LORE BE UPON YE

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FFXIV Vanilla Gpose Day 2: Landscape/Location

your vision blurs-

wip: bad choices

CW: Use of time-period ableist language.

(so originally this was a response to the Cameo I got from Robert Vernon, I was inspired to write a dust-up between Estinien and Mathye in HW. And then while I was writing, the thought occurred to me that probably up until the beginning of the Field Trip or when Heustinne vanished, Estinien was still fucking right off to try and bait Nidhogg again. And probably was not paying attention to the actions of his 2IC--with it being possible to play the game that Heustinne goes missing right around the time of the Field Trip.)

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dragoon

VERY IMPORTANT DRAGOON LORE

Level 100 Drachen mail!

lore lamentations~~no new DRG tidbits

Alas, nothing on our favorite jumpy class. But considering the amount of stuff needed to be covered from ShB and EW, can't blame them for taking stuff to the cutting board. We get information on the Dragonstar and the dragons of Ultima Thule but that's effectively it.

So what does this mean for those whom like myself were wanting lore on these two armors?

Honestly? Time to homebrew it. As @autumnslance pointed out last night, it's a verifiable fact that drachen mail is some flavor of dragon merged with metal. But if you're wanting to get canon specific..

Pteroslaver more than likely is leather/other parts from the scalekin of the First.

Tiamat...is more than likely made from Vrtra's own scales, merged with whatever absolute batshit 'what the fuck' alchemical compound the Raz-at-Han alchemists came up with. It's probably a decent call that Tiamat herself could have contributed to the construction, but I don't think so. If you really want to go off the wall, Midgarsomur did offer some of his own scales to the Ragnerok, who's not to say one or two got offered to the armor?