Stormblood [4.0]: Post may contain potential spoilers.
Coldhearth
A hardy soil results in a hardy life. Uh… No idea what I mean by that. Lets just move on. I don’t know what the buildings are like inside, but this place seems fairly downtrodden.
The main thing of note is the collapsed tunnel across the town. I don’t remember if the Main Scenario Quests ever involved themselves with it or not. One things for certain. That path appeared to be fairly important and even a potential escape route for the town’s residents.
Now that there’s no escape route. If any brigands were to show up, then quite the slaughter would happen. I don’t believe such a scenario has happened before. I wonder what kind of crops they are growing. Potatoes? Considering of the hostile and infertil environment. It has to be some kind of hardy starch. No idea though.
Crops is a bit out of my league and none of the residents mention what crops they grow. They might if I do some of their sidequests, but not really interested at the moment.
When I think about it. The name “Coldhearth” is sort’ve interesting. Is this place meant to be some form of bastion against the harsh nights or something? Sadly, this game doesn’t give us a good idea on how hot or cold a place is without clear indicators. Then again I can imagine this place getting incredibly cold at the nights.
Another way to interpret this place is that its the best location to recover from the sun. It could ultimately work both ways.
One last thing to mention. I always wonder if the amount of crop people make like in this instance, is enough to feed the entire settlement. I doubt whatever crop the do produce is enough to survive the entire time. Still it always makes me wonder if the food they produce can sustain themselves.
New Game Plus
So I mentioned yesterday, about doing a new game + run of FFXIV. Personally, I’ve been itching to start at the beginning once more. The other reason for me wanting to do this is because of my blog. This would serve a fairly easy way for me to talk about beast tribes or anything relevant to the Story of the game.
Currently, this isn’t going to start immediately. Secondly, I don’t plan on this to be a daily thing. This will be more of when I feel like it. In the best world, I would do it frequently. Unfortunately, work is a bit of a pain right now. Only time will tell.
To elaborate more as to the whole point of this idea. Essentially, I intend to simply talk about the events that unfold and my own personal experiences of it. It will also serve as way to explore a bit into the lore of the game.
Conclusion
That will be all for today. Well I do want to make a couple more mentions before bringing this to an end. Firstly, its a tad unfrotunate that I missed a few days with this blog. Mainly because the 500th post would’ve landed on my birthday (or very close to it). Now its going to land a bit into December sadly.
Moving away from that. Last thing I got left to mention is… Well. Nothing. I thought I had something else to say, but apparently thats not the case. Now watch, in a couple hours I’ll remember what I had wanted to say only to forget it again when it comes to doing next post. This has happened way too many times that I like to admit.
Anyhow, I hope you folks have a good day/night!