Thalcon Dawnscale

🤬🤬🤬

Not cool 😡 There are plenty of other places where people can talk about spoilers for recent content like Reddit or Discord - I try to not post about recent stuff because I wouldn't want to be spoiled, myself. Sorry to hear they spoiled something and hope you can still enjoy the patch 🥺

A picture of my FFXIV character, a humanoid with scales and horns, standing next to a large doe. The image is in sepia.

I made a pilgrimage to bask in the presence of Lvl 1 before the emergency hotfixes send our beloved doe to the aetherial sea 🦌😭

Tales of Adventure are on sale…do I finally make my Azem?!?!

npc labeled Auri Dancer

Are we human?

or

Something about the way it’s looking right into the camera is very telling 🤣

Why do I feel like the chocobo is the level-headed one 😅

Thalcon on a Maelstrom mount

Thalcon on an Allagan node

The Blackjack, with the Gold Saucer in the background

I’ve recently gotten some mounts that have been a long time coming, thanks to 100 Frontline victories and saving up 4,000,000 MGP!

Friendly yearly reminder to check your children's candy! You never know what horrible things you might find!

Thalcon in Warrior gear, smiling as the sun rises in Tuliyollal behind him

I always seem to rotate between tanking jobs, and lately I’ve been in the mood for WAR. To go with the level 99 artifact armor, Thalcon’s got some red highlights in his hair - the first pop of color in a while, after usually going for a solid color (typically black). The Tuliyollal sunrise was 🤩

TMW you're the only Au Ra in the party

Getting ready for All Saints’ Wake with a frightful vampire glamour!

IT’S THE BOY

Like my first attempt using the Fanbyte model viewer wasn't even CLOSE - I look at this Azem and this? This was my boy

I could never use a Fantasia on Thalcon but by the Twelve he was so handsome as Azem (and I am really tempted to make him as an alt just to /gpose in Elpis)

This is Thalcon's "default" appearance, so I think they look pretty close!

Okay, you have to pretend that he's wearing the Ancient robes, and that it's in Elpis and not Gridania, but I played around in the character creator and THIS is definitely what Thalcon looked like as Azem! I did some photo editing so that he could have a golden beard to be like Thalcon's scales.

Yeah, that and the ruins to the east were my last two areas

Thalcon in his Gunbreaker glam, wearing a white coat and a helmet while holding a gunblade behind him

I wanted to do something to freshen up my GNB glamour, and then this helm dropped from San d’Oria earlier in the week and I felt it fit quite nicely!

I was having that experience not long ago - best of luck!

I suppose it’s possible that the Echo might reveal the truth to Thalcon one day, but I imagine it would have to be triggered by a very specific scenario, and I kind of think it’s better for Thalcon to not know everything about his past

One last thought - Culinarian and Weaver are two jobs I tend to enjoy and associate with Thalcon as they are some of the first ones I focused on - so it’s really fitting that those are skills his parents had 🥹

I’ll return to my regular Thalcon posts of glamour and stuff soon (including adventures in Cosmic Exploration!) but now I’m going to get back to the game before I start crying thinking about the tragedy of Rashdeen and Erdene 😭 This is basically the ultimate Thalcon lore post for anyone interested

I imagine if Thalcon found out of his Malaguld origins, he would be able to find out everything - but we’ll have to see if the story ever brings us back to the Steppe and in contact with the Malaguld!

I don’t know if Thalcon will ever find out about his true origins as Azeem Malaguld bin Pashe, the son of Rashdeen and Erdene - and that’s okay! But one thing is for sure, and that’s the way Thalcon immediately felt at home in both the Azim Steppe and in Thavnair, and is proud of that heritage.

He became fast friends with Draven Nightscale, the only other Auri orphan in Llymlaen’s Shoals. Draven would go on to help with the liberation of Doma and Ala Mhigo before retiring from adventuring and settling in Ishgard!

Draven was my first character - see here for reference.

The only clues he ever had to his heritage were the Thavnairian cradle, owing to the ▶️Palm Log wood, and the blanket his mother had knit that was clearly from the Steppe.

Thalcon enjoyed wandering Limsa in his free time, watching the pirates and merchants at work.

Not knowing anything about Auri naming conventions, he was given the name Thalcon Dawnscale, his forename evoking a bird of prey, and his surname alluding to his golden scales. Thalcon grew up happily in his modest upbringing in the orphanage.

As the shipwreck washed up on shore, a band of pirates who were looting the wreck were surprised to find a baby stowed away below the decks. Not knowing what to do with a baby, let alone an Au Ra child, they took him to the orphanage, Llymlaen’s Shoals.

A mother’s intuition led Erdene to stow Azeem safely below deck, in his Thavnairian cradle, wrapped in a blanket of her own making. Somehow, baby Azeem managed to sleep through the terrible storm. And it was perhaps Erdene’s prayers to the Dusk Mother that Azeem survived the shipwreck.