FFXIV Lore- Understanding the Ixal and Garuda 

The Ixal are still my favourite beast tribe to work with. They don't care about Garuda's wars or feeding her crystal addiction, they just want to build their airships. 10/10 dudes.

heh, i kinda remember the quest that has you chase after an Ixal it Azys Lla, and how it REALLY fucked them up when they found out the truth, which to be fair, was a surprise to me as well, cause i kinda wasn't expecting them to go 'oh btw, these guys? yeah, they where made in a lab'.

A beautiful telling of a bittersweet tale. I didn't know about General Garuda. That explains so much!

As usual, wonderful lecture from the sydonic scribe! Ehcatl Nine quests are rather tedious but dang the story points are lovely and they're a wonderful bunch. They just wanna flyyyy... You missed the bit at how the leading airship company in Eorzea partly used Ixali design on their airships. Really blew my mind when someone (iirc Alphinaud) mentioned in passing in MSQ that some creatures in the labs resemble Ixal. And then I unlocked Fractal Continuum for Gilly (I'm like, onsessed with magitek...) Matron's teats-the Iksalion were on museum exhibit! And then an actual Ixal actually gets to see the Iksalion for themself in Fractal Continuum (Hard)... I'm relived that Ehcatl Nine do not take this too hard and they were just like "Then Azys Lla, eff it! Find own paradise, we will!"

Yeah, when I found out their actual origins, my jaw dropped. It's *so* freaking tragic how horribly they were treated and misled. And now as a result we all have to put up with Garuda's incredible violence. *REALLY* fun lore!

You didn't bring up the coincidence that is Amon recreating bird people after the disaster that was Meteon.

It is actually insane and really cool to see that the Ixal where these chimeras with a screwed up history and how that shaped their culture and whatnot. The fact that this is all in game and you can see it when you go to places like Azys Lla is really cool. Honestly might be one of my new favorite beast tribe lores.

In regards to their food they actually really like cheeseburgers Their favorite is Windy's with a slice of Garuda cheese

I have a lot of hope for the future of Eorzea and the potential integration of "beast tribes" into a sort of Grand Eorzean Alliance, along with a hopefully reformed and rebuilt Garlemald. Just imagine what the Ixal could accomplish alongside Garlean engineering! Flight technology could take massive leaps and bounds in the near future, and that's just one such example of what a more unified and collaborative world could bring.

I know that Garuda is relatively new to the summons roster, but she should be the definitive wind summon like how ifrit is fire and shiva is ice

The lore of these peoples and their natural way of life continues to amaze me. Thanks for continuing to help teach me the lore of this world that I can't be apart of as much as I'd like. Think the Ixal may be my new favorite beast tribe after hearing this one^^

It's interesting how the Ixali religion seems to mirror that of the Ishgardians. They both serve a god that could be seen as a God of War or fighting. They both have a twisted idea of their creation / foundation stories. They both waged 'holy crusades' against a race or races that they'd been taught were enemies. They both have a social system that's a little similar, I suppose - nobles up in the pillars, poor down in the brume, and those that ascend these ranks through becoming a knight or having some other useful profession and some luck.

so if the Ixal were created by Allagans in the 3rd astral era, then it makes sense we dont see a counterpart of them in the first, just like Zun or Mord which resemble our Amal'jaa and Kobolds. The Ixal didnt exist in the unsundered world

Wasn't there some legend among the Ixal that they lost their wings when they invoked the Greenwrath? I feel like I remember reading that in a quest somewhere, but I don't remember clearly...

Yay, another beast tribe lore video! Oh happies^^

Not once during my several visits there for tribe quests have i thought much about them and their society (though the whole Azys Lla twist was pretty neat when msq introduced that), as well as the naming conventions and personalities tied to the names. A+ lecture.

I had a theory which doesn't entirely hold water after I did a bit of looking, but that I still think is compelling enough to share. I would suggest that the Ixal's naming scheme suggests not only that their surnames are based on designations given by the Allagan, but that these were in fact the ranks generally used by the Allagan military, if not society in general. I say this because the suffixes of their surnames bear striking similarities to those of the Garlean empire, which openly emulates the Allagans. The Skysent have names that end in TL and are the highest ranking among the Ixal. The highest in rank during the days of the Allagans would likely have worked with or been second-in-command to General Garuda. The equivalent role in Garlean society is Tribunus Laticlavius, which bears the honorific ToL, as in Nero tol Scaeva. The Windrisen, the worker class, have names that end in AN and are the lowest rank among the Ixal, and therefore among the Garleans. What is the lowest rank among the Garlean empire? AhN. Note that the rank of Aan does not convey citizenship, belonging to slaves and people of annexed territories. What makes me question if this holds true is the Galeborne, whose names end in OC. Not only is the matching title Oen, which doesn't really map to OC, but in Garlean society these are generally rank and file soldiers rather than officers or managers of any kind. One could argue that an enlisted Oen would outrank and perhaps be given command of enlisted Aan, but between that and the less-than-ideal match in naming, I felt I had to mention that flaw in my theory. One could argue that the Allagan system changed over time and the new version was adopted by the Garleans, but with no way to prove that the theory does have a few holes in it. Nevertheless I thought it a striking enough resemblance to merit discussion, and maybe further inspection. Could the names of the Ixal and the Garleans share Allagan roots? I doubt we'll ever know for certain, but it seems a definite possibility, at least to me.

You are so fucking eloquent, I love your videos ❤ appreciate all the effort you put into these 👍🏼

This is late but, I just started playing FFXIV a few days ago for the first time and I have learned a LOT from you. I wish I could play as an Ixal! Keep up the good work!

I fell in love with the Ixal since my fist encounter on ARR and little by little I just found the deep they were inspired on the Nahuatl cultures, this video just made me see how HEAVY those roots are, thank you so much.

There was a lot there I had no idea about. Great video :D

Having just completed the Ixali tribal quests, I am impressed by this whole origin of the Ixal. :)

The more I learn about the Allagans, the more I believe they were far more monstrous than anything they created.

Hey professor, this just made me wonder if you’re planning to do some FF16 lore when it’s out. I’m gonna be devouring any content on it that can! If anyone from Eorzea could slip into mysterious world for study, it’s the synodic scribe. Thank you for this vid, the Ixal have some of the best lore! Never expected to really feel for them!

My favorite beast tribe and yet, I've learned so much from this lesson. :) Thanks, professor.

Where I'm from easternly wind most so the north eastern is dangerous and cruel often reaching 80 to 100 kms for days, so I had to chuckle. I never recall reading what Garuda was in the Allagn records so this was the final piece I needed to really get them. I always thought she was the first Ixal able to produce eggs since I did not know she was a general. Now I wonder how I missed that bit of data. Great vid as always.

And here I though the Ixal were just meth-head Vanu Vanu.

Awesome class!

Awesome video! Made new character to rejog my memory of msq lore

Ixali may have lost the freedom of flight, but in turn, they gained the ability of free will instead. 😊

I didn’t know this!! Thanks!!

Can't wait for the nath I love ur work keep great job

Hey man! Love your content! I have a question for you but if you feel you could make a video of it by all means please do. Is there any clarification for exactly HOW the world was sundered? As powerful as the ascians are surely Venat wasnt able to make 13 entire alternate universes. Is there just like an orb every shard exists within but then they're all looking at the same stars in the sky? Did she just create the stars and then place them in 13 already existing alternate universes? What does this mean for Astrologians that aren't on the source?

'Now fall.'

Fascinating peoples, the ixal...

LOVE THIS

This is a bit late, but here is something on the name pronunciations. The names for the Ixal look to be inspired by indigenous American languages, namely Nahuatl in this case. So a name like "Hueloc" would not be pronounced like the English "Hue," but rather something like "Hwey-loc." The sound "tl" would also be its own letter, so "Cattlan" would be said like "Cat-tlan," with each "T" being pronounced separately. "Meyeann" is an outlier, so I'm not sure on that one. I love your videos, and I can't wait to see what you have to teach about the other tribes!

All you dang birbs. I bet this is Skire's favorite episode.

Err...is this going to be on the test?

I would love to add my thoughts to this, but what I have to say would be before history remembers.

The best summon!

7.0 Aeromancer confirmed ? Also just a thought, could it be that their military base/operations during the allag days was actually the thing that allowed them to keep their wings ? i mean with them being the airborne division they must be exposed to a lot of wind aspected aether(do aether work that way ?) during their operations and maybe at their military bases too ? with the destruction of the allag empire the exalion might have been forced to leave those bases behind ? causing them to be exposed to wind aether less. and overtime their bodies adapted to their surrounding.

It doesn’t help that the wind is blowing outside while listening to this video

Isn't it in Griadanian Lore that the elementals took the Ixalian's wings? I mean those puffs of power can turn people into green stone. I'm sure they could also mess up their wings back in their prime.

I'm going to the North shroud for a game of Triple Triad with my boy Sezul Totoloc. Care to come?

Wait could that mean Garuda may look, hypothetically, look like the female general and possibly her third and second command have slight similarities to primal two minions? Generational trauma runs deep then….but hypothetically speaking

As descendants of chimerical beings, it should be asked. Do the Ixal have a soul? Personally I think they do, but I don’t have any official evidence to my knowledge. Do they have souls or is there evidence to support this? I mean they can be tempered. Can you temper someone who doesn’t have a soul?

Garuda is the best