FFXIV Story Recap: What You Must Know for Endwalker [Pre-ARR to ShB] 

9:27 it's beyond the scope of the video, but just to clarify, Gaius was not the creator of Ultima Weapon, it was created by Allag in their war against Meracydia who had summoned primals (such as the warring triad). Ultima Weapon is powered by something called "The Heart of Sabik" which was set up like some epic artifact and then not mentioned again for like five years.

Dude, much needed. I took a huge break from shadowbringers right in the middle of it. This helped catch me up when I got through shadow bringers.

If I remember correctly, Emet isn't possessing Solus so much as he IS Solus, Solus is his Garlean incarnation that he used to create the Garlean Empire. This is why he is able to use clones of himself to revive himself with eroding his soul, as they are his body, rather than the body of another individual, as opposed to Lahabrea whom liked to possess others like Thancred.

SPOILERS for anyone who isn't caught up. Remember when we started ARR and Hydaelyn showed us the meteor shower that Elidibus does in 5.3? Talk about a callback and some ominous/mindblowing stuff. Awesome video Quazii... You made me remember that. lol My only nitpick is you not mentioning Ardbert and his crew in post-HW patches. It's kinda importat. And also Gaius did not create Ultima Weapon. It was Allag.

I definitely needed this, I stalled the MSQ a lot for various reasons and some things I had totally forgotten until I saw he influx of new players going through the story. I actually forgot stuff like the ARR voices and Lahabrea bit, and some other things were like "oh yeah that happened" yeah good stuff. Thanks!

Been looking for this kind of video for over a week now. Much appreciated!

I spend last night combing Eorzea, after finishing ALL ARR content, for some special dialogue. The guild masters from beginner job classes, crafting and gathering job classes and Mentor NPCs like adventurer's guild (including NPCs like Buscarron down in south shroud) all more or less had really touching messages for you, responding and reacting to what happened in Uldah. Totally worth doing, also, the NPC Erik (Monk guidance NPC from lvl 30+) had a ton of lore in regards of war history between Ala Mhigo and Eorzea. I tend to take my time and chat with MSQ/or generally quest related NPCs as well since they always have something good to say whether it be funny or touching. TL;DR take your time when playing if you're invested/interested in the story and you'll find soooo much more. The effort FFXIV devs have really put a good load of effort into the immersive experience. Side note, Moogle delivery quest was super cute, you get to know specific NPCs more, they definitely feel more 3 dimensional afterwards.

"with Endwalker just 2 weeks away" god, I wish.

Awesome recap! Definitely needed this refresher! Thank you :D

This was very well done thanks for this!

I love this channel. this is perfect and what I needed (don't have time to new game + everything) thank you!

This was a great refresher; thank you!

I have watched and read so many summaries, and they were all terrible. This one was fantastic. The clips shown were perfectly synced to who you were talking about, you hit the main beats of the story without getting too bogged down in the details, I am so thankful that you made this video. Thank you!

Awesome video man! Keep it up!

Thank you so much for this, and your recap! ♥

Just what I needed! Thanks my dude!!

Amazing video, exactly the concise no bullshit information I was looking for. Thanks alot!

Very useful and good put together recap!

Great summary all around Quazii. Very useful cliff-notes summation of the plot.

YES Quazii, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!

Great work. Sorely needed for people like myself who don’t particularly enjoy the loooong text read. Thanks 🙏

This was literly what I was looking for. This was short and sweet, thanks man.

Thank you! Super useful’

FFXIV fits Quazii like a glove.

wow, really appreciate this!!

This was so helpful omg, thank you

Thank you!

Great story recap!

If you send this to a friend and tell them to watch it at 2x speed you can catch them up on the entirety of FFXIV in under ten minutes.

I was looking for this since time ago, as a player who has been in this game for so long, sometimes I forget things hahahah so this is great to remember :D

13:29 2nd most important revelation in the history of the game after nature of The Source/Hydaelyn/Zodiark. "My new old friend"

Exactly what I was looking for!

6:53 - Aymeric doesn't tell the people of Ishgard about what really happened until *after* the fight with Thordan. He mentions that even if he wanted to keep the truth from people that the Warrior of Light landing in Ishgard on dragonback would make that incredibly difficult. It seems like an odd choice to just skip over the Warriors of Darkness bit in Heavensward, which explains how Ardbert winds up being a ghost in Shadowbringers and gives us the events leading up to Minfilia going to the first to save as much as she could from the flood of light. 14:55 - I thought Light was astral? It functions much the same as a black mages astral phase, which prevents the regeneration/flow of MP (aether). These are mostly nitpicks. The video is great Quazii :)

This! This is what I was looking for. A story recap because my memory is trash.

What a brilliant video 🤩

Thata a cool Totaro shirt and thanx for the recap. 👍

thanks man

Thank you so much.

You are a blessing of light and darkness to the FFXIV community, Quazii! Maybe that's not the best to say though, cuz it seems like we may be fated to shed both of those in Endwalker XD Jests aside, I am so glad you are making such great videos for the game I love, and have found a new home at the same time. Feels like you've belonged here all along!

My man, this is a really good recap. Btw where is that accent from?

This was great. It has been so long since I played the entire MSQ and unfortunately didn't have time to replay the entire thing before EW. So here I am watching summaries instead xD

thanks. this was really good. are you planning to make an endwalker version in preparation for dawntrail?

great storytelling I felt like I was there myself

good job!!!!!!!!!!

Such a good recap, straight and to the point for remembering the basics of the story. You earned a sub !!

Please do an end walker digest when you have a chance!

Just in time

I love your videos, so glad you came to FF14

nice !

Thank you for explaining the story of the first. I saw ******** use the ***** and got confused on who caused the demise on the First.

After skipping everything. I'm gonna need this.

Hello Quazie long time no see! i enjoyed watching this review and its been so long since ive caught your Twitch lives. Idk if you remember me but im MickeysMom and i had the farm with the chickens and cat Gummybear. Alot has changed since then .....life has been hard. Hopefully i can catch you on a Stream and we can catch up. I hope life has been great you and the wifey

A few minor mistakes here and there but overall correct (zenos is the nephew not son, also the scions on the first was a mistake when the person was trying to summon only the wol) that's pretty much the only mistakes I personally caught

should point out that the whole transported thought time and space thing at the start only applies to 1.0 players new players are standard adventurers 1.0 players got a unique opening and some minor changes in dialogue

Aren't some of the side stuff important too? I think Eureka, Coils and Omega Raids were mentioned.

HW till SB is maybe a bit rushed in my opinion. I don't touch the ShB part, becaus i am somewhere in or after patch 5.3 But 7-8 minutes for ShB look fine, without knowing what you say about it. Afterall still great work to some up so much storycontent together in 18 minutes till endwalker👍🏻

Two things I wish I finished before I started Endwalker. - Eureka - All Collection Entries. Because they *do* impact dialog interactions during the MSQ. Things *you* should do first before reaching Endwalker which are not requirements of the MSQ: - Eureka Story - Bojza Story - Omega Raids. - Job quests up to level 70 The first two have a minor impact on dialog and interactions, which hint at future events. The last one I feel is a requirement as it has a major impact on interactions. Omega also lends to the fates of two major characters who seemingly "disappear" from the story suddenly after Stormblood's MSQ; Well, Omega explains why they do. The events of Bojza also lend into interactions. Endwalker is the final chapter of *the entire story* up to the point of Shadowbringers, including interactions with all important side content. It isn't required, but it does change the experience.

Spoilers for those who haven't completed the MSQ: I find it funny that Azem is "the chosen of Hydaelyn" even though he specifically told both parties (creators of Zodiark and of Hydaelyn) to eff off. And kinda sad that he/she had to kill two people who were his/her closest friends in the Old World.

Nooo I forgot about Papalymo :(

You totally skipped over the first encounter with the Warriors of Darkness.

30 mins before EW launches thanks for the refresher

Damn, I was following it, then COMPLETELY lost you during shadowbringers. I can't tell if that's complex or convoluted

Good video. A little hard to understand though

TO THE MOON! ENDWALKER IS LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY

Wait so the only reason Black Rose failed is because we weakened it by fighting against the light on the First? How does that even work o.O

There is two major flaws in this entire video. When referring to Gaius one must use Daddy in front of it and one must also use Lahabrea's true name, Lahabread.

When english is obviously not your first language u do this very well despite that.

TLDR WoL just looking for zodiak to get back his voice.

I just hit Endwalker.... I have skipped all of the scenes to this point.... this video is fantastic. Well done!

Well done. Ive seen a lot of recaps and ive liked this quite a lot!! Very simple and straightforward. Also thank you for great name pronunciation. Lol i always told people: PreARR: good vs evil then god apocalypse ARR: beast tribe desparate = primal summoning = alien influence to end the world using empire to collect all pokeprimalmons to fuel ultimate weapon = fall of evil empire dude HW: more primal + dragons + internal aliens again = new friends STB: WEEB LOVE. Empire backstory. More new friends. Aliens within again, again. SHB: OMG JUST PLAY THIS!! = world united against final boss men. ENW: The. End. But this is great. This video kicks recap video playlists’ asscian.

How did the warrior of light get right of the extra amount of light that would've turned him into a lightwarden? Graha only stopped it temporary... Please anyone knows? No matter how much I try to find that I either forgot or its a plothole.

I have been playing this game since launch and I still have no clue what the hell is going on.

Pretty dope recap. I’ve watched IGN’s recap a moment ago and it sucked a major flop. Thanks!

Ok, my lore twist theory: the Warrior of Light .... is a primal! tadaa

18 minutes... 18 short minutes to recap all the story from eight years... ambicious to say the least :) Though I think, 18 minutes per expansion would've been better even if the consequent videos would take an hour or more.

Aren’t you the one that skipped?

13:40 when exactly did we find out in Shadowbringers that The Warrior of Light and Ardbert are both fragments of Azem's soul? I don't think this was ever confirmed :/

"papalymo paid for his life" - should be with his life? "emet-selch took the body of solus" - not accurate, solus is emet, unlike lahabrea who took thancred body. emet also said that he did not particularly like to possess people because it tends to diminish their identity, something that Lahabrea is suffering quite a bit due to his penchant for possessing mortals. "hydaelyn and zodiark are elder primals" - the terminology of [elder primal] is somewhat loose in ffxiv as primals that are summoned before sixth era. which i guess qualifies both as elders. However in this context of emet lorebombing the scions, the point he wanted to make was that hydaelyn and zodiark are the eldest primals.

Greet Video but 18min is not enough for such a big story.

SPOILER Warning !!! It's also imporant to mention the growing mistrust towards Hydaelyn, as we know she is a primal. This is starting to give us the feeling that we might be tempered by her. Also on the first we learn the we are not chosen by her, as she is always call out, we just one of the few that could hear her. In the first it's shown that if you are informed about this is posses the will the hear her, doing so becomes much more likely. That is a another point in the wtf is going on with Hydarlyn.

"Muhammad was imprisoned by dalamud a long timr ago" -translator

Yea these videos is why i skipped ALOT of the cutscenes and stufd. Also when im in the mood i can always do new game+ or just watch the cutscenes in the inn. whenever i say something about not watching the story and tutorials everyone has a mental breakdown. Like holy shit calm down its just a video game. People like that make me wanna skop the story on purpose to piss them off lol.

First? First 😎

I watched this summary because I find the story quite boring and disappointing. ARR was a torture. HW was slow but had an interesting story and cool characters. Stormblood was incredibly boring and post Stormblood made me quit the game for a year and now I'm trying to play again to give it another chance (hopeful that next expansion and updates will improve the game but I have some doubts) and push through ShB. I'm halfway through and I started skipping cutscenes because my god they're so many! The fact that most of MSQ is indeed cutscenes and rinse and repeat fetch quests and dungeons doesn't help at all. And I hate when a character dies and then "somehow" returns only to prolong events. Like do it once, but not pretty much every damn time! If you kill a character they have to STAY DEAD. That's the point of their death, it has to be impactful and definitive otherwise there is no tension whatsoever when the protagonists are in danger. Even if they die, they will resuscitate again and again through some BS. Heroes must die. That's why they are heroes, because they choose to sacrifice for the greater good or save the world. Like why did Papalymo die offscreen and that's it? He was a likeable character, more than the rest of the cast who have cardboard personalities. They could've brought him back with some Louisoix's secret spell BS instead of reviving, for example, Yotsuyu only to kill her like 3 hours later. It's all so predictable. And it's a shame because the game has great potential to create a good story but I think it fails and the rest of it is pretty fun. But to play dozens of hours of slog story just to unlock the fun bits it's not really worth it.

"Endwalker is 2 weeks away" Yeah okay bro. xD

"with endwalker two week away" yeah that kinda aged like milk didn't it? XD

I feel like vids like this are for the players who make me suffer in roulettes because they potion jumped and skipped story and they think they are playing WoW still (I'm looking at you! Tanks in augmented Scaeven gear who can't control mobs and think provoke should be used on CD! 🥴)

thanks for making sodapoppin quit ff14 :)