"Fiend" with Official Lyrics (Sephirot Theme) | Final Fantasy XIV 

There are multiple trials/raids/dungeons where I'm like "All sprouts/New Folks. BGM = 100. You're welcome"

This needs more upvotes

Mentor to Sprout advice right there!

@@VorAbaddon you do gods work.

@@VorAbaddon I have that on a Macro. Its legit the only macro i spam when we start trials

Clearly the song is speaking to drk

Only the stupid dragoons do that

And then RDM does it too

Hides my Bard backflip.

DRG,BRD and RDM anthem

He did massacre most of their army before he was locked away, not quite 'Lol No' IMO.

The allagan who finally imprisoned him: "Yeah, this one's too dangerous to put down and risk being summoned elsewhere, lock it away boys!"

Back when I played this I skipped through it which I regret but this makes me regret it even more I need to go back and watch it. His lore literally makes it makes sense why still to this day it’s hard to solo him for me anyway 😂

"Bro we *are* the evil of the world sit down"

I kind of see this as Sephirot's POV after being imprisoned for millennia. All of his worshippers are dead and the world he was meant to save no longer exists. I'd be fucking pissed about that too.

But what if I'm also a tree?

@@Sabcy2 Then Jam out to the beats and get swole!

Welcome to Australia, even our trees metal :P

I think IM gonna do the exact opposite of that. Tree time.

BRB, planting a forest in local cathedral

hahahahaahahaaha..... damn i never thought about it that way. What the hell.

Nah this is just how trees are. The rustling of leaves is them screaming for our execution.

i’d be pretty mad too if i was slowly burning to death every day, considering sephirot’s children were tree people

@@V1D30PUNK we also have to take into account the fact that the allagans are masters at creating new war crimes

I wonder if it's a reference to Exdeath from FFV, and how a sentient tree was used to seal away malignant spirits.

You gotta look good when you're.... HERE TO KILL CHAOS

Ayy, I bring some damn good glams to these fights. B)

@@TurntReynolds Bullshit. *Plays Limp Bizkit*

@@TurntReynolds CHAOS!

@@muffetmissulena6540 lmao

As awesome as this theme is, One-Winged Angel has it beat in sheer epicness and iconicness. Everyone knows they are fucked when those first three notes of Sephiroths theme start playing.

That's basically my character so I thought you meant me at first lmao

I will not take this Vergil slander. Both is good.

Both are good in their own terms

Oh my god I'm stupid

I never thought of it that way and now I'll never be able to think of anything else! xD

Its possible. If I remember correctly Sophia and Sephirot are both Primals summoned by Meracydians.

Koji said the song is about being weary of Hydaelyn. From that angle the lyrics make perfect sense.

@@skybuilder23 I had assumed it was about Hydaelyn, specially considering the revelations from ShB and now from EW.

Sephirot Diss track?

Oh I just noticed the description saying the same thing lol

@@willa1018 yeah I was reading about that after! Kind of a bummer really, it’s be cool if instead they like collabd or something

@@willa1018 More than that. Became a Whole Court case. Was thrown as the judge concluded they could not just claim All Industrial metal sounds like theirs (IIRC)

@@EverianKalim music "rip offs" are nearly impossible to prove, for what almost certainly happened here, which is that the two songs sound similar, but how can you prove one influenced the other, and it's not just a synchronicity of fate? I honestly feel bad they feel slighted by it, because I highly doubt anything of the sort was meant, but such is life.

@@EverianKalim even funnier when soken was asked about it he was literally like who is powerman 5000 and what is when worlds collide

Bismark might, as it's much more animalistic, compared to say, Garuda, who's very much intelligent enough to speak. Shinryu could be another, but we never got the chance to speak to it directly due to Omega then Zenos.

Nature is neither good nor bad. it is just nature. RULES OF NATUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUREE!!! oh wait wrong game.

@@zeehero7280 no no, after Susanoo it's quite the right game

@@joshplater3963 it can probably speak but given the fact that indiscriminate destruction is mostly its goal, I doubt that Ilberd really bothered to give it anything resembling proper intelligence

Even the Elementals are neutral at best in this game. Nature is kinda fucked up on Hydaelyn.

Always has been.

We're all DPS, only difference is color.

we kill the boss before they hurt our precious tanks

I mean.. lore wise they are basically the opposing sides of the same coin. BLM drains aether from their surroundings to explode stuff. WHM drains aether from their surroundings to defend stuff. Overusing either of it will cause big troubles since they'll tip the balance of various aspected aethers. Like in the magi war, where WHMes fought with BLMes. They used up all the aether around them, expect for water aspected aether, what became over abundant and caused the flood and with it a calamity. That's why, in lore, both of these jobs are very limited. They don't give out BLM/WHM soulstones willy-nilly to everyone, because using either of it recklessly can end up in catastrophy. Ahh sorry the lore nerd came out of me.

@@bookfish aka the 6 calamity the calamity of water. 🌊

Okay after 6.1 i think this has a new meaning

in Jung psychology he mentions that serpents are a common motif used for femineity and hidden wisdom. Sophia could be a reference to Sophia of gnostic Christianity who has a serpent motif and is celebrated for bringing knowledge to humanity, guiding us from the Demiurge. The fiend/Sephirot in ff14 could be the Demiurge. When we move into the lower continent the gnostic themes might expand and these characters might be reintroduced.

“What is gold, always glitters…but it still comes with an unpayable price.” Beautiful.

Like the songs playing in Blade?

So pretty much every NiN song.. really. I guess I date myself by thinking this is more NiN than anything modern.

See "Blood on the Dancefloor" by Chris Christodoulou, for the game DEADBOLT. The scenario takes place in a dance club full of vampires, who are so busy partying that they remain largely oblivious that your character is lurking amongst them. Your character -- a Reaper, tasked with ending undead of all sorts. It's an eerie piece and I love every moment of it.

@@meatybtzI know what you mean, it's like a mashup of Closer, The Hand That Feeds, and A Perfect Drug and I love it.

Almost 2k for me on pc when I post this and a few hundred on ps4.

@@thundergaming155 I HAVE 13k hours >.>

@@samurai90x get a fucking life dude.

your not alone i seen the a friend fight this and was blown away. well now i am 4 month in with 3 max lev. lol

@Hillmor what are you at now? I've recently exceeded 3k!

Juuust wait dude Sephirot is a great fight but they only get better

Easily best one in heavensward, but shadowbringers has some really good ones

That's a fucking astonishing transition. They started this approach with Shiva, smashing the ice and causing the music to change, and that was done fairly well - and the idea behind it with the heel click and all was phenomenal. Sephirot is where they perfected it I think. Oh, and then there's Exdeath Savage...

@@Junebug89 Heel click? Do you mean when she snaps her fingers to set off diamond dust?

I had many expectations for the fight as VI is my favorite game in the series, I was not let down.

Sidurgu dabs in the distance

you mean male DRG Au Ra, because THE EDGE IS CALLING TONIGHT

I feel called out

as a female DRK Au Ra, I am offended

I feel somewhat called out, but I don't think I can complain, because the Edge is, indeed, calling tonight.

U r an idiot they are both the same

@@john_7000 excuse me

@@john_7000 Umm… no… Sephiroth and Sephirot are literally two different things.

well it could happen that the "other " one will show up at some point , i mean kefka is also in ff14 so why not.

@@Theigzorn Kefka and Exdeath were summoned by Omega, who is currently unable to summon beings. So Sephiroth is unlikely.

so what you're saying is YOU LET IT INSIDE YOU LET IT INSIDE

Turn away! Disobey!

DRK is sephirot

Hades theme "our defiance brings us straight to the edge"

What is wrong with your face? Sorry but I just had to ask.

@@Mounthuapleb5890 whatever do you mean

@@stampede274 a deviant I see... How grotesque.

@@Mounthuapleb5890 I'm literally a clown

Nah, that's when you play DRG, RDM or BRD and do a backflip

Also to be fair, this song totally sounds like the response of people learning the deal with Hydaelyn and Zodiark from the Ascians and just being very unhappy with it.

@@TheLordMagmar I mean if I learned that this godlike being that has been supplying me with my powers for years was once some guy named Joe, has no real unique qualities, was spawned out of necessity for a hail-mary to try to correct their own mistakes and have been using me to cover up said mistakes, i'd be pretty pissed too.

If Zodiark was an actual character, I'd want his personality to be based on this very song.

@@christopherbravo1813 I think his personality would just be Elidibus. He was the Heart, which Fandaniel then became forcefully.

@@joshplater3963 yes, but I think Zodiark SHOULD have been a legitimate big bad.

It's more like he is named after the sephirot of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah. each Sephirot or sphere is related to some higher-functioning aspect of the universe or soul. It is also a means to "map" god and understand creation as a whole based off of the correspondencies between each sephirot and thier eminations.

Eden Ramuh exists

Kinda... But there WAS this one chocobo theme written by the guy who did DMC3's music so maybe not? Crazy Chocobo is still the best thing about 13-2 >_>;

Limit Break from FF13-2.

@@DonnieDarkoRemains I would have to replay the game to remember the limit break(s). Something I have no desire to do since I pretty much hate everything about the game minus 1) Crazy Chocobo 2) the fixes from FF13's battle system like leader transferring if the leader dies 3) Sazh's DLC, and specifically the special card game they made for it. Everything else just... Didn't need to exist basically. Just my opinion though.

@@HellbladesFFXI Limit Break is just the name of the OST. Pretty sure it's the name at least.

It was 100% used as inspiration but after being sued by Powerman 5000 they went into protection mode.and claimed they had never heard of it lmao

Well, having a wound sealed is painful as hell. It could mean that he knows what he is doing is bad, but is beneficial long-term. I have never played this game, but this is what I interpreted it as.

@@ryanspencer9602 the song in question is sung from the perspective of an evil tree monster that became essentially an archetypical devil

@@waywardwriterryu7185 true... But also, isn't he connected to life and death in some way?

@@ryanspencer9602 afaik he’s a nature creature so yes?

@@waywardwriterryu7185 i mean, more than that. Is the connected to the concepts? Like having powered over it.

someone forgot chokmah

@@zeurgash1456 and Da'at.

@@AurealisAzuriae we dont talk about Da'at.

plus Malkuth (the blow back attack) and Impact of Hod

Well, that's the fun part. He was a primal summoned from a race of dryads, who used a massive tree as the framework. So you could say that he is a tree of life. That and research into his abilities were what resulted in a paradigm shift for Allagan bioengineering.

It's actually a mechanic. You have to dodge AoEs while head-banging.

Reaper is literally what DRK should have been and actually is. A fucking DPS. And if thinking about 11 with a Scythe

Between Dark Knights coming from Ishgard and Reapers coming from Garlemald, I'm beginning to think frozen shitholes are the perfect breeding ground for edgelords.

@@ahorseofcourse7283 Dragoons _also_ come from Ishgard, so you're right

@@ahorseofcourse7283 Cuz snow is just cool like that

Really??! Wtf well thanks u saved me the trouble I was about to do it unsynced and get the mount but now I know it doesn't play this song then it a waste of time

@@john_7000 But, if you can get all 7 birds you can obtain a special mount.

It was because of drama caused by powerman 5000 due to them accusing se plagiarizing when worlds collide

I wonder if you can change that through modding

@@TheDarkAngel969 I'd like to see where you got that information. Because if that was the case, Fiend wouldn't play in the trial either lol

Apparently all the way up to endwalker was planned during the time of a realm reborn or heavenward

@@jacobsnyder7771 wait, seriously? I thought they were winging it with the expansions.

​@christopherbravo1813 no that's wow lol, this was all planned out. Crazy how good the writing staff is

imagine Sephirot as a DMC boss. wouldn't that be amazing?

what is it really that is in your head what little life that you had just died

Agreed this song is awesome!

surprised not many people are saying this

They literally just ripped off Powerman 5000 lol

The first time I did this fight I thought they had just dropped that song into the game

@UC8i15Yl0TNAolx740I7y3lQ PM5K whined on facebook about it being a ripoff, so now the Mount doesnt play its theme. Thanks, bitch ass band.

Im still in Heavensward so theres info I dont have, especially about Zodiark. But since its usually Ascians that goad people into summoning, I wouldnt be surprised if Sephirot was influenced by a description of Zodiark by the Ascians.

@@badwrongfun5541 seems kind of weird that they'd give a description of their God to the tree-worshipping people specifically, doesn't it?

@@christopherbravo1813 I mean sure but it doesn't actually look like Zodiark. Its suppossed to look like Fiend from FF VI and Zodiark didn't have an appearence yet. Zodiark actually looks like Feind / Sephirot, likely completely coincidently just from classic demon imagrey. And we're just making up fake, uneccsary in fiction rationalizations after the fact. They're never actually going to make sense.

@@badwrongfun5541 maybe, I just think it's ironic.

played both and its true. One of the best game ever with such an amazing story

Gameplay is better on wow, ffxiv pretty much better at everything else, the whole catgirl and gnomes stuff is cringe tho

@@quinnquinnquinn215 Yeah because WoW full of literall furries and Gnomes plus Goblins is not cringe at all lol.

​@@quinnquinnquinn215lol combat in wow has no challenge you hit like 4 or 5 buttons 14 has real complicated rotations

The only real downside of FFXIV is the cult of Yoshi-P. For it is forbidden to ever criticise that overrated, incompetent opportunist lest you be ostracised by his obsessive fans. Most of whom pay a sub to sit in Limsa all day spamming /beesknees on their catgirls.

Oh absolutely. It can straight up be seen a decrying of everything seen as good and order and a declaration that the ruling 'good order' is actually evil and the oppressed at the fringes actually good. Doesn't get more Dark Knight than that.

Lesser men led to this comment, turning away and disobeying

Please! As awesome as this song is, One-Winged Angel is still recognized by millions on the first three notes alone.

Funniest thing is that soken and team claimed they have never heard worlds collide before, or even know who p5000 is lmao.

The songs are nothibg alike lol people who arnt musicans shouldnt talk about this stuff

@@ziegfeld4131 Neither should you if you cannot see the similarities. They may have slightly different tempos, but they both share almost identical riffs on the guitar for the verse, which is repeated and the main theme of the song. Same notes. It's easy to see why someone would be reminded of them both due to that. They slightly differ in how they are strummed. They are both sung soft at the verse and scream at the chorus and both have an industrial metal sound to them. They are in no way "nothing alike". I've given enough information two point out the parallels between them and why people would think it sounds like when worlds collide. Why else would many people who have heard both from across the globe come to the conclusion that it sounds like worlds collide. It's not some grand conspiracy. There is enough parallels for people to think it. People are aware of the differences, it's not a 1:1 copy, that doesn't mean it's not heavily based on it. As to wether Soken heard collide or not, that's up for dispute. You can believe him or don't. I would say even if he had ripped it off, he's not exactly going to admit to that. There is plenty of works in FF that sound fairly similar to other songs in existence though. I don't care either way, it's still a good song even if it's heavily based on it.

more like it's practically a carbon copy of that song lol