The Binding Coils of Bahamut - Complete Story and Lore 

A death star imprisoning thousands of screaming dragons, all for the purpose of regenerating a fallen elder god? Dude, Allagans were metal as hell.

one small thing the encyclopedia Eorzea states is that Nael Van Darnus was actually a woman named Eula Darnus. pages 184 states her brother was mortally wounded on an ill conceived mission. said brother died and mad with grief she assassinated her sire and became legatus in his stead. so the white Ravin you see in all of 1.0 was a woman pretending to be her brother, what you see in the coil is who it really is, Not a man but a woman and no one knew this in the empire, one of the best kept secrets it seems of the Empire

8:29 "And they napped for several minutes before cheesing the enrage in a display that they would forever be ashamed to admit." :P

As Summoner I appreciate the passive aggressive mentioning of Phoenix-egi.

"before cheesing the enrage" ahh good times

As a newer player who couldnt get to the coils before endwalker, i thank you for this story summary

Well, listening to this again after some time, and just before the release of Endwalker, is certainly going to make the events in the preceding expansion that much harder and tragic to watch. Thank you for your well narrated, thoughtful, intelligent and engaging videos Ethys.

I joined FFXIV:ARR late into the game before Heavensward... Never got past Turn 5 of the Binding Coil until just now, in fact. My friends kept screaming "Don't do T9. It's a nightmare.", but curious of the entire story, I stumbled upon your video. I can safely say you not only did a good job narrating the experiences and story of the epic's entirety, but it was with a gentle reassuring tone and a few laughs in the beginning that kept me intrigued and then expanding upon the story beyond that kept me engaged. And now, enlightened. Thank you for making this video. I may never get to experience the full story for myself, but I can at least say I know what happened now.

Nice video, but just a note: the Bahamut Prime we faced in T13 was not Bahamut at his full strength, but rather at a fraction of it, which is why we were able to beat him.

HOLY CRAP! I knew all the information at the beginning of the video independently from the crystal tower storyline, but I never put it all together with the coils of bahamut storyline like this! It blew my mind!

It may have been years since last i've seen this video, and here I am once more after helping new players through all 3 coils. This video is perhaps the greatest and well written resource to share to any who wish to know exactly what they went through!

I honestly don't see any way of SE coming up with such a good story for the end game raid. This is just one goddamn well written piece and the way you included the fights in the narration made it feel more nostalgic than I was anticipating. I'm ever so glad we've got people that are providing videos about the lore for this game we all like.

I joined FFXIV quite late, so it was only after 3.0 that I was able to find parties to beat the final coil. As such, I skipped a lot of cutscenes to make up for being with experiences teammates - this video was an extraordinary catch-up. Thank you for making it!

Thanks for this. My static fell apart one day after we got to T9 and I lost interest in the raid after that so I never got to see how it all turned out. The whole story, the song, all of it still sends chills down my spine. I still remember the night the servers went down for the last time and they showed us that first CG cinematic. Amazing story from amazing developers.

This was such a treat, I've been carried through this series of dungeons and raids by a friend who told me this content is barely ever being played still, and while my undergeared lv 50 Dragoon didn't stand a chance against the majority of the bosses, the cutscenes in between with the epic showdown with Bahamut, and that bittersweet conclusion was the constant dying at boss encounters absolutely worth it.

You have a FANTASTIC voice! Very professional and warm in tone like a true story teller! Please make more of these!

That was awesome. Been playing the game 4 years and I've never got through the Binding Coils with it being such old content no-one needs. What a story! Think I'll go in and solo it to experience it for myself. Thank you!

This story was great, and sad. What a peoples would do to another for their own gains. Thank you.

Thanks for the video. Even now in Stormblood the coils are too hard to completely finish with a full party of my friends, so I'm glad that you put this video together so that I could see all of the story behind it.

This was exactly what I was after - A concise recap of this saga. THANK YOU!

Can I just say I love this video and I'm going to forever call these long compilations "Storytime With Ethys"

Seriously wouldn't be surprised if they hired you to do In game voicing one day.

This was absolutely what I had been waiting to see from you! The way you can weave an already intricate and engaging story to be something even more exciting is absolutely mind-blowing. I can't put into words how much fun I've had watching your videos, and how amazed I was by this one. I started playing the game after watching The End of an Era and reading some of the 1.0 and Coil lore so watching something like this was a huge deal for me! Thank you so much for all your hard work, I'll be looking forward to all of your content to come!

All this epicness about the struggles of the Warriors of Light within the Coils, and now I'm looking at most if not all of them being done with only two people or even solo. XD

I really enjoy these types of stories that you do. They are well researched and intriguing. Your voice is very soothing as well. Cheers mate!

I love these videos for shoring up my knowledge of the lore (I never was part of a raiding FC, so we never ran Binding Coil), but I also like how you do your videos mostly in-character. It feels less like I'm watching a video and more like I'm staring at a weathered dragoon over the rim of a mug of ale in a tavern while he regales me with the history of Eorzea.

I am wondering who did not like this. Having played through it as a guy who skips cs I appreciate how well of a recap this was.

Masterfully done. I especially enjoyed the wink at Turn 2 enrage.

(Other than the Game Developers themselves) No one and I mean "No one" has told this story greater than you! Youve captured a Great visual in its peak. And I for one greatly appreciate it.

As someone who hasn't been able to clear the Binding Coil and wanted to catch up on the story coming in to Heavensward this has been amazingly helpful. Not only do you cover the story but you do it in a very immersive way! Thank you.

Most underviewed video ever.

I've got to admit, you have a fantastically captivating narrative voice. I haven't played FFXIV in quite some time but I intend to resub for Heavensward so I decided to watch this video to catch up. You've done an incredible job of telling a story that I otherwise would have been completely oblivious to.

With the new raid, nobody seems to do Coils anymore, so I want to thank you for putting this together so folks (like me) who can't seem to get in a group for an old raid can still enjoy the story/lore of it.

Thank you so much for putting this together. It's been ages since I completed the Bahamut raids, and i wanted a refresher before the release of Endwalkers.

This is by far the greatest thing about FFXIV Content providers I have seen so far lol. I love how you can go from all this serious talk and then into "Cheesing the enrage" and "stripping naked and jumping down" You are clearly a master of your craft, my friend XD

Thank you for posting this. Been looking for something like this for a while now.

loved the bits on us cheesing turn two n running third naked and explaining final coil in full detail was apreciated. guna be awhile til i can try that stuff. great video (:

Glad you made this video, was definitely worth watching/listening too. =] Very thorough

Never have I been so captured by a video that I had to stop what I was doing and just watch everything about this was great

As someone getting started during 4.0 this was very enlightening and enjoyable. Thank you for making it :)

thank you for this. Ive been playing for a few years and skipped over this, only to learn that endwalker suggest we pay attention to this lore. SO THANK you so much for creating this. Its done very well.

Thank you for taking the time to do this.

ya for learning the story to a chunk of content I'm never gonna be able to finish due to people just not doing it any more

Please keep up the great work! Man, I've been looking for lore videos for a while!

This is fantastic. Very detailed. As a Lore addict who wanted to check if you got your facts right, you were completely spot on.

Amazing video Ethys Thank you! Coil was so epic!!!!

Thanks for making this, I dont have a high enough level or enough freinds to do this raid set, so I am glad I can get up to date.

Nice video exactly what I wanted. A nice calm story recap :)

Thanks for doing this, when playing this with my FC I was force to skip most of the story and felt awful for missing it. Sadly I never finish the coils so I'm glad to at least to finally watched it.

This is fantastic, thank you for sharing it

I think Kaliya is entirely synthetic, not an experiment, but maybe I'm wrong. Another lovely wonderful (and hilarious) video, sir!

This is one of the best damn videos on RU-vid. Well done!

Hey Ethys I'm sure you get tons of comments like this but I just wanted to thank you so much for these very detailed videos. I watch all cutscenes, read all the quest text yet I can always learn so much more through your channel. Keep it up, please! You make the lore of this game so much more enjoyable for me.

Nice work man. Great to have this as an overview etc

I just watched this to prepare for Endwalker, as the writer says this story is important and I don't have time to do the entire raid series plus cutscenes before then. Thanks for making this, it was great!

That was awesome! Great job man

Great video! I've always wanted to get into the end game raiding but that's a tale for a different day. Thank you!

Great video man, well explained and put together, hope to see more lore videos in the future :)

I've seen this video a while ago but just wanted to say: You have an excellent script and narration.

AWESOME VIDEO DUDE!!!!

Always been interested in the lore of the MMOs but never wanted to play them in depth. So glad this account exists

This...is beautiful... :") Thx for recapping

You make a fair bard good sir. Thank you for your rendition.

I love rewatching this

You know I find myself coming back to this video despite having done the coils myself and also having seen it before. Ethys just has a very nice voice to be my background while I zone out level classes and other stuff in the game. On a side note I certainly wouldn't mind seeing another version of Bahamut before his insanity drove him mad and before he was warped into a primal. Imagine being able to talk to bahamut in the same way we spoke to nidhogg or midgarsormr or even hraesvelgr.

u gave me goosebumps. amazingly done!

I'm watching this christmas eve of 2021 & I'm shocked this doesn't have 1 million views. great video **latom**

Amazing video dude! Keep it up!

Just wanted to say thank you for this. I'm a pretty new player to FF14, and absolutely unlikely to clear any of coil before Heavensward hits. You presented this really well :-)

Such a cool video, well done!

Rewatched this since I was helping some new folks clear it, wish the channel was more active. I hope you have more free time in the future to keep up with it :)

aswesome narration and explanation of the lore even after completing some of it il admit i missed some of the things you explained well done and looking forward to seeing how the castle will pan out

Fantastic video. I've been wanting to know the story behind all of this, as I've been forced to skip it and it gets mentioned every now and again in the main story quest. Now that I know what all happened, I can rest easy. It's tough to get older content done, especially if it's time consuming and easily skipped (and there's little to no reward or incentive for doing it).

Amazing video again :D can't wait for your 2.55 conclusion video on lore if you are doing one... it left me intrigued and with many questions and theories. Also Yoshida said we would find out more about Bahamut in the expansion...hopefully is new info about when he was a living dragon...how did he behave and what killed him....and how did Midgarsorm react to the loss of his first child

What a great video to watch while waiting for endwalker! I know it's 6 years late but great job on this

love your channel. FFXIV is the FF I will never play due to my busy career path but I'm glad there's a youtuber out there that do all of these vids, so that at least I don't miss out on a main FF game storyline. Cheers, bud!

Your videos are great bro keep up the good work!

epic summary.. thank you

nice to have the whole story told like this ^^

I cried , very powerful outstanding speaking voice and narration. It was a tail told very awesomely. Thank you, I hope you do or have more story tellings of Ffxiv I really enjoyed this. Here's hoping for more, cheers

Lol you did an awesome job on the story telling part of it all budd need ta do that with all of the side quests or just most of the big ones like this one

Great video! Liked and subscribed!

this is so great!!!thank you!

Awesome job!

T3 was by far the most mentally challenging of all the coil turns. one simply could not understand why such a daunting accolade was meat with no material reward.

Enjoyable watch! Thanks for that!

The mention of the Phoenix-egi. made me lol a bit.

Great Video!

Man, incredible. As someone who's never played the coils and just played the story of FFXIV this was incredible. I hope whatever is going on with Alexander is half as interesting

Amazing video! Would love one for Alexander

I was unprepared for that bit about Turn 2 and 3. Hilarious.

That was definitely worth the wait! Thanks for the story Ethys! I love your character btw. Ya look great in those selfie pics in coil. Sexy dragoon too btw.

Awesome dude!

Excellent video. thank you /bow

Hey, awesome vid and storyteling! :D

"And they napped for several minutes before cheesing the enrage in a display they would forever be ashamed to admit." lolololol

Great job once again. I still have to beat T9, but it was good to get such a complete picture of what is beyond. I look forward to making Darnus kiss my boots.

nicely done x

thank you for the video good work

Still my fav raid learning the fight a with my friends was so much fun hope the new raid will bring a great story like this