The Endsinger's Philosophical Attacks in the Final Day FFXIV 

Great video! The 2nd phase of Emdsinger literally brought tears to my eyes when i realized that it WE were the final boss and the conflict flips on its head as the Endsinger must defeat our hope instead of us having to defeat her despair. Love it.

Telo could also mean, an end, a finsh, a finality Mania could mean deusion, a fantasy so the final spammed raidwide is literally the Endsinger's Final Fantasy.

I love learning the connections of the moves we have, but hearing about the connections the enemies have is also awesome

Something I think is neat: In the final fight of the first patch of Endwalker, we fight against Kakodaimon. Daimon being a spirit, usually referring to one who brings or provides something, and the prefix kako referring to evil or bad things in general. An ill spirit or bringer of sorrow. And in the final patches of Endsinger, we face the Twelve, and their ultimate attack is Eudaimon Eorzea. The prefix “eu” instead referring to good things. It could be read as “Eorzea the bringer of happiness”. So from kakaodaimon to eudaimon. Seems appropriate.

Well, this was a fascinating rabbit hole. I knew they did a lot of digging for interesting vocabulary. Now I'm even more blown away by the Endsinger fight.

one day the universe will be all frozen and dead. BUT NOT TODAY!

Beautiful. Thank you for explaining everything. This fight is too hard for me to pay attention to how glorious it is. That feel when I a Black Mage am not content with just hurling a meteor upon my enemy and I want to hurl an entire planet instead!

This was very educational

Highly enjoy etymology and your videos! Keep it coming!!

I think my favourite part of Endwalker is how, while the msq proves that Meteion was philosophically wrong, Hildibrand of all things proves that Meteion was literally, practically wrong. Thw universe was not a dead, despairing thing. But she was made of dynamis, and each instance of her was ever made to know despair from the onset by Hermes, imparting his own despair onto her. On wings of despair, she could only find ever more despair. And when she could not reach any more planets, she erroneously concluded that she had completed her survey and explored every single planet. And the answer she delivered back to Hermes was the answer he always had in his heart. But this wasn't true. Pupu's race and the Mandervillians were a perfectly prosperous race of peoples who held within them far more hope than despair. But Meteion's song of despair exaggerated their despair and wiped them out.

You could look into p12s's attacks, they are all "failed" theories and are quite interesting.

fantastic video! I've been obsessed with endwalker and its usage of greek and buddhist/hindu terms and themes as soon as I heard "Akasha". In the raid series Athena uses "classical concepts" and shows us the classical forms/platonic solids but also crucially the quintessence, a concept of constituent building blocks of the universe and foundational to many world scientific philosophies and religions. the quintessence is essentially 5 elements: Fire, water, air, earth, and aether. however aether has already been named in ffxiv and in many rpgs is essentially synonymous with magical energies. it is also called Akasha or in Japanese buddism's Godai its called Void or Ku/Sora meaning Sky or Heaven. these are THE quintessential elements. they're also obviously ALL OVER rpg's and fantasy stories and basically anything to do with magic because this concept has survived for so long. in the raid series we are clashing with this older system of thought and reason about how the world works and how we have developed past the ancients as we have the ancient greeks irl. And against Meteion we are also clashing against the ideals of ancients and how to view purpose, happiness, and all of teleology. Meteion asks us if we are entelechies like her. she who interprets the ultimate meaning of life as suffering and tries to break everyone free from the Samsara recognizing that suffering is a permanent facet of life. In the end we reject this on an infinite plane of void, an empty horizon of dynamis, potentiality, in Jainism some might call it Aloka a place beyond the Loka which holds the substances of change, motion and rest (Ultima Thule).

Another great video and it was smart to point out the doom refefence!

Endsinger is my favourite boss in the whole FF series so I LOVE that you made this video. Thank you!

love the explanations, idk why I always had trouble with philosophy in school, seeing that EW and the musing about life is my fav expansion so far ❤ your content is great btw!

This game deeper than I thought !

I love your videos

Love videos like these

LORE KITTY

fantastic video as always, keep it up :))

I love the Endsinger so much. Even at the end, she comes to realize that she was wrong. That happiness lies not in oblivion, even if she cannot fathom where it’s from.

I am very interested for when you get around to Athena and her fight. Taking the Savage fight into account, her abilities as a boss are full of a bunch of interesting terms. References to Ultima and other foes from Tactics, divine epithets of the goddess Athena, and ancient disproven scientific hypotheses, among them.

Best video yet. I got Telos and Telomania from how they had the Telopharoi before (I also knew that prefix already) but the rest was very interesting and new to me! It really drives home how deep in pessimistic nihilism she is, and we're almost debating her as we fight, trying to convince her to switch to optimistic nihilism. If you haven't thought of it, perhaps go over Athena's use of disproven scientific theories as attacks?

Love your content. I recently binged all your Christianity videos! Also, very happy with all the FF content

Ooooohh new mage cat video!! I clicked so fast!!

Good stuff. if I may add in, elegeia has no mute E, it's pronounced eleghEHia Planetes also has an audible EH as in planetEHs And kakodaimon is slightly more complex as a concept, it's the inner ugliness, all that is is bad in us and we have to defeat it if we even wish to negate her thesis in the form of our dynamis limit break

Hold on! Are u on tiktok? I swear I recognize this voice! Love your content!

I will never understand how people mispronounce names that have been clearly said in the game lol