Shrouded in Heartwood
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'"I think we've gathered all we can," Ahri said, looking up at the sky. Dalamud seemed even larger than it had been when Mihri had left the village with her this evening. "We should head back and—"
The world exploded.'
Before Mihri was the Warrior of Light, she was just a girl from the West Shroud. Her family's life may not always have been easy, but it was simple and mostly unaffected by the world beyond, until the day the Red Moon fell. The Seventh Umbral Calamity.
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- Part 1 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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"The problem was that her mother didn't understand why she wanted to leave in the first place. Which was, Mihri had to admit, entirely fair, since she still could barely articulate it in the privacy of her own mind. It was… before the Calamity, she had never ventured out of the West Shroud beyond their occasional venture into Mor Dhona. But traders came through regularly, Keeper men from other parts of the Shroud brought news of their families, people moved in and out. The Calamity had ended all of that, and the world had contracted down to just the West Shroud, and half of that was covered in mountains or burned. Some nights it was hard for her to believe that there was anything left out there, that the world hadn't ended and left her people behind. She had to see for herself, and that meant leaving and traveling as much of Eorzea as she could possibly manage."
Mihri Ninaka has always lived in the West Shroud as a traditional Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te. Leaving home leads her to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, to love and loss, to despair and hope, and maybe, just maybe, back to families new and old.
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- Part 2 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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After the Scions' return from Amh Araeng, Y'shtola is concerned by Mihri's growing Light corruption, but also by the toll their journey is taking on her. Mihri is grateful to have help removing her armor.
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- Part 3 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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The fight against Innocence may have ended in a nightmare scenario, but Y'shtola and Ryne and the other Scions cannot be idle, not when there is so little time to prevent Mihri from turning into a Sin Eater.
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- Part 4 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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The Warrior of Light, refulgent: Mihri refused Ryne's summoning of Shiva, taking the burden, and the failure, onto herself instead. Though her transformation was undone through the combined efforts of the Scions, the Crystal Exarch, and Gaia, Y'shtola would have an explanation from Thancred, whose own thoughts have turned towards a particularly terrible day long ago, when the peace conference at Falcon's Nest turned to bloodshed.
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- Part 5 of Shrouded in Heartwood
- Part 1 of Mihri & Thancred
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“I’m turning on the KLEOS now, Cid.”
“Roger that, Mihri. Reading the KLEOS as active.”
She closed her eyes and breathed deeply and evenly. All around her, the cockpit of the warmachina was lit up with holographic screens reporting on every aspect of her surroundings, but none of that mattered right now. The hairpin-like device on her forehead was warm, and she could feel it guiding her toward the familiar mental state of the Echo.
Hear… Feel… That wasn’t it. She needed to go deeper. The machine was thrumming above her, below her, around her, like a living being. Focus on its heart, Cid had said, and your own will follow. She let herself sink into it.
The thrumming was inside her, now, and she opened her eyes, raised her hand, and saw the metal fingers flex as she moved them. She turned her head to the side and looked towards the catwalk at eye level. Cid and the other Ironworks technicians were so small compared to her now. “I’ve got it,” she said.
A complete rewrite of the Sorrows of Werlyt questline, focusing on Milisandia and the other pilots.
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- Part 6 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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In Camp Broken Glass, Mihri settles down for supper, but an interruption by the Ascian Fandaniel brings a nightmare to life.
An "In From the Cold" retelling.
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- Part 7 of Shrouded in Heartwood
- Part 2 of Mihri & Thancred
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Mihri does not wish to fight Zenos ever again, and she'd spend her life on refusing him. At the end of the universe, he disagrees.
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- Part 8 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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On the Ragnarok, at the edge of the universe, Alisaie watched Mihri die. Even after it all ends well, she has trouble moving on upon their return to Sharlayan.
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- Part 9 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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In the Thirteenth, Mihri encounters a familiar voidsent, and despite their fraught history, she finds herself drawn to Zero. Together, they'll make a new beginning.
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- Part 10 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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It goes like this: there is a woman, called “hero” by many, and she dies threefold. Once by hanging, once by burning, once by wounding. That is not the whole of it, of course. But it is a place to begin.
Long, long after the Seventh Astral Era, songs of the Warrior of Light are still sung. This is one such tale.
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- Part 11 of Shrouded in Heartwood
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RimaHadley’s Keeper of the Moon Huntspeak Lexicon by rimahadley
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
25 Aug 2024
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The game’s official lore does not support Huntspeak as a fully-fledged Miqo’te language, but I prefer to write it as such for my own character purposes. This is a completely unofficial rendition of what Keeper of the Moon Huntspeak might look like, particularly that spoken by Keeper clans in the West Shroud, where my Warrior of Light Mihri Ninaka is from. If you don’t recognize a concept in a definition from canon, it almost certainly means I made it up.
Please feel free to use any and all of this for your own characters!
Major Update: 30 September 2024
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- Part 12 of Shrouded in Heartwood