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In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look at level one through ten of the Ul'Dahn MSQ (yes, the three cities have different MSQ's). Other topics include Chad…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd make a character, and discuss how character creation informs and is informed by lore. Other topics include the worst kin…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look at dual concepts that are the basis for the player experience in games: Qualia and Ideology. Other subjects include…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at the per-expansion themes of the game, and how they differ across other media. Other topics include Whether or No…

In this week's episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look at sports and games of Eorzea, their real-world counterparts, and the ontology of Sport. Other topics includ…

No new episode this week, so we're reuploading our most heavily-referenced one, the grand thesis on how Final Fantasy XIV lore treats Catholicism, the Church, and the accoutrement of organized religi…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chadd and Sean talk about narrative excellence as it relates to good and evil in Eorzea. Other topics include Alexander the …

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at the second Alliance Raid of the expansion, and the narrative implications for the history of Eorzea a…

The premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast is back! We're talking about 6.3, where the story hit, where it didn't, and the patch's lore implications through the lenses of earlier FF games. Other top…

This week, life came at the Premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast fast, and by Life, we mean Sean's ceiling. This remastered reupload of Episode 002: Literary Endwalker, cleans up the audio and uti…

We made it to 50! In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, we answer the biggest question so far: What the is  a Final Fantasy game anyway? Other topics include a discussion of…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV Lore Podcast, Chadd and Sean look at Paratext, Fascism, and Close Reading. Other topics include the dangers of Moon Nazi's, Pop Team Epic, and how Wa…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Sean and Chadd descend into the depths of the Inspectorial Rift to the heights of the moon: It's Manderville time {and then …

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chadd describes the phenomenology of being a spectator to FFXIV, rather than a subject. Other topics include the manner in w…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd hack into how Final Fantasy designs space and incentives to move players around, and the contrasting incentives that pul…

In this, the hardest episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd try to take an extremely broad look at the IGN interview that has dominated Final Fantasy news for the past…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chad, Sean, and Three-Time Returning Podcast Champion, Riko, discuss the Omicron Tribe Quests, Ultima Thule, and the nature …

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chad and Sean look at the Sil'Dihn Subterrane and its lore implications. Other topics include whether it's Istanbul or Const…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chad and Sean take a look at one of the undergirding assumptions of the game, and, in fact, much of fantasy as a genre. Othe…

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, once more we have livestreams to review and hires to appraise for their loracratic magnificence. Other topics include the real definiti…