If The Shoebill Fits
In this, the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Dawn Trail lore podcast, Sean and Chadd (with reptilian editor Jeremy) ask the big questions of small game facts, going way, way beyond the wiki and game lore with their combined academic and industry background. We're not afraid to make our stupid Calls public, and admit when we're wrong, so that when we get it right, you know we meant it. Have an idea for an episode? Send it to [email protected] FINAL FANTASY and FINAL FANTASY XIV are registered trademarks of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. © SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 120
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
040: Director's Commentary Commentary
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chad and Sean dig into the Yoshida live stream for both lore details and the Behind the Movies facts about the genesis of al…
039: Rowena, Queen of Darkness
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chad and Sean take on the most evil figure in the game: Rowena of the House of Splendors. Other topics include the history o…
038: Kingdom Hearts... Is Money
In this episode of the premiere FFXIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean go into one of the biggest questions in the history of the game: did Nomura's powerful imagination directly result in Final Fantasy …
037: Amnesia is a Healthy Response to Meteor
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at a huge question of the turnover to 2.0: did Phoenix resurrect people? Other topics include the m…
036: We're All Wrong About The Time Bubble
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Sean and Chadd attack the most-recognizable point of the inside-baseball of A Realm Reborn's lore: the Time Bubble. Other to…
035: Six Point Two - Inside You Are Two Goth Girls
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chadd and Sean recap and analyze the narrative content added to the game in patch 6.2: Buried Memory. Other topics including…
034: If You Can't Stand the Lore, Get Out of the Kitchen
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look not only at the lore references of the FFXIV cookbook, but also at the lore implications, including a confirmation …
033: Emet-Selch Is Smarter Than You Thought
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look at the narrative of Emet-Selch in Shadowbringers in dialogue with with works of Susan Sontag. Along the …
032: Wild Speculation Reborn
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean write down nearly their entire wishlist/speculation sheet for the next few expansions, including Seeking the Dao, And Th…
031: People's War, in an Ishgardian Context
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at one of the least-examined pieces of content in the entire Final Fantasy XIV saga: the story of the Co…
030: Twistwalker
In this episode of the premiere FFXIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at one of the big questions of narrative design: what makes twists good? Other topics include roughly tousling Gaius van Baelsa…
029: Such Hildevastation
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at the single largest concept in long-format games: Player Equity. Other topics include surprisingly garbage subpl…
028: Catch These Manderville Hands
In this episode of the premiere (and self-correcting) Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look at the fundamentals and implications of the Hildibrand questline. Other topics include the in…
027: Three There Are
In this episode of the premiere FF XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at the Warring Triad and their successor trial series: what their implications are for future endwalker content, th…
026: Bunny and Squirrel Engineering
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at the engineering problems endemic to the MMO's of the past and present, and how they create mechanical problems f…
025: Wild and Pure and Forever Free
In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at primals, psuedo-primals, demiprimals, and culture heroes in dialogue with our favorite party animal, Susanoo. Ot…
024: House of the Rising Saucer
In this episode of the primiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Chadd and Sean (With Gamingway!) break down the social and material economics of the Manderville Gold Saucer, bringing the H…
023: A Tourist's Guide to Norvrandt
In this episode of the premier FFXIV: A Realm Reborn lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look at the cities of Shadowbringers, and what it means that they are 'lost'. Other topics include Vergil, Plato, and…
022: Tia? I Hardly Nunh Her!
In this episode, Chadd and Sean look at Miqo'te Seeker of the Sun society, sexuality, and the construction of family, clan, tribe, and nation in fiction. Other topics include Twi'lek, Myths About Wol…
021: Disciples of a Realm Reborn
In this episode of the premier FFXIV Podcast, Chadd and Sean look at some of the most overlooked content in A Realm Reborn: the Disciple of the Land class quests. Nationalism, Capitalism, Responsibil…