Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker: Tales of Loss and Fire and Faith

Digging into the joy and sorrow of the newest expansion

The latest expansion to Square Enix’s popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) uses its great history as the foundation of a great experience. It is one that promises to leave new players in awe and faithful followers with tears in their eyes at the journey’s end.

DISCLAIMER: This article will contain heavy spoilers about Endwalker, but also some of FFXIV’s previous expansions: A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers. If you want to avoid them, you should stop reading at about this point.

Somewhere around Mor Dhona, in Eorzea (now more commonly known as Etherys) a group of people can be seen talking about their next adventure. Where they plan to go from this point, what awaits them next, when they will meet again, etc. These people are the members of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, a group that has long since been at the forefront of Final Fantasy XIV.

Endwalker, the latest expansion to the increasingly popular MMO, once again pits these characters in the starring roles. It is mainly through their actions that the world narrowly avoids the threat of imminent destruction via a calamity known as the Final Days. But to say that…