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  1. CW: Evercold = Ragnarök

    Thinking of #Evercold and how it's literally Ragnarök. The 4th is Fimbulvetr, "The great/mighty winter". Extreme cold & savage winds cover the Earth, sun & moon swallowed (the clouds in Evercold).

    Halmarut is the völva, seeing the inevitability of the end of the world. Like the Old Norse she knows there is no preventing Fate, which she explicitly talks about in this patch, but the choice is HOW you face it. She does what she knows & embraces the Rejoining.

    #ragnarok #ffxiv

  2. A quotation from the Poetic Edda

    Brothers shall fight
              and fell each other,
    And sisters’ sons
              shall kinship stain;
    Hard is it on earth,
              with mighty whoredom;
    Axe-time, sword-time,
              shields are sundered,
    Wind-time, wolf-time,
              ere the world falls;
    Nor ever shall
              each other spare.
              
    [Brœðr munu berjask
              ok at bǫnum verða,
    munu systrungar
              sifjum spilla;
    hart er í heimi,
              hórdómr mikill;
    skeggǫld, skálmǫld
              — skildir ru klofnir —
    vindǫld, vargǫld,
              áðr verǫld steypisk;
    mun engi maðr
              ǫðrum þyrma.]

    Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
    Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress] (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936); st. 45]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80217/

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