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Saddle n' Spur Saloon @saddle-n-spur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As the days get shorter, the nights are only gettin' started! We're lookin forward to seeing y'all Monday night at the ol' waterin' hole. Only three more openings before our summer rodeo season concludes, and the top Tamer receives their prize! #ffxivvenue #ffxivrp #saddle-n-spur-saloon

Saddle n Spur saloon, open Monday September 14, 18-21 server time, 20-23 CEST

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 06/09/2026

// Having gone from the hunter community in Tailfeather to the Conservatory, Tal's speech patterns are pretty rough-and-ready (read: swear-heavy) by default; he tends to lean harder into that the fancier the company he finds himself in as a subconscious "I dare you to call me out for not belonging"

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Saddle n' Spur Saloon @saddle-n-spur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On Monday we'll dedicate a special night to commemorate Dolly. We'll have some special themes you can choose from to fix up a special glam to pay tribute to our inspiration. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose, with purpose.” ― Dolly Parton #ffxivvenue #ffxivrp #saddle-n-spur-saloon

Saddle n Spur saloon, open Monday August 31, 18-21 server time, 20-23 CEST

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 14/08/2026

// The initial questline is very generic "fight dragons with the Convictors" stuff leading up to the fight where he got his injury & a quest sending you away from their base to (falsely) tell Tal's dad he died. You don't run into him again until later, during the stuff setting up Foundation (1/2)

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Saddle n' Spur Saloon @saddle-n-spur.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Start yer week with some cold brews and hot rodeo action! We're open again tomorrow, c'mon down! #ffxivvenue #ffxivrp #saddle-n-spur-saloon

Saddle n Spur saloon, open Monday August 3, 18-21 server time, 20-23 CEST

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 29/06/2026

// Tal picked up the lance when he joined the Conservatory determined to be the next St Daniffen, ascend to the Temple Knights, & lift his adoptive family along with him. This... did not entirely go to plan. He's had to adjust how he fights to accommodate his disability, so no more DRG for him.

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em 𓅓 ⏾ @gatorparade.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

gay knight summer

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 23/06/2026

// Reposting my previous answer to this one because like many things about this wretched boy, it's complicated(tm) bsky.app/profile/coer...

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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Now We Ride! - new original available in my shop. It will also be my gay rodeo release in August. I’ll have a booth at the Santa Fe Gay Rodeo

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 22/06/2026

// Tal's bio family are, on one side at least, (very minor) scions of House Dzemael. As such, for all he teases @bladeofhonor.etheirys.social about being the son of salt-licking noble Gardie pricks, he's actually the more blue-blooded of the two.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 21/06/2026

// Like many Tailfeather hunters, Tal enjoys a little fogweed, usually picking and drying his own from around Idyllshire; as another hangover from his time at the Convictory he tends to roll it into cigarettes rather than a pipe, & has a lot of the RL WW1 superstitions about matches.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 21/06/2026

Non-WoL OC, so he's got a much smaller selection than my main girl. His OG class was ARC as a kid growing up in Tallfeather, but switched to LNC when he joined the Convictors. Following his accident, though, he's mostly DOL/DOH plus jobs where tech can compensate for his disability such as GNB.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 19/06/2026

// It largely depends on how motivated by spite he is to do so; it's going to be slow going (because his mechanically-braced fingers aren't as dexterous as uninjured ones would be), so it's a coin-flip whether frustration wins out over his innate stubbornness.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 19/06/2026

// Talfryn's origin is borrowed from Enfances Gauvain (specifically, the part where baby Gawain is thrown in the sea in a barrel, and subsequently raised by a fisherman) because I am a nerd for all things Arthuriana.

Talfryn Greystone (a short elezen of duskwight descent, with messy auburn hair pulled back in a ponytail and a scar over his right eye) sat in front of some purple flowers

An illustration of Sir Gawaine the Son of Lot, King of Orkney, a pensive looking knight holding a helm with a griffon atop it.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 17/06/2026

// When he has the luxury of both time and disposable income, it's tea made in the Coerthan style (that is, steeped directly in hot yak milk, and sweetened with birch syrup). The one he drinks the most often, though, is a hangover from the Convictory, similar to the real-world C18th portable soup.

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Final Fantasy XIV Fun Facts @ffxivxd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

According to Eorzean creation myth, Halone is the daughter of Rhalgr. Like her father, she relishes in the bloodthirst of battle. According to Eorzean creation myth, she's known as the "mover of glaciers and goddess of war"

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Saddle n' Spur Saloon @saddle-n-spur.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Elezens galore at the saloon! The night was plenty busy with visiting elezen from all corners of the star.

The bar is busy with friends from near and far. So many elezen, from all corners of the star! Must have been quite the sight for Shaaloani natives.

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absolem @absolem0.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Ishgard, after Stephanivien be like #ffxiv

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 01/07/2025

// Honourable mention to this family's popoto/cake-based drama

An elezen woman in Ishgardian dress gestures emphatically at two elezen children, saying "Where have you two been? Father's fever has grown worse and we need those poptoes for his stew"

The elezen girl responds "We used the last of the coin on... on... honey cakes..."

The woman responds "If the fever takes your father, those cakes might be the last thing you ever eat!"

The elezen woman continues "I'll have to sell the both of you to the goblins!"

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 30/06/2025

// It's probably not surprising that Tal dreams, and dreams often, about the dragon that ruined his left arm, though never about events as they actually occurred. When he dreams he's slower than he was in life, and the blow hits Eirian instead. After he jolts awake he inevitably spends a while (+)

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 26/06/2025

// Since we love a hamfisted metaphor here: it's a bit like losing a limb 😜 Less melodramatic, but still a good metaphor: Eirian maintains and modifies Tal's prosthesis. Tal can keep its basic functions going on his own, but it's very much Surviving not Thriving, keeping things ticking over (just).

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 26/06/2025

// Step 1: Conservatory sidequest, sends you to (falsely) tell his dad he died fighting a dragon Step 2: name on HW leves (metal/leather for prosthesis, food to trade with goblins, potions to dull pain/heighten focus) Step 3: one of the people you convince to buy into Francel's Foundation vision

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Daniel 🐰 GATEway FATE 400 @froggercube.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Yet ever do our aching souls point Heavensward - HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY HEAVENSWARD!!! #ffxiv #ffxivart #heavensward #nidhogg #hraesvelgr

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 23/06/2025

// Tal then joined the Convictors because killing a dragon was one of the routes by which a no-name bastard could hope to make something of himself. After being forced to retire (a one-armed spearman isn't much good to anyone) he fell back on skills he'd learned growing up in Tailfeather.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 20/06/2025

// Tal's Dravanian, specifically from Tailfeather; I've modeled his speech patterns on those used by Marcechamp in the MSQ He's relatively fluent in gobbiespeak at this point, due to trading with Idyllshire (his original prosthetic had a very goblinoid influence, though Eirian's modified it since)

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 18/06/2025

// Tal would absolutely shank me for claiming Dravania is "close enough, right?" but, uh.... close enough, right? 😉

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 17/06/2025

// Not remotely fancy, nor especially complicated, but solidly serviceable. Very specifically the kind you get from a Polish corner shop and not a supermarket own-brand equivalent

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 17/06/2025

// A long, scaldingly hot bath is just about one of the most decadent and selfish things imaginable and an absolute guilty pleasure when time allows; it also helps manage some of the chronic pain associated with his old injuries.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 17/06/2025

// Tal's from a community born out of a kind of stubborn self-reliance & historically was very rarely been in a position where having someone else look after your gear wasn't either a frivolous expense or a logistical impracticality; not being able to cover the basics himself was never an option.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 16/06/2025

// This is where I apologise to everyone who's had to deal with his accent thus far 😉 Very obviously lowborn Dravanian, then, let's say - and more obviously so the more of a prick the person he's speaking to seems to be. Speaks faster than he thinks. Swears habitually, uses a lot of minced oaths.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 16/06/2025

[ #FFXIVRP] On the whole, life in Ishgard had been better than Tal might have hoped but some days were still more Quickweed than Jessamine. Case in point; this morning some aetherial flare or other meant the airships sat idling at the docks rather than winging their way over to the Diadem (+)

Talfryn Greystone (a short elezen of duskwight descent with messy auburn hair pulled back in a bun, scars over his right eye and left cheek, and his left arm supported by a mechanical harness, dressed in brown leathers with a green traveling cloak thrown around his shoulders) looks disappointed at the Leves on offer in Ishgard

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 15/06/2025

// It's utterly infuriating how much he likes @bladeofhonor.etheirys.social; Tal spent a lot of their early acquaintance waiting for the mask to slip & Eirian to turn out to be as big a bag of dicks as every other Ishgardian prick. Now he's forced to conclude he's genuinely as good a person as (+)

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 14/06/2025

// Tal has an enameled pendant with an image of St Daniffen killing the basilisk & another with St Dhyata tending to her fish, worn smooth by years using them as touchstones. They're cheap mass-produced pilgrim souvenirs rather than anything unique or special but he's never without both.

An image in the style of stained glass, showing Daniffen (an elf in plate armour) driving a spear through the head of a pink basilisk.

An image in the style of stained glass showing Dhyata (a female miqo'te in a green shirt, holding a fishing rod) knelt on a dock with a hand outstretched towards a blue fish

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 14/06/2025

// Never enough music for character-specific playlists, so: Plucky orphan commoner wants so badly to become famous dragoon but ends up - an arm / + a bunch of complicated feelings about own worth & heroism in general. Currently trying to fit into civilian life alongside much fancier boyfriend.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 14/06/2025

// [cracks knuckles] Okay, so. Tal does not know who his birth parents are. As a kid, this meant lots of stories he fabricated about the tragic and very understandable circumstances that lead to them throwing him in a river for someone else to find. As an adult, he's adopted a much more 'yeah, (+)

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 13/06/2025

// Streamer!Tal started off with a simple "with one hand behind my back" gimmick given his disability, and has since branched out, collaborating with @bladeofhonor.etheirys.social to make some crazy custom controllers in the vein of SuperLouis64's content. See also: bsky.app/profile/coer...

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 13/06/2025

// Tal's bashing his head against whatever the latest Soulslike is. He claims he's enjoying himself. Given how much he's swearing you'd be forgiven for doubting it. Once he's got it down the *real* game starts; stupid challenge runs like "can I beat the game naked and armed with just this bread?"

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cerwyn @bajamut-blast.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 12/06/2025

"Dravania: Certified Nice & Normal" Alternatively: Dravania, it sure as shit ain't Coerthas 😉

An item from FFXIV, text reads as follows:

Dravanian Bream
Seafood - 1/999 (Total:1)
With all the hellish waterborne fiends and bizarre creatures that seem like the product of a fever dream, sometimes it makes a welcome change to meet a nice, normal fish.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 12/06/2025

// Welcome to HW2: Consequences Boogaloo. We're heading back to see how Ishgard's doing. Part of the plot is mentoring next-gen Convictors to become roadwardens rather than dragonslayers (squadrons get a rework). Part of it is expanding Firmament / Diadem. Idyllshire gobbies are the DoH society.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 12/06/2025

// Tal would like to claim he's a pragmatist; there's not much point letting yourself get emotionally invested when the environments you operate in are various flavours of meatgrinder. This is a lie. Give him a scrap of positive attention and watch him become ride-or-die *terrifyingly* quickly.

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🛡️ Eirian de Valhourdin 🛡️ @bladeofhonor.etheirys.social · 12/06/2025

Well...the results are certainly results. Blond hair does not suit @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social, but his color palette looks great on Eirian.

Eirian (a blonde wildwood elezen with tan skin in blue and white armor) is facing Talfryn (an auburn-haired duskwight with pale skin who wears green and brown armor). Talfryn's back is to the camera and Eirian is gesturing as he speaks.

Eirian and Talfryn are in the same relative positions as before but now Eirian has auburn hair and green and brown armor and Talfryn has blond hair and blue and white armor.

Talfryn (a pale duskwight with auburn hair and scars wearing green and brown armor) is facing Eirian (a blond wildwood elezen with braided blond haid in blue and white armor). Talfryn's hand is on his hip and Eirian's back is to the camera.

Talfryn and Eirian are in the same relative positions as the previous picture, but Talfryn has blond hair and is wearing blue and white armor and Eirian has auburn hair and brown and green armor. Eirian is gesturing with his hands out and Talfryn is looking up at the sky.

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🛠 Talfryn Greystone 🛠 @coerthan-torment.etheirys.social · 11/06/2025

E: Contemplate the hideous lapse in judgement that lead to me dating someone who considers familial rock salt normal (sorry-not-sorry @bladeofhonor.etheirys.social )

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