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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(Age yourself with a Childhood Crush. No, I will not elaborate on how old this does or does not make me.)

Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian in The Adventures of Robin Hood. She is dressed in a silver gown, a red riding cape, and purple headscarf with red and gold headband holding it in place. She looks nae best pleased at being in Robin's camp, her and her retinue having just been taken into Sherwood. In the background you can see a few merry men out of focus.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Ask for a redhead, get a redhead. Difficult to do from my phone, but still doable!)

An image of Mirri Elendis, a Dunmeri woman with pale ash-green skin and long red hair, combed back behind her ears, stands on a balcony overlooking the Aetheryte Plaza in Limsa Lominsa. She's dressed in Ironworks Casting Gear--black, carbon fiber looking armor with white sleeves, and glowing blue accents. She's wearing red lens pince-nez glasses, and holding an intricate red and black parasol. She's looking over her right shoulder, the aetheryte is to her left. It's raining, and dark out. The whole scene is very tranquil.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Sha'dow is a widower. They lost Ascilia, Haurchefant, Ysayle, Mide... (and on Nirn, actually had to coup de grâce Mirri *and* their twins because Corprus) The answer is "Not great." Have a short story about losing Ascilia.) archiveofourown.org/works/66104617

She's Gone, It Doesn't Matter, Does It?
Diana2112
Summary:
They were all betrayed at the Bloody Banquet, and now the Sultana and Minfilia were dead. The other Scions were likely just as dead, what does it matter if Sha'dow breaks his promise? What does it matter if he takes the Black again? Why SHOULDN'T he take revenge on the Crystal Braves and Ilberd? He and Alphinaud were on the run...

This childish rebellion ends now.

He unlocked the box...

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(I'm doing it partly for the first, partly for the second, but also because I really genuinely enjoy guitar. I've played 26 years, and don't plan to stop just because I'm in the hospital, I even have a guitar JUST for that! 🤣 AGGRESSIVE LOVE! WOOHOO! I've got the narcotic flirts, so yeah. 🤣)

An image of me, a half Muscogee trans woman with long brown hair, square frame glasses, and brown-hazel eyes, wearing a green hospital gown. I'm holding a Steinberger Spirit GT-Pro Deluxe in transparent blue with a quilted maple top. It's a very compact guitar with no headstock, the body is only about 30cm/12in long, and maybe half as wide at the widest point. It's got an A or inverted V shape to it.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(Assuming I could afford the treatment for my ailments and not die, I'd be MCH all day long. I used to do competitive shooting, never placed lower than 3rd, in distance OR speed shooting. AND it was Cowboy Action Shooting, so the guns of Etheirys wouldn't be an issue for me. BEHOLD ME IN FFXIV!)

A highlander hyur woman with her brunette hair (with dark/dirty blonde tips) done up in a ponytail/wrapped in braids)laying in a prone sniper position, holding a long rifle with a scope. She's gazing through the scope, both eyes opened as she lines up her shot. Her right eye is brown, her left eye a milky white, clearly blind. She has reddish brown skin, and a white tattoo on her face. She's wearing brown MCH leathers, a tan and green scarf, and has goggles perched on her head. The foreground (barrel and rifle) and background (hills and sniper's nest) are blurred heavily, making the emphasis of the image her face

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

archiveofourown.org/works/74795816 (Have ~5,000 words of WoLShtola angst that takes place after the Ultima Thule fight with Zenos. Very polyamorous. Very fun. Very angst.)

At World's End
Diana2112
Summary:
Sha'dow had sent them all away, smiling that INFURIATING crooked smile he always did when he was about to do something reckless and stupid and DANGEROUS. Shtola had paced back and forth the full length of the Ragnarok's helm--forty-two steps--more times than she wished to count, when miraculously the broken, beaten, and scarred man himself FINALLY appeared ondeck, he was covered in those eerie blue flames that burned in his blind eye whenever he cast magic. No time to think about anything but keeping Sha'dow alive, the Scions rushed him to the Ragnarok's MedBay, where they all fought--Shtola included--tooth and nail to save him.

She only hoped it would be enough, because in the quarter of an hour between Meteion saying Sha'dow had defeated the Endsinger, and Sha'dow appearing bloodied and on death's door, the Miqo'te had realized she wanted to be MORE than just a casual lover. She wanted what Dra'lesgosiir, Landra, and so many others waiting back on Etheirys had with him.

And while yes, she planned to give him an earful WHEN--not if--he woke up, right now? Right now the only thing that mattered was keeping him alive.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

(Leaving this here for people to fill out while I go to the doctor today. I'll fill it out when I get home. Doesn't have to strictly be #FFXIV, can be whatever. Just have fun with it. Totally not engagement bait. 🤭)

A "Top 24 Favorite Characters" template, with 24 blank boxes, in four rows of 6 columns

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

(Yeah I can't draw for shit, Ysayle, Mide, and Our Most Beautiful Branch don't have battle portraits, and I couldn't find any good screenshots in my folder of Shale to add... So... Basically this, with Shale added to Dawntrail. ENJOY!)

$The "Favorite Characters from Each Expac" meme. Technically you're supposed to draw the characters, but I can't art for shit. Anyway, it has the title screen for each game, A Realm Reborn, showing a group of heroes behind the title, on a space blue background. Next to that it has a headshot of Minfilia and Yda, both Highlander women, both blonde, Minfilia has her hair done up, Yda is wearing a mask. Heavensward has a dragon motif on a blue background, light shining from above. Next to it there's a headshot of Ysayle, an Elezen woman with silver white hair, and a screenshot of Mide, a blue haired Au Ra woman wearing silver leathers with a scar on her left eye. Stormblood has a war motif, flames and banners with a resistance group led by Lyse, holding her hand up, a wrist blade extended, all reds and yellows. Next to it are headshots of Fordola and Lyse, both Highlander women, Fordola is Strawberry blonde, looking downwards, Lyse is VERY blonde, looking to her left. Shadowbringers has a brightly lit sky being split in a V, revealing the night sky over a forest, with a stylized Dark Knight motif. Next to it is fan art of Feo Ul, a faerie in red and orange, with red hair, and purple wings, in two poses. The first pose is them looking all dejected and upset saying "Cold and cruel..." The next is them looking ANGRY AND YELLING saying "AND HEARTLESS!" Endwalker shows a fractured moon over Etheirys with a Star Destroyer like spaceship approaching. Next to it are headsdhots of Y'shtola and Zero, a Miqo'te and a Hyur/Voidsent woman, both dressed in black. Y'shtola has short white hair, and is blind, Zero has gray hair, and is wearing a black hat. Dawntrail shows an island, and has the same island as the motif. Next to it are headshots of Real Sphene, and Lamaty'i, a Hyune and a Hrothgar woman. Sphene has gray hair, olive eyes, and is wearing a large collared coat, Lamaty'i is a Lioness, with appropriately colored fur and hair, wearing feathered earrings.$

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(Stolen from @trazwieb.bsky.social, but I feel like seeing how much engagement I can get. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!)

An image with:
Get to know my music taste

For every like, I will post one song I love 🩶

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

archiveofourown.org/works/84878946 ("We are far from perfect But perfect as we are We are bruised, we are broken But we are goddamn works of art" A little story I wrote a while back for Some WoL #Fordola. Also #WoLyse. So #WoLyseDola. The world needs more of that. #Sha'dowVerse)

Randwulf
Diana2112
Summary:
While patrolling Lower La Noscea for any wavekin spawn of Unktehi (something Sha'dow had done routinely since Karine's injury), the Drow Red Mage comes across a curious creature...

Someone that may make the perfect companion for Fordola whenever Sha'dow isn't around to help ground her when the Resonance threatens to overwhelm her.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

archiveofourown.org/works/710023... (The original, ORIGINAL version of this was published back in November of 2019, did not have Fordola, and was much, much more unkind to Kan-e. It has undergone some heavy revisions in the past 7 years. Anyway, here's some mild WoL/Dola, but more WoL/OC, really)

The Blackest Night, Who Else Could I Love, But You?
Diana2112
Summary:
It had taken them literal years of work, but the Tailors Free Company had finally landed a cottage in Shirogane. Thanks to the entire Company coming together, Sha'dow even had his own office. It looked like he would actually get a few weeks of peace to rest, and recover from his aether sickness. To celebrate, he even gave his retainers the week off.

Unfortunately, that tranquility was shattered when a letter from the Admiral informed him that his Retainer Ka'ra--not only a retainer, but a dear, dear friend--had been seriously injured, and Gridania had refused to send healers. Merlwyb assured him she was currently stable, but how long that would last, none of the Maelstrom healers could say.

Will she wake up? Will she even be the same woman he knew if she does?

FINALLY COMPLETE!!!

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

archiveofourown.org/works/86854881 (Not the immediate sequel chronologically, but the one with the most Fordola in it. The immediate sequel chronologically I'll post in the next comment)

A Blade for You, a Life for Us
Diana2112
Summary:
Fordola has been at Dark Sun Hold for a few months, and Sha'dow takes it upon himself to make her a new weapon. One worthy of her skills. One that will fit her hand.

He COULD just synthesize it...

But what if he stoked up the forge...?

For XIVRarePairWeek Day 1, "Forged"

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

archiveofourown.org/works/65968972 (Hey, want some #FFXIVFanfiction #Fanfiction #Fordola fanfiction? #FF14Fanfiction Here's one I wrote a while ago, it's about when Fordola and Sha'dow got together. Enjoy the goodness. #Sha'dowVerse)

The Butcher Breakout
Diana2112
Summary:
Sha'dow had seen inside Fordola's head. He saw what made her take up arms against Ala Mhigo. Seriously, trying to stone a CHILD? And now she was in prison for her crimes. It was Yotsuyu all over again, and he was having none of it.

In fact, he thought a nice exploration of Coerthas' snowy drifts on a moonlit night would do her troubled spirits a world of good.

What happens when he finds out they've put an enchanted choking collar on her?

And what happens when SHE sees inside Talori's memories with the Resonance?

For FFXIVPolyamoryWeek2025 "Exploration."

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

(Every Rising, I try and get a gpose of the two of these, since it's only during the Rising that Ascilia's soul is back from the Lifestream. And every Rising, Sha'dow goes before her, asking forgiveness for all the times they've broke their vow, in full Black Mage regalia. #Sha'dowVerse)

Ascilia, a highlander woman with blonde hair, seen from behind. Her hair is done up in a high ponytail and braids. She's wearing a pink croptop with a leather collar, and leather fingerless gloves. Her right hand is on her hip, her left hand is reaching for the side of Sha'dow's face.

Sha'dow, a genderfluid Drow with charcoal skin and white hair parted on the left, is kneeling before her. They're wearing black mage robes, black with muted purple accents, feathers, and so on. Their right eye is burning with a blue flame--the eye Ascilia is reaching out to caress the side of.

They're outdoors, in a stone courtyard area.

The shot is filtered through the colors of the Echo filter, so it's not *quite* normal colors, everything almost a light sepia tone.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Planning to kill Gaius (want to help?!) Kids. Though I'm not great with them The Ocean (NOT. THE. BEACH.) The Desert (funny, I don't like the beach?) HUGE... Tracts of land... And of course, BIFF! Biff is my very favorite thing. I love Biff, and you should too. I will fight you if you don't.🧵)

An image of Fantome, a dark skinned Xaela Au Ra woman with white hair, wearing white sabatons and gauntlets, with white and silver pauldronns, a pink flower behind her horn, wearing metallic blue skirted armor with a red sash over her chest, and a black sash around her waist, petting her pet baby raptor, Biff. A small, quite frankly, ridiculous looking, winged dinosaur looking creature with no arms, white skin and black stripes, and huge, yellow eyes with slitted pupils that take up more of its head than its brain does.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Hiya, I'm Fantome! I'm from the Fourth, and here's some things I hate: The Cold Ishgard Gaius Emet-Selch Ascions in General Pompous, arrogant sons-of-bitches (Hi Nero, love ya-no I don't) Some things I like: Hot places where I can sun Strong women (or weak women. Just... Women) Dragons! 😍⤵️

An image of Fantome, a dark skinned Xaela Au Ra woman with white hair, wearing white sabatons and gauntlets, and metallic blue skirted armor, perched on her blue, gold, and silver spear, the head of which is shaped like a dragon, and stabbed into the ground. She's using it to get higher up, and look out surveying the land she's on. Her right eye is covered with a blue metal eyepatch the same color as her armor. She's on a waterfall, with greenery growing on it, and off in the distance behind her, crystal spires grow from the desert cliffs, while blue skies shine overhead

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

(Just sayin', uh... You've got your pick of the litter here. Das A LOT of bingos, across basically everyone... 😅)

A Bingo card with: ARE YOU RO’S TYPE? That has been filled in. It has a colored legend in the top corner corresponding to the 4 characters:
Purple: Sha'dow/AU Sha'dow
Sky Blue: Karine
Burgundy: Kaelith
Royal Blue: Fantome

Left to right, row by row:

ROW ONE (All 4 Bingo): ‘poly!’, ‘enjoys cooking and baking!’, ‘d… dragons 🤤’, ‘LOVES PDA’, ‘ready to kill fourchenault if he fucks up again’

ROW TWO (All 4 Bingo): ‘likes muscles and big booba’, ‘perpetually horny (not a dealbreaker, this is [mostly] for haurchefant)’, ‘music lover’, ‘friendly with the pixies!’, ‘happy to be given random shit she picks up’

ROW THREE: ‘hates the beach (excluding moonfire’) (Fantome), ‘cat lover’ (All 4), FREE SPACE (All 4), ‘loves her differences [AuDHD] and embraces them’ (All 4), ‘willing to go flying and travelling with her’ (All 4)

ROW FOUR: ‘is comfortable to hug and cuddle’ (All 4), ‘smut lover (ro comm’d her own smut novel once)’ (Sha'dow, Kaelith), ‘faekind or otherwise unusually magical’ (Sha'dow, Kaelith), ‘good with kids and/or cats and/or alphi’s dumbass dragonet’ (All but Fantome), ‘good at fighting in some capacity [but she actually means ‘looks hot fighting’]’ (All 4, both meanings)

ROW FIVE: ‘happy to let her try out new spells on them’ (all 4), ‘fellow performer [music]’ (Sha'dow), ‘silly goose :3’, (All 4) ‘okay with ro’s sex work past’ (All 4), ‘fellow bimbo :D’ (None, though Sha'dow is a slut? XD)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

(Hey guys, remember that time you were Red Tank and had to **TANK ODIN** for 40%, and you died on the last 0.2% like a lil' bitch? Oh, wait, that didn't happen to you? Only me? Yeah... Good times, great oldies. Just #FFXIV things)

A transcript of a shout chat in FFXIV, between myself, (Sha'dow Weaver) and several anonymized other players, over the Odin FATE (I will not be giving timestaps to save everyone's sanity, and will stop typing my full name, referring to myself as "me" after the first time):
Sha'dow (me): where were the tanks!?
P1: Maybe it'll be my chocobo
Me: How did I end up tanking him for the last 40%?!
P2: all dead apparently
P3: tanks aren't real
Me: I'm MCH!
P1: I might have forgot tank stance
Me: Shout out to my healers
P4: Greatest tank ever
P1: fate sync moment
Me: You guys da real ones
P6: It took me a while to realize you were playing red tank there.
Me: Holy hecc that was spicy
P7: that was a bit rough, yeah
P4: nice and easy good work Shadow
Me: I mean, I second DRK (main RDM), so like, I had it, but holy hecc
Me: @.@

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

(Have answered for Sha'dow/AU Sha'dow, Karine, Kaelith, and Fantome. Sha'dow/AU Sha'dow have the same answers, depending on which character you view the sheet as, I answered "Femme" as half, since Sha'dow is Genderfluid, and AU Sha'dow is transfemme. Options, Mir. Options.🥰)

A bingo card titled "Are you Mir's type?"
In the top corner, a legend for the different colors has been given:
Purple: Sha'dow/AU Sha'dow
Sky Blue: Karine
Burgundy: Kaelith
Royal Blue: Fantome
row 1:
Love the color orange (Sha'dow, Kaelith, Fantome)
are fine with not getting comments on your appearance (All 4)
loves PDA (All 4)
polyamourous (All 4)
mmm....dragons (All 4)

Row 2: (All 4 across the board except first and last missing Kaelith from Femme/Moon Coded, and Sha'dow/AU Sha'dow is a half mark) moon-coded, hates ishgard, can eat Zeros' spicy curry no problem, fine with adopting kids, femme

Row 3 (All 4 across the board except "Enjoys Cooking," Missing Kaelith and Fantome): taller than Mir (4'1" or 125cm), loves to cuddle, FREE SPACE, enjoys cooking, hates Hien

Row 4: hates gaius (Fantome), butch (Kaelith), likes proper hotsprings baths (All 4), sun-coded (Kaelith), can be a bit silly at times (All 4)

Row 5: asexual (none), friendly with the pixies (All 4), can get along with xer partners (All 4), likes pet names (All 4), shorter than Mir (All 4)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

(Thank you so much! There's not nearly as many options in FFXI as there are in FFXIV, so finding things that are classy and *WORK* is a little difficult (there's also no dye option). This is another one of her outfits!)

Kaelith, an Elvaan woman with red hair, dressed in a black tabard with brown/gold embroidery and a high necked collar, black pants, pats boots, a black, feathered beret, black gloves, and carrying a cup hilt rapier on her left hip. She's standing in a corridor of Jeuno leading to Ru'Lude Gardens. In the background behind her, you can *JUST* see Colti, an Elvaan Ducal Guard, dressed in white armor with gold trim, silver gauntlets and sabatons.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

(Small correction, Sha'dow and Kaelith are two separate characters of mine. Sha'dow is genderfluid Drow (unless we're talking about AU Sha'dow, in which case she's a trans Duskwight), while Kaelith is a Wildwood Elezen (here's all three, Sha'dow, Kaelith, and AU Sha'dow). That aside, you're right!🥰)

An image of Sha'dow, a genderfluid Drow character with charcoal skin and white shoulder length white hair parted on the left, windswept looking, white goatee and mustache, a blind, scarred right eye, a gray left eye, dressed in their Storm Officer's Outfit--consisting of a black officer's double breasted coat with red trim and paneling with brass buttons and fittings,an earpiece with microphone on their left ear to stay in contact with their crew--more secure than a regular Linkpearl, Kinzie assures them--Visible over their right shoulder is the hilt of a sword. Burning in their right, blind eye is cerulean blue flames, indicating they are holding onto the arcane, ready to cast magic.

An image of Kaelith D'auberac, a darker skinned wildwood Elezen woman. She has long lilac hair that's flowing wildly in the wind, she has blue eyes, a scar running over her left eye. She's dressed in a red, flowing dress, silver armored leggings and top, silver gauntlets, and has silver feathered, angelic wings sprouting from her back. Her hair is in a high ponytail, and she has a circlet set with sapphires. She's in a kneeling pose, as if she's just landed, her right fist on the ground, her head up, and an expression of "I know who I am now" on her face.

An image of Sha'dow, a Duskwight trans woman, sitting in the Mizzenmast Inn. She has charcoal skin and white shoulder length white hair parted on the left, windswept looking, and bi-colored eyes, one milky white that's blind, with a long twisting white scar over it, and her left eye is deep gray. She's wearing purple earrings, and a red and black Storm Officer's Coat, signifying she's with the Maelstrom. She's looking off camera, a serene expression on her face

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

(No. However, KAELITH exists in Vana'diel. She's a red mage there. Elvaan. Heccin' Cutie, too.)

Kaelith, an Elvaan woman with red hair, dressed in a red tunic, black pants, red boots, a red duelist's hat, red gloves, and carrying a spadroon on her left hip. She's standing in front o fa fireplace in San d'Oria.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

was resurrected like a phoenix Sha'dow is married to Lamaty'i, AND Sphene, and partnered with Shale (engaged), having absorbed their 9th shard reflection, Pyrope Sha'dow broke causality after the Echoes of Vana'diel raids to bring Mide back from the time loop she was stuck in⤵️

An image of Pyrope, a copper skinned Eldite man with windswept white hair, mutton chops, and soul patch. He has a blind right eye and a gray left eye. He's dressed in INCREDIBLY formal attire, a purple ornate military jacket, replete with gold trim, cording, and gems, a waistcoat with medals, and a black sash. The cravat around his neck is held in place with a ruby cabochon. He's sat in a chair in a white-walled inn, his hands on his knees, looking into the camera.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There's also AU Sha'dow, where Sha'dow is actually Duskwight Elezen instead of Drow, and is fully trans. In that timeline, things go very, VERY differently than in the main timeline (also she's just... She's SO pretty, isn't she?) More on how this page will work in the next post!⤵️

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is NOT the FULL Polycule of Light™, but it is a fairly good portion of it, only a few partners are missing (Brio kept crashing). Sha'dow is AGGRESSIVELY Polyamorous, as are all of my characters but Aco and Endzela (who are also poly, but less aggressive about it). Where do we go from here?⤵️

A group shot of Sha'dow, a genderfluid Drow, surrounded by (nearly) all of their living partners and lovers (this shot includes OCs and other PCs). The shot is taken in the residential section of Solution 9, a very cyberpunk inspired area, with futuristic buildings and purple neon lighting, but they're in a natural area with trees and greenery.

Nero is glomping Cid from behind, Gaius is kneeling on the ground next to the Ruby Princess and her friend, Mikoto, Shtola, and Yugiri round out the front row, all sat on the ground. Sitting on the actual bench itself is Shale, her back to Dra'lesgosiir's arm, the two of them next to Sha'dow, who has Sphene in his lap. Landra is to his left, And Karine is next to her, with Stephanivien nearby. On the ledge above them is Maxima, Lamaty'i, Mhitra, Fordola (being glomped by Lyse), Talori, Mirri, Sid, and Ameliance. Kaelith is in the air above them, flying.

They're all in various forms of finery, except Gaius, who's in his Shadowhunter attire, and Cid, who's in his engineering attire.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name: Aco Race: The Lost Hrothgar Age: 33 Gender: Male Orientation: Greysexual Aco, much like his wife Endzela, is a Bismarck trained chef, and a Dragoon. Together, they travel Eorzea hunting the absolute finest ingredients to create the best food for their bistro. He hunts, she heals.⤵️

A Hrothgar male with white fur and blonde hair standing in the corner of a well appointed kitchen. He's dressed in light blue chef's gear, and a white apron, his arms crossed, wearing oven mitts. On his hip is a copper frying pan. Behind him is a cooking station, to his left is a large cast iron wok/pot suspended over an open flame, the lid of it leaning against its side, wooden cooking utensils hang behind it. To his right a basket of fresh ingredients sits on the countertop, and behind that more cooking utensils hang, above which a spice rack sits. In front of him is a countertop with a cutting board, a chopped head of lettuce on it, and next to that a mortar and pestle, fresh herbs in it, with tiny baskets and bundles of fresh herbs around it. The walls of the kitchen are being renovated, partially covered in brick, partially just cement. There are a few bottles of spirits in the floor at the edge of his oven, there being no room on the countertop for them.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name: Endzela Race: The Lost Hrothgar Age: 29 Gender: Female Orientation: Demisexual Endzela is a Bismarck trained chef and Scholar who travels Eorzea with her husband, Aco, to find the most delicate and rare ingredients to cook with.⤵️

A Hrothgal, with white fur and purple hair. She has leopard markings, and a blue head diamond. Her eyes are closed, and she's brushing her hair back. She's wearing a lavender skirt, a slightly darker-than-lavender blouse, and a sliver vest. Her ankles are crossed, as she's standing there with a very serene expression, not at all indicative of the zoomies-this is more like a cat grooming.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name: Fantome Do'val Race: Xaela Au Ra (or their 4th Shard equivalent) Age: 38 Gender: Female Orientation: Lesbian Sha'dow's 4th Shard Reflection, Fantome has somehow bled over to Etheirys before 8.0. She enjoys booze, bosoms, and bawdy bar tunes. She thinks Sha'dow should fantasia femme fulltime.

A dark gray skinned Au Ra woman with white hair, wearing scale armor with the midriff cut out, classic fantasy stuff. The armor is bluish gray tinted, with gold highlights. Her horns tilt to the back, and her hair is parted in the middle. The eye you CAN see has an almost lilac limbal ring around it. In her left hand she holds a lance with a dragon shaped head, Gae Bolg Atma, blue, gold, and red. Her right eye is covered by a blue and yellow eye patch. Her horns have purple earrings dangling from them. She's looking straight ahead, and standing in a well lit inn room, at night, judging by the fact no light is coming in from the windows.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name: Kaelith Weaver (née D'auberac, Formerly Venat) Race: Reincarnated Ancient, Wildwood Elezen Age: Indeterminate, 12,000+? Gender: Female Orientation: Pansexual Kaelith is the reincarnation of Venat, reborn after the Mothercrystal was struck down by the Warrior of Light, to be with them again. ⤵️

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name: Karine Weaver (née Estelle) Race: Duskwight Elezen Age: 37 Gender: Female Orientation: Omnisexual (Femme Leaning) Born in Limsa, and took a fiancé who was tempered by Leviathan. She was injured during a fight with Unktehi that resulted in the loss of both her arms. She is fiercely independent⤵️

Karine, a Duskwight Elezen Woman with pale gray skin, and short, pixie cut white hair with black tips, laying on a beech chair on her right side, her head resting on her right hand. Her eyes are closed. She has a twisting scar running over her left eye. Her arms both have transhumeral amputations and have been replaced with fully articulated mechanical limbs, dyed sky blue with royal blue fittings, with a bright blue glow running through them. Her body is scarred from toe to neck, only her left leg and right arm having relatively no scarring. She has a serene smile on her face.

She's dressed in a sky blue and royal blue one piece skirted swimsuit, an arrowhead necklace around her neck, an Eternity Band on her left ring finger, and a black flower tucked behind her left ear. In the blurred out background, there's a red and white pool floaty, some umbrellas, and some trees.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name: Sha'dow Weaver (Filtar'rak Do'val/Filtar Stricyx) Race: Drow Age: 250,000+ Gender: Fluid (masc presenting) Orientation: Pansexual Sha'dow was born on Faerûn in Menzoberranzan in 1342DR. At 42, the Spellplague hit, and due to a Wish-Gone-Wrong to protect their twin, they're now immortal. ⤵️

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

(Tough. Very tough. Probably Unsynrael? She's who I very nearly always buy my dyes from. If not her, then this heccin' cutie, who just walks around Hawker's Alley, then does this adorable lil' stretch.)

Sha'dow, a genderfluid Drow elf, seen from behind. They're wearing the Adamantite Pauldroncoat of Fending Set, in grape purple. It's leather armor, with brass/bronze metal shoulder pauldrons and neck armor. Sha'dow has white, shoulder length hair.

In front of him is an unnamed Roegadyn Woman, wearing a white peasant cut blouse, red and brown leather vest, and black skirt. She's mid stretch, her arms over her head. She has short, green hair, and pale skin.

The two of them are standing in a market street.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

(CW: Scars, injuries Karine enjoys some well earned rest while Sha'dow, Maxima, Cid, Fordola, and Lyse wrangle the children. It's the first time she's ever went out without a glamor prism to hide her scars, and she's found she doesn't mind as much as she thought she would.)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

All I wanted tae do were tae take me lasses oot fer a day at th' Moonfire Faire. It rained. It donae rain, but it pours, they say. An' them crazy lasses, 'ey'd rather kill th' local fauna 'an 'ave a swim, like. Absolute madlasses, Fordola an' Lyse. Love 'em fierce, so I do.

An image of a giant red crab, the pincers much larger than a man or woman, being attacked by two highlander women, Lyse punching and kicking in a golden explosion, her long blonde hair really all you can see from the heat generated by the force of her kick, Fordola leaping higher into the air and generating a large blue-white "X" with her gunblade (Terminus Est), all you can see really her white leggings from the swimsuit she's wearing because of the smoke generated by the blast.

In the image foreground foreground, Sha'dow, a genderfluid Drow dressed in purple and brass swimtrunks and a swimshirt, stands looking on, their back to the camera, shrugging dejectedly, as if to say "I just wanted tae take me lovelies oot fer a date tae th' Moonfire Faire, an' rather'n enjoy th' festivities, 'ey'd prefer tae murderize th' local fauna."

A different angle of the same image from before, showing Lyse in the foreground this time, an ass-kicking expression on her face as she slams into the crab with the force of a miniature nuclear bomb. She's wearing A black halter style bikini top, with a skirt over her bikini bottoms, and black tights (it's a very nice outfit). Above her, Fordola is lunging at the crab, wearing the same swimsuit in chocolate brown. You can **just** make out the glimmer of her Eternity Band through the chaos of the explosions. From this view, you can see Sha'dow's front, that same "Why? Just... Just WHY?!" set to their shoulders.

The sparks from Fordola and Lyse's explosions look like stars and galaxies. It's truly a lovely shot.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

(It's been rare the two of them have had a moment to be alone since they got married, but the Moonfire Faire provided the perfect opportunity for Sha'dow to whisk Shtola off for an afternoon of carefree fun and whimsy. After the two of them spent the day in the ocean, they retired to the shade.)

Sha'dow, a genderfluid Drow with charcoal skin, and silver-white hair, parted on the left. They're dressed in purple and brass colored swimshirt and trunks, the shirt opened, exposing their very scarred up chest and abdomen. Their left hand has an Eternity Band on it, and is covering Y'shtola Rhul's.

Shtola is a female Miqo'te with very light blonde, almost white hair cut in a short bob. She's wearing the exact same top as Sha'dow, and a matching purple bikini. She's asleep, laying on her side, curled up facing him. They're both on a very large beach lounge chair with blue and white stripes, in the shade, on a wooden raised platform in the ocean off Costa del Sol.

Sha'dow, in the foreground, is blurry, while the focus is on Shtola, and their joined hands.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

(Something like this. Probably... Ish. I'm not a healer, nor a buttpuncher.)

A chart labeled "How skilled is your WoL or OC with each Job's Main Hand?"
Each job is listed rather than by name, by it's job's symbol from FFXIV, from novice to expert:
PLD: Expert
WAR: Half way
GNB: About a third
DRK: Expert
WHM: Nothing in the bar at all
SCH: About 3/4
AST: Nothing
SGE: Nothing
MNK: Nothing
DRG: Expert
NIN: Expert
SAM: Epert
RPR: Maybe a tenth?
VPR, BRD, MCH, DNC, BLM, SMN, RDM: Expert
PCT: Nothing
BLU: Expert

Template by @rouxmf.bsky.social

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

(Well. That's not nothin' I'd say. Feel free to see if Gris is Sha'dow's type (or not) from one I did ages ago (mine's a bit (deliberately) silly, tbh, but Sha'dow is a very silly individual--don't mind the pronouns, this was from before they were they/them))

A bingo card with:
art by
@knightwanderlust.bsky.social

Are you Griselda's type?

Squeezable

Polyamorous or otherwise
nonmonogamous

Knows different languages or enjoys when they speak foreign languages

Well Spoken

Knows when to tease/ how to please

Moon Coded

Passionate

Early Riser

Accepting of affection, physical affirmation, pet names, etc.

Sun Coded

Gentle
(when it counts)

Age/Experience
Gap (63)

FREE
SPACE

Independent or otherwise self sufficient

Size
Difference
(7'3")

Interested in their roots & culture

Confident in at least one thing

Interest(s) in flora &/or fauna

(Multiple) Niche Interest(s)

Caring especially in a unique way

Can teach/ Can learn

Sexually voracious

Easily convinced

Educated or in pursuit of higher learning

Special Love Language

template by @d3vilbabi3

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The only unmarked spaces are "Early Riser," "Sun Coded," "Size Difference (7'3")," "Easily Convinced," and "Special Love Language." Also, under "Age/Experience Gap (63)," Sha'dow's Age has been listed (250,000). Due to the layout of spaces marked with Sha'dow's FC emblem (a silver Hexagon with a purple stripe down the middle and a gold oak leaf), Sha'dow has made bingo six ways, two horizontal, three vertical, and one diagonal.

A "Are You [Character's] Type? Bingo Card for Sha'dow
The spaces are, row by row:
Top Row:
White or blonde hair
Enjoys outdoor activities
Enjoys nights in by the fire/reading
Enjoys homecooked meals
Doesn't mind lots of scars... I mean... A LOT of scars
Second row:
Do I contradict myself? Very well! I contradict myself! I am large, I contain multitudes!
(all caps, bold, underlined) Enthusiastic consent
Takes open communication seriously
100% Okay with polyamory (no cowboys or cowgirls)
Isn't afraid of being woke up by screams
Third row:
Independence. Don't want you defining yourself by "us"
Pineapple on Pizza: No?
Free Space with the FC Emblem, a gold maple leaf on a silver hex with a purple stripe down the middle
Can you handle yourself in a fight? You won't need to, but CAN you?
Doesn't mind a few skeletons in the closet
Fourth Row:
Gaius had some good points, actually
When he says run, you run, hide you hide, so on
(Bold, italic, underlined, all caps) Tacos?
Triple triad is a nice way to unwind (No it isn't, NO IT ISN'T!)
Zenos can get WELL AND TRULY BENT
Fifth Row:
Pineapple on Pizza: Yes?
Wait, some of these questions are designed to NOT get bingo!
Enjoys a proper mixed drink or two
Monetarists: Their heads belong on pikes
Emet-Selch is an Omnicidal monster

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

(I may try my hand one day, I just have to try and clear my head of all the versions I've seen basically. Pretty sure I'll be giving Alisaie Karine's hair and some of her style choices if/when I do, since the whole "adoptive mother" thing (plus Karine is also RDM!))

Karine, a beautiful Duskwight Elezen woman sat on the edge of a loft. She has gray skin, white hair cut in pixie style with black highlights on the tips, a black orchid tucked behind her left ear, and black lipstick. Her left eye is blind, her right eye violet. She's wearing a blue silk dress with a floral print going up the right side, and white silk pants with blue floral and heart embroidery. She has her legs crossed, and a "Come-hither" look on her face. Behind her to her left is a cherry blossom tree, and behind her to her right is a war banner hanging on her wall. The lighting is warm pinkish red, the framing is a slight Dutch angle, giving the vibe that while it's "Come-hither," the viewer might be biting off more than they can chew.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

(You can ask @silverhorn.moe, I evangelize the good word of the ADAMANTITE PAULDRONCOAT OF FENDING SET (dyed in grape purple, though it looks good in other colors as well)! It is basically all Sha'dow ever wears)

An Image of Sha'dow, a Genderfluid Drow with white, shoulder length hair parted on the left and a white mustache and goatee, a gray left eye, and blind right eye with a white tattoo looking scar over it, dressed in purple leather armor with gold and brass trim. The armor has a long, leather outer skirt, and a shorter, but still knee length inner skirt. The shoulder pauldrons are made of brass. They're holding a black bladed rapier with a gold and white hilt in both hands, grip in their right hand, blade resting in their left, while a pinkish/purple focus with two blue beads floats nearby. Specifically, their armor is the Adamantite Pauldroncoat of Fending set, the rapier is the Sophic Rapier.

They're standing in an open air circular bar area with marble columns and green tile, with a cobblestone floor. There's bottles and barrels in the area, and it's nighttime.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

(WOOHOO let's band that wagon, folks! #FFXIV #Screenshot #FFXIVScreenshot #OC #WoLQotD #WoLQuestion What does your WoL/OC think of MY WoL/OC? Please use #AltText if you use any pictures, tag appropriately)

An image of a simply drawn blushing person with round hands and no hair surrounded by hearts with a thought bubble that says "What your OC thinks of my OC" in a pinkish white gradient

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

(It's funny cause I have the buff gal (Kaelith) and then I have the femme gal (Karine). I just don't post many pics of either. I need to do more, I just suck with the gpose. And since I don't really use many plogon crime tools... Plus Elezen it's kinda hard to tell.)

An image of Lady Kaelith D'auberac in full plate armor, a bastard sword held over her right shoulder, her left hand pointing at the camera. She's standing in the middle of a busy market place in Ul'dah, the stalls are in the background, yellow and green awnings. She's in silver plate with gold trim, her lilac hair long and let down, and she's wearing sunglasses.

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

(How it Started vs How it's Going. Alternatively, Ten Years Ago vs Today. I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM I CAN QUIT ANY TIME I WANT!)

A Boss BCB-60 Pedalboard with a handful of pedals on it:
A Boss TR-2 Tremolo, an Ibanez SC10 Super Chorus, a Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal, a Boss MZ-2 Digital Metalizer, and an Akai Professional Custom Shop Phase Shifter. They're all connected with "shoelace" cables in red, green, or yellow.

The same pedal board, now loaded with way, WAY more pedals:
Bottom Row:
Behringer:
UO300 Ultra Octaver
SF300 Super Fuzz
Ibanez FZ5 60's Fuzz
Boss:
TR-2 Tremolo
HM-2 Heavy Metal
MZ-2 Digital Metalizer
VSN Twin Looper
Akai Professional Custom Shop Phase Shifter
Middle Row:
Stax Chorus
VSN Slow Hand
Clefly Flanger
Amuzik DAP-3 Multi-Effect Engine
Joyo Aquarius
Amuzak Compressor
Joyo Tauren
Top Row:
Stax:
Power Brick
Power Tuner
Caline Power CP-04
Danelectro Cool Cat Chorus
(The Ibanez SC10 is not pictured because my dad currently has it out on loan)

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Sha'dow, Drow in Eorzea, Pls Use Alt Text! 7.5 Spoilers! @stormcaptweaver.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

(Just realized I probably should have included the person themselves! Behold the 12pt Times New Roman Warrior of Light!)

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