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@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Oct 4, 2026, 12:20 AM

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#Ystride and #Euphemia are pretty much the only two that are average height; everyone else is much taller than average.

(Context: #Mirita = Miqo'te, #Khorijin & #Khoride = Au Ra, #Rija = Viera, Ystride = Elezen, Euphemia = Highlander*, #Zardaar = Draenei, #Anaya = Night Elf.)

A height chart displaying multiple women standing side-by-side with their heights listed out. Mirita is 6'1"/185.4 cm, Khorijin and Khoride are 6'2"/188 cm, Rija is 7'3"/221 cm, Ystride is 6'6"/198.1 cm, Euphemia is 6'4"/193 cm, Helena is 7'8"/233.7cm, Zardaar is 7'4"/223.5 cm, and Anaya is 7'10.5"/240 cm.

• Mirita is 6 fulm 1 ilm/186 cm. She doesn't think a lot about how tall she is even though she's aware that she's much taller than many Miqo'te; she's mostly just Used To It at this point.
• Khorijin and Khoride are 6 fulm 2 ilm/190 cm. Much like Mirita, Khorijin does not think very much about it, whilst Khoride revels in it and enjoys it, mostly for intimidation but also for seduction.
• Rija is 7 fulm 3 ilm/223 cm. She is very proud of her height as well, and has gotten used to fielding Many Questions about it. Given that many other Viera in her family are at least her height or will grow that tall, she doesn't think anything of it.
• Ystride is 6 fulm 6 ilm/200 cm. They’re happy with it mostly because it means she’s not that much different from any other Elezen at a glance. It also makes a funny because this means that they're Khori and Ride's big little sister.
• Euphemia is 6 fulm 4 ilm/193 cm. She is aware it is a perfectly Highlandery height to be, and is not worried about it.
• Helena is 7 fulm 8 ilm/234 cm. She used to be self-conscious about it when she was younger, thinking it might not have been queenly, but grew into it over time and now regards it rather neutrally most of the time.
• Zardaar is 7 fulm 4 ilm/223.5 cm. She was more uncomfortable with it pre-transition, but post-transition and adjusting to the changes in her body shape, she’s fine with it and it’s probably one of the few things she’s subtly rather proud of, though she’s a little shy about actively flaunting it.
• Anaya is 7 fulm 10.5 ilm/240 cm. Much like Rija, she takes a lot of pride in her height, and did even before transitioning, though she needed a bit of extra time to adapt her training to being stealthy to compensate for it. Now, she uses it as a distraction and seduction tactic when and where it’s appropriate.

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Oct 1, 2026, 9:23 PM

I was going to update my old FFXIV Write thread with the rest of my entries, but given that I fell off of posting them while written, I'll just provide this instead:

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Everything's gathered here. Read and enjoy!

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 28, 2026, 6:46 PM

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The Ladies love changing their hair frequently, enough so that if I tried to actually take photos of them all or describe every single one, I'd be here all day. If you look through #LadiesOfLightPhotos on its own you can see a bunch of different examples.

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 26, 2026, 3:25 AM

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Arguably it's Berude's fault that Khorijin had to face a canon antagonist-turned-sister: #Khoride, Khorijin's Fray, was already bubbling inside of Khorijin before DRK started, butt gained some of her more unsavory character traits from Khorijin's impression of Berude. (end)

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 26, 2026, 3:25 AM

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So, justified? No. Understandable? Yes. Berude mellows out some after Stormblood, but she & Khorijin did not get along well for most of Khorijin's life, and that only started to change after she was forced to recognize that Khorijin had gained the strength to become khagan. >>

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 26, 2026, 3:25 AM

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Khorijin being almost exactly like their mother and thus "embarrassing" Berude and the family further caused Berude to pick on Khorijin out of some twisted idea of making her tougher or less like Gorbeljin, to no avail; it just gave them bad blood. >>

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 26, 2026, 3:25 AM

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Some of it is misplaced trauma from other Borlaaqi children picking up on their parents' dislike of Gorbeljin, Khorijin and Berude's mother, and bullying Berude when she was a child; as a result, she became prickly and highly sensitive about family pride. >>

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 26, 2026, 3:25 AM

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#Khorijin has an older sister, Berude. She is definitely more "minor antagonist" coded than "villain" coded, but she is Khorijin's arrogant, haughty asshole of an oldest sister who bullied Khorijin for being withdrawn and being a "poor warrior", making their family look bad. >>

An Au Ra woman with spiky hair and a haughty, cold expression. She is frowning at the camera spitefully.

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 24, 2026, 9:44 PM

#Ystride (she/they) is selectively mute; it was way worse when they first re-emerged from Khorijin just before Endwalker. All the Ladies picked up sign language to help her communicate, and nowadays she mostly signs when super flustered, overwhelmed, or with their mute partner.

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A Black nonbinary Elezen in a suit, with arms folded and a slight smile.

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 24, 2026, 5:42 PM

L-R:
Gorbeljin (mid-50s)
Vesna (mid-60s)
Rena (early 90s)
Ysera (early 140s)
Petra (~200)

#Khorijin, #Khoride, #Ystride: Gorbeljin's children.
#Helena: Vesna's daughter.
#Rija: Rena's daughter, Ysera's granddaughter, Petra's great-granddaughter.

Viera cheat a little, lol.

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A middle-aged Au Ra woman with a few facial wrinkles and a serious expression.

A middle aged Hrothgar woman with a hand on her hip, looking off to one side.

Three Viera woman standing side-by-side. All three look at least somewhat related, though one is clearly older than the other two.

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 24, 2026, 4:28 PM

#Euphemia split into three different shards on the Source, & her physical traits are exclusive to the Ladies:

#Mirita: skin color, main hair color (black), facepaint color and style
#Khorijin: eye color
#Rija: highlight hair color (pink)

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@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 20, 2026, 7:25 PM

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#Mirita and #Khorijin both got buffer over the course of the main story; everyone else has largely stayed the same build-wise.

However, #Euphemia and #Rija both got full-body tattoos after EW but before DT; you can see Euphie's before/after below.

A Highlander woman standing and looking forward with a smile, while a Miqo'te and an Au Ra watch her from afar.

A Highlander woman standing and looking forward with a smile, posing for the camera. She has extensive full-body tattoos on her arms and legs.

A Rava Viera standing in front of a tree. She has detailed black tattoos on her arms, legs, and bust.

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 18, 2026, 6:05 PM

A rare one where I don't talk about how each Lady feels individually. This excludes Helena and Zardaar for the most part, because Helena has only met Halmarut and Zardaar has yet to meet Halmarut, I think.

#LadiesOfLightLore

Generally speaking, Elidibus gets the most sympathy, sort of, in the sense that he's been so subsumed by his duty that it's hard for any of the Ladies who have met him to hate him.
Emet-Selch gets the least sympathy because everyone knows and can tell that he *knew* what he was doing was wrong but actively suppressed his conscience to do it.
Lahabrea also gets less sympathy mostly because the Ladies look at him as being roughly in the same position as Emet-Selch, even as Pandaemonium does make clear that some of the worst impulses he has to deal with aren't entirely of his own making.

No one likes Fandaniel, and even understanding where his grievances come from they find him despicable.
On principle, no one really wants to trust Halmarut.
Former Ascians are no problem if they actively Stop Scheming and give up on Ascian-like goals.

Euphemia is where this gets most complicated, as Azem-who-was.
Hades was her close friend, but she unequivocally thinks that he was wrong, even though she understands his grief. Nothing justifies what he's done. She wasn't nearly as close to Lahabrea or Elidibus, but does have at least more sympathy for them, having a better understanding of just what happened to them both even as she disapproves of their decision.

The Sundered Ascians...she holds the same position as the other Ladies, in that she wishes they'd chosen differently. Fandaniel in particular she has a hard time feeling deep sympathy for because she intrinsically believes that people should search for their own answers, and whatever Hermes' intentions, he essentially threw his children at his existential crisis because he didn't want to face it himself.
Though she wants to know more of Halmarut's intentions, Euphemia prinicipally distrusts the idea of hard people making hard choices and doesn't like how Halmarut is thinking of dealing with the Solstice.
Former Ascians, though? Completely chill with as long as they're actively being Better.
She'd dote on Gaia like a granddaughter, for example.

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 17, 2026, 2:49 AM

Day 16: Steel

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Lessons learned by battle.

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@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 17, 2026, 2:49 AM

Day 15: Prodigy

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One's own interests come alight.

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@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 17, 2026, 2:49 AM

Day 14: Against the Grain

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 17, 2026, 2:49 AM

Day 13: Free Day 2 (Learning)

A sequel to Day 4.
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A slow influx of words. (Thank @selnyam.bsky.social for the featured pre-yuri.)

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@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 17, 2026, 2:49 AM

Day 12: Fusion

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The complications of facing someone who is possibly all of you.
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@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 16, 2026, 7:18 PM

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I will probably, eventually, examine the Khorijin, Khoride, Ystride/Kuyuk connection more deeply at some point. Maybe the same for Rija and Agnar, but I've noticed that (maybe because of my own personal circumstances) that dads don't figure a lot into the Ladies' lives.

- Mirita never met M'jalla, but also loves and respects him as much as she does her mother M'toko since she got to see both of them in an Echo vision and got a concrete sense of how much he loved her.

- Khorijin's other parent Kuyuk (Kuyuk would reject the term "dad" not so much because they don't think of themselves as parent material, but because they're not a dude) knows that Khorijin exists, but doesn't have any relationship with Khorijin either.
Gorbeljin didn't hide Kuyuk's existence from Khorijin or Berude (who is the only other one of Gorbeljin's first four daughters that shares Kuyuk as a parent), but Khorijin never had a particular interest in learning more about Kuyuk.
As she *currently* is, Khorijin would probably get along well with them all told.

- Rija similarly doesn't know Agnar very well; he knows she exists, he knows she exists, but he does a lot of more traditional Wood Warding and they've spoken maybe a handful of times. They don't dislike each other but things would be awkward at first.

- Khoride and Ystride's other parent would be Kuyuk, so see Khorijin's section for the majority of how that goes.

- Euphemia had a pretty good, normal bond with Andronikos and remembers him fondly; much like Euphemia's mother Sophia, he passed on before Euphemia came of age, so she has enough memories of him to have an idea of who he was but never got to know him as his adult child.

- Helena gets along just fine with Sambor; he's a goofy, light-hearted sort of guy, not at all serious like Helena or Vesna, but Helena has never had any real problems with him and enjoys his jokes.

- Zardaar deeply respected Kaanvil, and loved him deeply; he was supportive of her when she expressed a desire to transition, and supported her desire to help continue the work of cleaning up the remnants of the Iron Horde. Unfortunately, Yrel's Lightbound fanaticism swept him up due to his own unresolved trauma over the events of Warlord of Draenor, which Zardaar herself didn't appreciate and which turned their relationship unpleasant.
Now, stranded in Eorzea, she doesn't think about him if she can help it.

@theladiesoflight.blacksky.app Sep 14, 2026, 7:57 PM

Also, because I forgot to retake some of the yap pictures when I added these names: Mirita's bio-mom is named M'toko, and Rija's is Rena.

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