I'd like an expansion where we can connect with the Elementals more. As a White Mage at least it be interesting for me.

The Lost City of Amdapor is still one of the coolest dungeons from the early days of ARR. I wouldn’t mind the lost city becoming its own explorable area at some point after the spores and fungus have been purified

Always glad to see more Shroud lore covered. There’s much too little compared to the other main cities! One day I hope to have a proper in game delve into the Elementals, the Padjal, and Gelmorra.

There's one bit of speculation that the Amdaporians were trying to summon or create Sin Eater like beings to counter Mhach and their voidsent, mostly because of certain enemies in the Hard version of the dungeon. Which from a tactical veiw kinda makes sense, but im not sure if the timing adds up.

It's weird, we've met just about every legendary figure in the known cosmology, except the Elementals.

my Main, the one who in my head cannon is the WoL, is actually "from" Gridania (she's adopted, why else would a Seeker live in the Black Shroud), so she grew up around the Elementals, and thus ... loosely understood what the Elementals where about. I say loosely cause she never put much thought into it past, 'don't piss them off, got it', and her disinterest in magics in the time before setting off to see the world kept her even further away from understanding them any deeper. Naturally in my head cannon, she also went to clear out Amdapor. both times. Which was the first time she had seen first hand just what the Elementals had been protecting every one from. it's one thing to hear about what some one is doing, it's another to see it first hand, due to having to tend to some of those duty's your self, and she would see no, major issue with consigning the ruins back to the forest, she would however stress the importance trying to collect and preserve some of that knowledge in those ruins to the Elder Seed Seer (Amdapor is a lvl 50 dungeon, so Operation Archon would have already successfully concluded by this time, thus she would have had some weight to her words at this point) as my WoL might have been the dumbest one in the room when she signed on with the Scions, she least picked up on the importance of history and the lessons it can teach thus the importance of maintaining such knowledge.(these days, she's still technically, the dumbest one in the room. But that's only cause Lyse isn't around anymore, more over, unlike Lyse, she can mostly keep up with whats being said and contribute. Kinda ...)

Bro really hit us with 'And everything changed when the Fire nation attacked'

So good to go back to know what is what after years of playing. I forget some lore at times.

Ah, this place... I always liked the way it looked, but whew did I whipe a lot here, on multiple ocasions. Interested to learn more about it.

To answer the final question you posed - if the ruins and their knowledge was mine to decide the fate of? Study everything - not just the magic and the defences, but their way of life. What did the Ancient Amdapori eat? What fabrics did they wear? What stories did they tell each other, what toys did they make their children? They were more than just mages, after all - they were a people, and they once lived. Also, let's be realistic, the magic. If the aether of the Lost City can be purified and restored, that's valuable knowledge we could apply to other places where the seventh calamity has caused ruination to try and ease the issues there, not to mention further afield locations such as the First and possibly the Thirteenth once more stable inter-shard travel is able to establish itself. It would have to be slow, careful work both to ensure it's done thoroughly and to ensure the Elementals are able to trust it can be done properly and without people doing anything stupid with the results, but I believe it's possible. Also, dismantle the crap out of the defences instead of just leaving it to nature. Allag left their old shit just lying around everywhere and it's caused NO END of problems. We don't need more of that!

Yeahhhh gotta side with the elementals on this one. They're right to be conservative with who has access to such potent magic. And I mean, who better to make the call on who can access magic with such a deep tie to nature, than beings who are intrinsically linked to it?

Personally, I would purge the ruins of the city of any dangerous elements and have it be a restored as a place for settlement, as both another key location for Gridania to hold as a strategic position and to help take in more people who want to be residents. Of course this is entirely dépendant on whether or not it can be reclaimed entirely and fixed.

I’d use and learn from the ruins myself. Amdapor was that shining city on a hill for a reason, and it isn’t as though they asked Mhach to start the war.

IDK if you address this topic before, like Mhach relies upon voidsent powers, could it be that Amdapor golems was some manner of sineaters precursors?

I really want more elemental/shroud lore in the game. alas thoughts on the statues being the same models as the sin eaters?

This dungeon really looks like it was inspired by Nausicaä

Woo another Synodic Scribe video! Ive been looking forward to this one as war of the magi is my favorite lore from ffxiv. Before i watch though, i just thought earlier today of a question i wanted to ask you next time you uploaded a video friend! I was under the impression that dynamis was an explanation for limit breaks when i first learned of it but youve mentioned several times that it isnt. If thats the case though, during Endsinger, why does she say "Dynamis!? No Matter." After you use a tank LB3 to survive her first party wipe mechanic?

But I thought the elementals are made of dynamis, being the feelings and life of the Twelveswood. It's for this reason the we cannot see them. >:O Joking, scribe. Good video as always!

What I would do with Amdapor, once safe, would be to seal it off and restrict access to trusted archaeological and scholarly teams only, to learn and preserve.

What i wonder. One white mage stone is in this big tree in the dark forest, or? At the end of the gridania start story are the bird people attacking this tree, to take the crystall inside of the tree. Did they really wanted the white mage stone? Or was there other crystall?^^

Running an FF14 DnD campaign is SO much easier with lore videos like this ;)

we ever got a reason why the amdapori golems looked like sineaters of the first?

Blood lily needs blood.

Explain the undead white mages and black mages in the city itself

I don't know what I would do with the ruins. I would just allow the Forest to reclaim it for the simple fact I hated going through that place plus after going through there it made me realize that shadowbringers is a completely lazy expansion since literally most of the enemies that we faced it there are literally carbon-copy enemies that we have to face in shadowbringers

Elementals really just sat back, watched the war brewing and then had the gall to be upset at everyone else while they did nothing to stop it. I hope we get to beat them down the line.

the black-and-white Mages in the city are very bad at being black and white Mage the white Mages don't heal their allies while the black mage's don't spend their abilities and switch from fire to ice all they do is melee you and do 1 spell that's it no wonder why that War lasted for so long and I am confused of black and white magic causing the flood of water should it been caused by something watery instead of black and white magic

I'm of the opinion that "consigning the ruins to nature" is highly irresponsible. Motivated individuals could still very well access the buildings buried beneath the trees and dirt and potentially find valuable information. Obviously the best answer would have been to ACTIVELY DESTROY the ruins, secure all found knowledge, and lock the dangerous stuff away. Just going "meehhhh not my problem, let nature keep it" is an abandonment of responsibility and duty.

I would destroy the elemental spirit. I'm a 1.0 player and I remember how the Elementals treated people who stepped on a blade of grass on accident. Burn the forest down