The Story So Far

As Hydaelyn and Zodiark's epic tale approaches its final chapter, we look back at events that have shaped the star, from new beginnings in A Realm Reborn through to the more recent developments of Shadowbringers.

※ SPOILER WARNING!: This page contains story spoilers up to and including Patch 5.55.

A Realm Reborn

PATCH 2.0

You who would bring the light of hope to Hydaelyn...
You who would heed the whisperings of the Crystal and take up the mantle of "adventurer."

The land has but recently emerged from an age of decline—the Seventh Umbral Era—and the skies remain dark. On the eastern border, the Garlean Empire masses its troops for invasion, while the beastmen summon their deities, the otherworldly primals.

A hero joins the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, and embarks upon a quest to deliver the realm of Eorzea from an eternity of Darkness.

Heavensward

PATCH 3.0

Owing to schemes in the shadows of Ul'dah, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn have been scattered, and the Warrior of Light has been forced to flee north.

Though granted shelter by Lord Haurchefant, our heroes must press on to Ishgard─a nation both secluded and reclusive, the entire region locked in a never-ending struggle with dragons.

Only through the most courageous of deeds is this ceaseless war ended, and peace allowed to reign once more.

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Stormblood

PATCH 4.0

Having brought an end to the thousand-year conflict between dragon and man in the north, the Warrior of Light and his comrades prepare to liberate Ala Mhigo, a land conquered by the Garlean Empire twenty years ago. Meanwhile, in the Far East, the freedom fighters of the fallen nation of Doma struggle to rekindle the fires of hope in their countrymen.

Eorzea's champion rises, leading Doma's rebels in a bid to overthrow their subjugators, before turning to Ala Mhigo and reclaiming the region from the iron grip of Zenos yae Galvus.

Shadowbringers

PATCH 5.0

The realm is left to struggle without its saviors, for they have been beckoned beyond time and space─to the world of the First. Here on Norvrandt, Light ushers all into oblivion, and our heroes must contend with a new calamity in a realm that is like, but unlike, their own. Only when the Warrior of Light becomes the Warrior of Darkness do they restore night to the blinding sky, and begin to find what once was lost.

After a long and arduous struggle, the Scions return to the Source, only to find their entire world under threat from the Ascian Fandaniel and his Telophoroi minions. What will the dawn bring─death or salvation?

Endwalker brings the tale of Hydaelyn and Zodiark to a conclusion eons in the making. Uncover truths long concealed as you embark upon an epic quest to deliver the world from encroaching doom.

Endwalker

PATCH 6.0

Yet shadowed by their triumph in the First, the Warrior of Light and Scions of the Seventh Dawn are home at last. An even greater calamity than refulgent oblivion has been building in their absence, however─a second advent of the Final Days. Should all despair, the myriad conflicts that now ravage the land cannot but foretoken an end to life in the Source.

Our tale─of a star, and of its souls─will see the Warrior of Light sail north to Sharlayan and east to Thavnair, forge a path to the heart of the Garlean Empire, and ascend to the heavens to set foot upon the very moon itself. FINAL FANTASY XIV's first grand saga approaches its highly anticipated conclusion!