I've been thinking a lot about this since it was announced that we'll be diving into their story for the 24-man raids and Emet-Selch gives us that nice little speech about the things we don't know about our own world yet. The Twelve have honestly been something that have fascinated me in this game, tbh, because we get constant mentions, but have probably explored the religion of every beast tribe in Eorzea with more depth than we have the religion of the playable races.
Some broad things about them:
- They're called The Twelve, but there had to have originally been thirteen, because Nald'Thal is two deities combined into one.
- They've been around since before the wandering tribes (and oddly enough, had moogles for servants).
- They ruled all of the lands of the Source until giving it to the wandering tribes after being impressed by their "resourcefulness and resilience."
- There are six elements, with two of the twelve per, one astral and one umbral.
- Louisoix has called upon them for help before using the power of Tsupsimati, but it's unknown if this aid was provided by the Twelve or primals of the Twelve.
- During ARR, Gaius compares the Twelve to primals and that they could be summoned the same way, but HW seems to distinguish that they are not primals, but primals in their image could be summoned.
- Urianger posited that Azeyma of the Twelve and Azim of the Steppe are likely related to Azem.
- There is nothing about them in Qitana Ravel on the First, nor any stories about them in that reflection, so it stands to reason that they came about after the Sundering.
- They are known to have a variety of relationships, rivalries, and family ties, similar to the Greek gods.
I'm sure there's a bit more information, but that seems to be the big stuff to me.
We know that when Venat became Hydaelyn, she had the help of 12 followers, and that Azem refused to come to the summoning. This is all shown in the cutscene following Anamnesis Anyder. I think this gives us a pretty good who; the Twelve (or at least all of them except Azem, which is still 12 people thanks to Nald and Thal) are going to have been those ancients.
I also think that there's some pretty good indicators that The Twelve are going to be treated like a counterpart to the Ascians, and the reason why is right in the name: The XII.
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
24/01/22
Word of the day shall now be classified under the Vocab. flair or the post shall be deleted. Yes a flair specific would have been useful, but no that can't happen I’m afraid. No worries
Ἀχαιοί, οἱ (OP: What is in a name? Somebody once told me that when you hand over your own name to somebody, it is similar togiving away a piece of your soul. Like the initial creator of the self-help genre, Dale Carnegie says: a person’s name is the sweetest word in any language. What about a collective name, then? Being a Greek is a late term for those in Ancient Greece. Hellenic is the catch-all terms for the Odyssean formula (1.344):
- καθ᾽ Ἑλλάδα καὶ μέσον Ἄργος
- from Hellas to mid-Argos
This was interpreted as ‘throughout the whole of Greece’ by Martin West. Hesiod uses Ἑλλάς, and Herodotus adds additional islands into the mix of what is Hellenic. Greece and Greek, then, are derived - somewhat ironically - from the Latin Graecia and Graecus which are derived from the Greek: Γραικός. Confused as to why the Greeks couldn't have just remained the Hellenes? Me, too. But I wanted to add a little background before we discuss the word of the day in context. Homer, in the Iliad, seems to use three terms interchangeably when referring to a Graecus. We have the Ἀχαιοί (Achaeans), the Δαναοί (Danaans), and we have the Ἀργεῖοι (Argives). Here is the amount of times each term is mentioned in the text:
- Achaeans - 598
- Danaans - 138
- Argives - 182
- (And interestingly) Ἕλληνες (Hellenes) - 1 (hapax legomenon)
All of the aforementioned terms were used synonymously to denote a common Greek civilizational identity, claims Nagy, 2014. Synonymously, perhaps, analogous, yes, treated with no predisposition of bias, I think not. The opening of the Iliad, Chryses, priest of Apollo, addresses the counsel:
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...καὶ λίσσετο πάντας Ἀχαιούς Ἀτρεΐδα δὲ μάλιστα δύω, κοσμήτορε λαῶν:
Ἀτρεΐδαι τε καὶ ἄλλοι ἐϋκνήμιδες Ἀχαιοί -
...and he kept entreating all the Achaeans,
but especially the two sons of Atreus, marshalers of troops,
‘Sons of Atreus and you other well-grieved Achaeans’
The priest believes that all of the Greeks are Achaeans and includes the sons of Atreus among them. And yet the very first use of another of the three terms, the Danaans, occurs at 1.42 in Chryses’ prayer to Apollo in a polarising manner:
- ...τὸ δέ μοι κρήηνον ἐέλδωρ: τίσειαν Δαναοὶ *ἐμὰ
It really does, I swear!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
As a Persian myself, that knows alot of history i have wondered why there aren’t really any movies about the history of Persia. Could be of “Cyrus the great”, Persian mythology, Achaemenid Empire and so on. Many movies portray Persia as the barbaric bad guys, “300” specifically. Anyone know any movie where the Persians aren’t the “bad guys”? And where the movie is about Persia?
Edit: any documentary recommendation would be good too!💥
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
