Something about the way it’s looking right into the camera is very telling 🤣

Why do I feel like the chocobo is the level-headed one 😅

IT’S THE BOY

Like my first attempt using the Fanbyte model viewer wasn't even CLOSE - I look at this Azem and this? This was my boy

I could never use a Fantasia on Thalcon but by the Twelve he was so handsome as Azem (and I am really tempted to make him as an alt just to /gpose in Elpis)

This is Thalcon's "default" appearance, so I think they look pretty close!

Yeah, that and the ruins to the east were my last two areas

I was having that experience not long ago - best of luck!

I suppose it’s possible that the Echo might reveal the truth to Thalcon one day, but I imagine it would have to be triggered by a very specific scenario, and I kind of think it’s better for Thalcon to not know everything about his past

One last thought - Culinarian and Weaver are two jobs I tend to enjoy and associate with Thalcon as they are some of the first ones I focused on - so it’s really fitting that those are skills his parents had 🥹

I imagine if Thalcon found out of his Malaguld origins, he would be able to find out everything - but we’ll have to see if the story ever brings us back to the Steppe and in contact with the Malaguld!

I don’t know if Thalcon will ever find out about his true origins as Azeem Malaguld bin Pashe, the son of Rashdeen and Erdene - and that’s okay! But one thing is for sure, and that’s the way Thalcon immediately felt at home in both the Azim Steppe and in Thavnair, and is proud of that heritage.

He became fast friends with Draven Nightscale, the only other Auri orphan in Llymlaen’s Shoals. Draven would go on to help with the liberation of Doma and Ala Mhigo before retiring from adventuring and settling in Ishgard!

Draven was my first character - see here for reference.

The only clues he ever had to his heritage were the Thavnairian cradle, owing to the ▶️Palm Log wood, and the blanket his mother had knit that was clearly from the Steppe.

Thalcon enjoyed wandering Limsa in his free time, watching the pirates and merchants at work.

Not knowing anything about Auri naming conventions, he was given the name Thalcon Dawnscale, his forename evoking a bird of prey, and his surname alluding to his golden scales. Thalcon grew up happily in his modest upbringing in the orphanage.

As the shipwreck washed up on shore, a band of pirates who were looting the wreck were surprised to find a baby stowed away below the decks. Not knowing what to do with a baby, let alone an Au Ra child, they took him to the orphanage, Llymlaen’s Shoals.