Zin’s absolutely a music teacher. She teaches music theory, analysis, and history, because she wouldn’t make a good instructor for performance. Her final exam always asks something about the cultural context of music and what music reveals about the people who make it. #zinlore
#wolqotd your WoL/OC has, through some circumstance, become a teacher or professor! what subject or class are they teaching? how well does it go? what's their final exam like?
September 28, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Zin’s absolutely a music teacher. She teaches music theory, analysis, and history, because she wouldn’t make a good instructor for performance. Her final exam always asks something about the cultural context of music and what music reveals about the people who make it. #zinlore
Day 20: Free Day
rating: G | WoL x Esteem | 618 words
A story for DRK 80.
[ #ffxivwrite2026 | #ffxivwrite | #zinlore ]
🔗Ellipsus: ellipsus.com/read/QNxhudk...
🔗AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/92984301
rating: G | WoL x Esteem | 618 words
A story for DRK 80.
[ #ffxivwrite2026 | #ffxivwrite | #zinlore ]
🔗Ellipsus: ellipsus.com/read/QNxhudk...
🔗AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/92984301
archiveofourown.org
September 21, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Day 20: Free Day
rating: G | WoL x Esteem | 618 words
A story for DRK 80.
[ #ffxivwrite2026 | #ffxivwrite | #zinlore ]
🔗Ellipsus: ellipsus.com/read/QNxhudk...
🔗AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/92984301
rating: G | WoL x Esteem | 618 words
A story for DRK 80.
[ #ffxivwrite2026 | #ffxivwrite | #zinlore ]
🔗Ellipsus: ellipsus.com/read/QNxhudk...
🔗AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/92984301
#zinlore so I can find this later lmao: my thread about my created Seeker Midsummer holiday
We have very little information on historical/cultural celebrations in FFXIV, and most in-game holiday events are meant as a real world tie-in for players. Most of the in-game holidays are lore-established as very new events, that may draw on some older traditions but focus on the whole new idea.
June 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
#zinlore so I can find this later lmao: my thread about my created Seeker Midsummer holiday
Day One: Astral / Umbral
The Warrior of Light and her beloved shadow.
#XIVRarepairWeek2025 | #zinlore | #WoLsteem
The Warrior of Light and her beloved shadow.
#XIVRarepairWeek2025 | #zinlore | #WoLsteem
June 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Day One: Astral / Umbral
The Warrior of Light and her beloved shadow.
#XIVRarepairWeek2025 | #zinlore | #WoLsteem
The Warrior of Light and her beloved shadow.
#XIVRarepairWeek2025 | #zinlore | #WoLsteem
Zin and Airraim are Shadowsong, which basically mashes up the concept of DRK and BRD. Which is why it also works as Zin’s epithet. #zinlore
#wolqotd
Because now I want to know! Hey you! Do you have a WolxOC ship? An OCxOC ship? Does that ship have a name?
If so, is there a story behind that name?
Because now I want to know! Hey you! Do you have a WolxOC ship? An OCxOC ship? Does that ship have a name?
If so, is there a story behind that name?
September 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Zin and Airraim are Shadowsong, which basically mashes up the concept of DRK and BRD. Which is why it also works as Zin’s epithet. #zinlore
Canon PLD doesn't exist for Zin; instead, Paladins are an Ishgardian institution, with stones passed down through lineages, or bestowed upon particularly deserving knights. Haurchefant had a job stone; it was given to Zin along with his shield. She refused to touch it for the longest time. #zinlore
July 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Canon PLD doesn't exist for Zin; instead, Paladins are an Ishgardian institution, with stones passed down through lineages, or bestowed upon particularly deserving knights. Haurchefant had a job stone; it was given to Zin along with his shield. She refused to touch it for the longest time. #zinlore
The Longest Night is a Seeker holiday I created based on real world solstice celebrations. It's a feast and vigil to await the return of Azeyma's warmth and light after the longest night of the year. Zin celebrates with her family when she can. #zinlore
November 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The Longest Night is a Seeker holiday I created based on real world solstice celebrations. It's a feast and vigil to await the return of Azeyma's warmth and light after the longest night of the year. Zin celebrates with her family when she can. #zinlore
As this lovely art by @miqosquat.bsky.social illustrates, I see Zin as a fawn Abyssinian, while Airraim is a blue Nebelung cat. #zinlore
April 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
As this lovely art by @miqosquat.bsky.social illustrates, I see Zin as a fawn Abyssinian, while Airraim is a blue Nebelung cat. #zinlore
The Longest Night is a holiday I created, inspired by real world winter solstice festivals. It is celebrated across populations of Seekers in my xiv-verse. As Seekers, they worship Azeyma, and are attuned to how the sun changes. Therefore, equinoxes and solstices are significant holidays. #zinlore
December 21, 2024 at 9:13 PM
The Longest Night is a holiday I created, inspired by real world winter solstice festivals. It is celebrated across populations of Seekers in my xiv-verse. As Seekers, they worship Azeyma, and are attuned to how the sun changes. Therefore, equinoxes and solstices are significant holidays. #zinlore
Day 1: Introductions
D'zinhla Rhee, daughter of La Noscean Seekers, music folklorist at heart and dark knight by need. Warrior of Light. Disaster lesbian.
#miqomarch | #zinlore
D'zinhla Rhee, daughter of La Noscean Seekers, music folklorist at heart and dark knight by need. Warrior of Light. Disaster lesbian.
#miqomarch | #zinlore
March 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Day 1: Introductions
D'zinhla Rhee, daughter of La Noscean Seekers, music folklorist at heart and dark knight by need. Warrior of Light. Disaster lesbian.
#miqomarch | #zinlore
D'zinhla Rhee, daughter of La Noscean Seekers, music folklorist at heart and dark knight by need. Warrior of Light. Disaster lesbian.
#miqomarch | #zinlore
Quote to apply my hashtag #zinlore
Zin does struggle a lot with resentment about being the WoL. Not only for reasons addressed in DRK (being seen for her utility rather than as a person), but because it forced her to abandon her dream of simply being a traveling music folklorist.
January 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Quote to apply my hashtag #zinlore
Forgot to tag it because it's pretty meme-y but still absolutely true #zinlore #zinairraim
April 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Forgot to tag it because it's pretty meme-y but still absolutely true #zinlore #zinairraim
Zin is a music folklorist and archivist. She transcribes folk music and preserves it for future generations. She isn't very known for it outside of archivist circles, but her work will be remembered. #zinlore
#wolqotd since its women’s history month and also sapphic Sunday, tell me how your sapphic WoL or oc has contributed to the history of Etheirys. It could be something they did as a wol or something else! How will they be remembered in history books? Non-women sapphic wols also welcome to answer
March 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Zin is a music folklorist and archivist. She transcribes folk music and preserves it for future generations. She isn't very known for it outside of archivist circles, but her work will be remembered. #zinlore
I always forget my hashtag. #zinlore
The reason I like to keep talking about/answering wolqotds about origins and Zin’s original plan to be a music folklorist, is because I deeply adore looking at how the course of her life has changed, but also how it hasn’t.
May 19, 2026 at 12:47 PM
I always forget my hashtag. #zinlore
Zin's family is from a non-canon settlement I have yet to solidify a name for, located in Middle La Noscea near Lower La Noscea, but not on the map itself. #zinlore
✨ #wolqotd ✨
where does your WoL/OC/NPC come from?
is it a canon area or some village you made up for them?
where does your WoL/OC/NPC come from?
is it a canon area or some village you made up for them?
January 19, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Zin's family is from a non-canon settlement I have yet to solidify a name for, located in Middle La Noscea near Lower La Noscea, but not on the map itself. #zinlore
The Ixal courier met in Coerthas during Ehcatl quests became a very good friend of Zin’s. This is an important contrast to an experience she had as a novice member of the Archer’s Guild, where she was ambushed while training, and killed a tempered Ixal that would have killed her. #zinlore
#wolqotd
Does your WoL/OC have any specific lore or interactions with the unnamed NPCs in the game? For example: an NPC that flexes in the Goblet pool or is walking around the Doman Enclave or is lecturing the cats in the Phantom Village.
Does your WoL/OC have any specific lore or interactions with the unnamed NPCs in the game? For example: an NPC that flexes in the Goblet pool or is walking around the Doman Enclave or is lecturing the cats in the Phantom Village.
July 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The Ixal courier met in Coerthas during Ehcatl quests became a very good friend of Zin’s. This is an important contrast to an experience she had as a novice member of the Archer’s Guild, where she was ambushed while training, and killed a tempered Ixal that would have killed her. #zinlore
Music folklorist processes her Chosen One trauma with a greatsword, gets a shadow wife in the process #zinlore
Not sure if this counts as #wolqotd , but! Use this as a prompt to badly explain your WOL's lore~
May 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Music folklorist processes her Chosen One trauma with a greatsword, gets a shadow wife in the process #zinlore
Zin's tolerance of making eye contact varies a lot. Generally speaking she's got a bit of neurodivergent "eye contact can make me uncomfortable" going on, and when she's anxious it gets worse. But when she is Locked In as a Dark Knight she will 100% be unsettlingly intense about it. #zinlore
#wolqotd - when it comes to making eye contact, where does your WoL/OC/NPC of choice tend to fall on the spectrum of “looking people in the eye is to be avoided at all costs” to “unsettlingly intense, holds it for too long”? When/why are there exceptions to their default, if there are any?
September 24, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Zin's tolerance of making eye contact varies a lot. Generally speaking she's got a bit of neurodivergent "eye contact can make me uncomfortable" going on, and when she's anxious it gets worse. But when she is Locked In as a Dark Knight she will 100% be unsettlingly intense about it. #zinlore
I used to say that if Zin was a bird she'd be a hermit thrush but I think now I lean nightingale. More folkloric weight behind that one, more of a tie to what I see her as now. #zinlore
February 27, 2026 at 4:19 AM
I used to say that if Zin was a bird she'd be a hermit thrush but I think now I lean nightingale. More folkloric weight behind that one, more of a tie to what I see her as now. #zinlore
Zin is The Shadowsong. It combines her primary jobs of DRK and BRD, but also makes for a really intriguing title to attach to a Seeker of the Sun. #zinlore
#wolqotd / #wolquestion
Most characters you interact with in FF14 have an epithet of some kind, like Aymeric the Blue or Yugiri Mistwalker. what would be your WOL/OCs epithet that others speak with respect or whisper in awe or fear?
Most characters you interact with in FF14 have an epithet of some kind, like Aymeric the Blue or Yugiri Mistwalker. what would be your WOL/OCs epithet that others speak with respect or whisper in awe or fear?
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Zin is The Shadowsong. It combines her primary jobs of DRK and BRD, but also makes for a really intriguing title to attach to a Seeker of the Sun. #zinlore
Zin’s eyesight was permanently impaired as a result of light poisoning, and she now needs glasses for reading, crafting, and other up-close work. #zinlore
#NewShiftNewQuestion | #wolqotd | #wolquestion
How good is your OCs eyesight?
Do they need glasses? Secretly wear contacts? How far can they see?
How good is your OCs eyesight?
Do they need glasses? Secretly wear contacts? How far can they see?
January 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Zin’s eyesight was permanently impaired as a result of light poisoning, and she now needs glasses for reading, crafting, and other up-close work. #zinlore
Day 28: On Thin Ice
rating: G | Fisher WoL | 770 words
[ #ffxivwrite2026 | #ffxivwrite | #zinlore ]
🔗Ellipsus: ellipsus.com/read/4OzaRYQ...
🔗AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/93471511
rating: G | Fisher WoL | 770 words
[ #ffxivwrite2026 | #ffxivwrite | #zinlore ]
🔗Ellipsus: ellipsus.com/read/4OzaRYQ...
🔗AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/93471511
September 29, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Day 28: On Thin Ice
rating: G | Fisher WoL | 770 words
[ #ffxivwrite2026 | #ffxivwrite | #zinlore ]
🔗Ellipsus: ellipsus.com/read/4OzaRYQ...
🔗AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/93471511
rating: G | Fisher WoL | 770 words
[ #ffxivwrite2026 | #ffxivwrite | #zinlore ]
🔗Ellipsus: ellipsus.com/read/4OzaRYQ...
🔗AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/93471511
March 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Heavensward was when Zin kinda accepted that her life was on a different course now. Yeah the Ultima Weapon thing and fighting primals was a lot, but she could pretend that they’d find someone more suitably heroic. When she spoke to Tiamat with Midgardsormr is when she knew otherwise. #zinlore
September 14, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Heavensward was when Zin kinda accepted that her life was on a different course now. Yeah the Ultima Weapon thing and fighting primals was a lot, but she could pretend that they’d find someone more suitably heroic. When she spoke to Tiamat with Midgardsormr is when she knew otherwise. #zinlore