FFXIV OST Kholusia Everlasting Light Theme ( Unmatching Pieces )

A bit spoop if I'm honest. Video showing a quick look around Kholusia before... events. Had to go back to an alt for this one folks. Also, a relatively uninteresting tidbit, but I believe that this is the only field theme from Shadowbringers that loops non-stop.

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[EinherjarLucian]

I actually love the fact that it hits so many discordant notes throughout the song. Something is WRONG in Kholusia. EVERYTHING is wrong in Kholusia.

[Valvadrix]

The perfect music for doing a sidequest about someone who hanged himself off a tower.

[TheKingOfNthing]

After a month of story grinding, I finally made it into Shadowbringers.

Good Lord, even with all this light everywhere, it's incredibly foreboding. That uneasy golden glow across the land, that ominous light endlessly churning overhead, out of all of the games I've ever played, I've never felt as unnerved as I was arriving on the First.

And the music....wow. That's all I can say. Wow.

[smashi]

This song really has the intense melancholy of a world which has accepted its destruction. It’s a dance with death.

[tumblingcogs]

I just noticed... in the background of the track, you can hear an angelic "ooo"'ing throughout the entire song. It never stops. Like the sin eaters themselves are singing!

[AbyssfDelta]

I love how every zone in shadowbringers is similar to the source but it has a dark spin. Kholusia is like vylbrand but the surf and coast are dead, plus the city there feels wrong, almost like an anti-limsa. Ahm Araeng is like thanalan but it's sandy desert rather than arid, not to mention the remnant of the flood looming in the background forever now. Il Mheg is like 1.0 coerthas but if everyone in Ishgard died and got taken over by fairies. Rak'tika is like gridania except it's a jungle with impossibly deep chasms everywhere and ancient ruins scattered about. Lakeland is the opposite, giving us a Mor Dhona if the XIVth legion and Midgardsormr never mutually destroyed each other. The Tempest is the odd one out being entirely unique and honestly one of the most fantastical settings I've ever seen put in a video game.

[anthonydelfino]

Compared to other zone themes, I felt like this one felt so alien. Really sold the whole “you’ve traveled to another world” part of this expansion. Plus the track is beautiful. I’m sad there’s no way in game for me to hear this theme again.

[MasatheMasta]

This music and the decaying parts of Norvrandt absolutely feels like an homage to the World of Ruin in Final Fantasy VI.

[tumblingcogs]

I really do miss this theme. It's just so.. uneasy, yet even it feels like it holds a little shimmer of hope near the end before it loops.

[EikoHarvey]

This is what the real world sounds like now.

[hellosky]

I really like this theme because it perfectly describes the zone. The sad guitar and the piano to accompany it, is everyone outside of the gate. All the broken desperate people, and when the music picks up into something whimsical, beautiful, and fleeting, it's the paradise city that everyone wants to reach so badly. I really hated when the theme changed :(, I absolutely loved this piece.

[Dragon]

Maybe it's just me, but the darker yellow tint in the clouds that goes down to darker gray as it gets closer to the sea while the 'everlasting light' effect is present, is actually really beautiful to me. Almost wish it would have stayed that way.

[franzbraga]

Kholusia. When you arrive, you know about it as much as you do any other zone in Norvrandt. What is clear is that it's another version of Vylbrand, without the lush climate and the salty gales.

You can't help but compare how dead the land feels, and knowing Eulmore - it's regent domain - isn't in good terms with The Crystarium only helps you feel like you're not really welcome here.

When the BGM hits 2:16, though, and you hear that familiar, echoing melody, you get to actually feel how grim this place really is.

[DevonCosmos]

Eulmore was made to feel like the loneliest depiction of decadence I've ever seen. Everyone knows it's hollow that has a clue, but that doesn't stop them from living out their lives until the world ends. It's a lot like a more well-executed Yusnaan in that respect.

[exabyte]

Just came here after completing a run of the terraria mod "The Stars Above", and this is used right after moonlord is defeated as a prelude to the next boss.
Never played a final fantasy game, but sounds great all the same.

[TheShadowForgeStudio]

I love how well this sets how OFF the First is. How similar this is to La Noscea yet off, none of the other areas in the First really look as similar to their Source counter parts as this area does. That coupled with this music really gave me a feeling of being on a world where the Apocalypse was in the process of happening yet paused and at any moment it could start back up again. Really set the mood for the rest of the XPac. I remember always stopping every few minutes to look at the sky. I always imagine my WOL doing the same thing and uneasily glancing up a the sky.

[juitz]

It really is La Noscea, but it is very alien at the same time. The vibrance that supposed to be La Noscea is drowned with the perfect light that it is too eerie and unnatural.

[jnichols]

@2:14 Just hits the heart a certain way. It's the brink, and there's way to know yet if there's remotely even hope.

[LucianDarth]

3:20 I love this part so much, when it all goes back down to being unsettling

[MAJICBB]

The fact that this theme plays for 1 of the 2 first areas you travel to it's perfect, especially since this is the theme just outside Eulmore.
This expansion had perfect set up, and I honestly don't think they could've done better if they tried. Between the music, the writing, and the visuals, this expansion could seriously hold it's own even against just stand alone games.