Summary of Final Fantasy XIV's Story Up To Dawntrail (2.0 to 6.0)

In this video, I'll recap and summarize the entire story of Final Fantasy XIV up until the end of Endwalker, not including the expansion's patch content. While the events are largely told chronologically, I do reveal a few things ahead of time for the sake of quicker and easier to understand explanations. This summary doesn't include every single plot (such as most Alliance Raids and Raid series) and intentionally excludes some characters that aren't very relevant to understanding the story. A Realm Reborn and Heavensward are summarized a little bit more rapidly than Stormblood, Shadowbringers and Endwalker. The latter two in particular are just much longer than the other expansions as well, with Shadowbringers taking me nearly three times as long as Heavensward. For those who are curious how long it took to replay the game, the raw footage amounts to 166 hours for the main story alone, actively avoiding any and all blue quests (A Realm Reborn 29h, Heavensward 26h, Stormblood 32h, Shadowbringers 46h, Endwalker 33h not including the patch arc), all in all sitting at 2,5 TB of video files.

I wanted to release this before Dawntrail, but my mom died to cancer in February, throwing off my plans and delaying me getting through the MSQ a lot. Playing through the story again some time after definitely helped me move on a little, and it will always hold a special place in my heart. I hope you can enjoy this summary for what it is anyways, even if a lot of you will likely be done with Dawntrail by now.

00:00:00 Important Lore
00:06:37 A Realm Reborn
00:14:19 ARR Patches
00:17:53 Heavensward
00:24:00 HW Patches
00:30:50 Stormblood
00:39:15 SB Patches
00:44:50 Shadowbringers
01:04:35 ShB Patches
01:12:55 Endwalker

[Tickie]

Bro..your channel has been a blessing for a returning player who haven't played since stormblood. Keep up the quality content.

[tontj]

As someone who stops playing at ARR but wished to know the story of 14, this summary is perfect.

Thanks for making this video

[sUphillBothWays]

I needed this. I'm coming back after 30 month absence. I originally began at Gordias. Thank you-- and thank you to your Mother.

[Tokari_]

The best video for those who bought a story skip

[FlowKage]

You fricking crushed this video mate. 100! and as someone who avoided doh/dol for 20 years (counting ffxi) your tutorials were clutch in my pre-dawn trail catch up, a and getting the lop hop emote. have super come to enjoy your work. mad respect.

[raerae]

Expertly done! I have always came to this channel for answers! thank you so much for your hard work!

[conroconro]

This is exactly what I needed without having to redo all the story.
Great summary, and great commentary!

[zo]

Was waiting for this before I started Dawntrail MSQ. Thanks, Jolsn

[aalleen]

Thank you so much for such a heavenly-sent work!! I rushed and skipped everything before level 70, your video filled all the gaps. Even I'm slowly replaying from start, to know the general story from your video is still soothing. Bravo!

[vinniedeluca]

Excellent overview, thank you for putting in so much work to make this. It is very much appreciated!

[Legendduzit]

Thank you for dedicating yourself to this video. It sure helped me A lot. I’m glad the re play for you will always be a special memory in your heart! Thank you so much and condolences to you! ❤

[jarlhenrik]

Elidibus' eulogy for his friends as he fades away STILL brings tears to my eyes, having seen it umpteen amount of times. Him and Emet's VAs made Shadowbringers the greatest expansion of the lot D:

[asterisq]

Thank you for all your hard work, I needed this to catch up

[coryp]

You're just a badass and it's as simple as that. Epic summary that served as a wonderful refresher after some time away!

[TheChristofear]

Loved the video! Thank you for putting this together for us.

[gutscar]

This was a massive undertaking, thank you!

[hamakakun]

Thanks for this. I was looking for a refresher before starting Dawntrail.

[lexand_ecarg]

I'm notorious for just skipping cut scenes and then I'm confused on story line, so this really helped fill in some of those gaps. greatly done and appreciated :)

[SNC_otr]

Quick apprechiation for your work. This video and generally your content is absolutely amazing, for new players especially. I skipped through most of the cutscenes until shadowbringers which I'm currently at, so I was looking for a video like this. I'm gonna leave it half watched until I hit dawntrail since shadowbringers & endwalker seem to be amazing by the word of the community but I will revisit the second half before playing dawntrail for sure!

[bertoray]

Your video is greatly appreciated Jolsn.