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Chronicles of the Shire

Adventures, glamours & tales from Eorzea — by Vex Arkveld

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Our First Steps Into the Firmament

The Shire is still young, but its spirit burns bright as a Kojin lantern on a summer sea. Follow along as we take our first steps, gather our first members, and forge our legend in Eorzea.

Visit The Shire

Recent Adventures

House Tour

5 min read

Ward 22, Plot 28: A Lavender Beds House That Was Already the Shire

For two years I decorated around a contradiction. Then I moved worlds, entered one more lottery as number three, and on the seventeenth of August a large plot in the Lavender Beds came home with me. No paper screens to argue with, no translating — just a wooded glade that had been waiting to be the Shire the whole time.

  • House Tour
  • Lavender Beds
Glamour Diary

4 min read

I Was Never Going to Be a Lalafell

I was very clear about it. Lalafells were fine, from a distance, and I would never, ever be one. Then I noticed the hugging, and the little squads, and a row of tiny hats bouncing through Frontline on chocobos, and something in me quietly stopped arguing.

  • Lalafell
  • Fantasia