@BlueSpaceCanary's ffxiv posts
I had this exact feeling about the Telophoroi! And the sense of being... Let down? by the fact that it was mostly just Fandaniel having a Bad Day Forever[TM], but I never got to the bottom of why it felt that way on first playthrough. Seems that it's easy to set it on the backburner as a feeling that only hits the mids of 'eh that's weird', when you're being swamped with the emotional rollercoaster of the rest of the EWMSQ.
(Also, the otherwise utterly unfounded jacking of Greek for lots of names in EW threw me for a loop, including Telophoroi - Telo, 'Final' or 'End', and phoros/phoroi, 'bringer' or 'bearer'. Kinda felt like it was all just to justify uses of Alpha/Omega and [Name]-1-through-10 counts in [Not Your Native Language].)
covid totally fucked ShB's patch cycle and it's honestly amazing that endwalker is as good as it is