makeashrine

Hi everyone! I hope you had fun with the challenge and got to create something new, even if you didn't finish by the deadline.

As Lethe mentioned in the previous post, everyone who finished is welcome to make a post to promote their new shrine, so here's mine!

I made a site for Ardbert Hylfyst from the game Final Fantasy XIV! Yes, my site name is the same as the challenge name - I had the site name long in advance, so it's funny to me how well it ended up matching with this event.

Ardbert is a character from the third expansion of FFXIV (which is itself very long-winded), so I fully expect that not everyone will be familiar with him, but if you don't mind spoilers there's an introduction to the game and setting on the site. If you do happen to read through it and aren't familiar with the game, I'd appreciate any feedback on things I didn't include that you found difficult to understand. (It's a little hard to write primers when you've been immersed in a world this long - I forget what isn't common knowledge!)

In any case, I'm really grateful to the challenge for getting me to finish this site — it's been sitting half-done since 2022, haha. That's what I love most about an external deadline: it really gets me to sit down and just Make Something, even if it's not 100% done. I definitely still want to go back and add some more images and screencaps onto this site, for instance. And I should probably tidy up the coding; I was a little lazy in the rush to get it done, haha.

Looking forward to reading through the rest of the submitted shrines!