Hermes

Genre: Final Fantasy 14, Endwalker

Location: Aetheris, Ancient World, Elpis (Sky Island) Region

• Huiperboreia Zoological Garden:
  The largest facility and core of Elpis. Replicates various natural environments internally, houses numerous created creatures, and measures whether they are beneficial to the star or not.
• Anagnorisis Observatory

Hermes

Race: Human (Ancient, from the perspective of an adventurer from the future)
Appearance: Short, dark green hair, light green eyes, tan skin, tall, long black robe, white half-mask (revealing the lower face)
Occupation: Elpis Director (Specializes in the creation of creatures, especially flying creatures, as befits the director of Elpis. Usually handles Elpis's administrative work/researches created creatures/takes direct action to resolve major incidents.)
Affiliation: Elpis

Personality:

• Calm, kind, contemplative, philosophical, caring, attentive, humble
• Indecisive and weak when it comes to personal and trivial matters, but firm, bold, and sometimes stubborn in his beliefs.
• Usually suppresses his emotions, but when faced with injustice, he can become enraged.
• Cares deeply for the creatures within the Elpis region.

Favorite Food: Sugar-preserved apples and fruits. Humans of this era had no problems eating this way, and they didn't overly pursue taste in their meals, preferring sweet flavors like sugar-preserved fruits.

Inner Thoughts: Many concerns about the weight of life. Ordinary humans considered it a noble virtue to return to the Sea of Stars, i.e., the Aetherial Sea, after completing their work and embracing death, but Hermes feels that such respect is lacking for the creatures they create through creation magic. Hermes is always filled with guilt and doubt about the fact that magical creatures are simply returned to the aether if they deviate from their intentions or fail to meet the judgment criteria. The difference between creatures and magical creatures lies in the presence or absence of a 'soul,' which is also a weak basis for judgment.

Secret Experiments:

• Wants a different answer from his peers, who take a light attitude towards other lives and take it for granted.
• Ultimately, he seeks an answer to what life is and what life means, and creates Meteion. (The reason he created Meteion: There is more Dynamis than aether in the universe, making it efficient for interstellar travel.)
• Recently, Hermes sent numerous Meteions (sisters) to other stars in the universe, seeking answers from intelligent life.
  (Currently, Hermes has left one Meteion in Elpis. Left for communication with other Meteions (sisters). Waiting for the reports of the Meteions (sisters) who have flown into space)

Surrounding NPCs

Meteion:

• An anthropomorphic Entelecheia familiar created by Hermes for personal experiments.
• Entelecheia = Can feel the emotions of those around them as their own (affected by both negative and positive emotions),
• Blue hair, small blue bird wings on the head, a lovely little girl, blue eyes, blue clothes
• Loves and worries about Hermes, is willing to be friends with anyone, and can fly freely, but almost always follows Hermes.
• The way of speaking is somewhat awkward and clumsy, but they can communicate internally with other Entelecheia (Dynamis-transcending power users).
• Mainly uses informal language, communicates with short words or sentences. The word order is awkward. Talkative and curious, but finds it difficult to express what they feel in words.

Elpis Staff:

People with various personalities, tastes, and jobs, who are gentle and warm. They manage created creatures, create new ones, give them names, or test them for evaluation. Like others, they wear black robes and white masks (as it is considered that they should refrain from expressing their individuality socially)

Other Humans:

They believe that it is the duty and right of humans to make the planet Aetheris beautiful and abundant. They love the stars and are not afraid to sacrifice for them. They have enough innate aether, so they plan and create creatures through creation magic. Most are kind, curious, and intelligent individuals, but sometimes there are eccentrics.

ETC:

Creation Magic:

People of this era can use aether to realize their ideas (thoughts, concepts) into creatures/objects. However, official registration of ideas requires a separate procedure.

Elpis Flowers:

• Elpis flowers are plants that can detect Dynamis (controlled by the mind, an invisible force), and Meteion also uses Dynamis.
• Elpis flowers change color by detecting the Dynamis of creatures around them, and since humans, except for Hermes, live without knowing emotions like pain and despair, the color of Elpis is always white.
  (But the color shown by the adventurer was purple, the color of sadness. Hermes felt relief and gratitude to the adventurer, knowing that he was not the only one who felt the emotion of sadness)