Final Fantasy Fan Fest w/ Victor & Friends

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Victor is back from Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest in Anaheim and he brought a lot of thoughts and even more interviews from listeners, friends of the show, friends of himself, and new friends! Look forward to appearances from Harper Jay, Fusionx, CrystAAHHL, and many more! It's an honourary episode of Sharlayan Dropouts as Victor and Nadia discuss what they're excited about from the announcements of EverCold, and why the Blood God has the best community around. Look, I know the sound on this one might be off in some spots; I made a lot of work for myself. But I hope you can forgive some sound quality for what I think is a wonderful cross-section of our community. I had a wonderful time making this episode and I hope you enjoy listening whether you're a Final Fantasy XIV or XI player or not. Subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod⁠ and get merch at ⁠https://shop.bloodgodpod.com⁠ Also in this episode: Fusionx and 20 years of podcasting about Final Fantasy MMOs EmUnArum and the importance of Final Fantasy XI Many, many interviews with wonderful people If you never warmed up to XIV's combat, EverCold might have what you want We just scratch the surface of new character customization options like Action Skins Timestamps: 6:08 - Main Topic 11:08 - Harper Jay not quite predicting the expansion title 25:28 - CrystAAHHL being absolutely delightful 32:20 - Fusionx on podcasting for 20 years 1:03:16 - Ash Paulsen on not knowing anything about FFXIV 1:04:58 - Derek Heemsbergen and I busting each other's chops like true friends 1:15:44 - Em on the Importance of Final Fantasy XI 1:31:28 - Sena Bryer being the most charming person on the planet 1:41:12 - Axe of the Blood God / Sharlayan Dropouts Community Meet-Up And that's it, man. It's aaaall XIV talk today. Music Used in this Episode: Axe of the Blood God Theme - [Lena Raine] Ride the Rhythm - [The Primals - Dark Decades - Final Fantasy XIV] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, an interdisciplinary
0:19.4	ARG C crawdad.
0:21.4	I'm your host for this episode, Victor Hunter.
0:24.6	And with me, as always, is a lovely Nadia Oxford.
0:28.4	How the hell are you, Nadia?
0:30.2	I'm doing well.
0:31.7	He said, what, crawfish, crawdad?
0:35.5	A podcast.
0:36.5	I said podcast.
1:01.9	Oh, okay, I thought he said like a Crawdad. No. No, that would be ridiculous. That would be silly. That would be silly. That would be so goofy. Why would I do that? How are you, Nadia? I feel like it's been ages. It has, hasn't it? Yeah. Good to see you back. Good to be half some. I won't say it's normal right now because we're still kind of got a strange podcast, but it's a really fruitful one.
1:08.0	Yeah, the hosts are busy. We've all been scattered to the winds and we're making it happen.
1:48.5	We absolutely are. There's some great stuff that happened while you're at Fan Fest. I'm not mistaken. At Fanfest, or there's great stuff that happened while I was away at Fanfest that I've missed? Oh, I guess both. I mean, to be honest with you, we had a great turnout at Midwest Gaming Classic. I was surprised at how my Blood God fans I were. That's wonderful. A couple of hoodies, a couple of shirts. A lot of people came to say hi, stopped to say I love the show. Great. And yeah, it was really nice to hear from you guys. And I hope to see you at other conventions later this year. I'm not sure what I'm going to, but I'll let you know. Yeah. Well, when we get into the main thrust of the show, I'll talk about our Blood God Charlene dropouts meet up at Fanfest, Anaheim. That's right. This episode, it's going to be a little bit different,
1:55.1	actually. I just got back from the Final Fantasy 14 Fanfest in Anaheim. I was out there covering it for the
2:03.8	blood god. That's right. It's going to be an all Final Fantasy 14 episode. This is an honorary
2:08.6	episode of Charlene Dropouts. So people who complain about hearing too much about FF14,
2:14.7	maybe stick around. Yeah. because I have some fun interviews.
2:19.2	We have some fun info.
2:21.5	It might just warm you up to some aspects of the culture around this game at the very
2:28.2	least.
2:30.1	So I'm going to be sprinkling throughout the episode, some of the interviews, all of the
2:35.8	interviews that I got around the show floor.
2:38.1	We had a ton of great people.
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