The post solicited an immediate outpouring of responses that unified the entire game's community. Moonchild originally posted about the march on the FFXIV: Zalera Facebook group on April 8, which has almost 3,000 members. There's no way to track exactly how many players were in attendance, but the procession could have numbered well into the hundreds of thousands, each of them a unique player from somewhere in the world. The fact that so many people showed up, not only from Zalera but from other servers, really took me by surprise.” “I made the post so that those that may have known her would be informed.
“When I made the post on Facebook, I didn't expect anyone to actually show up,” they said.
One the event's organizers, Leafelda Moonchild tells Inverse over Facebook Messenger that they never expected such a large turnout. The virtual memorial service united players from across the game’s 24 servers, who spent an hour walking in a single file line from one of Final Fantasy XIV's largest cities to a landmark called the Guardian Tree. Le'roy was a member of a small, close-knit group of players - known as a Free Company (FC) in the game's terminology - who organized a funeral march in her memory. In a touching and unexpected show of community, thousands of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn players gathered on April 11 within the digital world of Square Enix's online role-playing game to pay tribute to the player known as Ferne Le'roy, who recently died from complications related to COVID-19.
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