Meracydia/Miqo'te/Azys La speculations (spoilers)

[Fenral]

Right, I remember now: it's the golems in Qarn that have cat ears. Still...

[Sapphic]

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With what we know about the Miqo'te tribes it just seems unlikely that they would build structures to that magnitude due to their more nomadic nature. Complex architecture for me doesn't fit with Miqo'tes. As to me they share more characteristics of the original tribes of the country that later became America.

[Anonymoose]

<kicks open the door and throws a pile of screenshots everywhere, yelling in a crazed fashion>

I've just returned from a tour of Eorzea! <slams books on table> The trim seen on the Aqueduct is the same as that seen at Qarn, which is positioned near the ruins of towers in the Sagolii Desert, which are of the same construction as those in Mor Dhona near Saint Coinach's Find (confirmed to be Allagan) as part of the Labyrinth of the Ancients complex. These two resources (Qarn architecture and trim + Allagan Towers) are seen together at Cartenau Flats: Borderland Ruins - and one of said locations is caaalled...

ALLAGAN SUN TEMPLE
(LINK HAS SOUND)

So, we have some pretty strong evidence that the (perhaps earlier, less-technological) Allagans were responsible for Qarn-like ruins, forming a pretty solid link between the Egyptian themes seen at both Qarn and Azys Lla. Let's see how far we can take this.

[Frederick22]

<kicks open the door and throws a pile of screenshots everywhere, yelling in a crazed fashion>

your strong evidence

ALLAGAN SUN TEMPLE

So, we have some pretty strong evidence that the (perhaps earlier, less-technological) Allagans were responsible for Qarn-like ruins, forming a pretty solid link between the Egyptian themes seen at both Qarn and Azys Lla. Let's see how far we can take this.

Maybe it was before the rise of the allagan empire?
But did allagans worship the 12? specialy Azeyma? Perhaps all this changed when the empire was formed, beacuse of political, cultural things?

But of make sense right? Maybe the worshiped Azeyma, the god of sun, and by coincidence the sun was their strong sorce of energy

[Anonymoose]

Maybe it was before the rise of the allagan empire?

Could be! Until this thread I wouldn't have pegged Qarn as Allag, and yet here we are. Who knows where it goes from here, lol.
I'll keep digging and see if I find anything.

But did allagans worship the 12? Apecialy Azeyma? Perhaps all this changed when the empire was formed, beacuse of political, cultural things?

I can't jump right to they worshipped the Twelve, but the symbols that we use for the Twelve gods did exist in their era according to the Version 1.0 Allagan Runestones, which displayed said symbols. The weird thing is ... why would they have a symbol of Menphina and treat it as a Goddess? I've said this before - they probably don't believe in a goddess of the TWIN moons considering one of the moons in that symbol is one of their military projects. Then again, back when that symbol was created, the lesser moon wasn't an Allagan creation. I have no idea how they're going to deal with that on the dev. side.

[treuhavik]

ALLAGAN SUN TEMPLE

Truth!

(9:17:38 AM) TreuHavik: Yep. I'm sold. As we move up in level and through the story, we see a progression of Allagan design and technology. From the Royal Allagan Sunway, to Vesper Bay ruins, to Qarn, to LotA, etc. Now we're digging around with their high-end shite. The connection that far back just hasn't been made yet.

It's been building right under our noses and Azys Lla finally ties it all together.


...and Belah'dians were Lalafellen...

Belah'dian
elah'dian
alah'dan
alagan

Yep. That's all the proof I need.

(Lalafell are relics of Allag experimentation.)

<_<;

[Frederick22]

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What I meaned is that maybe on the past they could worship Azeyma, but after the empire was formed ( like gearlenas ), with political opression and culture. They stoped worshipping all gods, proable maybe beacuse they found out the truth about primals, and they think that such things as gods dont exist? But if Qarn was before allag, why there is an statue with a tail?

Maybe Qarn is a much older civitisation than allag, like egiptians or sumeria. SE is representing the very first and ancient civilisations of the spoken races? Like they did with the allags, representing the Romans
Qarn could have survive all this thousand years just beacuse was on a desert and the eviroment quick most of Qarn on one piece? like the piramids?

[myahele]

Truth!



It's been building right under our noses and Azys Lla finally ties it all together.


...and Belah'dians were Lalafellen...

Belah'dian
elah'dian
alah'dan
alagan

Yep. That's all the proof I need.

(Lalafell are relics of Allag experimentation.)

<_<;

If Azys LLa = Azyslan = Ayatlan through the ages then perhaps:

Allagan Failed Experiment = Allagfail = Lallafell? (totally joking btw)

But still I'm of the opinion that Ala(g) Mhigo is one a Allagan settlement atleast. Ultima weapon being a testament to it

[finiteHP]

I can't jump right to they worshipped the Twelve, but the symbols that we use for the Twelve gods did exist in their era according to the Version 1.0 Allagan Runestones, which displayed said symbols. The weird thing is ... why would they have a symbol of Menphina and treat it as a Goddess? I've said this before - they probably don't believe in a goddess of the TWIN moons considering one of the moons in that symbol is one of their military projects. Then again, back when that symbol was created, the lesser moon wasn't an Allagan creation. I have no idea how they're going to deal with that on the dev. side.

Two explanations come to my mind. One I think is plausible, the other is darksteel foil hat territory.

The plausible one is a case of appropriation. The Allag had these symbols in their temples. Some or all of them were representative of their deities, while others could have been religious in nature but not of a distinct deity. An example in real life of the former is the theory that the Christian halo was taken from the Egyptian sun disc (especially the early representations of the halo that are a filled circle of light). I can't think of an example of the latter off the top of my head so I'll make up an example. Imagine someone looking at a mural of angels and deciding that those are individual gods in a pantheon. This explanation even works for the Allagans worshipping the Twelve. At the time they used a different symbol to represent at the very least Menphina. Sometime after knowledge of Dalamud was lost someone important decided "you know, this symbol in this ruined temple looks just like the two moons. It must be what they used to represent Menphina and her loyal hound. Let's use it as a way of getting back to the root of the worship."

The foil hat theory is that this is the Allagan symbol for Menphina. There were two moons and when they launched Dalamud they decided the lesser moon's orbit would be a perfect place to put it so they somehow got rid of Menphina's loyal hound.

[treuhavik]

Azys LLa = Azyslan = Ayatlan

Let's not forget Bahamut = Dalamut = Dalamud, either! ;P

EDIT: Now, I was just poking fun originally, but now I'm not so sure. I could totally see a tribe of Dunesfolk moving into the Allagan ruins and 'telephoning' the name of it's creators.

"This place used to belong to the Allagans."

...

"Didn't that one guy say this city was called Balagan?"

"No, I think he said Baladians built it."

"Hm. Belah'dia, then... <shrug>"