Thread: Revelations from Patch 4.3

Originally Posted by Theodric

Edea, Lulu and Beatrix from the ladies.

I disagree with you on a lot of stuff Theodric, but your taste in women is not one of them.

As for lore revelations, I know I'm a bit late to the party but:

General stuff about 4.3

Speaking of points where we disagree, this is what I've been talking about! The transition from Asahi to his second in command and Alphi taking the plunge to go to Garlemald, coupled with the surprise re-appearance of Moose's favorite character was perfectly well done. I know you've been hankering for more "the other side" of Garlemald politics and I always fought that because the time wasn't right. Well, this time was right. It was spot on with how it was done, and seeing Tsuyu finally get her last revenge on her little shit of a brother was very satisfying, even if a part of me wanted her and Gosetsu to end up as a doting grandfather and loving granddaughter living as hermits in some forgotten corner of Yanxia.

As for Asahi himself:

He'll always just be a beer to me.

I posted my thoughts on Zenos in the other theory thread, but suffice it to say I think the whole Ascian angle regarding Zenos in the capital that Alphi is worried about is probably the correct one.

Originally Posted by Ghald

Actually I thought showing the mask was excessive. When the fight started I already guessed it could very much be

Gaius judging by the fight stance and the signature abilities the legatus have. When the cutscene zoom in on the gunblade and the subsequent acknowledgement by Gaius to have known Alphinaud before cemented my guess that he was indeed Gaius van Baelsar.

Thing is though, Gaius's "signature abilities" were also used in our tussles with Regulus in the solo instance before ARF and as the first boss of ARF (Regulus didn't have a unique weapon amongst the legati until his instance in 3.3), and the ceruluem burning field was also used in Regulus's 3.3 fight. Dashing around and using ceruleum X attacks are not unique to Gaius, they seem to be a legatus in general thing (or at least legatus that use gunblades anyway).

It's expanded on in the lore book. Both Giaus and Regulus have studded older ways of using gunblades then most people use and both are very, very good at it. This is contrast to Nael who used a lance and Zenos who used Katanas. Giaus and Regulus are the only legatuses we've seen who use the traditional Garlean weapon, and they're both older then the other two legatuses we've met. The only other person we've seen use a two-handed gunblade is Nero I believe, but he's abandoned that in favor of his war-hammer Mjolnir. I'm interested if using more "common" weapons is a trend with the younger Garlean generations given that Garlemald isn't as isolated as it used to be.

Neither Gaius or Regulus are using normal weapons either. Heirsbane was given to Gaius by Midas nan Garland when Gaius was promoted to the rank of Legatus. Regulus' blade is a prototype he's testing for the Magiteck Academy to see how well it preforms in actual battle. I'd be very surprised if we ran into anyone else using a two-handed gunblade at this point. They don't seem to be considered a common weapon the way the one-handed gunblades are and even those aren't that common. The only people we see using them are the officers in the Imperial Legions almost all of whom are Garleans.

So doing the Ridorana Lighthouse these pas few weeks have made me wonder something...

Ivalice

I'm confused on the function of that Construct 7 guardian: it claims "anomalous intelligence detected", and after the math mechanic, it then claims re-education failed and goes into Tartarus and Annihilation modes. So did Goug have a really hardcore education system or is the robot malfunctioning? Also, speaking of Goug, anyone else notice we seem to pass through an Aethyrite to reach it?

It's not an Aethyrite exactly. It's a callback to how dungeons in FFXII work. You usually would find a small crystal-like thing (forget the exact name) that would transport you to somewhere in the dungeon and you had no idea where it was going the first time. This would unlock it for further use. Eventually you'd use entire networks of the crystals in dungeons to travel to different parts of the the dungeon.

Presumably, there was a similar network in Goug to make getting around the huge tower easy. Somehow the WoL or Ramza found a teleport crystal that skipped over all the destroyed part of the tower and transported them from the bottom floors to the very top floors that still existed.

Heaven on High:

Really neat to have the Allagan connection with Heaven on High; the Onishishu seem like an absolutely fascinating organization. Given the founder's references to Princess Salina and Desch, they must date back all the way to the Fourth Umbral Era. I wonder if reaching Floor 100 reveals any more, or if the quest On the Shoulders of Giants is the extent of it?

Oof, I'm even more disappointed that story for HoH is limited to just the first 30 floors now.