Primals and beastmen info released

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Originally Posted by Momita

A glacial primal... in thanalan? meh :/

I think she (and all beastmen) will be in coerthas together with the ixal

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This. If the rumours are true, Coerthas has gotten colder and bedecked in snow. There might be a reason for that.

I would say a Tonberry King, that would fit in with FFVIII's rendition. However, looking back at the gelmorra ruins. What looked like crystalized Tonberries and the crystalized Valigarmanda(tritoch)/dragon in that cave. Valigarmanda is green... wouldn't not fit with the Tonberries.

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Originally Posted by Catapult

This. If the rumours are true, Coerthas has gotten colder and bedecked in snow. There might be a reason for that.

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We can easily say rumors became true...

With this screenshot *---*

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/static...uda/ss_002.jpg

NATALAN in winter!!

Poor poor garuda... she will be an annoying neighbour :p Who will be the first lady?? I bet on Shiva... Ice > Wind :p

Spoiler Alert!

Remember in 1.0 during the ifrit Cutscene when Ifrit got mad that we were following our own primal or something and not him, but our primal was never revealed. Perhaps the primal we get the power of the echo from? (If they still choose to use this route). I guess Odin would be a good primal for non-beastmen, although it wouldn't make sense associating the echo with him, meh. Also, NEEDS MORE ALEXANDER! He is by far my favorite summon in all of FF.

Edit - Or perhaps Atomos = Echo, forgot about him. He's probably mad that we beat him up 100000000000 times though during the event :P

If Sylphs are considered beastmen with their own primal, I would think Moogles with Good King Moggle Mog XII should also be included in that list. It feels incomplete without it.

The Sahagin are also looking really cool. I'm also glad to see there's some color and size variation in them:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/static...han/ss_002.jpg
So many mobs are only differentiated by their names/weapons. Curious if size is different by age, subspecies or rank.

Also... have we ever seen purple sylphs before?

The echo is a power granted by the Lodestone, it was said by Fernehalwes sometime ago if i remember correctly.

There were no purple Sylphs that i know of in 1.0

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Originally Posted by Alaltus

*shudder* i just had a awful thought. What the heck would Mindflayers worship? D=

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Are we sure the Mindflayers were born that way? Judging from the FFXI version, they're probably just deformed humans. In fact I'm willing to bet that they were once naughty little Lalafell who forsook the Twelve.

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Originally Posted by Bowen

Yay, we finally have a confirmation that Ramuh is the Primal of the Sylphs. Not only that, but it seems like he's not as crazy as the other Primals we have encountered. I wonder how that'll play out.

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It's kind of hard to compete with Garuda eating women and children while their husbands/fathers watch.

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Originally Posted by Yrusama

Are we sure the Mindflayers were born that way? Judging from the FFXI version, they're probably just deformed humans. In fact I'm willing to bet that they were once naughty little Lalafell who forsook the Twelve.

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Mindflayers... Lalafell!? only ancestrally due to the devolution from Lalafell to Human! but as we are on the subject you'd accept the possibility of Odin being their Primal? They both have blue eyes and as you say they're probbably deformed humans. I mean what caused their transformation? Sylph and Ixal changed pretty radically once they began to worship their Primals.

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Originally Posted by Alaltus

Mindflayers... Lalafell!? only ancestrally due to the devolution from Lalafell to Human! but as we are on the subject you'd accept the possibility of Odin being their Primal? They both have blue eyes and as you say they're probbably deformed humans. I mean what caused their transformation? Sylph and Ixal changed pretty radically once they began to worship their Primals.

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So corrupted humans turn into squid-faces if they start worshiping Odin? I'm more inclined to believe that the Primals don't really need a worshiping tribe, only a supply of crystals/aether.