Dalamud Thread

Wonder how close it'll be in 1.22

From that close it doesn't really look very 'physical'. Looks very much like a big ball of aether or something rather than something with like 'physical properties' if that makes any sense.

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Kinda reminds me of those pictures you see of viruses.

http://image.shutterstock.com/displa...o-15432961.jpg

Sorry to put two images in one post but couldn't resist;

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__...-RedVirus2.jpg

I don't think Dalamud gives a $%(^ on what we think it is, it's coming anyway!

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Originally Posted by Wevlum

From that close it doesn't really look very 'physical'.

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I think up close it looks even more 'physical' than normally, because you can actually see the mechanical parts of it like those metal-like craters or the spikey satellite tombstone-like things.
I put both pictures beside each other so you can see the similarities better :)

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg576...ng&res=landing

Waaaait a second...

http://www.angrybirds-online.info/wp...gryRedBird.png

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Originally Posted by Atoli

I think up close it looks even more 'physical' than normally, because you can actually see the mechanical parts of it like those metal-like craters or the spikey satellite tombstone-like things.
I put both pictures beside each other so you can see the similarities better :)

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg576...ng&res=landing

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I sort of see those as more rune-ey looking rather than physical. I think that I think that because of how transparent it looks against the sky though.

So I haven't seen many people discuss the Seventh Verse of the Divine Chronicles that Yoshida put up when he took charge. Urianger recites the first part in game as well:

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Ne'er till land consumes sun can sea bear moons,
Heavens spew crimson flame, hells seep black dooms.
Stray seeds quicken in ash's grey embrace,
Valiant blades forged under the Twelve's good grace.

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The first line appears to concern the change from Astral era to Umbral era, like from day to night.

We've seen the heavens spew flame in the first cutscene for each city, as well as in the intro video. I'm not sure what "hells seep black dooms" refers to though.

The third line seems to be talking about what happens afterward. Stray seeds quicken (us) in ash's grey embrace (post-impact).

The last line may just be looking toward the future. Adventurers (valiant blades) growing stronger after being saved by the Twelve.

However that's all just my first interpretation of it. I'd like to hear the input of others of course.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

So I haven't seen many people discuss the Seventh Verse of the Divine Chronicles that Yoshida put up when he took charge. Urianger recites the first part in game as well:



The first line appears to concern the change from Astral era to Umbral era, like from day to night.

We've seen the heavens spew flame in the first cutscene for each city, as well as in the intro video. I'm not sure what "hells seep black dooms" refers to though.

The third line seems to be talking about what happens afterward. Stray seeds quicken (us) in ash's grey embrace (post-impact).

The last line may just be looking toward the future. Adventurers (valiant blades) growing stronger after being saved by the Twelve.

However that's all just my first interpretation of it. I'd like to hear the input of others of course.

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Hell's seep black dooms may refer to what Legatus Nael van Darnus was saying to Gauis:
"Yes, but how much brighter the light that shined from the void! Think of it, Gaius! Within that nothingness(Meaning Eorzea after it has been destroyed by Dalamud) lies the root of all creation - pure potential, limitless possibility! This is the wisdom of the Ancients"

Meaning something is sleeping... or something is waiting to be reborn/awakened...
And that wound from the meteor will cause intense energy right at that spot

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Originally Posted by Rydin

Hell's seep black dooms may refer to what Legatus Nael van Darnus was saying to Gauis:
"Yes, but how much brighter the light that shined from the void! Think of it, Gaius! Within that nothingness(Meaning Eorzea after it has been destroyed by Dalamud) lies the root of all creation - pure potential, limitless possibility! This is the wisdom of the Ancients"

Meaning something is sleeping... or something is waiting to be reborn/awakened...
And that wound from the meteor will cause intense energy right at that spot

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Hm...

Bahamut, mayhaps...?

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Originally Posted by Arcell

So I haven't seen many people discuss the Seventh Verse of the Divine Chronicles that Yoshida put up when he took charge. Urianger recites the first part in game as well:



The first line appears to concern the change from Astral era to Umbral era, like from day to night.

We've seen the heavens spew flame in the first cutscene for each city, as well as in the intro video. I'm not sure what "hells seep black dooms" refers to though.

The third line seems to be talking about what happens afterward. Stray seeds quicken (us) in ash's grey embrace (post-impact).

The last line may just be looking toward the future. Adventurers (valiant blades) growing stronger after being saved by the Twelve.

However that's all just my first interpretation of it. I'd like to hear the input of others of course.

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The stray seeds thing might be referencing what happens with those forest fires. There's basically a plant/tree that benefits from them or something, I forget the name. But yeah basically ash's grey embrace, the burned remains of 1.** left after the impact causes seeds to quicken which I read as new life, i.e. stuff growing from seeds. That could mean us though.

You know, someone mentioned, jokingly, in another thread that it could be Odin.

Now that I think about it, that doesn't seem too impossible. The Allagan Empire could have sealed the "Elder Primal" Odin into Dalamud then tossed his ass into Orbit...

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Originally Posted by Alerith

You know, someone mentioned, jokingly, in another thread that it could be Odin.

Now that I think about it, that doesn't seem too impossible. The Allagan Empire could have sealed the "Elder Primal" Odin into Dalamud then tossed his ass into Orbit...

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I like the way you think.

Sounds feasible enough. Which would be why, in 2.0, he's all of a sudden roaming the lands freely.

Bigger.

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/4...0425210414.png

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/975...9657omgcat.gif

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2...1335407642.jpg

Dalamud and the Imperial Stronghold.

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/...1335409220.jpg
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/...1335409242.jpg
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/...1335409218.jpg
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/...1335409215.jpg

Loving it!!!!

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Originally Posted by Genz

Dalamud is an artificial satellite built by the Allag civilisation, who had a more advanced technology than even the garlean empire.
(or so it is said by the garleans)
Of course there must be something on it. I don't think the Allags would throw a rock in the sky for fun, just to say "we did it!".

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http://i46.tinypic.com/k4vz9u.jpg

So they're Tech Priests?

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

Hmmm.
http://liveyourdream-ownyourlife.com...background.jpg
Was the direction of that shot intentional or?

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hahaha... You KNOW I did that on purpose

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/fi...alamud_120.jpg

It seems like it's core is purple?

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

My first thought was that it looked like a giant FFXI fire staff. Then I realized I there was something better to compare it to.

Well played, sir.

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Not like we can log in on my server now... so we might as well chat it up

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/fi...alamud_120.jpg

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It's Nibiru!! :O

The 1.22 image isn't really all that helpful as there's nothing else in the picture to judge its size against.

It is huge though. I cursed out loud (to no one except my cat) when I first saw it upon logging in lol.

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Originally Posted by Inzoum

Waaaait a second...

http://www.angrybirds-online.info/wp...gryRedBird.png

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And here I am thinking the game's too casual as it is.
http://i.minus.com/ibyVmU2aRXroMQ.png

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/fi...alamud_120.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...koolaidman.jpg


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We better be able to travel to Meteor. FF4 you could go to the moon. Be quite nice if Garleans discovered space travel.

I really think Odin is sealed inside Dalmund.

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Originally Posted by Goufunaki

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...koolaidman.jpg


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when 2.0 hits

http://www.nutmegradio.com/wp-conten...Man-Spill1.gif

I don't know why but it always seems to me like it's the big red ball in the opening CS that all the primals kept flying from when it exploded (or something like that, go watch the opening CS again)

I find this just amazing XD spoiler alert

http://xivpads.com/-up/i/ffxivgame%2...4-55-47-95.png

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Originally Posted by HokSeven

I don't know why but it always seems to me like it's the big red ball in the opening CS that all the primals kept flying from when it exploded (or something like that, go watch the opening CS again)

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The ball the primals fly out of doesn't look very red to me XD

And, I think I recall reading somewhere in game that the primals require Aether-energy from the crystals to keep a connection with this world. Perhaps the destruction of either the engine on the ship, or the dragon, released a large amount of this energy which enabled multiple primals to come into the world at once.

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Originally Posted by Denmo

when 2.0 hits

http://www.nutmegradio.com/wp-conten...Man-Spill1.gif

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One of the weapons you can get from defeating him will be two jugs of kool aid for pug/monks.

They have to change what the npc's say around the towns. When the moon turns into a red ball of death, you talk about it

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Originally Posted by viion

I find this just amazing XD spoiler alert

http://xivpads.com/-up/i/ffxivgame%2...4-55-47-95.png

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Best part out of all :p

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Originally Posted by Xaimera

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...iracykeanu.jpg
DONE! :O

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Make me remember this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNg7pwqIVf4

So from the welcome back campaign we see the line
"In the dark the crystal waits dreaming"
This says to me that the crystal is in someway conscious. That it is capable of thought.
We also suspect that the Allagan's either did something to Dalamud or altered it in some way. (Cid calls it a satellite I think.)
In one of the concept art photos the text was translated as "Aetheryte that cannot be used, to show that it cannot be used it is red"

Long ago the Allagan empire discovered the power of the Aetheryte, but they could not harness this power because the aetheryte was a conscious living force. Either they had moral misgivings about using it or they simply couldn't. So they extracted the consciousness from the aether (Pulled it's brain out so to speak) and put it on Dalamud, or made Dalamud out of it.

Aetheryte that is alive is red, and can't be used. Dalamud used to be white, because it was either dead or just sleeping / unconsious for a long time after the Allagans split it up. Whenever the Garlean empire began project meteor they woke Dalamud up. They can't control where it lands because Dalamud is alive, and it's in control.

The primals are an unforseen side effect of extracting Dalamud's consciousness. The Allagan empire in the past was capable of defeating them, but due to the devastating effects of the umbral cycles they no longer exist, and an answer to the primals is not readily at hand. The Garleans, upon discovering this, believe that the only solution to stop the primals before they get out of control is to re-unite Dalamud with Eorzea.

My theory probably has quite a few flaws.
If you know of anything in game that directly invalidates it I'd like to know so I can try to revise.

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Originally Posted by Irishwars

They have to change what the npc's say around the towns. When the moon turns into a red ball of death, you talk about it

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I said the EXACT same thing in This thread right here

Best put on your deku mask

http://www.twilightlynk.com/template...11/mm-moon.jpg