Synthetic Auracite System Questions

How is this thing transforming the environment we're in from a lore perspective? I can understand turning into other people, I guess, but this one, I just can't create an explanation.

This one actually hasn't been explained.

I assumed they were just illusions conjured from memories that weighed very heavily on the minds of the two subjects we've seen used for the project, as things just abruptly return to normal once the Weapons are shut down.

They never really bother explaining how some other primals like Zurvan and Tsukuyomi completely transform the battlefield, either.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I assumed they were just illusions conjured from memories that weighed very heavily on the minds of the two subjects we've seen used for the project, as things just abruptly return to normal once the Weapons are shut down.

They never really bother explaining how some other primals like Zurvan and Tsukuyomi completely transform the battlefield, either.

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I'm going to assume it's essentially a Reality Marble created by an excess release of Aether into the air, temporarily creating a spatial distortion bubble with its own rules set up by the creature that creates it. This explains why things like E1's ultimate attack doesn't actually destroy the solar system or planet, because we're not actually there during the fight, we're in the bubble.

According to what Cid an Belsar both said they've already fed at least 1 primal to each of the weapons.. from the fight with Saphire weapon..

What we know is that primals can pull us into a world during the fights.. most notablely the fight with Tsyukiomi the memories from Tsyu and the moon stage at the end..

So it stands to reason that the weapons can also harness this power from the primals being used as energy cores along with the auracite data from the Garliean commanders

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

I'm going to assume it's essentially a Reality Marble created by an excess release of Aether into the air, temporarily creating a spatial distortion bubble with its own rules set up by the creature that creates it. This explains why things like E1's ultimate attack doesn't actually destroy the solar system or planet, because we're not actually there during the fight, we're in the bubble.

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This was one possibility I considered. The other credible one is that some primals and enemies have an ability akin to the Phantom Ruby, which essentially creates hallucinations so believable they effect you as if they were real.

Sometimes Reality Marble-type abilities are explicitly used - the Burning Heart, Soul of the Creator, Shinryu fight, and Omega Raids all take place in such closed-off pocket dimensions (in part or in whole) - but unless it's explicitly stated or shown we don't know what exactly is going on.

I think it's just a stylistic choice.

We may or may not have fought a holographic projection of Gaius, but the room in lore most certainly did not suddenly turn into a recreation of the conquest of Werlyt. Just as I doubt that at the end of 4.3, the interior of the Castrum suddenly turned into an autumnal Japanese garden.

If the recreation of Werlyt inside the Castrum happened in lore for real, then we effectively had introduced straight up holodeck technology into the setting, which has massive implications. I don't think that the G-Warrior training simulation from 5.3 counts, as I don't think that was an actual holodeck, but rather just the WoL sitting in the cockpit of the G-Warrior doing simulations but the G-Warrior is not actually moving and the landscape has not been altered or anything.

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

We may or may not have fought a holographic projection of Gaius, but the room in lore most certainly did not suddenly turn into a recreation of the conquest of Werlyt. Just as I doubt that at the end of 4.3, the interior of the Castrum suddenly turned into an autumnal Japanese garden.

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Considering Gaius saw it as well and was just as surprised, I'm going to assume that it was another Reality Marble moment.

Since it's synthetic auracite, probably better to compare it to the capabilities of actual auracite. We see in the Ivalice line that Ultima has the ability to pretty comprehensively change environments (we move from Mullonde into dark-space-dimension when she does her Ultimate Illusion, then back when she gets defeated), so they probably have limited capacity to alter the immediate environment given that they're created by her.

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

If the recreation of Werlyt inside the Castrum happened in lore for real, then we effectively had introduced straight up holodeck technology into the setting, which has massive implications.

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Isn't the fight with Nael in the Binding Coil specifically at "the Holodecks"? And that illusion was fully visible to the characters.

Which is not to say it's in use every time this happens, but the technology exists and is there to be salvaged.