Grand Companies of Eorzea Page Updated! (09/07/2011)

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The official Grand Companies of Eorzea page has been updated with intelligence on the Garlean Empire.

Read on to find out what manner of threat the Empire poses to the city-states of Eorzea.

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http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/company/gc01.html#gc7

Some interesting tidbits there, I guess it confirms that dragon as a big-ass primal summoned by someone.

Sorry, but where does it say anything like that?

Under the Black Wolf's bio.

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Originally Posted by Junpei

Sorry, but where does it say anything like that?

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However, the unanticipated appearance of a primal shortly thereafter prompted the Empire to halt the legion's advance.

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Right there sir, right there.

Can i join the White Raven? :D

Also somehow Gaius Van Baelsar looks pretty similar to Grahf from Xenogears xD

I wonder if they are listing the Garleans in the same manner as the Grand Company Leaders because they may be an joinable Company later on in the game...

Hmm interesting. Play as the bad guys.

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

Can i join the White Raven? :D

Also somehow Gaius Van Baelsar looks pretty similar to Grahf from Xenogears xD

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EPIC WIN SE~! THANK YOU~!!

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Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee

I wonder if they are listing the Garleans in the same manner as the Grand Company Leaders because they may be an joinable Company later on in the game...

Hmm interesting. Play as the bad guys.

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You know they cant do that. Eorzea would be doomed, everyone is after the gun*weapons. Its all about rewards, and the Garlean sure know how to make me excited with that gunlance.... /sigh why as an adventurer did I end up in eorzea and not the other side of Garlemald through my travels? ...

I knew I shouldnt have listened to that Lalafell and got aboard that ship heading for Limsa....

Can i have my Gunlance please? :)

More better if there is a job that use Gunlance as it specialize much much more better! :D

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Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee

I wonder if they are listing the Garleans in the same manner as the Grand Company Leaders because they may be an joinable Company later on in the game...

Hmm interesting. Play as the bad guys.

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Bad guys? Are they? It's some kind of tradition of FF games. I would not be surprised if they become not so bad in time.

Akihiko Yoshida helmets! It was bound to happen and I love him for that.
His character designs never disappoint.

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Originally Posted by Yazoo

Bad guys? Are they? It's some kind of tradition of FF games. I would not be surprised if they become not so bad in time.

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Who knows at this point, but they're certainly not painting a rosey picture just yet... What with the murdering of innocent people and that <___<

The description of Gaius' sword suggests he's a bit on the murderous side, even within Garlemald.

Also, is anyone else hoping to see at least some kind of access to lodestone content from within game soon? I mentioned a newspaper stand idea a while back but all this great info is going to get missed by people who don't visit the site (and there will definitely be a chunk who don't, especially when the PS3 comes out.)

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Originally Posted by Yazoo

Bad guys? Are they? It's some kind of tradition of FF games. I would not be surprised if they become not so bad in time.

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Ahh good old Arguments for the sake of Arguing type scenario. You could very well be correct, however, I am currently correct in relation to the current Lore :)

Oh and: Gun Lance is cool, but I don't personally care to have one myself as I am more of a mage oriented playstyle.

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Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee

Ahh good old Arguments for the sake of Arguing type scenario. You could very well be correct, however, I am currently correct in relation to the current Lore :)

Oh and: Gun Lance is cool, but I don't personally care to have one myself as I am more of a mage oriented playstyle.

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I don't think it's a win or lose thing, he's just bringing up an alternative view? Neither is correct because we don't know enough yet, it's all speculation.

Also, Gunstaff and Gunscepter would like a word.

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Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee

Ahh good old Arguments for the sake of Arguing type scenario. You could very well be correct, however, I am currently correct in relation to the current Lore :)

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Sure, but we don't know much about Garlean Empire. Hope we will some day.

The empire is just trying to rid the world of ancient technology, making their way in with the new, better lifestyle. Almost like how Apple freed us from the world! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

Can i join the White Raven? :D

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I'm pretty sure the "White Raven" is Darnus' title, not something you can join...

Why does the Garlean Empire have to be so badass and the city states so bland?

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

Also somehow Gaius Van Baelsar looks pretty similar to Grahf from Xenogears xD

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And Nael Van Darnus has stolen Melia's wings from Xenoblade.

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Originally Posted by Fated

Why does the Garlean Empire have to be so badass and the city states so bland?

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I'm hoping this is going to turn around when we get some map redesigns / meetings with the leaders / quests with cutscenes to make them feel alive and not so dull. Right now they really do feel so basic.

Does anyone else getting the feeling that the game is going to revolve around the garlean empire for a while. I could see us kicking them off this continent at some point but they own 2 other continents so we'll probably travel there and beat them? (seems risky). They seem to be the only enemy at this point.

On the bright side I didn't know this world had three continents :).

So how awesome would it be if the Grand Companies defensive mission became an offensive one, where we begin expeditions to free the conquered lands, starting with Ala Mhigo and then going onward to the cities of the other continents. Each new city could have an entire story arc that ends with a showdown with one of the Legatus and finally taking back the city from the empire.

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Originally Posted by Sephr

Right there sir, right there.

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Am i missing something cuz i don't see the word Dragon in that sentence... Just primal.. could be anything.

:O Gunblades!

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Originally Posted by Sephr

Right there sir, right there.

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My Bad, too much drink last night I feel.

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Originally Posted by Onidemon

Am i missing something cuz i don't see the word Dragon in that sentence... Just primal.. could be anything.

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Originally Posted by Sephr

Some interesting tidbits there, I guess it confirms that dragon as a big-ass primal summoned by someone.

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Hence why I said 'I guess'. The evidence is there though, Garlean invasion force coming, giant ship gets destroyed by huge dragon, Garleans stop attacking. We know they're persuing methods of summoning their own Primal, perhaps because they want to control that strength.

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Originally Posted by Onidemon

Am i missing something cuz i don't see the word Dragon in that sentence... Just primal.. could be anything.

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Probably referencing to the intro cutscene, where you see the empire attack and get halted by Bahamut followed by the crash of the airship in Mor Dhana.

Also in the cutscene, when Bahamut "dies" you see all the primals being shot out everywhere. Were they just released when he died? I thought there were worshiped by the beast tribes for a long time but if they were just released with that, it's like 30 some years ago no?... I'm confused.

In this cinematic, at around 6:00 you'll see them resulting of Bahamut's death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbxPsWFyU8. The 1st one you see is Ifrit I think, then Titan.. the rest we don't see but you can assume they are also Primals being released.

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Originally Posted by Sephr

The description of Gaius' sword suggests he's a bit on the murderous side, even within Garlemald.

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He definitely dose not seem to be the type to mince words.

I mean hell he activated one of the cannons on that monster of a ship in Mor doha because four adventurers were about to make him break a sweat.

But from a practical standpoint no. I don't see the empire accepting us adventurers into there ranks, mostly due to the echo. I would be willing to wager some advancements in technology for the city states coming from the ironworks though. Well as soon as were permitted by the company's to go "Acquire" some samples for them to tinker with.

Just to clarify, we do not know if the dragon who attacked the airship was Bahamut. In fact, if you watch the intro video, he looks nothing like Bahamut. My personal guess would be Shinryu.

Where does it say that was Bahamut in that cutscene? It looked more like the dragon god Shinryu in my opinion. Just saying

Well isn't Bahamut known to be the father of all Eidolons (avatars)? Therefor, would fit why the primals are "released" from him when he "dies" in that crash.


Can't say he doesn't look a bit like this version of Bahamut on the PSP : http://goo.gl/0axqC

This whole company update is to counter my movements to get the entire FFXIV community calling him Judge Vader, isn't it.

http://theunholyarmy.enjin.com/galle...854#pid=192038

They spelled Gaius Baltar wrong.

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Originally Posted by Andrien

Where does it say that was Bahamut in that cutscene? It looked more like the dragon god Shinryu in my opinion. Just saying

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It didn't, it's just an assumption people have made.

I'd personally side with those suggesting it was Shinryu. The fact that he's absolutely gigantic, and that the other primals seemed to 'spawn' from his destruction kinda suggests to me it might've been some kind of greater primal, with the ones we come into contact with being a product of his death, or something...

Maybe that is the storyline in the upcoming expansions. The remerger of primals back into the source primal beit shinryu or bahamut to beat back the empire of the continent. Then we have to travel to the other two continents ourselves to beat them back more.

If you can join the empire I'm definitely in, not because I want the weapon or gear but I want to see their side of story, pretty sure there are good guys inside the empire.

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Originally Posted by Royal

Does anyone else getting the feeling that the game is going to revolve around the garlean empire for a while. I could see us kicking them off this continent at some point but they own 2 other continents so we'll probably travel there and beat them? (seems risky). They seem to be the only enemy at this point.

On the bright side I didn't know this world had three continents :).

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The way I'm sort of picturing how it could and I would like it to play out, I'm expecting the Garlean Empire to form a kind of 'always there' threat, where we deal with them frequently in the overworld events and company quests, and generally the story with them moves through collective effort (maybe collecting supplies and killing guys to meet company targets to progress as well as company quests to go out and help people dealing with garlean problems and glean some more info about them). That way we feel like the world is changing and we're helping to move it on as a group.

On top of that we'd have the storyline missions for each area (and new expansion continent we visit, where there'd probably still be a garlean threat but that would still be an overworld thing) that deal with the specific problems of that nation or whatever and treat your character as the hero ala classic FF stories and the way XI did it. That way we'd have a consistent threat, and a bunch of other potentially more epic ones to deal with.

I suppose after travelling about a bit and pushing the empire out of different places we'd wind up in Garlemald and have them and their culture as the centrepiece of the story, as well as their reasons etc.

So for example with our current scenario, I'd picture hamlet defence and continued assaults revolving around the Garleans mainly with a progression over a few months eventually pushing them out of all the zones of Eorzea (currently in the game or otherwise) and eventually pushing them back to Ala Mhigo where we have our lovely showdown with the general etc. Then we could have a main character storyline revolving around the Archons, meteor, dalamud and the umbral era approaching etc, with our character playing a key part in dealing with that problem.

Anyway, that's a way I'd like it to play out, so that all the current loose ends could be addressed in good, solid ways.

/speculationover.

With their sudden boom of technology and how they grew from a small settlement quickly into the great force is obviously influenced by something they don't count as a celestial being.

Maybe Alexander is controlling them?

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Originally Posted by Royal

Maybe that is the storyline in the upcoming expansions. The remerger of primals back into the source primal beit shinryu or bahamut to beat back the empire of the continent. Then we have to travel to the other two continents ourselves to beat them back more.

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once they whole again....you fight the dragon! beat him! get his power! become a summoner!!!

lol