Lore behind primal ponies being able to fly in 3.0

So you guys might have heard the awesome news already, all primal ponies will be able to fly in heavensward! (Source here: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...nterview_bits/ )

Lore wise though, how do you think they will change the ponies from being "normal" horses to a pegasus?

You think we're going to have to do some kind of quest that explains it? Maybee there's some kind of special eather in the 3.0 zones that changes the ponies!

Speculate away! ;D

Bladders. (Sorry, running joke, lol.)

The Nightmares were gifted from the Ascians to the beast tribes to use as war mounts - presumably they're creations of the Void. Nightmares that were sacrificed to the elemental primals were reborn as elemental ponies in every case but that of Shiva. Though there are many hints that Ascians nudged Ysayle on her path to becoming Iceheart and Shiva's vessel, they didn't give the heretics Nightmares - the heretics just sacrificed unicorns instead. Perhaps Nightmares themselves were unicorns to begin with and the heretics just skipped a step; that part's fuzzy. Anyroad...

I assume they fly the same way succubi float, or the same way Garuda and Shiva hover... some kind of aetherorepulsive technobabble... This may be one of the cases where hoping for more than that is futile, but if this team was ever one to back down from a lore challenge, I'm an Ishgardian Duke.

They are magic unicorns with [Insert corresponding element here] on the feet, I don't think they need a reason to be able to fly !

A wizard did it.

The elemental miasma around their hooves is magic enough to fly! Just look at the headless horseman mount in wow, he runs on the air. I Imagine it will be like that.

If you look closely at the Nightmare, it has fire engulfing its horn, and both stones and blades of wind circle around its hooves. It has the first three properties of Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda. Were the Nightmares gifted to the Amalj'aa, Ixal, and Kobolds first, Moose?

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

If you look closely at the Nightmare, it has fire engulfing its horn, and both stones and blades of wind circle around its hooves. It has the first three properties of Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda. Were the Nightmares gifted to the Amalj'aa, Ixal, and Kobolds first, Moose?

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Mechanically, at least, yes.

Nightmare came in during 2.1 with the first three extreme fights, long before the elemental ponies came into existence.

Whether Sahagin and Sylphs also had Nightmares at the time is unknown (as is how the sylphs would use them as mounts in the first place).

Maybe theyll "grow" wings and be Pegasai after taking off

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Originally Posted by LycorisSelunis

Just look at the headless horseman mount in wow

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Played the game for 4 years.... never got that SoB.....


Anyroad, I have no idea if SE will give a lore reason as to how the primal ponies will be able to fly. I honestly don't think they'll give any lore reasons, because.... HOW could they explain it? If they do give us a lore story that explains it, then that's great! But I really don't think we'll get one. This is a fantasy game after all, so things will happen that don't make sense, regardless. That's the point of a fantasy game. I think I'll probably just roll with it and not worry about an explanation.

Nightmare will be able to fly too correct? At the very least if they give a lore reason for that one, it could just be assumed that the ponies we got would be retconned into "Nightmares with wings" type of thing.

Also...kinda hoping if they do having wings it'll be made out of their respective elements. Could also give a reason, while at the same time not having to be really be explained lore-wise too much mayhaps.

I really love the idea of them suddenly sprouting elemental wings when they take off, but I also doubt SE would find it worth their time to go back and modify them. :(

I still have foolish optimism. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. But I will not let up till we find out it does not happen!

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

I really love the idea of them suddenly sprouting elemental wings when they take off, but I also doubt SE would find it worth their time to go back and modify them. :(

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One dev said that for the current mounts to fly they have to create take-off/landing animations...not that much of a stretch to make wings at the same time for flying