Alexander Gordias, Midas, and ???

So we know that the Alex raid is named after the Phrygian king Gordias and his son Midas, the man with the golden touch, but what about the third part of the raid, who will that be named after? I tried to look and see, but I'm not sure what it might be named. If they choose a child of Midas some tales speak of a daughter, Zoe (life), and others a son, Lityerses (demon slayer of man). But while each ares structure makes sense going fist, cuff, arm, and burden, the "head" would most likely be named differently. Maybe it would be something like chest, neck, head, crown, if we climb up, or crown, head, neck, heart, if we climb down. Does anyone have any thoughts? And if so what name and structure do you think the next raid will have?

I believe it's actually just Alexander for the last.

As for the title, I assumed that because Alexander is Holy aspected in every FF before this, they were also intentionally drawing Father, Son, and Holy Spirit parallels as well.

I'm expecting the third tier to be a bit different, in theme and appearance, to the first and second. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit trippy with its time aspects and possible light aspects. I'm hoping we get something neat like the beginning of T6 and its illusion.

Well it could be named after Midas' Daughter so eh. Or after his son if has one

If you did the midas quest, they mention gordias, midas, then Alexander.

Since the last rock formation in the Hinterlands indicates that we'll be entering through the head next, my guesses for the last four raid names are:

The Crown of the King, The Voice of the King, The Heart of the King, The Soul of the King, with the last one fighting a mini version of Alexander like T13.

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Originally Posted by Jacost

my guesses for the last four raid names are:

The Crown of the King, The Voice of the King, The Heart of the King, The Soul of the King, with the last one fighting a mini version of Alexander like T13.

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I can see these being canon names

When you open the Savage version, The Minestrell say something about the giant of metal being named after tree great kings, Alexander, Godias and Midas. So I think the last tree raids will be named only Alexander, maybe something like Jacost said.

I know this is just me being a little kid inside, but I hope that they don't go "Soul of the King" route a la T13, and instead make it "Reign of the King" instead. Imagine a fight that takes place throughout the Hinterlands, a giant Alexander attempting to destroy the stuff you're standing on as you go (with actual destruction causing a wipe) and making safe places hard to find as you deactivate him from the outside after attempts to do so from the inside proved fruitless due to the time bubble.

The next Alexander raid will be Alexander: Alexander of the Alexander.

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Originally Posted by FaerieAura

I know this is just me being a little kid inside, but I hope that they don't go "Soul of the King" route a la T13, and instead make it "Reign of the King" instead. Imagine a fight that takes place throughout the Hinterlands, a giant Alexander attempting to destroy the stuff you're standing on as you go (with actual destruction causing a wipe) and making safe places hard to find as you deactivate him from the outside after attempts to do so from the inside proved fruitless due to the time bubble.

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I also would hope they give us a proper fight with the actual manifestation of the primal rather than just its Prime. As epic as T13 was I was admittedly a little disappointed that we didn't get to face off against Bahamut's half-regenerated form. Having said that though these are gods way beyond our level and it would take a rather contrived plot device to allow us to fight them head on I feel.

The biggest hope I have is that the battle mechanics involve time travel. After the fight against Nabriales we know the devs have the tools to play with time in a fight so I'd love to see some creative use of that. Something akin to the Cerberus fight where half the team goes back in time to change something so the other half can continue might be pretty neat as well. So much potential for the final tier!

From what I read on the "tale" the third king is probably Alexander the great, who cut the Gordian Knot. But it still is up in the air about how the raid will be named. Something-something king, while admittedly it fits, just seems so expected.

I'm willing to bet Alexander Area 12 will end up causing us to fight the Spirit of Mide's Boyfriend as it takes the form of The TRUE Core of Alexander.

Something smaller and more humanoid but still with some semblance of The outer Alexander.

In FFXI, alex was also known as the iron colossus, I feel like we could get a series named "of the Colossus." Or given his main attack is holy judgment. it could be. "Of Judgment."

This iteration of Alexander doesn't really play up the holy/light-elemental alignment probably because that's reserved for Hydaleyn. The T13 equivalent may have an ultimate called Divine Judgement that looks like white energy, but will likely be 'unaspected damage'. Even DRK's spells which looks all black and shadowy deal unaspected damage, while true 'dark-elemental' like Dark IV etc, are reserved for Zodiark-aligned mobs like Ascians.

Hell, even WHM's 'Holy' deals Unaspected elemental damage.

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Originally Posted by FaerieAura

I know this is just me being a little kid inside, but I hope that they don't go "Soul of the King" route a la T13, and instead make it "Reign of the King" instead. Imagine a fight that takes place throughout the Hinterlands, a giant Alexander attempting to destroy the stuff you're standing on as you go (with actual destruction causing a wipe) and making safe places hard to find as you deactivate him from the outside after attempts to do so from the inside proved fruitless due to the time bubble.

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I was honestly thinking of this as well...though given the surprise that M8S apparently through at people maybe M12S will do it for us!

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

This iteration of Alexander doesn't really play up the holy/light-elemental alignment probably because that's reserved for Hydaleyn. The T13 equivalent may have an ultimate called Divine Judgement that looks like white energy, but will likely be 'unaspected damage'. Even DRK's spells which looks all black and shadowy deal unaspected damage, while true 'dark-elemental' like Dark IV etc, are reserved for Zodiark-aligned mobs like Ascians.

Hell, even WHM's 'Holy' deals Unaspected elemental damage.

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That's more due the lack of Light/Dark resistances. I bet that Dark "IV" and other Dark/Light spells that The Ascians, Mhachi, Amdapori and Heaven's Ward uses are unsuspected damage as far as the game's concerned

They could just refer it to Babel in some way. They could also call it Alexander-Maria or Alexander-Futura after Metropolis. But that may be mostly of how I read some scenes as being a little Big-O-ish and the look/function of the chair that goblin was strapped to when they assembled the codex. Almost like that chair is the brain of the system while the terminal is the control unit.

I don't think the first ones are called "Alexander : Gordias" or "Alexander : Midas", but rather only "Gordias" and "Midas". The duties themselves don't refer at all to Gordias or Midas but are called "Alexander - ..."

The last one will just be Alexander imo

I did research a little about Gordios and Midas a bit after Midas got released and there is one more king that could be possible for the last part of Alexander: Croesus.

I think the next part of the raid should be named Doug, or possibly Mike.

Pretry sure it will be Phrygias .

I see the next four levels having the name "Spirit" as some have mentioned earlier for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Spirit would also provide the freedom to pick non part-specific names like Promise of the Spirit, Hope of the Spirit, Dream of the Spirit, Wish of the Spirit, etc.

It sounds silly, but maybe Alexander: Dayan, after the Au Ra leader who was sucked into Alexander's core. In at least one dialogue, Mide was talking about her idol Dayan and it was ambiguous at first whether she was referring to Alexander instead. Since Alexander: Alexander is unlikely, Dayan would be standing in for Alexander as the Spirit/Soul of Alexander. This gymnastic metaphor would create two complete sets: the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Spirit; and the name of three "kings" Gordias, Midas, and (Dayan for) Alexander.

I hope it's not "Dayan," though. Maybe he has a Greek or "barbarian" last name that they use instead.

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Originally Posted by Rashammel

When you open the Savage version, The Minestrell say something about the giant of metal being named after tree great kings, Alexander, Godias and Midas. So I think the last tree raids will be named only Alexander, maybe something like Jacost said.

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This. Exactly what i believe it will be

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Originally Posted by Warr_of_Lint

I see the next four levels having the name "Spirit" as some have mentioned earlier for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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I imagine they'd be a bit more subtle this time, something like;

Alexander: The Head of Reason
Alexander: The Chest of Truth?
Alexander: The Heart of Judgment (pre-core fight like A4/M4)
Alexander: The Holy Spirit (Mide and Roundrox use the power of friendship, and the ghost of Dayan, to transport us directly into the final core to fight Alexander Prime... Original!)

Of course, they could just go with something like "The Spirit of Reason" for the head, and so on...