Gamerescape's Lorecast interview with Koji Fox!

I was waiting for Anonymoose to post this lol, but he doesn't seem like he's going to :p

It really feels like we learned a LOT from this interview, very excited about the Heart of Sabik!

Linky!

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How did stories of Bismarck appear in both Vanu Vanu and Sea Wolf mythology? How old is this story?

KF: It’s very old. It goes back to what I was saying with Phoenix, there’s one seed and it spreads and there are some similarities but in some places it’s different. Some places he’s in the sky, some places he’s in the sea. He might show up again soon, someplace. Where it’s beautiful. And hand drawn. I’m not gonna say anything else. <pauses for a moment> They’re gonna kill me for that.

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This is bugging me...as if I should know what this refers to...


(and if its just the Lore book...)

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Originally Posted by PArcher

This is bugging me...as if I should know what this refers to...


(and if its just the Lore book...)

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I let my mind run away with me and imagined a "hand drawn" style dungeon... I really want that, lol.

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Originally Posted by Chewy2nd

I let my mind run away with me and imagined a "hand drawn" style dungeon... I really want that, lol.

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See, my mind went to that Roe in the Bobbing Cork staring at that painting for some reason. I really doubt there's any connection there, but still. Weird.

With the mention of Hullbreaker, could have something there (don't know what we're going back there for at all), but could also be the new dungeon (jump into a painting of Primals or something? IDK), or some random Echo-flash or something...

I'll stop now, this is getting to silly.

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KF: Right, like on a church! The void has always existed on this other plane while Eorzea has exited. Certain calamities will rip open these tears in the void where more voidsent can come in, most of the time it’s closed—again, sometimes there’s small rents where things will come out—and people, not knowing what those are, see them. They end up in mythology and people think, “Let’s take something like that and put them on the churches.”

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Please let this be the case for Belias and Cuchulain! Twelve great big angry Voidsent show up for reasons, enter mythology, then perhaps maybe hopefully get the Primal treatment! I can't stand Belias being a Primal, while Cuchulain is a Voidsent, I need either all to be Primals, or all to be Voidsent... Belias being a Primal with mythology stemming from a Voidsent of the same name works perfectly, though...

Koji, these FFXII teases, I swear

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Please let this be the case for Belias and Cuchulain! Twelve great big angry Voidsent show up for reasons, enter mythology, then perhaps maybe hopefully get the Primal treatment! I can't stand Belias being a Primal, while Cuchulain is a Voidsent, I need either all to be Primals, or all to be Voidsent... Belias being a Primal with mythology stemming from a Voidsent of the same name works perfectly, though...

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That answer line in general was a pretty clear "out" for them making multiple monsters with the same name. We've already seen one case of this - we fight "Valefor" enemies in LotA, but one of the sidequests in 3.0 was a tease for a Valefor primal, who will almost certainly look far more chicken-y and have many more laser beams than the FFXI-style undead dragons in LotA did. I would not be remotely surprised if we saw a Cuchulainn primal at some point, if they do an "Ivalice set".

(Koji I swear)

I was planning on posting a link to this interview alongside the one for the Lore Book Interview (which was conducted at the same time and split up for posting flow, but is included in the podcast). I opened the post page, started trying to think of a thread title, and then ... took a nap before the live letter. _(_ _)_

Thanks for having my back, though! :p

Rabanastre and Dalmasca apparently exist somewhere in Eorzea, oh, Koji Fox, why you taunt me so?

...That's where Viera are from and no one tell me otherwise >_>

I do hope for more references to Ivalice. Perhaps they'll even make Garlemald like Archades and have plenty of characters like Gabranth/Drace.

...and an entire zone based around a 'Lea Monde' type city would be wonderful too.

So what I'm seeing here is that Ramuh himself is not the Primal but the beard is instead an Eikon? Most interesting. . .

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Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage

Rabanastre and Dalmasca apparently exist somewhere in Eorzea, oh, Koji Fox, why you taunt me so?

...That's where Viera are from and no one tell me otherwise >_>

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Costa Del Sol also exists, yet we have no FF7 related stuff from it.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Costa Del Sol also exists, yet we have no FF7 related stuff from it.

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Does the old, rich pervert count as an FF7 reference?

Only if we have a scientist with women fawning over him.

Well, Midas nan Garlond must have gotten laid at least once and you can't tell me Cid isn't hot.

Also, if it were really true to FFXII, Viera wouldn't be from Dalmasca since they come from the Wood and rarely venture out, I'm just saying it would be a lore-appropriate reason for the race to come from IN EORZEA. Think of it as the hopeful wishes of an Ivalicean fanatic.

My long suffering of yearning of the origins of the phoenix are over thanks moose <3

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There are 14 small flags on the Ironheart map released with 1.0. Are they all just filler?

KF: Basically, when Mr. Ironheart went out on his journey to map the realm, he didn’t do it alone. He went alone, but he needed funding; it was a great undertaking. In addition to the large city-states, which he got approval from, he contacted guilds and lesser houses and asked for money. Those little markers are from certain houses and banks and other places that funded him, so they got a little spot on his map.

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Well, that finally answers that mystery of those smaller flags in the Eorzean map.

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KF: As you know, he’s basically trying to—not directly 100% summon the Twelve, but summon their power. Summoning the Twelve would cause true chaos, but he wants enough power to harness it and send Bahamut back. So he’s gathering the energy from the prayer stones with the help of Eorzeans, and the prayer feeds that summoning process while he’s trying to keep it down without bringing out the Twelve. He hits Bahamut with that, and he shrugs it off, but the power is still there. He’s consciously bringing those [aetherial spires] back for one last push, which is what you’re seeing.

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This was the most intriguing part of the interview for me. Koji Fox seems to suggest that the twelve arriving in eorzea would somehow cause major havoc. That says to me that the twelve are probably not what we think they are.

Also it seems that Louisoix had to have his summoning ritual suppressed in order to prevent the twelve from actually appearing. So that means louisoix had the ability to summon them if he wanted to ? Or was he just trying to prevent false versions of them from being summoned ?

In the Tales of the Calamity


Louisoix summoning ritual would have actually summoned the 12, but as Primals (since prayers + aether = primals). Which is why he was planning on killing himself before they could be brought into existence.

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

This was the most intriguing part of the interview for me. Koji Fox seems to suggest that the twelve arriving in eorzea would somehow cause major havoc. That says to me that the twelve are probably not what we think they are.

Also it seems that Louisoix had to have his summoning ritual suppressed in order to prevent the twelve from actually appearing. So that means louisoix had the ability to summon them if he wanted to ? Or was he just trying to prevent false versions of them from being summoned ?

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Sounds like he didn't want the Twelve to actually appear themselves, for their power would probably do more damage to everything than any primal could or even Bahamut himself.

The bit about the Mamool Ja really interested me, I'd always assumed that they we're just a race, not a nation, now I'm really interested what awaits us on the Western Continent.

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

Also it seems that Louisoix had to have his summoning ritual suppressed in order to prevent the twelve from actually appearing. So that means louisoix had the ability to summon them if he wanted to ? Or was he just trying to prevent false versions of them from being summoned ?

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If he let the summoning finish, he would have summoned Primal versions of the Twelve, not the Twelve themselves. Those twelve Primals would all have been immensely powerful (thanks to all the aether and crystals used in the ritual) and would have cause a lot of destruction just by being in existence (basically, a real Eorzea-destroying Calamity. Remember, Primal drain aether just by existing, and the more powerful the Primal the more they drain. And we've seen the effects of imbalanced aether on a smaller scale than what this would have caused...)
That's not to say anything about what these Primals would have actually done after being summoned...

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Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage

Rabanastre and Dalmasca apparently exist somewhere in Eorzea, oh, Koji Fox, why you taunt me so?

...That's where Viera are from and no one tell me otherwise >_>

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Actually, I remember Dalmasca being namedropped twice already.
First in the mentioned early cutscene by the technician/spy who gets killed by Nero (they actually kept that in the German version)
Second time was by what’s-his-name who lives at the severed string in eastern La Noscea. He tells you he wants to go home to Dalmasca one day at the end of his Moogle postman quest

I actually found the reference to Ascian's true form as interesting. I've always seen them as human like spirits that simply possess others kind of like people with the Echo which have transcended their original form. That they had a 'true form' and its rather monstrous is very curious. Were they in fact originally mortals that changed? Or are they something else originally? Is that the situation which people with the Echo? Given enough time, if we lost our original body, would the WoL have a 'true form'?

I get the impression Ascians are Liches.