Where did the door in the Chrysalis lead to?

https://i.imgur.com/id9A7qV.jpg


Where did it lead to? The heart of the star? The moon? The void? Some other dimension we don't know about yet?

Well, I'm not sure what the Lorebooks said but the ARR artbook interestingly revealed the directive the artist who designed it was given from the writing team stated that the Chrysalis is a pocket dimension made from the "memories of the Ascians", and that the areas that were well defined were meant to represent "where the mind was strong" and "unravelling where the mind was weak" (paraphrased).

And, the whole feel of the Chrysalis matches the 'darkness crystals/platforms' suspended above Etheirys at the end of the Amaurot dungeon much much later in the game (apparently where Zodiark was originally summoned), this kind of makes sense.

So whether that door was based on something from their memories or something else is unclear - it's more likely to be just symbolic and not a literal door, given the Ascians kind of have no need for them (as they simply teleport everywhere, as they're beings of aether and all). Maybe it was meant to represent Zodiark's throne or something, given he's their 'one true god' and all looking at it it does seem to have vaguely Amaurotine icongraphy, so take from that what you will.).

The "rift between" itself is still something that feels a touch...ill-defined given that's not some transitional area between corporeal and aetherial like it was initially implied to be as we didn't need to enter it to reach the aetherial sea.

If you look down below the platform in Chrysalis, you can still see a churning water-like surface akin to what the boundary of the aetherial sea looks like over in Labyrinthos so it does seem like it at least sits directly adjacent to it, though.

Kingdom Hearts.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Kingdom Hearts.

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That can't be right. I have it on good authority that Kingdom Hearts is Light!

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

That can't be right. I have it on good authority that Kingdom Hearts is Light!

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That's why they keep the door shut.

Now I'm just waiting for someone to call out SORA, DONALD, GOOFY... to complete it all

It's the door to Emet-selch's naptime room.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Well, I'm not sure what the Lorebooks said but the ARR artbook interestingly revealed the directive the artist who designed it was given from the writing team stated that the Chrysalis is a pocket dimension made from the "memories of the Ascians", and that the areas that were well defined were meant to represent "where the mind was strong" and "unravelling where the mind was weak" (paraphrased).

And, the whole feel of the Chrysalis matches the 'darkness crystals/platforms' suspended above Etheirys at the end of the Amaurot dungeon much much later in the game (apparently where Zodiark was originally summoned), this kind of makes sense.

So whether that door was based on something from their memories or something else is unclear - it's more likely to be just symbolic and not a literal door, given the Ascians kind of have no need for them (as they simply teleport everywhere, as they're beings of aether and all). Maybe it was meant to represent Zodiark's throne or something, given he's their 'one true god' and all looking at it it does seem to have vaguely Amaurotine icongraphy, so take from that what you will.).

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So the art books have snippets of lore like that as well? Guess I will have to check them out... the rift was one of those things I would have liked to have found out more about ingame.

... Although funnily enough, some of the Ascian scenes appear to take place in the Mordian Gaol.

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Originally Posted by Vyrerus

It's the door to Emet-selch's naptime room.

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Question is Spriggy-Selch invited to Emet's nappy time room?

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Originally Posted by Rannie

Question is Spriggy-Selch invited to Emet's nappy time room?

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Only if he's done with his Spriggy-Rejoining homework.

maybe it leads to that ascian meeting room we saw a few times.

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Originally Posted by Listrella

ascian meeting room

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now im imagining a long table in a beige room with a whiteboard covered in sticky notes.

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Originally Posted by sidurgu-12

now im imagining a long table in a beige room with a whiteboard covered in sticky notes.

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And now because of you I'm seeing the Ascians as the cast of Office Space with either Elidibus as the Boss or Emet Selch thanks

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Originally Posted by Rannie

And now because of you I'm seeing the Ascians as the cast of Office Space with either Elidibus as the Boss or Emet Selch thanks

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As long as we all agree that Fandaniel is Milton.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

As long as we all agree that Fandaniel is Milton.

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I was thinking Milton or the Mc so yeah it's perfect

Throw meteion in as the stapler too

Did we ever get an explanation of what exactly this is?

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.8joCEN...id=ImgDet&rs=1

Brought it up here since the background looks a little like the Chrysalis to me

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Originally Posted by Nav_Fae

Did we ever get an explanation of what exactly this is?

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.8joCEN...id=ImgDet&rs=1

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Nope. There is a purple crystal underneath the arena in the Zodiark trial, but that's about as close as it gets.

I can only assume it's just one of those awkward ARR plot elements that was forgotten as time went on.

Right, the 'dark Crystal' thing seen in the stinger scene in ARR is... something that has long been quietly dropped in importance lore-wse (most of EW's story is pretty much ideas that were arrived at only recently, and were not part of a long-term plan the writing team had developed. Many ideas and concepts stated early in the story in 1.0/ARR have long since been dropped or ignored with new ideas added, and EW is particularly egrarious with this). The Mothercrystal after all was

revealed to be nothing more than just a giant... crystal... that had naturally occurred from all the aether gathering and coalascing in the core of the planet (and thus the scenes with the crystal apparently 'speaking' with Hydaelyn's voice was just Venat throwing her voice through it.)

Presumedly the so-called 'Fathercrystal' in the Moon under Zodiark's battlefield probably came about in a similar way.

interesting

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Originally Posted by Nav_Fae

Did we ever get an explanation of what exactly this is?

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.8joCEN...id=ImgDet&rs=1

Brought it up here since the background looks a little like the Chrysalis to me

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We found out the mother Crystal isn't a god but a natural occuring phenomenon where Hydalyn happens to live in. The dark crystal is just the moon's mother Crystal formed as aether circulates into and out of the moon for 7 calamaties.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

That can't be right. I have it on good authority that Kingdom Hearts is Light!

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That's just Disney-esque bullshite in play. The human heart is full of far more darkness than light, that's why we commit atrocities.