The Seventh Umbral Age is Upon Us

[Akumu]

Here are some more shots of the strange GM/NPC if anyone's still curious. He visited us at Camp Horizon on Gysahl last night and spoke japanese. His weapon is the coolest!

http://ffxivryu.blogspot.com/2011/04...s-upon-us.html

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He has a tattoo on the right side of his face. I wonder does that mean something like how the starter NPCs you meet all have tats also.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

He has a tattoo on the right side of his face. I wonder does that mean something like how the starter NPCs you meet all have tats also.

Prob a stigma mark of some type. Btw Since playing the game with my headphones I notice a funne sound sfx when these special npcs come into play. And also the screen seems to pulsate.

Also it seems, some npcs you were talking to seem to never notice the npc was even there or was ever talking to you. Like in U'l"dah when you go sell the flower. The elf from the CS comes in talks to the girl at the counter after she askes about selling the flower. The screen pulsate and he appraises the flower and buys it off you, he leaves the screen pulsates again and npc asks about the flower as id she didn't see you sell it.

Similar occurences happen.

I personally can't wait to log back in and hope to run into these shdy characters.

[Meimei]

Prob a stigma mark of some type. Btw Since playing the game with my headphones I notice a funne sound sfx when these special npcs come into play. And also the screen seems to pulsate.

Also it seems, some npcs you were talking to seem to never notice the npc was even there or was ever talking to you. Like in U'l"dah when you go sell the flower. The elf from the CS comes in talks to the girl at the counter after she askes about selling the flower. The screen pulsate and he appraises the flower and buys it off you, he leaves the screen pulsates again and npc asks about the flower as id she didn't see you sell it.

Similar occurences happen.

I personally can't wait to log back in and hope to run into these shdy characters.

*SPOILER*

The "pulsating effect" you speak of is The Echo, as explained around the time of the r20 scenario mission, is the power to look into the past of someone else. Can also physically interact with their past as is seen many times throughout the story. The Echo also allows one to understand all languages.

The player character (that's you) is known to possess the power of the Echo along with a group of people situated in Ul'dah called The Path of the Twelve, which you become a part of in the story.

If the Echo is involved with the appearance of this strange prophetic Archanist, could be there's some kind of time travel involved.~