Not sure how they would fit but....aliens...

[Starkbeaumont]

as funny as it may sound by aliens in a fantasy environment seem way out of place...

[Altijacek]

as funny as it may sound by aliens in a fantasy environment seem way out of place...

FF has done it before, and it is called final fantasy, which even though to the company it means something different, to me it means all types of fantasy go, and that includes aliens. Plus, I should've mentioned in OP it would be a great way to introduce PuPu as other poster said.

I do agree it's out of place, which is why I don't think they should have strong presence. But I mean it's FF, everything goes...we already have Japanese mythology, Greek mythology, Christian mythology, Roman mythology, Mexican mythology, Aztec/Mayan mythology, Native American mythology, Norse Mythology, Indian Mythology, Science-Fiction, Islamic mythology, Chinese mythology, Russian mythology, Horror elements, its own unique mythologies, "borrowed" mythologies from other works...how would aliens feel out of place?

[JeniLinsky]

as funny as it may sound by aliens in a fantasy environment seem way out of place...

You know, there's another way to look at all this... it's all Science-Fiction.

Hear (read) me out, here: The ancient Allag had technologies which we, as modern Earth humans, don't have. It's not such a stretch to think that they might have mastered nanotechnology, including Von Neumann machines. Now, here's the interesting thing about that possibility... we know that the basis of magic is something called "Aether." And that Aether has a physical presence, because there's an Aether pump under the lighthouse at Pharos thingie. Not to mention the fact that material are said to be crystalized aether, infused with the experience of the base item's user through association over time.


If I'm right, Aether is actually nanotech, and "magic" is simply the process of learning to show the foglets what you want them to do. When one casts a spell in game, one can see the foglets accumulating, then flying out to the target, where they do whatever it is you've asked them to do... bring the fire / ice, do cellular repair on wounded flesh, whatever.

So we have magic today, because the Allag had science then.

[gornotck]

Science is the answer to everything.

Ancient Allag brought the world to its knees. Bahamut is bound by keeping his physical and aetheric forms separated. Odin is cursed to walk the world because he simply cannot die. The big yellow dude at the end of Labyrinth was science beyond science. The Gigas tribes were a subjugated race beneath the Allagan Empire, and they are obsessed with Allag's technology under the belief that it'll MAKE them Allagan. All the beasts of Eorzea are but the freed experiments of Allag, gone feral over the centuries. All following civilizations are but children playing in their parents' clothes.