Diabolos

[Darske]

I'm not sure if it was recently added in the latest patch or not, but I got some interesting dialogue from Raya as a BLM when asking her about White Magic, which was basically a small infodump on the origins of White and Black magic. I don't have the conversation in front of me, but basically it implies that White Magic was created as a balance to Black, mending to balance the Black arts of destruction. The two function on the same principle though, which is drawing power not from oneself but from the aether around them.

Which raises a very interesting parallel in my mind to the primals, don't you think? She goes on to say that a war between Black and White magic drained so much from the land that it led to the Umbral Era of that time. Now, what I think is really interesting in relation to Diabolos is how the Lost City isn't devoid of life. Far from it, the place is overflowing with life, with rampant mold and fungi everywhere. And since there seems to be more rampant life the closer to Diabolos's sanctum you get, it's really got me wondering if perhaps in desperation for more Aether, the white mages of Amdapor turned away from the land they bled dry for power, and sought the strong Aether of a different source... the Void.

Judging from the state of the city, I'd say they got more than they could ever have hoped to handle. So my theory is that the white mages opened a door to the void, hoping perhaps to channel its energies through the white magestones, and ended up unleashing something truly terrifying in the process. Perhaps the magestones themselves are the source of the rampant growth, outputting so much void-tainted aether that they've warped life in the city to its present state. And until now, Diabolos (a very powerful Voidsent, perhaps their ruler) has been waiting in that city with an open door to our world, waiting for the day the seal on Amdapor finally fades.