Bismarck

[Anonymoose]

If only they could be trusted! In 1.0, most NPCs referred to Dalamud as something that'd been in the heavens since the beginning of time, something later revealed to be off by at least a few thousand years. I usually have to attach mythology to the present-day subject. For instance, the Keeper of the Lake and the Battle of Silvertear Skies would end up hosting most of the mythology of Midgardsormr, and those events would be fitted to a chronological timeline, since 1562 is known. Most of the time, that works out best, seeing as my notes for Dalamud hosted such things as "mythologically Menphina's loyal hound" and "scholars consider it one hunk of rock orbiting another hunk of rock" and "accused of glowing red due to the rise of Ifrit," and yet we were still able to suss out in Patch 1.18:

Is Dalamud really a moon? 'Celestial Body' does denote a natural object, but maybe the term is being used loosely. Perhaps the red hue it takes is an activation protocol of some kind; some kind of Magitek that powers a sort of base of operations that we'll have to invade someday a la FFXI's Tu'Lia...

That's why to discern the truth of the sea serpent, I'm still stuck on little knowns like Nepto Dragon, lol.

And all of that could just be wrong, too. Let us not forget the time this tried and true method led me to the epiphany that the five races were blessed by the primal Siren based the name "The Echo," some dialog from my favorite drunken pirate, and Answers having a harp in it.

Ah, well. It's the journey that counts, and the forum is the best inn on the path.

[EDIT] inb4: "Using Anonymoose's method I have discerned that the Vanu Vanu are actually over-tempered Sea Wolf ancestors."