Quote Originally Posted by JepMZ View Post
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Hey I'll take this idea and run with it (My personal dislike of iconology aside).

Alright here we go:
Hydaelyn seems to be one of at most two true deities in Eorzea with Zodiark possibly being the second. The Twelve I personally believe were the original warriors of Light who ascended to Godhood in the wake of the 1st Umbral Era. (A theory for another day). So t he Iconology of the 12 being Deities is the made by the people that worship them. If Louisoix's vision at Carteneau is any thing to go by the twelve are crystals themselves, possibly even the crystals floating around Hydaelyn herself. The Ascian's Glyphs i don't recall being unique to each but I may be wrong as we've really only fought three different ones and I was too busy dodging AoEs to take a good look at them.

Now as for the connections to previous final fantasy titles. I'd like to point out the GFs were not gods and were(Seemingly) manufactured some how. The Aeons were singular living people who had trapped them selves within living memory so they are not gods. The Church of Yevon was manufactured and the symbol of "Yevon" was the seal of Yu Yevon himself thus intentionally not used correctly. The Acsian Glyphs seem to be related to FF12 and Ivalice thus leading to the Theory that Zodiark is the Crystal of the now dead or nearly dead Ivalice and Hydaelyn is some how responsible (Again, for another time).

The "Sigil of Light" it's self is not a symbol of Hydaelyn herself but actually a spell seal that grants us the blessing of light as it never formed until completed and broke when sealed only to return in a different form when unsealed. So it's more a symbol of the WoL than anything.
And Finally the Eidolons.... I'm going to assume you're speaking of the FF13 ones as I never played enough of 9 to actually see a summon. But the FF13 Eidolons were summoned from the symbol/crystal of their L'cie summoner not the Eidolon themselves. What they were in FF9 I'm afraid I have to plead Ignorance too.

And as for Dalamuld being a retcon, well that was never disputed, the whole idea of it literally went along the lines of "<Yoshida and Koji Log in to FF14> Yoshida: Hmmm, I need to reboot the game, but how do I justify the maps being completely remade? Koji: Hey Boss, what about that second moon? Yoshida: THAT'S IT! We'll crash the moon into the planet! That'd definitely change things when it landed. Koji:So what you're saying is that that's no moon? Yoshida: Not anymore. <Devs log out to implement patch 1.23a>