Void Ark: Confirmed to be a relic from the War of Magi?

[Cilia]

Well, the snippet says they summoned it in desperation to try and avoid the flood at the end of the war (Calamity of Water). It's probably not representative of their wartime capabilities.

But maybe it is!

[Nalien]

Well, the snippet says they summoned it in desperation to try and avoid the flood at the end of the war (Calamity of Water).

Which makes all those coffins slightly more... Grim... I almost get a Dalamud feel from this... I suspect the Mhachi are still alive in there, though perhaps they wish they weren't...

I wonder how it was actually summoned... Primal? Voidsent? Probably Voidsent. I'm guessing it is a reference to the Ark summon, seeing as not all past summons have to be Primals and we already have a good amount of them being Voidsent (Atomos/Diabolos/etc.). If it is a Primal though, then it really does give off a Dalamud vibe... Do wonder what the coffins are for if it's not, though... I'm guessing, since they summoned it out of desperation, they overlooked the fact that Voidsent are bastards, "Yes I'll save you" says the Void Ark, "But you didn't say anything about letting you be free after!".

[Daralii]

I wonder how it was actually summoned... Primal? Voidsent? Probably Voidsent. I'm guessing it is a reference to the Ark summon, seeing as not all past summons have to be Primals and we already have a good amount of them being Voidsent (Atomos/Diabolos/etc.). If it is a Primal though, then it really does give off a Dalamud vibe... Do wonder what the coffins are for if it's not, though... I'm guessing, since they summoned it out of desperation, they overlooked the fact that Voidsent are bastards, "Yes I'll save you" says the Void Ark, "But you didn't say anything about letting you be free after!".

I wouldn't be too surprised if it is a primal. It looks very organic, and based on Lost City of Amdapor it looks like parts of it are in the image of what could be their architecture.

At the same time, it'd be very reminiscent of Alexander, and I don't know if they'd do two giant structure primals back to back.

[Nadirah]

My vision sucks.

Coffins? Where?

[Daralii]

My vision sucks.

Coffins? Where?

You can see a bunch of coffin-shaped objects hanging off the underbelly when it's flying around. Should be pictures in the UFO thread.

E: Got one

[Nalien]

I think the interior was littered with them somewhat as well, though it's hard to tell in the screenshots...

[CyrilLucifer]

Given how tattered and destroyed the cloth mage armor drops looked from this in the Live Letter, I think we're going to find their fate quite unpleasant.

[Chewy2nd]

I wonder, from the video it looks like we'll be exploring pretty much all of the ark in the first raid...

I wonder if this means we'll be heading to Mhachi too?

[treuhavik]

I wouldn't be too surprised if it is a primal. It looks very organic, and based on Lost City of Amdapor it looks like parts of it are in the image of what could be their architecture.

Amdapor was the nation of white mages, though. Diabolos and Ferdiad were simply trapped and forgotten in Amdapori structures, discarded Mhachi weapons of the War of the Magi. It was Mhach that summoned the Void Ark to escape the flood, and, imo, the one and only link it has to the nation of black mages is the plane from which it was summoned.

Speaking of Diabolos and Ferdiad...

It's my understanding that, while primals are thoughtforms created anew from aether each summoning, voidsent are summoned by opening rifts between our realm and the void itself and calling them through. This is most probably how Void Ark was summoned, but it also means that voidsent actually existed elsewhere before their summoning. Despite this difference, I can't help but feel a connection between voidsent lords and primals. It could simply be that the music for Diabolos and Ferdiad is eerily similiar to Ifrit's and I'm letting it get to me, but they are both alien to our realm and consume aether. We'll have to wait to hear what the eikons think of it all...but I digress.

I wonder, from the video it looks like we'll be exploring pretty much all of the ark in the first raid...

I wonder if this means we'll be heading to Mhachi too?

I think you're right in that we'll be moving, much like we did through the Crystal Tower series. However, Mhach was situated in Eorzea and the ruins of the nation still remain in the forms of Temple of Qarn, The Invisible City, etc. However, there is that tower seen in that original slide (mayhap that's what you were referring to). There's no telling who the fortress belonged (belongs) to, but I think we can all agree that it matches not Mhachi architecture, nor that of any other civilization that we've encountered, and don't forget that ever welcoming zeus-y eikon-statue-dock-thing...

[myahele]

I'd love for Diabolos and Ferdiad to become end bosses for Void Ark.

I can picture Diabolos - Voidsent King of Nighmares - to have a field day in the Vaoid Ark assuming all those coffins contain a Mhachi mages in stasis