AntiTower Speculation

[Fenral]

I've been begging for Eureka since the original CT story terminated itself in that most ingloriously slipshod way that it did. Yoshida was dropping the name "Eureka" like crazy before 2.5, but I think he's only used the words "Crystal" and "Tower" in a sentence together twice in the year since. And he outright changed the subject when Famitsu asked him about it last month...

With Alisaie coming back into the MSQ shortly, I can only hope that we'll be seeing the other 2.X raid story folded back in as well, in some capacity. At the very least I'm surprised Nero hasn't been spotted poking around Azys Lla yet, and I still refuse to accept that "I'm aborting my character arc to preserve this prominent-yet-underutilized MacGuffin for some undefined purpose in the future!" isn't a direct sequel hook. Someone still has to prove to Krile that she's not the last of her kind...

[Murakami7]

It could have something to do with the strange ruin in the north eastern area of the Dravanian Forelands. That always struck me as being a good location for a future dungeon - though the entrance isn't really geared towards something as large as Nidhogg getting inside. Unless he uses a different entrance of course.

This was my first thought too! I like the Eureka theory too, but I'd really like to see what that ruin in the Forelands is.

[Kaiser-Ace]

This was my first thought too! I like the Eureka theory too, but I'd really like to see what that ruin in the Forelands is.

Which Ruin? The Collosium or The Door in the Cave?

[Xaeth]

One thing I could see is while clearing the mess in Ishgard, they find a secret tower going down through the pillar of rock that Ishgard sits upon and that tower is related to the past of Ishgard and maybe gives a reason to why the original Thordan and his knights did what they did.

[Velox]

that is...way smaller than the inside, Who brought to TARDIS to Albathia\\'s Spine?

Well most dungeons are. The open-world scaling is done differently than instance scaling so we aren't traversing 2x the amount of land. Fly up and check out Fractal Continuum or check out the Wander's Palace for example. The insides are a LOT larger then the outsides. Even the Aetherochemical Research Facility would barely fit within the Flagship if it were actual size.

[-Krypyonite-]

Taking in mind what was said about ''opression tower'' i remembered that, thordan's weather, the weather in the reactor is ''opression'' so i went to have a look again in azys lla. this is the entrance of thordan and Aetheriochemical Research Facility:



above it, you can see the godess.


Doesn't seem very relevant right? well... we also know , that if SE follows the formula, the trial will be (right) before the dungeon (snowcloak/shiva, keeper of the lake/chrisalis)

we also know that the trial boss will be sephirot, the demon (i think)



wich should be right here. So we know that ATLEAST that should be where the entrance for sephirot is.



and this one should be for the fiend later on.


but i have also found interesting things in here:



this seems to be an.... well, it kind of resembles a door to me. so i would bet that to be the anti tower.

but then you say, ''well, yeah but , we are already using the ''entrance of the godess''
well, there is still everyone's favourite red room:



so, my bets? (pure speculation) door of sephirot is the 2nd photo, door of the fiend is 3rd. Anti tower door would be the tower in the middle, that would go downwards, therefore, the 4th picture.

and the door for the godess would be the last picture,wich interestingly enough, in the last patch they have added an interesting barrier style visual effect to the hallway entrance that leads to the red room.

what you guys think?

[AstralKaos]

Like some others have already assumed, my bets are also on this guy.

[Februs]

There's a big door chained up at the back of Azys Lla. It could be there.

I don't recall the exact coordinates (nor can I get them cuz' I'm not in-game at the moment), but there's a door at the back of the flagship. It's kind of hidden in a tunnel which seems to lead under the flagship. There's what looks like a force-field in front of it (though you can walk through it, no problem), and the door is sealed up with many chains. Like everything else, it glows red. I've been wondering about it since I first got to Azys Lla.

Next time I get online, I'll try to get the exact coordinates and/or take a snapshot.

EDIT: Nevermind lol. Someone beat me to it. I was thinking of this door:

I like the idea that they are the doors to the Waring Triad. That was actually my original assumption (before they announced the Anti-Tower), because there is a giant statue of them right above this door. There's no real proof, though. So, for all I know, it could be a door to the bathroom.

@Krypyonite's theory on it adds up in numbers, and I think it is most likely that this door is for the Triad ... but I have a question. IF these 3 doors do, in fact, lead to the Waring Triad, wouldn't there be a problem with the separation of the 3 deities? In FFVI, it was heavily implied that the three petrified gods had to be balanced, their remains were moved together and arranged in a specific way to keep that balance from falling apart. In FFXIV, keeping them separate would make sense from a game design perspective to allow us to challenge them one at a time (rather than a free-for-all cluster f***), so it would make sense to me that they are in distinct locations. Yet, from a lore perspective I wonder if that makes sense. Do the Warring Triad in FFXIV not have the same relationship to one another that they do in FFVI?

[AstralKaos]

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While I somewhat agree with the Triad doorway idea for each tunnel under them, that ominous door however I have a different assumption on.

It involves the Gigas and their supposed relation to Allag. Here, look at this.



His axe has a strange emblem on it, looks familiar, right?

Now, it's not really much, but that is strangely similar isn't it?



So "how does this have anything to do with them, Azys Lla and so on?" I hear, well, my assumption is that Giants were used as experiments at Azys Lla, that is, the experiments in cloning that Amon did. They potentially were the first in the cloning experiments subjects, and the reason these Gigant class of Giant's are attracted to Mor Dhona and the Crystal Tower is likely a result of adopting the memories, albeit in the smallest amount, of the thing they were attempting to clone in the early stages.

Behind that door I'd wager is either failed experiments of the cloning, leftover data of it, and other thing related to the whole thing.

Bit of an out there theory, I know, based and brought on purely on what is essentially a similar looking symbol (it could just be their attempt at copying it, or something).

[Kaiser-Ace]

What ever is in there must be Pretty horrifying if the hyper advanced Allagan Empire resorted to litterally chaining the doors shut instead of just locking them with tech.