TALLY HO!!!!!

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Check out the high resolution screen shot found at the gallery at this page. If you look at their knee joints (and their unnaturally shaped eyes) you can see these fellows are mechanical in nature. I think that's further evidence toward Mammets or at least a reimagining of Final Fantasy Dwarves.

Hmm i'm not entirely sure. They don't look like the mammets currently in the game to me though, especially the eyes and the much thicker arms. I guess we have to wait till the 23rd to find out what they are. The image on the left with the viking hat really hit my nostalgia though Even if I'm wrong.

[Nestama]

If they're mammets referencing the dwarves of FFIV, that's alright. If they actually end up being dwarves, then I'd be disappointed. I'm used to seeing dwarves being short, yet muscular (or stocky?), fellows.

[WellFooled]

Hmm i'm not entirely sure. They don't look like the mammets currently in the game to me though, especially the eyes and the much thicker arms. I guess we have to wait till the 23rd to find out what they are. The image on the left with the viking hat really hit my nostalgia though Even if I'm wrong.

Mammets in FFXIV come in all shapes in sizes. All of the humanoid minions (like Thancred, the GC leaders, Minion of light) are all Mammets. Even the Allagan used Mammets in their wars. It's more of a general purpose word like Robot.

[Lucke]

Rally-ho!
/10rally-hos!

[Kosmos992k]

The ones in OP's image look like mammets to me.

Despite Mammets being automata, we do have some decent evidence that they possess self awareness. Look at the Goldsmith's guild, and of course our beloved Magitek armor. It's not beyond the realm of possibilities that those are specially created, more advanced mammets with self awareness, or perhaps they might even be hosting entities of a non-corporeal form?

::runs::

[Vejjiegirl]

Mammets in FFXIV come in all shapes in sizes. All of the humanoid minions (like Thancred, the GC leaders, Minion of light) are all Mammets. Even the Allagan used Mammets in their wars. It's more of a general purpose word like Robot.

Yep! this is true! if you use a title called <<Mammeteer>> all your Poppet Minions come to life and start moving around! You can even feed them....

[Heliantheae]

Lali ho

Rally-ho yourself!

[OneUp]

Per the description:

"In all of creation, what greater mystery could there be than the fate of this very star? To sound the deepest depths, to study the aetherial sea itself─for these purposes and more was the Antitower built. Abandoned by her Sharlayan caretakers following the exodus, it has since been overrun by the magical guardians they left behind. Yet were one blessed with Her gift to brave these dangers and descend to the furthest reaches─to hear, feel, and think at the heart of this world─what would they find?"

[Duuude007]

Perhaps they are implying that dwarves and mammet machines are more alike than we think, with the similar likenesses.

What I want this to ACTUALLY mean is... like the tower of babel in the same game, this is a path to the underworld, in a new expansion...

[dinnertime]

Luca from FFIV is a dwarf and doesn't look like that in the after years at all. I assume dwarves actually look human and them having a black face and yellow, glowing eyes was just their face being obscured.



So i'll assume those things are somewhat like Mammets.