Statue of the Unsung

[Nalien]

I suspect Ratatoskr was grey, since that's in between white and black (the colors of Hresvelgr and Nidhogg).

I think she was red/orange, based on the tapestry we see in the main scenario;

Ratatoskr

Nidhogg

I kinda want to go through that poster of all the Celestial Dragons again now...

1. Midgardsormr
2. Hraesvelgr
3. Tiamat
4. Bahamut? Possibly Ratatoskr, though the proximity to Tiamat and wings being so prominent has me thinking this is a pre-Primal pre-Allag augmentation Bahamut. It also kinda looks like the hand is right?
5. Nidhogg
6. ?
7. Ratatoskr? Horns facing forward like the previous illustration, and there might be four of them? Colour is close too.
8. ?

None of them are actually a good match for the illustration from the main scenario... I guess Ishgard might just be lazy in their depiction of dragons? Ratatoskr was displayed exactly the same as Nidhogg, except orange...

[Frederick22]

I think she was red/orange, based on the tapestry we see in the main scenario;

Ratatoskr

Nidhogg

I kinda want to go through that poster of all the Celestial Dragons again now...

1. Midgardsormr
2. Hraesvelgr
3. Tiamat
4. Bahamut? Possibly Ratatoskr, though the proximity to Tiamat and wings being so prominent has me thinking this is a pre-Primal pre-Allag augmentation Bahamut. It also kinda looks like the hand is right?
5. Nidhogg
6. ?
7. Ratatoskr? Horns facing forward like the previous illustration, and there might be four of them? Colour is close too.
8. ?

None of them are actually a good match for the illustration from the main scenario... I guess Ishgard might just be lazy in their depiction of dragons? Ratatoskr was displayed exactly the same as Nidhogg, except orange...

I'm sure Number 7 is indeeed Ratatoskr
Number 4 it has to be Bahamut for sereval reasons. First it does look very similar to primal Bahamut, also another thing is that all those gold pieces on Bahamut arent of him, its from the allagans. Look at a picture of Bahamut, recome all the gold and tell me it doesnt look similar to the real one.

[Lunaxia]

'Memory' implies the statue is a memorial etc.

It says "along with the memory of thine [...] wings." To me that doesn't sound so much like a memorial as it does a tribute to something the dragon did.

Giga post

I'm glad someone else looked into this! I agree with most of your post, though I put Bahamut as 6 since it seems the most similar to the primal version appearance-wise. I think Ratatoskr is 4, because a) the colour is the most similar to that shown in the tapestry (it isn't completely accurate, but neither is Nidhogg - he's definitely blue, but shown as black) b) it suits her horn placement, and

c) Ratatoskr, Hraesvelgr and Nidhogg were named after creatures from Norse mythology, Nidhogg after a great dragon and Hraesvelgr after a giant who take the shape of an eagle, which is reflected in their appearances. Ratatoskr was named after the squirrel who ran up and down the world tree Yggdrasil carrying messages between an unnamed eagle and Nidhogg (also hinted at with the placement of her old nesting grounds in the CM; Tharl Oom Khash lies directly between Zenith and the Aery), which suggests her appearance will likely have been similarly influenced. 4 is the most squirrel-like out of all them, going off the shape of her body and face.

[Nalien]

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If 3 is not Tiamat, which do you place as Tiamat? Pay her a visit in Azys Lla, I'm almost 100% certain 3 is Tiamat. The only other one with a remotely similar face is 6, but 3 is really a dead ringer for Tiamat... Plus 3 is green, Tiamat should* be green.

Between 4, 6, 7 and 8 I'm also fairly certain 4 is Bahamut. If you strip away the Allagan augmentations, he seems to have only horns going back along his head, possibly similar to 4 (it's a weird angle). We can rule out 7, since it has 4 claws, where as Bahamut has/had 3. Can't see much of 8, but that face is waaay off so lets just rule him out. That leaves 4 and 6, and given 6 seems to have a long neck I'd go for 4, since Bahamut, at least the Primal version, has a stubby little neck. 6 at least has horns going back, but they seem too far off his neck to be Bahamut, too.

*Incarnations where she hasn't been green or associated with wind annoy me; Why is she a fire dragon in XI?! She was originally the Fiend of Wind ffs! Missing heads I can forgive, but associating her with Fire irks me to no end... They even did it here... We talk to here and regain the Fire Crystal for our Blessing of Light! This annoys me far more than it should... At least, based on this artwork, she's meant to be green...

[Lunaxia]

If 3 is not Tiamat, which do you place as Tiamat? Pay her a visit in Azys Lla, I'm almost 100% certain 3 is Tiamat. The only other one with a remotely similar face is 6, but 3 is really a dead ringer for Tiamat... Plus 3 is green, Tiamat should* be green.

Between 4, 6, 7 and 8 I'm also fairly certain 4 is Bahamut. If you strip away the Allagan augmentations, he seems to have only horns going back along his head, possibly similar to 4 (it's a weird angle). We can rule out 7, since it has 4 claws, where as Bahamut has/had 3. Can't see much of 8, but that face is waaay off so lets just rule him out. That leaves 4 and 6, and given 6 seems to have a long neck I'd go for 4, since Bahamut, at least the Primal version, has a stubby little neck. 6 at least has horns going back, but they seem too far off his neck to be Bahamut, too.

*Incarnations where she hasn't been green or associated with wind annoy me; Why is she a fire dragon in XI?! She was originally the Fiend of Wind ffs! Missing heads I can forgive, but associating her with Fire irks me to no end... They even did it here... We talk to here and regain the Fire Crystal for our Blessing of Light! This annoys me far more than it should... At least, based on this artwork, she's meant to be green...

...? I never said Tiamat isn't 3, it's obvious that it's her. Unless you saw my post before I corrected my typo.

There is no way 4 is Bahamut. It looks nothing like its primal incarnation, or even any other FF version of Bahamut we've seen to date. The horns don't resemble his either; they don't even look particularly horn-like, which would better match Ratatoskr's image given her namesake (see my other post.) 4 also has quite a docile, gentle face in comparison to the others, that suits more what we've heard of Ratatoskr than Bahamut.

I think Bahamut's "stubbiness" and other minor differences were a result of his "resurrection" - I don't think the original Bahamut looked like that, as all the other dragons are elongated and serpentine like Midgardsormr.