Gamerescape's Lorecast interview with Koji Fox!

[Chewy2nd]

I was waiting for Anonymoose to post this lol, but he doesn't seem like he's going to

It really feels like we learned a LOT from this interview, very excited about the Heart of Sabik!

Linky!

[PArcher]

How did stories of Bismarck appear in both Vanu Vanu and Sea Wolf mythology? How old is this story?

KF: It’s very old. It goes back to what I was saying with Phoenix, there’s one seed and it spreads and there are some similarities but in some places it’s different. Some places he’s in the sky, some places he’s in the sea. He might show up again soon, someplace. Where it’s beautiful. And hand drawn. I’m not gonna say anything else. <pauses for a moment> They’re gonna kill me for that.

This is bugging me...as if I should know what this refers to...


(and if its just the Lore book...)

[Chewy2nd]

This is bugging me...as if I should know what this refers to...


(and if its just the Lore book...)

I let my mind run away with me and imagined a "hand drawn" style dungeon... I really want that, lol.

[PArcher]

I let my mind run away with me and imagined a "hand drawn" style dungeon... I really want that, lol.

See, my mind went to that Roe in the Bobbing Cork staring at that painting for some reason. I really doubt there's any connection there, but still. Weird.

With the mention of Hullbreaker, could have something there (don't know what we're going back there for at all), but could also be the new dungeon (jump into a painting of Primals or something? IDK), or some random Echo-flash or something...

I'll stop now, this is getting to silly.

[Nalien]

KF: Right, like on a church! The void has always existed on this other plane while Eorzea has exited. Certain calamities will rip open these tears in the void where more voidsent can come in, most of the time it’s closed—again, sometimes there’s small rents where things will come out—and people, not knowing what those are, see them. They end up in mythology and people think, “Let’s take something like that and put them on the churches.”

Please let this be the case for Belias and Cuchulain! Twelve great big angry Voidsent show up for reasons, enter mythology, then perhaps maybe hopefully get the Primal treatment! I can't stand Belias being a Primal, while Cuchulain is a Voidsent, I need either all to be Primals, or all to be Voidsent... Belias being a Primal with mythology stemming from a Voidsent of the same name works perfectly, though...

[StarDrake]

Koji, these FFXII teases, I swear

Please let this be the case for Belias and Cuchulain! Twelve great big angry Voidsent show up for reasons, enter mythology, then perhaps maybe hopefully get the Primal treatment! I can't stand Belias being a Primal, while Cuchulain is a Voidsent, I need either all to be Primals, or all to be Voidsent... Belias being a Primal with mythology stemming from a Voidsent of the same name works perfectly, though...

That answer line in general was a pretty clear "out" for them making multiple monsters with the same name. We've already seen one case of this - we fight "Valefor" enemies in LotA, but one of the sidequests in 3.0 was a tease for a Valefor primal, who will almost certainly look far more chicken-y and have many more laser beams than the FFXI-style undead dragons in LotA did. I would not be remotely surprised if we saw a Cuchulainn primal at some point, if they do an "Ivalice set".

(Koji I swear)

[Anonymoose]

I was planning on posting a link to this interview alongside the one for the Lore Book Interview (which was conducted at the same time and split up for posting flow, but is included in the podcast). I opened the post page, started trying to think of a thread title, and then ... took a nap before the live letter. _(_ _)_

Thanks for having my back, though!

[WhiteArchmage]

Rabanastre and Dalmasca apparently exist somewhere in Eorzea, oh, Koji Fox, why you taunt me so?

...That's where Viera are from and no one tell me otherwise >_>

[Theodric]

I do hope for more references to Ivalice. Perhaps they'll even make Garlemald like Archades and have plenty of characters like Gabranth/Drace.

...and an entire zone based around a 'Lea Monde' type city would be wonderful too.

[Rocl]

So what I'm seeing here is that Ramuh himself is not the Primal but the beard is instead an Eikon? Most interesting. . .