Future leader of Apa Mhigo

[Belhi]

Garleans? master manipulators? ALLAG?

I think there are few things that don't add up (I assume you meant Ascians but I'm gonna have some fun in debating why the Garleans aren't Xanatos-tier chessmasters).

I meant Ascians.... <.<

Though did you ever consider that the Ascians my be time traveling, mutated, supernatural Garleans from the future after they had conquered everything who realised the world was out of whack and doomed due to Hydealyn banishing Zodiark and as a result travelled back in time to orchestrate the return of Zodiark and change the future? After all, the Ascian Prime's forehead was hidden by that mark. There could have been a third eye there. You know who also hide their forehead behind stuff? Garleans.

[Cilia]

Well this seems to have steered quite off course!

Though did you ever consider that the Ascians my be time traveling, mutated, supernatural Garleans from the future after they had conquered everything who realised the world was out of whack and doomed due to Hydealyn banishing Zodiark and as a result travelled back in time to orchestrate the return of Zodiark and change the future? After all, the Ascian Prime's forehead was hidden by that mark. There could have been a third eye there. You know who also hide their forehead behind stuff? Garleans.

Wait, where did I leave that .gif...?

... ah, there we are!

Nutcase hypotheses aside, the Word of the Mother (give us back our exposition-spouting piece of eye candy, Hydaelyn!) says that the Ascians are Zodiark's servants (as if we didn't know that yet...), meaning they are likely as old as the gods themselves or at least as old as Zodiark's grudge against Hydaelyn. (My personal hypothesis is that they may, in fact, be small fragments of Zodiark himself, but that's unverifiable at the moment.)

Back to the point - none of the Ascians have visible foreheads. All their foreheads (and eyes and noses) are concealed behind their personal mask. Elidibus has gone on record as saying that the forms we see them as are simply "crude approximations" as well, so what we see is not their true form. Furthermore, the Ascian Prime has no face at all - in fact, aside from its arms and hands it has no solid physical form, being simply a mass of shadows. (Even said arms and hands are likely hollow. Again, to throw personal hypotheses out there, the Ascian Prime may very well be closer to the Ascians' true form, achievable only by merging together thanks to Hydaelyn's "walls".)

So, remember Tsukolas' words...