Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

[Anonymoose]

I'm still mulling over a lot of the new information, though I'm still not feeling all that confident in the future-prediction game this patch cycle. Time itself seems to play into the reflected worlds a bit more than it seemed like at first. Perhaps its entwined with the possibility that the Warriors of Darkness are from one of the other reflections (perhaps the one that was but recently destroyed in the Seventh Umbral Calamity). Though it doesn't seem like the worlds can be too similar; Unukalhai's world seemed to be on a different track entirely ... unless he's very old and we no longer have records of when our world diverged from a similar path. Still, I get the sense that some of these hints about time aren't just nods to us currently dealing with Alexander.

The name of the patch is ominous as well. Soul Surrender...

Don't tell me we've already forgotten...

Come, mortals! Render up your souls, that Lord Zodiark might be reborn!

Hmmm...

It'd be lame to all-out carbon-copy Promathia, right? So what's on the table...

This in particular fans my theory that the planet/Hydaelyn is just a really big Primal...

How literally and specifically do you mean "primal"? Many living things are aetherial and crystalline within. Sprites have crystals at their cores. People and animals can develop internal crystals if their aether gets funky (and then they get a snurble probiscis in the spine). The world could have a crystalline core without being the manifestation of belief or the resurrected shade of a former being. Granted, one of the main reasons I hold out hope for Hydaelyn is that faith in Altana was rewarded; it feels wrong to give up on Her. But one game is not another.

[Nalien]

How literally and specifically do you mean "primal"?

/Shrugs

I'm mostly just connecting dots I'm likely making up... When Bahamut had a crystal heart, I thought little of it... It was an oddity given what we'd seen of other Primals (granted, Titan had a heart), but Bahamut was an oddity... Not only was he massive, but he was also torn apart and reconstructed... When Alexander came about, nothing really changed until Quickthinx responded to claims that Alexander would drain the land of aether; They'd be safe in Alexander, with him providing them aether... That got me thinking how far you could take a Primal... If they'd truly be safe within Alexander, what's stopping us summoning a planet sized Primal and just living off that? What if that's already happened... This very familiar blue crystal in Alexander is just another string in this web of lunacy... Other than that, there's just conjecture based on the Scions goals and Elidibus' claims that the truth would have us join forces... The Scions have made a career of putting down Primals... The planet is a Primal... Mind blown! Fireworks! Directed by M. Night Shyamalanadingdong!

[Rokke]

Those apartments are pretty and all, but wheres my Ishgard building?

Im glad that they've making rooms for the other city states too though! Housing on Balmung is the pits.