Bahamuts Eyes?

[LineageRazor]

Though when you mention "consumed", I'm reminded of an old nitpick of mine: where the hell did the diresaur in the Burning Heart come from...?

We don't know a WHOLE lot about the interactions between humans and dragons in ancient Meracydia, but it's possible that a human ate the eyes of some lesser dragon, and her descendants were capable of the same transformations as Ishgardians. Or, perhaps, the diresaur transformation is one that can be induced through other means than those familiar to the Ishgardians. It's also possible that the Pain of Meracydia is not a Diresaur at all, but just a dragon that happened to evolve into a similar shape. Or, possibly, since this is a sort of quasi-real battle arena created within Bahamut's Aether, the monsters we fight there were constructed from Bahamut's whims, and he somehow became aware of the existence of Diresaurs in the brief time he was freed from Dalamud before he was put down again (some kind of whale-like long-distance communication with his fellow dragons? Or maybe he subverted the systems of Dalamud enough to allow him to observe the world below?).

That last, though, I particularly doubt, given that the mob's name specifically states that it is a Meracydian dragon. Still, it's a possibility.

[Anonymoose]

We don't know a WHOLE lot about the interactions between humans and dragons in ancient Meracydia, but it's possible that...

<grabs own checklist of potential excuses> Secondary means of transformation... not actually happening due to being with the Crystal Heart... the same transformations can be achieved from the eyes of a not-a-celestial dragon... 3 for 3!

I actually hadn't considered the "It just looks like a diresaur, but it's not." approach, lol. <Arnold Voice> It's not a tulpa.