[Spoilers] The Patch 4.2 Discussion and Speculation Thread!

[Eyvind]

I could not watch: Are there any clues to what bosses are in Sigmascape? Anything from another Final Fantasy? I am hoping each Omega features bosses from a different one.

And Four Lords with a white tiger? I am predicting a Black turtle, a Red Bird, and a Blue Dragon since, you know, Chinese mythology, lots of anime, and Final Fantasy XI and XII mark a precedent.

And Tomestones of Mendacity are an interesting choice. The value of tomestones was always what they could tell us about the Allagan Empire. Its way of making war (soldiery), its arts (poetics), its beliefs (scripture, verity, philosophy, creation). I guess you can learn a lot about a culture by what it lies about, but it's funny they would be labelled like that

EDIT: And the Four Gods played a huge part in the excellent but oft-forgotten Final Fantasy Type-0. I am actually surprised it took them this long to include, though given the Geomancy/Astrology aspects of the Astrologian quests in 4.0, it makes sense to have them now.

[Anonymoose]

Final Fantasy XI and XII mark a precedent

Hey, hey, what about Type-0? Not a graduate of Vermillion Bird Prep!?

[Rasler_Heios]

Hey, hey, what about Type-0? Not a graduate of Vermillion Bird Prep!?

Yeah, graduate of vermillion bird prep here, I wish they would continue with the type series. Anyway the four gods are definitely in that game, was not surprised to see them here in ffxiv

[YianKutku]

And Tomestones of Mendacity are an interesting choice. The value of tomestones was always what they could tell us about the Allagan Empire. Its way of making war (soldiery), its arts (poetics), its beliefs (scripture, verity, philosophy, creation). I guess you can learn a lot about a culture by what it lies about, but it's funny they would be labelled like that

I suppose a case could be made that after collecting Tomestones of Verity, now Rowena wants the opposing Tomestones of Mendacity, but Verity was the uncapped tomestone while Mendacity will likely be the new capped one, so it's not a perfect symmetry.

[TaiyoShikasu]

And Four Lords with a white tiger? I am predicting a Black turtle, a Red Bird, and a Blue Dragon since, you know, Chinese mythology, lots of anime, and Final Fantasy XI and XII mark a precedent.

EDIT: And the Four Gods played a huge part in the excellent but oft-forgotten Final Fantasy Type-0. I am actually surprised it took them this long to include, though given the Geomancy/Astrology aspects of the Astrologian quests in 4.0, it makes sense to have them now.

The Final Fantasy Legend did it first.

I kind of hope they break the mold with primal mounts and go with miniature versions of the primal if only because I want an accessible tiger mount.