Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Asiragan]

I'm putting my answers in spoiler, since this subject, tough interesting, is really out of topic.

The only reason why I'm not okay with a flying elephant is we haven't seen any wild ones...where are the Ananta getting them from?

Well, according to the tooltip, marids can fly thanks to a "magicked carpets affixed to its back". And those carpets are made by the Ananta, so we probably wouldn't find any wild flying elephants out there.

Still, your point hold for the tyrannosaur as we don't see any wild one in Eureka.

We don't really know because they haven't gone on a lenghty explanation on how it happens, they have just done a quest about it to explain the change on the pirates of sastasha and that was it we don't know exactly how much aether it takes to create mutations or how long it tales to be able to fly, we don't even know if it's something that can be easily learned, we do know however that a good win aetherconduction can effortlessly make island float though

Interesting, so that's kind of a "grey zone" in the lore, right now?

Still, aren't Sastasha's pirates another story? I thought they were modified by the direct intervention of the primal Leviathan. And on this, it wouldn't be the first time a primal modified someone or something. If memory serves, Odin is doing the same thing with the player that kills him. But mutation by exposition to a large source of aether? That's kind of a first, I think.

And for the islands, you are probably talking about the Churning Mists and the Sea of Clouds. And it's true that they have large amount of crystals that generate a lot of wind aether, preventing them from falling. If I remember well, Bismark was actually feeding on those islands. But the tyrannosaur do not have those kind of crystals in it, so the mystery as to why it can fly still hold for me.


And as Penthea said, we don't see any wild T-rex flying around in Eureka.

Worth noting:

There seems to be two possibilities - either they have been around for a while and developed the ability, as Eureka - once known as the Isle of Val - was described during those quests as being a fairly dangerous place in the first place, and part of why they chose that region...or what happened to it - the event that registered magicks related to dimensional compression - caused a significant enough shift that creatures on the island were simply warped in ways that changed them without requiring several generations of genetic development.

I need to see the quest text again, but didn't Krile said that those monsters weren't here before the incident of Val happens? (Plus, how can living things survive a dimensional compression...?

[Penthea]

Well, according to the tooltip, marids can fly thanks to a "magicked carpets affixed to its back". And those carpets are made by the Ananta, so we probably wouldn't find any wild flying elephants out there.

Still, your point hold for the tyrannosaur as we don't see any wild one in Eureka.

But we don't see any wild elephants of the same model, this is my point. As for the Eureka dino, I didn't mention is as I honestly could not recall for sure if it's a mob in that zone or not.

[Remedi]

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Wellll.....

If I remember correctly what mose told me, primals when desummoned leave a leftover of their aetheric essence and that's how ppl get tempered without their direct intervention, the pirates were modified in theory by that aetheric mass.

The islands floars because they are rich of concentrated wind crystals, but crystals are charged with wind aethers they do not provide aether directly, what I meant is that having a way to work wind aether can allow for islands to fly as such if somehow you manage to make your body work with said aether you can acquire the trait, it's also possible that wings are born because of the effect of the aether on you too.

Now the T-rex is essentially a nova species since as such is described in the mount log, though it's correct to say that the absence of any kind of T-rex in Eureka is uuuuuh.

Anyway I think was Ethys Asher that debated the wind aether beign responsible for the ability to fly in hydaelyn first or so I remember hearing, but as far as aether and it's effect on ppl, that is still abit up to debate since we don't really have a clear vision on primals and tempering for example, I think we are debating this in the lore section too atm