Belias, the inspiration for Ifrit?

[Iscah]

Belias, the Gigas: Are you not yet ash and bone!?
Belias, the Gigas: That your wrath...might eclipse mine...

The Amalj'aa have a Brotherhood of Ash, and when you fight Ifrit, there's a Solar Eclipse.

Can't be TOO much of a stretch...

While the rest of it might hold, those quotes are definitely too much of a stretch. Ash is associated with any fire, and using the word 'eclipse' (figuratively "surpass") in the middle of a sentence doesn't instantly link him to another being that happens to be associated with a solar eclipse.

If the connection is intended, then it might be clever wordplay, but it's too flimsy to be used as proof of the connection in the first place.

Some have postulated that Thunder God Cid was what inspired the Sylphan primal of a Ramuj, given he is clearly the appearance of a man and Sylphs are nothing like that.

Ramuh does, however, strongly resemble a Duskwight Elezen, and they are native to that part of the world.

If the sylphs' image of Ramuh had a human inspiration, I would be much more inclined to imagine it being an Elezen mage who befriended the sylphs, than a Hyur* who (to our knowledge) lived two continents away.

* well, apparently proto-Hyur-Garlean-something, pending any future revelations about the Garleans, but looking like a Hyur with normal human skin colour and rounded ears.


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On a side note about Belias itself (and not being familiar with any previous iterations of it), has anyone else noticed that it seems to have a smaller version of itself merged into its chest? I only noticed the other day during the Orbonne raid, and it's thoroughly unsettling.