Crystal Tower theories

[MrThinker]

How suspicious should we be that it's not just a lingering slice in the Flood of Light from where the Warrior of Darkness just hit True Kuribu?
I thought those were connected.

I agree that its just an after effect of that sword swing, but I guess we'll find out the truth in 2 days.

oh gawd fanfest is in less than 2 days

[Daralii]

I agree that its just an after effect of that sword swing, but I guess we'll find out the truth in 2 days.

oh gawd fanfest is in less than 2 days

This will be a very long 38 hours. I'm getting popcorn ready for the inevitable meltdowns over whether or not viera and/or hrothgar are gender locked.

[Fenral]

Yeah, so the Crystal Tower in the trailer is actually a different version that exists in the First, happens to be freaking identical, and also happens to have been constructed in roughly the same place, in spite of both being about 10,000 years younger than the cosmic split. So the mysterious hooded figure is probably not G'raha, but also probably an exact facial match aside from the crystallization he has going on (in spite of parallel world duplicates being practically impossible because of the nature of said split). Not at all sure how that's supposed to work yet, but apparently we'll be getting some more explanation this coming Tuesday.

[Jonnycbad]

Ascians can cross worlds and teach races the technology. It's likely Ascians taught Allags how to built the CT, they can share the knowledge in the first too and have a similar Dalamud/Bahamut like plot.

[Zohar_Lahar]

To think, the Warriors of Darkness could have just used the Crystarium to cross over instead of becoming not-Ascians.

[zuzu-bq]

It doesn't seem like they've left the First any recently. For there to be Legends of one who will bring back the Night.

[Anonymoose]

My big question is how G'raha got from temporal stasis on the Source to opening portals in a Crystal Tower on The First with a new outfit and some gnarly dermal aetheriosis. Unless G'raha was in stasis for centuries / millennia, saw what the future had become, and somehow transported himself diagonally back to the first to build Crystal Tower there and bring us to stop it. But that's a HELL of a leap of logic, lol.

[Fenral]

Yeah. It's too weird how he's all but confirmed, but so much doesn't add up. They even drew specific attention to how they can't name Yuma Uchida's character yet during Yoshi's talk show, which means either the name would be some kind of spoiler, or Ferne told Yoshida how they could yank a bunch of chains during Fanfest ahead of the patch. Since he's always watching over us...

For what it's worth, even now that we know we're traveling Shards and not Time Itself, the Voice is still on about waiting years and unwriting (or rewriting) history, which at least leaves that particular instance of time travel on the table.

[domovoi]

My brain genius theory is that Crystal Tower itself is one single structure existing in every (possible) shard at once.

[Daralii]

My brain genius theory is that Crystal Tower itself is one single structure existing in every (possible) shard at once.

That's what I'm leaning towards, especially with that shot of the weird observatory/cocoon that not-G'raha looked to be in. It'd also be a good way to reestablish the importance of Silvertear.