Crystal Tower theories

[YianKutku]

inb4 everyone gets into a debate about whether transdimensional Allagans built it or Ascians inspired its being built on every shard in the same place and it's just this one time with just this one dimension-hopping time-travelling catteboi.

NGL I was actually thinking it could have been something like the latter, although whether it was Ascians (/handgestures) or something else is something I didn't think about.

It might tie in to the different architecture of the "Labyrinth of the Ancients", where even the Allagans have their own "ancient history" that they might not be fully versed about. They rebuilt/repurposed an existing "Crystal Tower" to serve their own energy-production needs, possibly?

Also I was thinking about that old interview where Koji Fox mentioned that there was supposed to be Something Important buried under Silvertear Lake (beyond the whole "Lifestream nexus" and "Primals" thing), and it might have been shelved by the events of 2.0. If there is a version of the Crystal Tower in every Shard around the equivalent of Silvertear, might it be overseeing fourteen (now six) different versions of that Something Important?

(Fragments of Zodiark?)

[Anonymoose]

Also I was thinking about that old interview where Koji Fox mentioned that there was supposed to be Something Important buried under Silvertear Lake (beyond the whole "Lifestream nexus" and "Primals" thing), and it might have been shelved by the events of 2.0.

I have no idea! We've taken to calling this mysterious entity The Presence of Silvertear Lake, and I almost want to see them not mention it until all of this is over, then use it for a later [Eorzea II] expansion; end where we began, you know? But if they tie it to the Ascian / Zodiark story just to tie off the loose end, no qualms.

When it came up in conversation with friends we did this whole workshop about Silvertear being the wound where She launched Zodiark out of the Sea into space and SoMeThInG PoWeRfUl was imprisoned in the "cauterizing" of that wound so Midgardsormr could keep an eye on everything. But that's some fan-fic-y nonsense.
(Oddly in line with Ultima, though!)