Will we meet Allagans in the first?

[Seyrr]

I'm helping!

[MrThinker]

Ah, yes the Elfin bow, that one piece of equipment alongside the Apocalypse grimoire that just loves to muddle any and all speculation about 5.0 until it's actual release.

Please don't let it be Allagans, I'm suffering from Allagan fatigue here. For once let it be someone else, like the Ronkans .

[Iscah]

The description for the Apocalypse grimoire has me finally working through the ARR relic weapon quest... seems appropriate to have it for Shadowbringers.

[JeanneOrnitier]

What's the Apocalypse description? The one I'm looking at says it was wielded by the Zodiac Braves but I feel like I'm looking at the wrong grimoire because that doesn't seem relevant to 5.0.

[MrThinker]

What's the Apocalypse description? The one I'm looking at says it was wielded by the Zodiac Braves but I feel like I'm looking at the wrong grimoire because that doesn't seem relevant to 5.0.

The descriptions says that the guy who wrote it stumbled upon a secret room in the Crystal Tower which allowed him to see the future, specifically the apocalypse, and he wrote what happened in that future in the tome. Err, I don't have the EE Vol II myself to show you sadly.

[ObsidianFire]

I got you!

Apocalypse

A first hand account of the world's end penned by a nameless vagabond claiming to have journeyed far into the future upon entering a secret chamber in the Crystal Tower, its ciphered script has broken the spirit of more then one weak-willed reader. A lone entry in a compendium of ancient weaponry suggets that the grimoire may have been wielded by one of the Zodiac Brave, though as of yet, additional works that might corroborate the cliam have eluded discovery.

[Erendis]

When did Zodiac Braves live and when was Crystal Tower built exactly? Or when did CT go underground?

[MrThinker]

When did Zodiac Braves live and when was Crystal Tower built exactly? Or when did CT go underground?

The Crystal Tower existed as a structure during the time of the Allagan Empire over 5000 years before the start of A Realm Reborn, in what is called in-game as the Third Astral Era. It was called the 'pinacle of Allagan ingenuity' and it's purpose was to act as a giant solar battery and power the entirety of the Empire's energy grid from Eorzea to Othard.

The Tower sank into the earth at the onset of the 4th Umbral Calamity approximately 5000 years ago.

It erupted from the ground following Bahamut razing Eorzea in the 7th Umbral Calamity.

As for the Zodiac Braves... the various stories we have about them give the impression of there being multiple groups of warriors called the 'Zodiac Braves'.

I got you!

Thanks for the asisst.

[Wolfman88]

This is getting kinda hard to follow. So the journey to the future by the vagabond had nothing to do with the allagans because they built the tower for other reasons right? Was the towers ability to send people to different dimensions and time an unintended side effect?

The bit about the Elfin bow is interesting because it offers something of proof for a connection to the other races (even thought they are mostly the same) in the other shard.

[Iscah]

This is getting kinda hard to follow. So the journey to the future by the vagabond had nothing to do with the allagans because they built the tower for other reasons right? Was the towers ability to send people to different dimensions and time an unintended side effect?

The bit about the Elfin bow is interesting because it offers something of proof for a connection to the other races (even thought they are mostly the same) in the other shard.

The Allagans (are believed to have) built the tower, and at some unspecified point after it was built, the vagabond found a secret chamber in it.

I wonder if these things were planned all along, or if it's just the lore team tying up loose ends and oddities (and working in some foreshadowing) via the lorebook?