Revelations from the Shadowbringers E3 Trailer

[JeanneOrnitier]

I always have this one question that linger in my head about what the world was like before Hydaelyn and Zodiark was formed and now we know they are Primals, the question is even bigger.

Was the world more similar to our "Earth" where magic did not exist and society depended only on Technology? What drove people to create the concept of hydaelyn, Zodiark, and the being they become once fused? Was Magic some by product of Hydaelyn and Zodiark creation or something else? Are they going to pull one of those LN/Manga/Anime plots where they reveal that this world of FF14 is actually Earth itself but so far into the future that it is unrecongizable and our soul is us the players that has taken the form of our characters because of a calamity that lead to the creation of the being that Hydaelyn and Zodiark will be if they fuse?

Well I would think magic had to exist before them in order for a primal to be summoned in the first place. And aether isn't something tied to the planet, since Midgardsormr and Omega are aliens and use aether, so it's not like Hydaelyn and Zodiark would have created aether.

[EdwinLi]

Well I would think magic had to exist before them in order for a primal to be summoned in the first place. And aether isn't something tied to the planet, since Midgardsormr and Omega are aliens and use aether, so it's not like Hydaelyn and Zodiark would have created aether.

but what if Aether was never part of the world and it was only brought her by something.

We know all souls return to the Aether after death for a cycle or rebirth but what if the Aether was created because something came and made it by consuming the Souls of the World (with us included) and created the Aether?

The trailer revealed the Sin Eaters are born by consuming and using the Aether of living people because it is the strongest and purest form of Aether energy. What if this is how the Aether of the world was created by a being (presumed to be what Zodiark and Hydaelyn was once was when fused) that consumed all the souls in the world.