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    A few things I haven't seen mentioned in the 31 pages so far of this lore thread.

    The first is Seal Rock of all things...

    I realize that the island that popped out of the waves was the opposite side of Vylbrand from Amaurot, but that city is so huge and Vylbrand so small by comparison that I honestly wonder if Seal Island is another part of the city. For those who don't know, the PvP area was on the bottom of the ocean until one day ot decided to rise out of the waves with no notice shortly before Dalamud fell. There were Allagan ruins on it, a stone tablet written in Sahagin...and a curious horn that the Ascians were obsessed with. Known as a "key" to the Sharlayans, it was one of several horns - another is in Louisoix's staff which we used to kill our first Ascian. The Ascians stole it, and the lore book itself hints that the horn was used in the summoning of Titan and Leviathan. I'm now wondering in ruins of Amaurot were still there in the days of Allagan, and if the ruins were built on top of them to study it. I also wonder if the "keys" were made to summon Zodiark, and that's why the Ascians know of them and repurpose them for summoning primals.


    I also did not see anything about the name of a certain chatty shadow:

    Outside FF14, Hythlodaeus only appears in one other piece of media I know: Thomas More's Utopia, written more than 500 years ago. There he is the one who tells the narrator how things work in the perfect society, but there has always been a question of whether More intended us to take him seriously. You see, his name means "dispenser of nonsense"


    While we're getting literary, how about those Shakespeare references:

    If anyone has any doubts that The Tempest refers to the Shakespeare play, two of its regions are named for two of the characters, Caliban and Trinculo.

    For anyone who has not read the play or seen it, it is about an elderly wizard named Prospero who used to rule the Italian city of Milan, but who was forced out and exiled with his baby daughter to an island. He hones his magic to get off the island, and get his revenge...but when his enemy's ship gets close enough to his island to shipwreck, and he takes him prisoner, he is moved to mercy by his daughter Miranda. See, Miranda has never met any humans but her father and his two weird servants. When she sees the passengers of the ship, she is moved to wonder, saying "What strange new world that has such people in it," and she falls in love with the enemy's son. Prospero is moved to mercy, makes peace with his enemy, and returns to his city.

    Prospero here is clearly Emet-Selch, and I'd argue that Miranda is Hythlodaeus...but Emet-Selch will not be moved, can't find any love or mercy for the "strange new world that has such people in it." So it becomes a tragedy rather than a comedy.


    Those were the things I did not see talked about in the thread.
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    Last edited by Eyvind; 07-13-2019 at 06:21 AM.