Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
Tangentially, something I found interesting about the cave murals is that Hydaelyn and Zodiark were represented by the humanoid winged figures with crossed arms, which is similar to the "elementals" model used in game (in Eureka, and I think in 1.0).

EDIT: Literally just now (as in in the past few minutes), at the GamesCom panel, Banri Oda explained that the cave mural paintings were created by someone on the First who saw the scenes in a dream.
It's also the box art.



It was something I was asking about before like while the Ancients were long lived and could do creation magic, was there an evolution of their species? Was their ability to utilize creation magic something that was always strong or did it become more refined. It's something that would make sense on an evolutionary level that when they finally had more control of it, something happened that caused the sound and eventual collapse of their race.

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if their culture had certain perceptions of the world and own symbols that when they made the wills, it would be conceived from those ideas. I mean have we yet to see an "accurate" primal? Wasn't each primal basically a thoughtform of something based on a perception? (Even if the one they're basing it from actually existed at one point?).

The revelation of it being drawn from a dream isn't that surprising either - since the question was asked who was around to create that painting on the first if we were all sundered anyways? So what it sounds like to me is that if the person had the dream it could have very well been Echo. Especially if you look at the detail of the painting where you see the White robed figure(s) underneath Zodiark.