The Black Towers

[Riastrad]

Fandaniel notes something a the end of the patch that just sticks out to me. Apologies in advance for what I'm about to do.

"The piles have been driven as planned, and the first of the beasts has roared to life..."

Now it could just be Lunar Bahamut. But something just feels off about that being the case. He made that the same way Emet made Aumarot: creation magick. To me the towers are reminiscent of Aether siphons. Drawing the ambient energy to a certain point to awaken something buried out of the ground in those specific points. However, it could also be that it is also acting as a beacon seeing as the aether moves away from it as though it were calling out to something from beyond the stars. Aliens exist within this world. The dragons are proof of that, as is Omega.

I've said it once so I'll say it again. This is eerily similar to Chrono Trigger territory to me.

Easy, Chrono Cross deals almost exclusively with alternate realities. Considering we supposedly (I almost doubt it) just altered our own timeline, and it was hand waived that the old timeline in which we died was simply cut off and set adrift, an entity like Lavos being the reason the fracture happened (which let us directly affect time) kind of fits a little too well. The best ending in Trigger leads directly into Cross. Lavos itself latched onto Schala in the Darkness beyond Time and began creating split realities to keep itself alive. Becoming the Dream/Time Devourer, a crystalline monster that had a young blonde woman in a white dress bound to it no less. Big hmm moment for me there when I saw the 3.2 patch art.



I don't trust Hydaelyn or the narrative that the Ascians are pushing. I think a parasite has literally wrapped its claws around the very weapons used to stop it. It's just a matter of time till we need to address that issue.





Forgive me the pictures. I don't like having to add so many, but I really needed the visual aids.

Fandaniel wants to bring about the Final Days, meteors and all. He is trying to awaken a beast from slumber to do so. One that rains death and destroys worlds. I would say this fits the bill a bit too well.

"Behold, my pretties, destiny, in its most brutal form! All the dreams that might have been. All the happiness, and sorrow, you might have experienced, gone forever! For you there will be no tomorrow!"
— Queen Zeal

This also ties into another theory I have about an imminent reboot. Don't think for a moment I didn't catch Nero salivating over the prospect (fact) of time travel being possible...

[Vyrerus]

Chrono Trigger

I do love the idea that they'd reference Chrono Trigger, as I've said when you've brought this up in the past. Only thing is, at least in the picture comparison is, how would the mural artists know to draw him as the secret background sleuth. That and, wouldn't that put a Lavos-like entity on every reflection? Meaning the Ascians would have found its presence prior to each successful Rejoining? I don't hate the idea, I just don't think it fits into the narratively neatly.

[Riastrad]

I do love the idea that they'd reference Chrono Trigger, as I've said when you've brought this up in the past. Only thing is, at least in the picture comparison is, how would the mural artists know to draw him as the secret background sleuth. That and, wouldn't that put a Lavos-like entity on every reflection? Meaning the Ascians would have found its presence prior to each successful Rejoining? I don't hate the idea, I just don't think it fits into the narratively neatly.

I see it as some half remembered dream much like some of the murals in the Qitana Ravel. A possible clue to the Final Days. That there was something more going on than just the Hydaelyn/Zodiark feud as remembered by one of the Sundered. Which we know is the case, because instead of actually dealing with the issue themselves, they summoned Zodiark to deal with it. The XIVth left to try to find the source of the problem but ran out of time or was killed by the cause of the sound. For all we know the painter of the murals could have been Hythlodaeus's fractured incarnation (that is wild speculation and not at all backed by any information).

And yes, essentially that would be what I'm saying. Something is buried in Silvertear Falls under the Guardianship of Midgardsormr, and there is a huge reserve of aether there for a reason. As for the Ascians not finding it after all the years that followed, Midgardsormr is still alive and holding true to the covenant he made with Hydaelyn to protect said lake. Meaning they can't deal with him easily and are weary of doing so. So in the Source we have Silvertear and on the First we have The Source where Bismark is currently residing. One is surrounded by crystals and the other has those same crystals growing out of it, and both have a guardian of sorts watching over it. That is not a coincidence. There is something more going on here. I wonder if next patch will have Fandaniel place one of the Towers (Black Omens maybe?) in Mor Dhona, one for every calamity thus far...