Crazy Personal Headcanons

[Sainya]

The Noise ...

The Resonant

[LineageRazor]

The Noise ...

The Resonant

I was going to say that this seems unlikely... But the Garleans have a record for risky experimentation that has catastrophic consequences, both for themselves and for everyone else, so this really would be par the course for them.

Would be pretty ironic if the puppet empire Emet propped up was directly responsible for the disaster that doomed the Ancients in the first place (through time-travel shenanigans, or whatever).

[Iscah]

"Resonant" is simply punning off "the Echo" which it replicates.

[SannaR]

You know how Emet is always seemingly wanting to take a nap? I think the only real reason he was supportive of the theater was so he could take naps.

[LineageRazor]

"Resonant" is simply punning off "the Echo" which it replicates.

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the corralation. I find it very interesting that after introducing the "Resonant" as an obvious analogue to the "Echo", they then introduce the "Sound". It would not surprise me at all to learn that all three are interrelated.

We know very little about the Sound, however there's been a lot of speculation that the Sound was triggered by rampant use of Creation magic. The Echo, apparently an indicator of a fragment of an Ancient's soul, may for that reason also be related to Creation magic.

[thegreatonemal]

The sound was just an event. Just like the event that wiped out the dinos in our world. Maybe it was something within the ancients themselves and when their population got too big it triggered. So long as they stay dead the world will be fine.

[Wolfsbane706]

You know that Necromancer we fight in Heroes' Gauntlet? I've been operating under the distincg feeling that she's an alternate world's Edda.

[Enla]

That Necron or something like it is behind the 'sound' that inspired the Final Days - since the FF14 dev teams loves to yoink plot beats from past FF games for their MSQ and a few things from the Amaurot section reminded me heavily of not just FFX but FFIX as well. I'm kinda doubly convinced of this now because...

5.4 spoilers ahoy.

Fandaniel and his group basically have the same methodology and desire to see everything reduced to nothingness. It feels a little too on the nose for Necron not to be involved to me.

I'm likely very wrong though.

[Ceasaria]

I came up with a dumb non-canon idea on my own that the music we hear in a primal fight is heard by our character. Most of the songs already have lyrics that are either sung by the primal or their followers (notable exceptions for Ifrit and Garuda who were done by the old team and Bismarck who is just a big dumb whale). So whenever we’re in a fight, we’re being sung at by the primal or their followers or our echo sounds and we’re hearing the thoughts of who we’re fighting like in Shiva’s case. The music accompanying the lyrics is either how the echo interprets the input or just the pure power of the primal warping reality combined with echo stuff.

Concerning the music, in particularly Pulse album, the though I had is it's the music tempered people are hearing.
Or it's secret fiestas taking place in Gold Saucer. WoL tells his fights to a musician who decide to create music on which people can dance and have fun...Trials (Tempered) difficulty have been added !

[Gemina]

OP, I always liked the idea that the WoL actually hears the music being played, and that is why their summoning on the first resulted in not only a skewed version of the primal they actually fought, but the music is also similar; but not quite right.

Some of my own head canon revolves around Fray, and the WoL's affiliation with him is not by mere chance, but orchestrated by none other than Fray after he witnessed the rain of blood as the WoL single-handedly obliterated the entire HW guard, and saw nothing but fear and dread in King Thordan before being finished off. It was then that Fray decided that he would surrender his soulstone to the WoL, and willingly lost his trial by combat in Ishgard despite exhausting his competition.
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I know there is no way this could ever be true canon as players get access to DRK well before the Thordan fight, but this is how it happened in my own head because I did not unlock DRK until late into HW.