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A lot of XI was a vague mystery and I miss it sometimes! During Adoulin I was lowkey hoping for demon origins, but then we got Super Beings instead or whatever the robot lookin' things are that you gotta fight before you fight XI's Hades. Heh

And yeah, there's a lot of reuse mobs, just for ease of reusing assets. Just, in this case, they've put the void moniker on dragons all over the place. And have the Hydras which are Meracydian dragons per Azys Lla (or at the very least, Allagan experimentation on them). And there's several in WoD and Eureka heh.

Still hoping they have the dragons of XIV expound on the XIV's Provenance Watcher at some point.

This also reminds me that in the O10 fight, as Midgardsormr is readying his ultimate, he refers to the Dragon Star as the eldest star. Then launches the attack, "Protostar." Dragons be old...
Adoulin really did take an interesting turn there. Unexpected Lovecraftian-style horror with the introduction of Ra'Kaznar and its denizens - all threatening largely due to their sheer alienness, and corruptiveness. But yeah, it was all NEW lore, rather than expanding on old stuff. I do consider Kindred to be a variety of Beastman, however; like Beastmen in the game, they have jobs (Warrior, Black Mage, Dark Knight, and Summoner) which other monsters (including other demons) do not. They're clearly associated with the Dark Divinity, but I don't think that they completely depend on him. As you say, though, the lore of the game never makes it clear.

On the topic of Void Dragons in FFXIV, whether the FFXI-inspired ones or otherwise, Voidsent almost never are transported between worlds in bodily form. They come across as spirits, and then kill/possess/inhabit native creatures to become the Voidsent we encounter in battles. So, even if a Void Dragon WERE called to another shard, they probably wouldn't be able to take their Source-dragon body along with them. They'd need to abandon it, and occupy some other creature on the Shard.

Again, though, they COULD bring knowledge along with them in doing so, which is a possible explanation as to how the Drahn race was named. Maybe.