6.0 Story Speculations

[RicaRuin]

Crack Theory: He means his sister, who coincidentally is Venat for some reason and he wants to see the whole world burn to undo Hydaelyn to 'save' her...

... then again, Fandaniel emphasises that he isn't a stuck in the past as the other Ascians, indicating he has no ties to the old world.

Edit: Haha, I did! But it feels... strange and I might just revert to the former haircut. It's more Rica.

[MoofiaBossVal]

Crack Theory: He means his sister, who coincidentally is Venat for some reason and he wants to see the whole world burn to undo Hydaelyn to 'save' her...

I don't see how Fandaniel would need to burn the world or amass a lot of aether or faith to retrieve Venat. IIRC Hydaelyn should be capable of similar feats as Zodiark (either because Hydaelyn was also summoned using Lahabrea's blueprint for Zodiark, or because Hydaelyen replaced Zodiark as the heart of the star). If Zodiark could regurgitate Elidibus' soul (or create a familar/primal of Elidibus) Hydaelyn should theoretically be able to do so the same. Not that she might need to regurgitate Venat's soul, since it's possible that the only thing left of Hydaelyn IS Venat. Over the course of the game, Hydaelyn has expended her power (over thousands of years fighting the Ascians, then to save the WoL from Ultima, and then saving Minfillia, and then stopping the complete annihilation of the First). It is possible that Hydaelyn may have expended nearly all of the aether from the souls sacrificed to her that the soul/aether of Venat might be the only thing left, so in essence Hydaelyn is Venat with no other thoughts floating around in her head. In which case, it's only a matter of getting Venat out from inside the planet back to the surface.

Except the towers don't seem to have been created for doing something inside the planet or retrieving Venat. They seem to be designed to amass faith and/or aether to empower or create something (maybe a bridge to the moon, or to reconstruct Zodiark, or to open up Zodiark so that Zenos can possess it, etc). Maybe Fandaniel is trying to destroy Zodiark, or hijack Zodiark, or free Zodiark, but it seems that the towers designed to revolve around Zodiark up on the moon, not Hydaelyn who is down inside the planet.