6.0 Story Speculations

[Iscah]

Replaying Amaurot dungeon right now and updating the script. There are indeed a few extra "locations" that weren't in the previous quote, and the red text makes more sense with them included.

[ FADING FOOTSTEPS ]

Welcome to the final days of Amaurot...

And lo, vile beasts did rise,

The fabric of our star began to fray…
…and the unchecked energies of creation begat malformed beasts.

Leaving naught in their wake but blood and ash.

Just as prayer gives rise to primals, our dread made manifest our deepest fears.

Thus did the first doom befall us.

The first beast was striking in its unsightliness…
As if to scour away all life, it called down a cataclysmic deluge.
Yet even its defeat did not halt the march of oblivion…

It would not, however, prove the last.

The land buckled; the cities burned; the waters ran red with blood…

For soon did the sun bend low, scorching earth and boiling seas.

Thus did the second doom break us.

The beast bellows, and gives birth to terror. A terror which, in turn, gives birth to new beasts…
Its gaze turns skyward, and fiery rain falls from the heavens…
Once the fear has taken root, it cannot be expunged…
As if feeding upon the horror, the beast bloats…then shivers…then ruptures…
Yet this was far from the worst of it. Come, and I will show you…

[ FADING HEARTH ]

Just a little further…
…and you will see the end of a world.

Yet it was neither claw nor flame, but our very sins —

The star was fading. We saw we had to weave its laws anew…

Stacked to the heavens where they took root, corrupting its halls —

But between us and our goal loomed a final misbegotten fiend…

Thus did the third doom undo us.

From the depths of despair, the last harbinger arose…
Its voice was fulgent destruction, and none could stand in its path.
And as it edged inexorably closer, we knew…
Without decisive sacrifice, our star would surely perish.

The quote starting "the land buckled" came before the area title "for soon did the sun bend low" though I wonder if that was an error - it doesn't seem quite right in the flow of the text, and the quote triggered alongside some trust dialogue (right between two halves of a conversation) so maybe it isn't supposed to be set off until slightly later.

[Alleo]

Reading that script again I am surprised that anyone even survived that at all. First I was a bit skeptic about how the land would somehow turn against them, after all it was their chaotic creation magic that created the beasts and thus killed lots of people...but then I remember that in this patch we were told that if Fandaniel manages to destroy the marked spots that it would lead to utter destruction around it...did something similar happen too? Did their creation magic unintentionally also destroy such important nodes?

The only thing I am still not sure about, is the part with the sun? How were they or the beasts able to influence something that should be quite far away? And how was Zodiark able to change that? Did he not only change the law of existance on their planet but maybe even further out?

Well at least with us not having such huge amount of creation magic our final days should hopefully not be that horrible.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Fun fact about that Amaurot dialogue. When it’s talking about the earth, the winds etc etc. It’s describing the four lords from FFI. Lich,Marilith,Kraken,Tiamat.

[Fenral]

The only thing I am still not sure about, is the part with the sun? How were they or the beasts able to influence something that should be quite far away? And how was Zodiark able to change that? Did he not only change the law of existance on their planet but maybe even further out?

Not to be a downer, but if you consider the Earth and global warming, it's possible some sort of atmospheric event wore down the ozone layer, stripping away the planet's natural buffer against cosmic radiation. It's fantasy, so some other force could have amplified solar energy as well. (This is all assuming a heliocentric universe, which we can for now thanks to Omega and Eden.)


Or runaway creation magicks conjured a second "sun" inside the atmosphere. That could also probably happen if enough people (possibly children) believed the sun was falling, and then it would become self-sustaining.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Reading that script again I am surprised that anyone even survived that at all. First I was a bit skeptic about how the land would somehow turn against them, after all it was their chaotic creation magic that created the beasts and thus killed lots of people...but then I remember that in this patch we were told that if Fandaniel manages to destroy the marked spots that it would lead to utter destruction around it...did something similar happen too? Did their creation magic unintentionally also destroy such important nodes?

The only thing I am still not sure about, is the part with the sun? How were they or the beasts able to influence something that should be quite far away? And how was Zodiark able to change that? Did he not only change the law of existance on their planet but maybe even further out?

Well at least with us not having such huge amount of creation magic our final days should hopefully not be that horrible.

Well uh, Fandaniel is planning something with a “dreamer” and considering the trailer...it seems like the final days will be that horrible lmao. Keep in mind, for all we know the things affecting the planet itself could’ve been whatever caused the sound in the first place, the terminus beasts were simply a bi-product of the sound with the Ancients it’s unfortunate victims.

[Theodric]

I'm inclined to think that the situation wasn't of the Ancient's own making either directly or indirectly and was, in fact, something brought about by a third party entity not unlike Lavos or Jenova. Especially since we already know through the Omega and Nier raids that other worlds have already been attacked and destroyed by such beings.

[Lauront]

I'm inclined to think that the situation wasn't of the Ancient's own making either directly or indirectly and was, in fact, something brought about by a third party entity not unlike Lavos or Jenova. Especially since we already know through the Omega and Nier raids that other worlds have already been attacked and destroyed by such beings.

And Ultima via Ivalice.

[BlitzAceRush]

I think they thought given they have this power (creation magic) that could do near literally anything and then it suddenly starts going crazy that it was them, but there was also clearly an external force, however it's also pretty clear that Danny is intending to mimic the final days, so it's irrelevant we lack creation magic, Emet makes it clear that it made them manifest their greatest fears. So when he begins the final days part two either A, we somehow still can manifest things on that level, or B, that's the towers true purpose, to let him pantomime the last days by summoning the terminus, perhaps thats why everyone they enthrall is terrified and what they need all the aether for and the dreamer, perhaps Anima or whatever it is, is their version of Therion.

[KageTokage]

The Final Days were noted as spreading across the world like a disease, with it initially manifesting as isolated incidents of natural disasters and spontaneous creation, but their frequency and scale increased until nobody was spared.

I feel like we're probably going to stop it before it gets particularly bad (Unlike the Amaurotines who didn't seem terribly concerned about it until it had already reached apocalyptic levels), though it seems obvious that Thravnair at minimum is going to get hit hard by it.

[Riastrad]

Can we talk about how Zenos had to steal the echo but apparently had "dreams" of Aumarot since being a child?

When the average person awakens to it, the are greeted with visions of meteor showers. He straight up had dreams of it constantly. I have to wonder what exactly is going on with him.

A post I made on the Revelations from Patch 5.5 (Part 2) that I would like getting some feedback on.

The Dreamer

You know what always bothered me about Zenos once it was revealed that he dreamt of Amaurot constantly? The fact that he had to steal his resonance. To me this implies that he had the memories of being there without it. Which is odd when you think of how most people catch a glimpse of the Final Days via the memory of the Meteor Shower. Lately I began to consider that perhaps he wasn't an Ancient. A fractured soul yes, but not an Amaurotian. That he might just be the fractured being of what caused the Final Days. Implying that he wants to "gorge himself" on aether until the time is right. He doesn't want the dream to be over just yet until he awakens every last ounce of power he once had to enact his plan that he failed all those thousands of years ago. Oblivion. He is described by a future G'raha Tia as a "Fell Beast. Ferocious. Ravenous. Remorseless.".

I don't think the dreamer is really Zenos at all. I think Zenos is the dream.