Revelations from 4gamer

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The one I like to think about, and also have to remind myself exists, is Enkidu.

Am I a bad loremonger for never even thinking about this one? I always loop back around to, "Hildibrand is only is canon as you want it to be. They know it doesn't make sense. It doesn't matter that it doesn't make sense. It's the rule-breaking comedy bubble every Final Fantasy has to some degree." Maybe I could invent headcanons that might make it work, but then again I have no drive to. Enkidu just is... <broad hand gesture, never finishes thought>

Though the in-joke about the duke's precious vase that like 5 people will understand is one of the best parts of this game, hands down.

The thing with Phoenix and corrupted crystals confuses me. I thought corrupted crystals were the result of aether being released where pieces of Dalamud impacted?

That's what I thought was explicitly blamed, too, but h*ck, never mind Dalamud, those crystals first showed up with ATOMOS back in 1.0. - remember them over-aspected the aetherytes and left crystals and clusters hanging around?

I'm sure that, if pressed, Oda-san would probably clarify something like ... over-aspected crystals are usually orange, anyway, and some that we've seen before are not directly a result of Phoenix, but were localized disruptions of an aetherial stream ... yet many that we see in the game as part of a large-scale disruption of the realm are what he was referring to, here... lol.

What impressed me is that he said it so convincingly, and so confidently, that I didn't even think to question it and remember Atomos for an entire day. He intended-all-along'd me. Cynical, jaded old ME.

That's why he's our lore god, I guess.