Archaeotania's place in lore is confusing me

[Vyrerus]

I see, so it's nothing other than a cool reference. The Ancient Aevis things still get to me, but I'll look at it as mostly an extra with no real meaning.

Thanks for answering, guys!

The Aevis are likely moreso references just to ancient flying serpents. Also FFV references as you noted, but also note that the Serpent of Ronka is identical(in both FFV and FFXIV). One of many enemies that are dragon-like, but not of Midgardsormr's brood.

[akita_kt]

The Aevis are likely moreso references just to ancient flying serpents. Also FFV references as you noted, but also note that the Serpent of Ronka is identical(in both FFV and FFXIV). One of many enemies that are dragon-like, but not of Midgardsormr's brood.

It was the name itself that made me knit my brows -- Aevis being different from gwibers, drakes and everything else in the sense that they're humans turned dragonlike beings via either magic (like the Alte Roite description in XIV) or dragon blood (like every Ishgardian when in contact with dragon blood). The Alte Roite model itself was just an afterthought for me because of its relationship to the name Jura Aevis in FFV.

I thought all this Archaeotania talk could imply that the Ancients were looking at the Dragonstar and knew dragons existed, which would be really cool lorewise.

[Ultimatecalibur]

It was the name itself that made me knit my brows -- Aevis being different from gwibers, drakes and everything else in the sense that they're humans turned dragonlike beings via either magic (like the Alte Roite description in XIV) or dragon blood (like every Ishgardian when in contact with dragon blood). The Alte Roite model itself was just an afterthought for me because of its relationship to the name Jura Aevis in FFV.

Alte Roite (corruption of Alte Leute, German for old people) could easily have been a corrupted legend of the Ancient who converted themself into Quetzalcoatl (feathered serpent) (as depicted in the dungeon) with the "Jura Aevis" model being Omega's recreation of the legendary Feathered Serpent form. Aevis is just the latin word for bird and the Ishgardians might have co-oped the term to describe the weirdly bird like dragons some turn into based on the legend not that Aevis are people that turn into dragons.

[Grimr]

I wouldn't call archaeotania a dragon by any means. If anything i would look at it at the original concept of the ultima weapon. It is a dead ringer for the weapon. It also uses the same attack as the proto ultima weapon in azs la and dun scaith. Maybe it was created to be a weapon of some sorts. I don't know. We do know from arch other weapon types were created such as the ultima warrior and the origin for behemoths back in fc hard. yes yoshida hard dungeons do serve a purpose. EDIT by the way i believe the alte rolte lore mentions its a sorceror who turn themself into a a dragon much like aevis in coerthas regions.