Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
2)If Fandaniel was indeed Amon, we should have seen more of that (like, maybe he created the original Garuda in Azys Lla along with the original Ixal. Perhaps Garuda was his sort of unconscious attempt at creating Meteion).

3) I would like to have utilized the Void/13th more. Once we saw how Zodiark worked, I thought perhaps the Ascians attempted to free Zodiark on the 13th shard, which triggered the Sound of that dimension to destroy everything and that ultimately caused the Ascians to realize they can’t free an incomplete Zodiark. I had thought the void sent/Cloud of Darkness were created by the sound warping.
I'm a tad too tired right now to really dig into your whole post, but for the first of these, that both did and didn't actually happen. Your example is confirmed to be wrong; as learned (I believe) in Fractal Continuum Hard, the 'original Garuda' was actually an Allagan general that commanded the Iksalion, who was mythologized over time to become Garuda as the Ixal gradually forgot their origins.

However, there actually were signs of it over time. Perhaps most notable was in 5.4, when the Allagan recording on tempering outright mentions that it was Amon who shut it down. Both of them utilized stuff like the dragons of Meracydia and energy-consuming towers. If you look back at info about Amon, too, you can see that his behavior is pretty much exactly what we saw from Fandaniel; it's just that people were a little blind to that because people started ascribing the qualities to Emet-Selch, despite them fitting Fandaniel closer.

And as for the void, it is actually confirmed how that fell: essentially, the Ascians hadn't figured out that a Calamity is needed on the Source when a shard is consumed, so they whacked the Thirteenth out of alignment and then went 'oh, crap, we screwed that up' when it didn't help. According to the first volume of the Encyclopedia Eorzea, the clash that tipped it over was actually Unukalhai (the Amaurotian-dressed kid from the Warring Triad questline and the Shadowbringers all-roles questline) and Igeyorhm (the Ascian that fused with Lahabrea in the Aetherochemical Research Facility).