It just hit me (spoilers, duh)

[ICountFrom0]

The eye of Aleg is still an unanswered question, isn't it?

Given the response when the question about it was asked in the Q&A, I think they forgot about it.

[thegreatonemal]

The eye of Aleg is still an unanswered question, isn't it?

Given the response when the question about it was asked in the Q&A, I think they forgot about it.

There's nothing to ask about it. It just marks one as a member of the royal family and therefore allows access to lots of stuff in their empire.

[ICountFrom0]

Nha, not that, the one in the ultima weapon.

[Enkidoh]

That's the Heart of Sabik, not the Eye of Allag (the later is a genetic trait of the Allagan royal line now passed down through the G tribe of miqo'te in Corvos). The Heart of Sabik was the Ultima Weapon's core which contained the spell Ultima, but there's nothing really left to do with it now given it now no longer even exists (it exploded during the Praetorium after taking too much damage, taking the Ultima Weapon with it).

The only other bit of lore known is that it was apparently originally made by Lahabrea, so unless it pops up somewhere in future parts of Pandaemonium I think SE have finished with it.

[Cleretic]

The Heart of Sabik is one of those things that lore-heads are really invested on thinking is A Thing, but has staunchly refused to be A Thing for years. It just sorta happened and then it's no longer relevant.

I'd be genuinely surprised if it ever boomerang-ed back. Surrely if there was a chance to set it up as something that'll continue relevance it would've been the Werlyt story.

[KageTokage]

For a while, they had been repeatedly stating that the Heart of Sabik is not forgotten and that it was going to matter eventually, but at this point I'm ready to dismiss it as one of those dropped plot threads like Zenos' visions of the FInal Days.

They did however, also vaguely state that something that was brought up long enough ago that "most people would've forgotten about it" would be playing into the future of the story, so...who knows.

If we get a plot focused on Ilsabard and the remaining Garlean legions, I could reasonably see it turning up there as the crux of some scheme to allow them to maintain their chokehold on the provinces by threatening neighboring lands with some manner of superweapon engineered using the heart as its power source. The fact that most of the legions did not rally behind Nerva or make a move on the capital during the civil war really gives me the vibe that they're planning something...

[DPZ2]

What I wonder about every time I go through the Praetorium is "Why does Lahabrea believe in the Seven Hells enough to invoke them?"

[Enkidoh]

What I wonder about every time I go through the Praetorium is "Why does Lahabrea believe in the Seven Hells enough to invoke them?"

Well, given he once ran a whole Creation containment facility that was virtually evoking hellscape imagery from it's decoration to it's very name, he could have been talking literally, from a certain point of view.

But at the time I just took it as metaphorical - the Ascians were after all very prone to monologuing with flowerly language, as noted dryly by Varis ("You fiends always were overfond of the sound of your own voices"). But we didn't know that back then.

So yeah, just Lahabrea being Lahabrea (loves to gloat with lots of purple prose).

[DrWho2010]

wasn't Zenos' dreams of the final days just chalked up to being racial memory from being a biological descendant of Emet-Selch (Solus?)

[DPZ2]

wasn't Zenos' dreams of the final days just chalked up to being racial memory from being a biological descendant of Emet-Selch (Solus?)

Probably. It might also be that something lingered when he got his body back after it was occupied by Elidibus.