FFXI also had a Pandaemonium type boss with Pandaemonium Warden. This was a big world super boss like Absolute Virtue (which was show cased in FFXIV in the Baldesian Arsenal.

The old man is most likely Hephaestus, and Lahabrea of his time, seeing as this lines up with mythology and as presented in game.

I think people might have missed that Erichthonios' (Eric) super form we fight when we first show up has the Lahabrea mask embedded on its head.



Imo this is pretty much straight up showing that he's the future Lahabrea we deal with in the modern times.

What confuses me is the connection of Themis and Elidibus. Could someone point out where this is made in the game? This gives me really weird implications, seeing as Elidibus was supposed to have been a really young Ancient. Yet Themis wears the white robes of someone whom has refused to return to the life stream after completing what would be considered by their society's standard their life's work (same as Venat does..)