The Heart of Sabik

[Cilia]

Interesting. In German it is only "Sabik". Lahabrea describes it as "concentrated power of darkness: Sabik".

Interesting. Japanese may have been the only language to use those exact words of Black Auracite originally.

In EN's script for The Sorrow of Werlyt, the Heart of Sabik is indeed identified as a piece of black auracite; the ones used to power the Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, and Diamond Weapons are all noted to be artificial copies.

Even if the JP script was the only one that originally identified the Heart as a piece of auracite, we've known what it is (at least in EN) for quite a while. (My "issue" with it is that they had to try and link it to Ultima, as if she's the only conceivable source of auracite in existence; but then again just about everything Ivalice related irks me, so don't read too much into it. Lol.)

[Anonymoose]

(My "issue" with it is that they had to try and link it to Ultima, as if she's the only conceivable source of auracite in existence;

You know, I didn't even think of "they probably connected Sabik to Ultima because it's auracite and <Austin Powers voice> that's her bag, baby", I just assumed they connected Sabik to Ultima because it felt like the natural thing to do to an object that had the Ultima magick in it because <guy reading the title of Austin's book voice> that is also her bag, baby." Now I have extra curiosities about how it all unfolded.

Ever since Lahabrea called Ultima a "sliver of his god's power" I've been hoping they'd find some way to string some of those ideas together. Darkness, rift, Ultima (the magick), Ultima (the transdimensional force), Ultima (the High Seraph, in totality), Ultima (the High Seraph, which the statue made sound like a primal based on the force and resulting legends), and maybe even Altima (the Ascian).

You know me, I try to find a way to accept and make sense of things even if my first knee-jerk was, "Thanks, I hate it" ... but I'm weirdly, unexpectedly ok with this.

(Watch, I'm gonna start archiving the 4-language sheet and cross-reference quotes and remember something that makes me table-flip.)

Again, the NPC dialog menu makes me suspect we haven't heard the last of this...