Revelations from Patch 6.4: The Dark Throne

[SilversLyu]

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Hydaelyn having combat experience and thus giving her a fair chance is a good explanation actually. What I am wondering about the most is how did she perform the sundering? You can be Azem and experienced, but how did she split existence itself into pieces? This is imho the biggest mystery still not answered. There are implications made that she pulled resources from the planet to help her against Zodiark (Auracite?). For all we know this could be brought up in the final alliance raid. Did I miss something, like have we gotten an answer from the devs?

[Cleretic]

Hydaelyn having combat experience and thus giving her a fair chance is a good explanation actually. What I am wondering about the most is how did she perform the sundering? You can be Azem and experienced, but how did she split existence itself into pieces? This is imho the biggest mystery still not answered. There are implications made that she pulled resources from the planet to help her against Zodiark (Auracite?). For all we know this could be brought up in the final alliance raid. Did I miss something, like have we gotten an answer from the devs?

We haven't gotten an answer on the 'how' there, but I also don't really feel like we need to, honestly. We know what it did, we know it was done intentionally, we know who did it (and to who/what), and unless you read Argo as also being capable of a version of it (which is... plausible but I highly doubt Argos will ever be story-integral again) then everyone who was both capable of and victim to it are dead and gone. What story value does this potentially hold, really?

It's fine to be curious about the 'how' and want to hear it, because it's absolutely insane, but let's not call it a 'mystery' or anything so much as a curiosity, I personally see it as even less relevant to the story than what Y'shtola had for breakfast.. ...also, I don't feel like any explanation we would be given would necessarily make much sense because, again, it's absolutely insane. Getting an answer more involved than 'she took the aether from the sacrifices that summoned her, beat up Zodiark, and shattered both it and the planet' is likely to cause more confusion, not less.

Regardless of how planned it was, it was really satisfying to see how individual plot threads around things like Ardbert's group, Minfilia's departure, and even Unukalhai's story came together several expansions after Heavensward. I know that Ivalice and Bozja are special cases, but there's a lot of floating plot threads around Auracite that could be used to weave together more stories down the line. Even if the current Void story arc gets wrapped up with a nice bow, the ideas are out there, ready to be utilized when the time is right.

I wouldn't say Ivalice and Bozja are too special; after all, Daichi Hiroi helped write them, and it's hard to tell how much was him compared to Matsuno, especially with Bozja.

I think Bozja might be rather difficult to write into future content, but that's more structural than anything.