Revelations from Encyclopaedia Eorzea III

[Denishia]

Is Anogg's bio blotted out on purpose?

Yes, for Nier aura of mystery spoilers instead of the pure joke reason of why the Beavers and that one UT fish are.

[Jonnycbad]

I think the proto-alphabet has actually been used for the Loporrits (their "On Air" sign from the tribal quests, the 'n' is visibly the proto-n and not the Eorzean-n) and the Twelve alliance raids as well.

Also used in Pandaemonium and Elpis maps. Nobody noticed before because Eorzean and Proto-alphabet are extremely similar.

[Loggos]

-Avatars are the 13th reflection of their Reaper's soul. This might contradict Golbez being our 13th reflection, which is all but confirmed, given how their shadow "comes out" of us during Lunar Subterrane dungeon and their face is never shown and they are suspiciously unvoiced in a voiced cutscene....

Does that mean Zero is the 13th reflection of Zenos?
Or was there something about Zenos being an outlier, who searched for and then successfully subjugated a particularly powerful soul to serve him, meaning he enslaved another person's reflection to be his reaper avatar?

(Though that could lead to the kind of funny implication that his own reflection wouldn't be powerful enough for his taste?
I don't mean to say he knows the nature of the reaper avatars (quite frankly I don't remember) but it would be funny if he initially channels his own reflection and then - perhaps without knowing it's literally a part of his own soul - he just goes "nah, you're too weak" and throws it away.)

Sorry, I don't really remember what the details of Zero's story as an avatar are.

[Tsiron]

The extent we got is "Fandaniel summoned her for him", I think?? And besides, Zenos was not a reincarnated Ancient, so he... wouldn't have shards in the other reflections in the first place, would he? Although... what does that say about 'duplicate' NPCs (e.g. Rowena, Gerolt) we run into in the First, then...?

[Loggos]

Oh I mixed something up then, sorry. For some reason I thought that every person was a sundered ancient.
But it sounds like this is not the case and after the sundering, in addition to the sundered souls of the ancients, completely new souls also emerged/were also born without any ties to pre-existing ancients?

But wouldn't that mean that only the sundered remnants of ancients could be reapers because only they'd have reflections on the other shards, incl. the 13th, to call upon as avatars?

[SannaR]

You are correct that he did enslave someone else to become his avatar. It would depend on if you consider the souls that were inside the new life made from the 2nd sacrifice as Ancient or not. As if they were freshly minted souls then they would have been sundered but not have the trauma of the Final Days seared onto their soul. If they were preexisting souls that were in the Sea during the Final Days then I'm not sure if they would have said soul searing. Then you have those that died during the final days that I want to say got sent to the Metiea soul egg pouch and thus wouldn't be part of the equation. We then have to remember that the Star probably made new souls post sundering as a good chunk of souls were in purgatory do to being stuck inside Zodiark. Where any post sundering souls might not have any reflections as each Sea is its own separate thing. The problem is unless the person wakes up to the Echo we won't know what kind of soul they have.

Zenos on his own is an oddball to begin with as he's the great grandchild of an Unsundered.

[MikkoAkure]

Oh I mixed something up then, sorry. For some reason I thought that every person was a sundered ancient.
But it sounds like this is not the case and after the sundering, in addition to the sundered souls of the ancients, completely new souls also emerged/were also born without any ties to pre-existing ancients?

But wouldn't that mean that only the sundered remnants of ancients could be reapers because only they'd have reflections on the other shards, incl. the 13th, to call upon as avatars?

When the world was sundered, the lifestream was sundered too. Ancients weren’t the only beings with souls and purposefully gave their souls back to the lifestream at the end of their life’s work so they could be recycled and reborn.

I don’t believe Ancients will only be reborn as other Ancients. If you have the Echo, I took that as meaning that you are a reincarnation of an Ancient who was alive when the Final Days happened. Your past self could theoretically have seen the original starfall during the Final Days and then died during it, as I’m sure many if not most people did, and then your soul was split while in the lifestream when the Sundering occurred.

People like G’raha still have the expected density of souls (though he has even more because time travel shenanigans) even if they don’t have the Echo.

As far as reapers, that was put forward as a theory in EE3, but it might not necessarily be the case since I was under the impression that our 13th soul shard was the OG Golbez and that soul is locked in memoria.

[Loggos]

@SannaR

@MikkoAkure


Thank you for the clarifications! That was very helpful.
Now I understand it much better.

[Chasingstars]

Angel Whisper Totem
An intricately carved wooden totem imbued with the secrets of a resurrective technique.

Angel Whisper
The origin of this revitalizing spell is steeped in mystery, as it requires healing aether be amplified through a familiar that appears for all the world to be a messenger from the heavens─a concept soundly at odds with Whalaqee religious beliefs.

Whalaqee Totems
Though Martyn did reference Whalaqee carvings in the creation of these totems, they are his own handiwork—their name lending perhaps undeserved air of authenticity. Infused with the aether of creatures from the New World, said totems enable trained blue mage practitioners to learn new spells without journeying across the Indigo Deep.
-Eoreza Encyclopedia Vol 3, pg239