Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
“It sort of looks like a random obscure monster from a past FF game” doesn’t strike me as “pretty thoroughly debunked”. Especially since later information revealed to us suggests to me that Arcadion will consist of us fighting other fighters rather than random monsters and Yoshi-P hinting at the return of the Ascians.
I never posted that claiming it 'debunked' anything, for the record (also it was someone else's observation that I got from Twitter), but more put it forward as an alternative theory that I personally find to be more compelling. The fact the sign looks like Armodullahan doesn't mean it can't be anything else, but I do think the fact it looks more like Armodullahan than Altima does put doubt to the theory that it's Altima. And I think the Altima theory's kinda run a bit far for something so thin in evidence, it's reached a point where for a lot of people it's the only theory they ever hear--for some people I suspect they actually think it's proven.

I especially think the Armodullahan theory's worth considering now that we know what the Arcadion is; it was hard to find a place to fit it into previous theories, but now that we know it's a big fancy fight club, it makes complete sense why it would have some random boss from FFIX with a neat design but no story importance; that also describes about half of the Omega raids, and the only Pandaemonium boss that didn't fill some story purpose was also in that category. (And incidentally, good job to Pandaemonium for its lack of filler bosses, I'd never thought about that before.)