Occult Crescent speculation

[Cleretic]

I thought this was pretty funny, but it does also seem exactly like an Ascian doomsday plot to stir up (at least) three nations of extraordinarily powerful mages to trigger an apocalypse. And there is precedent with Eureka...

In fairness, while Eureka was the Ascians' fault, they didn't cause it; it disappearing was an emergency countermeasure to stop an Ascian.

And I do have a constant pet theory that it was Proto-Ozma that brought it back, but I don't expect it to actually be accurate.

[Vallavia]

In fairness, while Eureka was the Ascians' fault, they didn't cause it; it disappearing was an emergency countermeasure to stop an Ascian.

And I do have a constant pet theory that it was Proto-Ozma that brought it back, but I don't expect it to actually be accurate.

Sorry, I meant more that there's precedent for "there is an existing mechanism that can cause pieces of reality to be unceremoniously teleported across the planet", not that Eureka was done by an Ascian. Though even that might be mooted with the advent of dimensional fusion which opens all kinds of possibilities.

I think with the other discussions of Ozma holes and time dilation it's more likely that the Occult Crescent wasn't always in its current physical configuration. If I were to hazard a completely unfounded guess, I'd say that some party (probably Mhach, given Ozma has this power already) tried to use some applied magic on all these places at once (perhaps originating from the Forked Tower) which ended up failing spectacularly and instead sucking everybody and everything including the casters into a wormhole that dumped them in the modern Occult Crescent.

[Cleretic]

Sorry, I meant more that there's precedent for "there is an existing mechanism that can cause pieces of reality to be unceremoniously teleported across the planet", not that Eureka was done by an Ascian. Though even that might be mooted with the advent of dimensional fusion which opens all kinds of possibilities.

I think with the other discussions of Ozma holes and time dilation it's more likely that the Occult Crescent wasn't always in its current physical configuration. If I were to hazard a completely unfounded guess, I'd say that some party (probably Mhach, given Ozma has this power already) tried to use some applied magic on all these places at once (perhaps originating from the Forked Tower) which ended up failing spectacularly and instead sucking everybody and everything including the casters into a wormhole that dumped them in the modern Occult Crescent.

I can see this, although not literally Ozma. Partly because Ozma's an FFIX thing and we're squarely in FFV Time, but also because I don't think Mhach's Ozma has enough juice for this; it did a pretty bad job sucking up one city, and Crescent looks bigger than that.

FFV does have an angle, though: Exdeath sucking locations into the Void, where he summons a big black orb and that entire part of the map's just gone. Dissidia interpreted that by way of having 'time bubbles' depicting some of those locations floating around the FFV stage, and it's not... a world away from the bubbles in the Occult Crescent? And certainly, the thing in the coffin/chest from the trailer looks pretty void-ular.

My new theory is that we're going up against Enuo, the original guy that tried to control the Void from FFV. He was only a boss in the Advance version, which I'd normally be disinclined to factor in... except they've already referenced Cannoneer, so we're good!