Original Theme Song A Precurser?

[Masamune1004]

The songs lyrics do seem to fit what is happening now almost perfectly, but I think it's just a coincidence.

[Zenaku]

The songs lyrics do seem to fit what is happening now almost perfectly, but I think it's just a coincidence.

or they just took what the song said and use it to make it happen so it not coincidence it just happen to be that they just did what the song said.

[MartaDemireux]

Ahhh... Memoro de la S^tono... That song was integral to story of XI. If memory serves they even played the recorded version at the end of Chains of Promathia as well - being the only words spoken in-game aside from the opening movie.

I know in the beginning of the Gridanian opening you can hear the part where Susan is singing the part in the song where she first comes in. At the end of the opening you can hear her say "Walk free, walk free, believe. The land's alive, so believe" very clearly. So it definitely seems, too, that XIV is following XI's footsteps in making a theme song share such importance to the game.

Beginning to think that the Seventh Umbral Era was actually intended to be the games first expansion pack at this point. However when the game flopped they may have decided to push it forward (like was said before) and now we're getting what we're getting. And yes, as Zenaku says, it's very possible Yoshi directed this with the theme song in mind. As far as Dalamund coming into the picture and all anyway.

I don't know if anyone else caught this, but when the game was first released and they gave us a cinematic at TGS2010. The fire in the sky we all saw when we received the power of the Echo actually is depicted within this movie - it's the fall of the the dragons and the airships. At the end of the movie you can also clearly see (at around 6:10) Ifrit and Titan. One can only assume that the current Primal battles that we're receiving are in direct relation to the event when they all shot down to the world below. If they're going to go into this much depth and continue to link us with it even now in anticipation for 2.0, I find it very hard to believe that the song would have no connection to it as well.

Edit: And at the end of the movie the Miqo'te even says, "Let's give the bards something to sing about." Maybe the Echo truly DOES go very deep and get very complicated to the point that we're living in an echo while experiencing another echo. It could mean that the song being sung is not ONLY about the war that happened but also in that it depicts the future to come.

We could be playing the middle part of the two events. When 2.0 happens maybe we wake up from this Echo and then move on into the real 2.0 using the knowledge we gained during the echo to fight the antagonist in 2.0 and beyond.

Didn't mean to turn this into a speculation thread... but it's just so tempting when various puzzle pieces get strewn about!