Man, now I'm wondering if part of the reason Nael van Darnus acts so Twelve-damned unhinged is that he's <strikeout>a Knight of Odin</strikeout> being influenced in some way by the Prisoner of Dalamud who may or may not be Odin. He's obviously got a rager on for the Void- every time he talks about the incident in the past (I forget the name, but it was a weapons test of Dalamud, effectively, and it blew a hole in reality and the Garleans moved away from using the ancient Allagan tech) he gets way, way too excited. I just assumed he was Void-mad in the grand tradition of FF antagonists who looked into the abyss, but if he's being sockpuppeted in some way by the PoD the same way Eald'narche was being sockpuppeted by Promathia...

I mean, I much prefer my Odin as a mastermind / archnemesis / protector of mankind all in one, but I like the cut of this plot twist's jib.