Atomos and the ARR concept

[Delsus]

I think we can be sure of one thing now, Atomos pops above the aethers, in ARR concepts there was aethers chained down, and being pulled out of the ground. Atomos is a gravity based summon (or mob in this case) so that means one thing.

Atomos is the reason for the Aethers in the concept being pulled from the ground, we could see this in 1.23b.

Just something I thought I would share.

[Hulan]

I've been a hardliner on the "Odin is trapped in Dalamud" party, but with this, and a few logic leaps, it seems pretty compelling that Atomos is trapped in Dalamud. It certainly could be something else, but given that the Aethyrite crystals are behaving exactly like the primals do when defeated, except that in the case of primals, aether is getting sucked into Dalamud, and the Aethyrite aether is getting sucked into Atomos.

It occurs to me that if what we are seeing now are merely astral projections of Atomos - proxies sucking out the Aether on a greater scale now that he is close enough to exert that much influence - everything makes a great deal of sense.

[Delsus]

I've been a hardliner on the "Odin is trapped in Dalamud" party, but with this, and a few logic leaps, it seems pretty compelling that Atomos is trapped in Dalamud. It certainly could be something else, but given that the Aethyrite crystals are behaving exactly like the primals do when defeated, except that in the case of primals, aether is getting sucked into Dalamud, and the Aethyrite aether is getting sucked into Atomos.

It occurs to me that if what we are seeing now are merely astral projections of Atomos - proxies sucking out the Aether on a greater scale now that he is close enough to exert that much influence - everything makes a great deal of sense.

Or its just Atomos is a primal, and the primals feed off the aether which could be why hes absorbing it. Perhaps (as someone speculated before) Atomos is the primal of Garlemald, and they suspect we are trying to summon the twelve, so they summoned and sent Atomos to consume all the aether so we cannot summon the twelve.