Shinryu, huh.

[NefGP]

It's obviously Bahamut...

And I feel like a dumbass for not seeing it coming. It explains why Darnus was able to use Megaflare. I figured he was working for a God of some sort, but I had imagined it'd be Odin - but that'd be a repeat of ToAU in a sense.

[wind]

It's not like he beat the gods in a straight fight... he beat their binding spell per say.. so it's not like its that far fetched.

[Alaltus]

It's obviously Bahamut...

And I feel like a dumbass for not seeing it coming. It explains why Darnus was able to use Megaflare. I figured he was working for a God of some sort, but I had imagined it'd be Odin - but that'd be a repeat of ToAU in a sense.

Well now that i think about it in ff4 i think? Bahamut is called the God of Eidolons?

yeah its right here if you scroll down to ff4
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Bahamut

LOL it even says he lives on the red moon.......

[Deli]

The seal failed you can think of lack of prayers...
not many ppl believed in Twelves in our days.

[Seyra]

A thought, maybe the Twelves can't act by themselves and need a being to use the power they grant. That being here is Louisoix who isn't strong enough at this particular time to seal Bahamut.

[Rustyhagun]

(It looks like Dalamud itself was the same container they attempted to reseal him in) So perhaps there was more to the ritual to seal him back up)

Yup they tried to put him in the same confinement as they did those many decades ago. But he was just too strong and wasn't gonna fall fate to that prison again. I can imagine how cramped he must have felt being locked up in that ball in space for all that time. I would be angry too.

[Rustyhagun]

^ This very much so. If you recall when you're spamming through the primals, Louisoux mentions that it's troublesome how the aetheric energy ganked by the primals hadn't been getting absorbed back into the earth upon defeat... Bahamut was drinking that stuff in. So I blame all you people who HAD to get all seven of your totemic weapons! (j/k)

Seems Bahamut was sucking up all that energy like a newly charged battery. He had at least Garuda and Ifrit essence absorb, plus Ravens and with his own. Probably sucking up aether energy from the planet as well as his prison got closer the the planet. So ya he was fully charged and ready to release all that stored up anger and energy back on his enemies/planet.

2.0 is gonna be hot.... I just want my Job to come out so I can really enjoy this game. Jobs now aren't doing it for me not even summoner.

[Rustyhagun]

I guess Hildibrand didn't make it...

Knowing Hildibrand he is probably riding the back of Bahamut.

[KaiTBF]

Goes to show how lacking the story in 1.0 was. People do not know Midgardsormr is the Guardian of the Lake (Silvertear lake in Mor Dhona) and appeared/was summoned to do battle with the Garleans as they made their way to Mor Dhona. Nael van Darnus was given power by Bahamut (like the Dragoon Storyline major Wyrms seem to be able to take control over people) in the form of Van Darnus using Megaflare on us which everyone knows is Bahamut's classic attack. Tiamat, Nidhogg, Bahamut, and the dragon from the limit break video await us in 2.0.

If people took the time to talk to the historian who runs the monk quests they'd know this and a helluva lot more about Eorzea's history, like why the grand companies first united, and about the fallen city-state of Ala Mhigo.

He's probably the single most informative npc in the game.

[Kurosen]

At first I was expecting a Meteor thing to go down (like black materia), but then as soon as I saw it break open with Bahamut, I should of known this entire time.

"Yo Dawg so i heard you like mega flare, so I put a mega flare in my mega flare, so I can destroy a realm while I destroy a realm"

(honestly this was probably Giga flare or Tera Flare)