Two things bugging me with the ending...

[Inzoum]

First of all, what's going on with Atomos? Bahamut emerging from its Dalamud prison and trashing the place is all the Empire's doing, and it's all perfectly understandable. But Atomos? It just came out of nowhere and ATE our aetherites. Then it spawned purple-glowing monsters. The Empire doesn't seem to care. What the hell is going on with that? This ending did not bring any closure whatsoever to the whole Atomos issue.

Second, Bahamut destroyed a big part of the world and just settled down in a labyrinth? Really? Apparently, in ARR, the city of Gridania is even more beautiful and lively than it ever was, and the people don't seem the least bothered. It's like:

Bahamut: "Hey guys! It's me! I'm back. I'm still a bit mad at you humans for sealing me in a moon for so long, so I'll just vent out a little on you guys and destroy your homes, then I guess I'll build myself a maze and chill out and not bother you anymore, you OK with that?"
People: "Sure. 's cool, bro. We totally understand. Tell us when you're done and we'll start rebuilding. We could REALLY do some home improvement. You know, it's time we made new decorations and put a little colour in our city again. Shouldn't take more than 5 years or so. So long and thanks for the kickstart!"
Bahamut: "K, K. See ya. WOOOOSHFF-MEGAFLARE-".

Kind of makes you wonder why they had to seal it the first time. They could have just let it build its labyrinth, sheesh.

[Masamune1004]

You, my friend, have just been sigged

[Mardel]

Bahamut: "K, K. See ya. WOOOOSHFF-MEGAFLARE-".

Louisoix seemed okay with it too. Didn't you see his smile and look of approval at the end? Also I bet he wasn't even try to seal Bahamut; he was just saying "Brohamut I can make cool colors too. KKNP?" Obviously Bahamut was NOT COOL with this...

Also now my sig XD

[Seirra_Lanzce]

DA INTARMETZZZZZZZZZZZ IZ FUNZZZEHHH!

[Momita]

1. Atomos probably start to pop for the aether from dalamud like primal hungry for that.. so he start to search and taste aether.. and he maws are a warp for the Deepvoid.. like a limbo where monsters go after death..

2. what will happen in 2.0... will be told us in 2.0!! so what bahamut will do in 5 years will be the storyline in 2.0

[Anima]

I always sort of thought that Atomos came to absorb/save the Aether from being decimated by Bahamut, then reappears to spread it again. Kind of like FFVII where the Lifestream was collected and evacuated somewhere to start a new life, you know, self-evactuating system !

[Punainen]

You're assuming things. No one knows what happened after Bahamut's rampage. ARR takes place 5 years later, and I assume we'll find out IN ARR what happened.

[Meow_Zedong]

1) Atomos is from the Void. The closer Dalamud got, the more it messed up the Aetherial energy flow of Eorzea, like how the moon effects the tides. It made things unstable and creatures from the Void found it easier to come here. It seems to me he's just a creature that feeds off of Aetherial energy, so he goes to the places with the most of said energy, the Crystals. Nothing more involved than that.

2) After Louisoux dies (maybe), there are still 11 more Archons that could have tried other things. And obviously someone has to imprison Bahamut in the Labyrinth, he doesn't just go there willingly. It could have even been Gaius van Baelsar. We don't know, and they'll probably explain it in 2.0.

[Totorixiii]

I have a gut feeling Bahamut is hiding from the world (Eaorzea) citizens. I mean who and what in their own mind likes to be caged up in a a giant ball?

So anyway, possibility of Odin wandering about to find bahamut so he can slay him, thus Odin might be important part of a story such as in order to get his help to fight Bahamut, you must defeat him first to gain his trust worthiness

I'm so excited to see more stories from 2.0 ARR!

[NoloeTazier]

1) Atomos is from the Void. The closer Dalamud got, the more it messed up the Aetherial energy flow of Eorzea, like how the moon effects the tides. It made things unstable and creatures from the Void found it easier to come here. It seems to me he's just a creature that feeds off of Aetherial energy, so he goes to the places with the most of said energy, the Crystals. Nothing more involved than that.

2) After Louisoux dies (maybe), there are still 11 more Archons that could have tried other things. And obviously someone has to imprison Bahamut in the Labyrinth, he doesn't just go there willingly. It could have even been Gaius van Baelsar. We don't know, and they'll probably explain it in 2.0.

Ding ding. But I wouls go on to say that Atomos is important to Eorzea and other realms, his appearance was after the aether became unstable, not that the aether became unstable because of Atomos. When Atomos pops into existence in our plane clearly a rift is opened and things on the other side can come through, but once he goes back so do they. I would argue that Atomos came to Eorzea when the aether flow was at its weakest. Ifrit, Garuda, Van Darnus all were harnessing the aether for their own needs (Van Darnus was sending it to Dalamud). Aetherytes are places where the aether flow is strongest and we use these for our own purposes, I feel that Atomos engorged himself on the excess aether of the crystals and turned them orange causing them not to be as active.