CG Midlander

[Anonymoose]

all those echos you experience you don't get the pop up menu if you wanna use the power of the echo or not right?

Right. You don't get asked, but you DO get the sound effect. You just don't have any control over the Echo or knowledge of what it is yet, it's just happening to you with no control.

When you first go to The Path of The Twelve, you accidentally echo jump Milfinia, who tells you that this means you've passed her test, she goes as far to say as "I'm guessing this isn't the first time this has happened to you..."

If you watch all of your Mission 1-4 cutscenes, you'll get a little WHOOSH WHOOSH every time and echo starts and finishes aside from the one with the star shower. The ones in Limsa are super, super obvious, not sure if the others are as clear. The characters even get visibly distracted by the memories that cause you to echo them, and after the echo finishes they say things like, "Ah, yes, where was I."

As for how long if a space there is in the Limsa one, I don't know. Sthalmann is ordering his ship from the guild AFTER the sea serpent incident in Shapeless Melody but BEFORE the Seal Rock expedition is destroyed. This, combined with the fact that we know Y'shtola was only sneaking around for a fortnight locks most of these events pretty closely together... but how long ago? I feel like it's years, but I could be wrong.

[Warlock]

Right. You don't get asked, but you DO get the sound effect. You just don't have any control over the Echo or knowledge of what it is yet, it's just happening to you with no control.

When you first go to The Path of The Twelve, you accidentally echo jump Milfinia, who tells you that this means you've passed her test, she goes as far to say as "I'm guessing this isn't the first time this has happened to you..."

If you watch all of your Mission 1-4 cutscenes, you'll get a little WHOOSH WHOOSH every time and echo starts and finishes aside from the one with the star shower. The ones in Limsa are super, super obvious, not sure if the others are as clear. The characters even get visibly distracted by the memories that cause you to echo them, and after the echo finishes they say things like, "Ah, yes, where was I."

As for how long if a space there is in the Limsa one, I don't know. Sthalmann is ordering his ship from the guild AFTER the sea serpent incident in Shapeless Melody but BEFORE the Seal Rock expedition is destroyed. This, combined with the fact that we know Y'shtola was only sneaking around for a fortnight locks most of these events pretty closely together... but how long ago? I feel like it's years, but I could be wrong.

Yes and there is a change of music too...this happens in Gridania as well re-watching the CSs knowing all you know now makes it clear than when you started the game the first time.

Btw what are your thoughts about the mysterious Primal that stopped Gaius? some say people recorded and mistakenly called Midgarsormr a Primal but his sole purpuse was to keep watch over Silver Tear lake's seal not Ala Mhigo

[Anonymoose]

Btw what are your thoughts about the mysterious Primal that stopped Gaius?

I've gotta chalk this one up to unanswered at this point. As I said before, it really looks to me like (in September 2010) the "unanticipated" primal-in-question was meant at the time to refer to the nameless dragon now known to be Midgardsormr. The fact that it was a primal that caused the Empire to remain passive was stated as a matter of fact, and we know that the Empire sure wasn't passive when they flew an armada to Silvertear Lake.

Now (in November 2012), we have new information. This dragon was Midgardsormr, who was not a primal; the empire had met real primals before this on other continents; and SE sticks to their story about a primal stopping the advance. This means that either they're changing it up, or that we were left to draw false conclusions in the past. I can't stress this enough: in 2010, the dragon was nameless and could have been anything. In 2012 we know he's not a primal - but did Square Enix know that back then? We don't know.

This can now be approached from two directions. If we approach from the real-world front, it looks like a retcon. It's not a blatant Lara Croftian in-your-face retcon, but a behind the scenes one that simply ripples through information we already had. The information given in September 2010 just linked too damn well to the opening cutscene to not be what they were referring to. However, this doesn't affect the situation if we approach it from a game-world front. Nothing was ever explicitly stated, there's no direct contradiction because we were only left to make inferences before. From the lore front, Midgardsormr is not a primal, and a primal halted this advance at Ala Mhigo. This is all we know and all we can infer.

Can we guess? ... Eeehhhhh, kinda.

We can whip out our map of Eorzea and write off Leviathan and Titan on the other side of the continent, can probably write off Shiva since the snowy areas are also to the West, can probably write off Ifrit since he's further south than even Silvertear Lake, maybe write off Garuda because it looks like they sailed around Gridania and Coerthas on their way to Silvertear... that leaves Ramuh, basically. Ala Mhigo is north-east of Gridania, which means that if they kept on their march, they'd have bumped into the sylph village first... which they do.

However, we see that the sylphs don't summon Ramuh in these years! BOOM! HEADSHOT!!!1! on that theory.

It's up to SE to make this one work. We don't have anywhere near enough info to say who it was if it wasn't Midgardsormr.

[Warlock]

I've gotta chalk this one up to unanswered at this point. As I said before, it really looks to me like (in September 2010) the "unanticipated" primal-in-question was meant at the time to refer to the nameless dragon now known to be Midgardsormr. The fact that it was a primal that caused the Empire to remain passive was stated as a matter of fact, and we know that the Empire sure wasn't passive when they flew an armada to Silvertear Lake.

Now (in November 2012), we have new information. This dragon was Midgardsormr, who was not a primal; the empire had met real primals before this on other continents; and SE sticks to their story about a primal stopping the advance. This means that either they're changing it up, or that we were left to draw false conclusions in the past. I can't stress this enough: in 2010, the dragon was nameless and could have been anything. In 2012 we know he's not a primal - but did Square Enix know that back then? We don't know.

This can now be approached from two directions. If we approach from the real-world front, it looks like a retcon. It's not a blatant Lara Croftian in-your-face retcon, but a behind the scenes one that simply ripples through information we already had. The information given in September 2010 just linked too damn well to the opening cutscene to not be what they were referring to. However, this doesn't affect the situation if we approach it from a game-world front. Nothing was ever explicitly stated, there's no direct contradiction because we were only left to make inferences before. From the lore front, Midgardsormr is not a primal, and a primal halted this advance at Ala Mhigo. This is all we know and all we can infer.

Can we guess? ... Eeehhhhh, kinda.

We can whip out our map of Eorzea and write off Leviathan and Titan on the other side of the continent, can probably write off Shiva since the snowy areas are also to the West, can probably write off Ifrit since he's further south than even Silvertear Lake, maybe write off Garuda because it looks like they sailed around Gridania and Coerthas on their way to Silvertear... that leaves Ramuh, basically. Ala Mhigo is north-east of Gridania, which means that if they kept on their march, they'd have bumped into the sylph village first... which they do.

However, we see that the sylphs don't summon Ramuh in these years! BOOM! HEADSHOT!!!1! on that theory.

It's up to SE to make this one work. We don't have anywhere near enough info to say who it was if it wasn't Midgardsormr.

I guess is time to summon Fernehalwes from the Void!! to spill the beans unless the identity of the Mysterious Primal is important to remain unknown till ARR

[Alaltus]

However, we see that the sylphs don't summon Ramuh in these years! BOOM! HEADSHOT!!!1! on that theory.

It's up to SE to make this one work. We don't have anywhere near enough info to say who it was if it wasn't Midgardsormr.

Did the Slyphs ever say that they had never summoned their Primal? could be that they made the decision to never summon their Primal after they had summoned him previously. Could be interesting if actually the Ala Mhigan's themselves summoned a Primal to oppose the empire sure would have bought them more time considering the empire halted its advance for 5 years. But yeah its too early to be sure of anything.

[Anonymoose]

Did the Slyphs ever say that they had never summoned their Primal? Could be that they made the decision to never summon their Primal after they had summoned him previously.

Yeah, you're right there. They only ever say that you never should, and that they darken hearts, and that they won't do it. It's never explicitly stated that they never, ever have. They could have gained this knowledge 10 years ago, summoning him then.

I just can't get over that if this was the case, why did SE not add some hints about the Sylphs previous summoning to the bucket-full of hints that the Empire bumped into something? Until Midgardsormr was stated as not-a-primal, it was the most likely inference we would have made, otherwise.

This one is up to SE to clean up - I got nothin'

[Zenaku]

That is even more confusing ....Long before Midgarsormr breaking the seal the Emperor witnessed more than one Primal and their destructive power .... north and east of Garlemald Could that be Shiva? but then again it was more than one...Ifrit and Titan manifested at the seal break so not them. This leads me to think again that Louisoix's final act will make the Aether realm and Hydaelyn one.

Something happen remember that all the Primal are free in 2.0 there in our world walking around. So it save to say something happen when louisoix is about to die. Something have to happen for the primal to have enough power to be in our world for a long time. Seeing how free company / linkshell can find them in the wild and try and fight them to control there power for limit amount of time before the primal are release once more into the wild.

[Orophin]

Thanks for that writeup Anonymoose. It just seems so strange that pretty much most of what you experienced up until meeting with Minfilia was mostly flashbacks. Maybe I was just unwilling to accept that and put 2&2 together. I think the most interesting part was the similarities in their name. (both containing steel, one of which being one that can represent having fallen from grace) I'm not sure how much you know about the Ul'Dah or Gridania storylines, but do they share this same quality in that there's a lot of Echo cutscenes?

I have all of my Marauder cutscenes recorded. I could encode them and upload them to Youtube. (I'm sure they're already there if you really wanted to watch them) Unfortunately ZAM doesn't have the Journal entries posted like it does for some of the other class quests, and I've already uninstalled my game. All I can get from the Marauder quest series is that Rostnsthal was ultimately digging up dirt on Caravalain (the fancy male pirate seen on The Executioner) to hand in to Reyner. He was trying to get some money for the information, but maybe he was ultimately trying to get back in with the Barracudas. He of course has you doing all the dirty work. Once Reyner refuses his offer, I think he has you give the information to Hylfyrr. (the pirate captain whom Merlwyb defeated in the Trident)

It probably goes without saying that the Marauder quest, along with every other quest in the game prior to Yoshi-P's arrival, were incomplete and a lot more could have been done with them.

[NoloeTazier]

Now (in November 2012), we have new information. This dragon was Midgardsormr, who was not a primal; the empire had met real primals before this on other continents; and SE sticks to their story about a primal stopping the advance. This means that either they're changing it up, or that we were left to draw false conclusions in the past. I can't stress this enough: in 2010, the dragon was nameless and could have been anything. In 2012 we know he's not a primal - but did Square Enix know that back then? We don't know.

The Lalafell NPC Yayatoki use to tell you about Midgarsormr being "summoned" by the Dravnians to do battle with the Garleans, talking about the Battle of Silvertear Skies. Sadly I don't have a screenshot of the conversation just my memory, now he only says:
"The red moon falls towards us? Hah. I place no faith in such rumors. If you would peddle doom, I suggest you speak to someone with a little less sense."
Which we all know Dalamud is and even npcs know lol. SE cover up maybe?

I'm working on the Ul'dah quests now and I'm uncovering a lot of juicy bits. Hopefully have it sometime tonight or tomorrow. So far now shadowless people.

[Jacien]

It probably goes without saying that the Marauder quest, along with every other quest in the game prior to Yoshi-P's arrival, were incomplete and a lot more could have been done with them.

Probably what they mean by the original quests being "scrapped". Probably just rewritten so there aren't any inconsistencies, or made clearer when they take place.

I like how you mention that doing older quests are basically like "flashbacks". It's like when you play Assassin's Creed, and it tells you the year of the mission you're currently doing. So you know when it takes place.