CG Midlander

[Digirotta]

I don't think the legend of Swallowtail Roam is about Leviathan at all - I think it's about the sea serpent, who we have confirmation is neither Leviathan nor a primal. This makes the serpent very much like Midgardsormr; not a primal, ancient, credited with creation by the Twelve, and dutiful to a specific purpose.

Yeah, i'm kinda feeling it too, after sleeping on this thought. It's revealed in the storyline, that summoned primals are but temporary beings, which would kinda give Leviathan an uncalled edge, were it to be simply "freed" from aetherstream by unlocking Seal Rock. And considering Leviathan's part in the lore along with other similar primals, it just wouldn't make that much sense.

Remembering back the words of Yoshi-P about Dravanians, Bahamut and Midgarsormr, that'd leave Nidhogg to be the assumed gift of Llymlaen. (Nope, wait, that doesn't make sense either, my bad ._.)

Now that i think of it, i remember you guys discussing how the Ul'dah storyline unraveled to be a planned assasination. Reflecting that to Limsa's storyline, the cutscene where the Player finds Emmeric in the anchored ship's cargo hold, Travenchet arrives to the scene. The battle ends after the Sea Serpent uses a Tidal Wave-like attack. Which kinda gave me the feeling, that Travenchet is in control of it, like Kraken was in Pirates of the Caribbean. What if he attacked in the very first Limsan cutscene, too?

Which kinda makes me want to raise the question, are the sea serpents in these two cutscenes the same, and are they both controlled by Travenchet at the time? If so, the horn we've seen might be the one, that controls it, meaning, the echoes, where Y'shtola is searching for a man without a shadow, might have occurred AFTER she lost that horn to Travenchet.

I haven't had my morning coffee yet, and i'm already going a-hundred-and-twenty. Ohhh i can't wait for ARR. *jumps up and down*