Raimdelle Reborn: The Neverending Bestiary

[DoctaruRavenbe]

for the Halatali snakes... maybe there were caught in mor dhona and used an exotic gladiatorial spectacle. Similar to how the Romans would import strange and exotic beasts to pit against their gladiators.

[Anonymoose]

I just got back into T7 (the compromised bioweapons storage) and can confirm that the mobs of Allag origin there are Automated Defense System Nodes, Lamia, Mirrorknights, Chimera, and ... AAAAAND ... cobras! The name of the snake trash mob on the way to Melusine is even Allagan Cobra, which makes things nice and unambiguous, lol.

maybe there were caught in mor dhona and used an exotic gladiatorial spectacle

Best theory I've heard so far, and I can't think of anything better. Let's go with that for a theory for now, lol.

[Kyan]

Interesting!

Thinking out loud: I wonder if this has any implications to other snakes found within the realm lore wise? Are they also products of Allag construct or are they the base-genetics used as templates for their bioweaponry?

The only other snakes mentioned in game lore that I am currently aware of are an item, the grass viper found throughout Eorzea, which looks more traditional, like an Earth snake - different to the three-faced cobras and pit vipers. (There is also the L tribe's viper totem, which may or may not imply vipers are in the Miqo'te Sunseeker homeland, but hey, it's another reference to snakes being in Hydaelyn, so, they can't be super rare...)

Seriously, I would probably upset everyone if I was given an exclusive opportunity to speak with the lore team about anything in game. You people have intelligent, story-related questions you all want answered! My questions would probably be like: "So, about adamantoise shells in North Thanalan..."

[DoctaruRavenbe]

So with folks doing the Kobold Daily quests we've learn some interesting things about those "Voidsent" we call bombs.

Apparently Kobold Alchemists are quite adapt at crafting bombs and grenades. Hell they can even set them to be remote detonated with proper placing. This may mean that the bomb species may not be so unnatural to this world than we thought. Or it could be that the kobolds found a way to reverse engineer and grow bombs

[Fernehalwes]

Just a quick little chime-in/chime-out to address Doctaru Ravenbe's acute observation:

So with folks doing the Kobold Daily quests we've learn some interesting things about those "Voidsent" we call bombs.

Apparently Kobold Alchemists are quite adapt at crafting bombs and grenades. Hell they can even set them to be remote detonated with proper placing. This may mean that the bomb species may not be so unnatural to this world than we thought. Or it could be that the kobolds found a way to reverse engineer and grow bombs

Here's some clarification:

The kobold alchemists are not creating them in the sense of creating them from scratch, but more creating a new 'generation' of Eorzean-born bombs via the genetic manipulation and breeding of voidsent captured in the wild (the kicker being: those new bombs, while still classified as voidsent, were never actually "sent" from the void). Is a baby born in space of Earthling parents still considered an Earthling? Good question...

Hope that helps clear up things a little!

[DoctaruRavenbe]

Just a quick little chime-in/chime-out to address Doctaru Ravenbe's acute observation:



Here's some clarification:

The kobold alchemists are not creating them in the sense of creating them from scratch, but more creating a new 'generation' of Eorzean-born bombs via the genetic manipulation and breeding of voidsent captured in the wild (the kicker being: those new bombs, while still classified as voidsent, were never actually "sent" from the void). Is a baby born in space of Earthling parents still considered an Earthling? Good question...

Hope that helps clear up things a little!

Oh my. *blushes* I like this response

[Kyan]

Oh my. *blushes* I like this response

What should also be considered is the fact that this reproduction of bombs is not unique to kobolds - in fact, the first example we have of it actually predates the kobold beastmen dailies in the Cherry Bomb minion. However, it seems the processes are slightly different to what Ferne has suggested!

Summons a miniature recreation of a voidsent bomb, created via the thaumaturgical rendering of umbrally charged aetherial energy. Guaranteed never to self-destruct, or your gil back. Use item to acquire the cherry bomb minion.

Thaumaturgical rendered umbral charged aetherial energy seems like a magical, summoning type process rather than an alchemical, biological breeding program to me