Quote Originally Posted by Alise View Post
I saw a spoiler name of the T9 bosses, and make me curious about this very much.
I don't think I will be able to challenge T9 anytime soon, so I want to ask if anybody here could give me detail of the story.
Bahamut is using Nael van Darnus' memories to create an aetherial form. It's leading to a lot of speculation that van Darnus' may have been a female hidden under the armor as the character shown clearly has the standard Garlean "3rd eye" and is clearly female...the other side is that this female character is someone else from Van Darnus' memories (perhaps his mother) and I've even heard maybe it's a physical form of his weapon Bradamante whose name comes from a female.

Story wise Bahamut is using this Darnus to combat us in an attempt to use someone we're familiar with and defeat us, once defeated Bahamut relinquishes the "tempering" which confuses Alisaie as she believes once tempered it cannot be undone. So it brings up more questions of "tempering" atleast when Elder Primals come into the formula.