"Answers" mark 3.

[Umbeliel]

Sorry to jump back to this, but yes, that's pretty much what I assumed too. I still have the 'making of' DVD for version 1.0 that came with the 1.0 Collector's Edition that I'm pretty sure included a brief interview with Uematsu explaining about how he wrote the song, so I think I might load it up again and see if he mentioned anything specifically (such as the theme of the song and the idea behind it).

If not a folk song, a hymn of some sort that would be sung at whatever the Eorzean equivalent to sunday congregation is.

I am pretty certain that "the Land" and "Hydaelyn" are completely interchangable. Sure, if she died the planet would exist, but much in the same way that if we died our corpse still would exist.

[Magis]

If not a folk song, a hymn of some sort that would be sung at whatever the Eorzean equivalent to sunday congregation is.

I am pretty certain that "the Land" and "Hydaelyn" are completely interchangable. Sure, if she died the planet would exist, but much in the same way that if we died our corpse still would exist.

Your comment made me think... does aether come from Hydaelyn, or does Hydaelyn use/contain aether? If she "died" (if possible?), would aether still exist, thus life on the planet would still go on? She ta