Campfire Discussion: Opening Cinematic Theories

[Konachibi]

It is mentioned when you first join the Path Of The Twelve that the past is set in stone and cannot (should not?) be changed. That being said diddling with the time-space continuum to go back and make Captain giant-dragon-face do something different would stop him roflpwning the big airship thingy which would only bolster the Garlean forces when it came to invading Eorzea and generally make everyone's life miserable.

[Sephr]

Yeah I'm with Gift on this one, moving back in time to change things (especially this early in the game's life cycle when there's so much else out there in the present time to see) is something I wouldn't want to see personally.

All this talk of storyline details makes me want to see what's going to happen next, I wish they'd add some more story content! Of course, i can wait until all the 'groundwork' is finished for that.

[zaviermhigo]

In XI's campaign you couldn't change anything about the past except for if there were pixies or not. I'd like some past content like that, where you take part in major battles but you can't influence the overall outcome.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

the more i look at the skeleton of the dragon, the more i feel that is Shinryu.

[Konachibi]

Here's a thought... it's a bit far-fetched but it's a thought...

Since there's no easy way to give the opening cinematic a time frame, what if our characters turned out to posses something like a 'piece of the dragons soul', which could have been the white orbs that flew from the dragon when the airship crashed.

Because we possess a part of the dragons soul we are able to utilise the power of the echo, and maybe the primals are attempting to track down and kill all that posses this power in order to stop them forming together at the dragon to revive it by combining all the pieces together.

Maybe the Garleans are trying to do the same thing, or steal the power for themselves, which is why they were battling the dragons in the first place.

Just a thought.

[Picoman]

'Dilly-Dally Shilly-Shally'