AntiTower Speculation

[Velox]

My speculation is that it's this place



SE's been dangling this carrot on a stick in front of us since 3.0 launched and we still don't know what it is. It has spiral staircases, wood-plank bridges, roots connecting all the islands that are flat and look like they can be traversed...it has way too much detail put into it to just be "nothing."

[myahele]

My speculation is that it's this place



SE's been dangling this carrot on a stick in front of us since 3.0 launched and we still don't know what it is. It has spiral staircases, wood-plank bridges, roots connecting all the islands that are flat and look like they can be traversed...it has way too much detail put into it to just be "nothing."

It kinda reminds me of Azys Lla, but smaller and more natural-looking

[Chewy2nd]

My speculation is that it's this place



SE's been dangling this carrot on a stick in front of us since 3.0 launched and we still don't know what it is. It has spiral staircases, wood-plank bridges, roots connecting all the islands that are flat and look like they can be traversed...it has way too much detail put into it to just be "nothing."

I hope its not, we've already had a Vanu Vanu/Sea of Clouds dungeon.

[Starkbeaumont]

the fact, that it isn't anywhere to be found on the current maps means that it's either part of an existing thing (like the that large spike like thing on the bottom of the flagship) or we will be teleported to it, cause it isn't accessable from the open world (maybe what's under silvertear lake, or maybe the moon?! After all we have the WoL and the WoD, anti-light means darkness, maybe we go to "bizzaro world")

[CyrilLucifer]

(maybe what's under silvertear lake, or maybe the moon?! After all we have the WoL and the WoD, anti-light means darkness, maybe we go to "bizzaro world")

I think it's a bit early in the main storyline for that. I can't imagine having a pretty big event like "The Triad is awakening" and them showing us what Middy was hiding in the same patch. SE likes to keep their big events for different patches.

[Kaiser-Ace]

I think it's a bit early in the main storyline for that. I can't imagine having a pretty big event like "The Triad is awakening" and them showing us what Middy was hiding in the same patch. SE likes to keep their big events for different patches.

When they mentioned that being revealed several live letters ago they seemed to be implying that The Seal and The Twelve would be the 3.0 to 4.0 carry over like the Ul'dah incident was for 2.0-3.0

[Alberel]

When they mentioned that being revealed several live letters ago they seemed to be implying that The Seal and The Twelve would be the 3.0 to 4.0 carry over like the Ul'dah incident was for 2.0-3.0

This is what I'm expecting. It would also be a nice 'full-circle' moment to return to Silvertear yet again at the opening of the next story arc.

[Kaurie]

I see a lot of posts saying Anti-tower meaning a tower that goes down instead of up, what about it being more like a device that destroys towers? The Anti-Tower could be more like a weapon that is planned to be used on Ishgard.

Sorry if this was already stated, I only read a couple of pages.

[Duuude007]

They have mentioned on a few occasions that they were interested in eventually implementing Eureka- A subterranean treasure trove/town/necropolis that existed in the basement of the crystal tower people may remember from FF3jp.

If you go back to the cutscenes of CT, Nero is there for a singular reason, to locate a specific signature of allagan origins. Using his special compass.

At the end of WoD, he ultimately gives up on such a folly of a quest, as he never got the compass to "ping" what he was looking for. He discards it off the ledge into the abyss surrounding CT.

...and as the screen fades black, you as the observer of the cutscene can barely make out a steady pinging noise... The compass was finally detecting its target nearby, deep below CT.

Also, a fanmade artwork was made as a suggestion, that the tower was fully crystal shaped, light side above ground, dark below. They certainly could have taken that to heart in their plans.

I couldn't find the original image but I tossed this example together in paint. Sorry it looks rushed, but you get the gist.



Not tough to figure out what to expect, lol.

[Fenral]

I've been begging for Eureka since the original CT story terminated itself in that most ingloriously slipshod way that it did. Yoshida was dropping the name "Eureka" like crazy before 2.5, but I think he's only used the words "Crystal" and "Tower" in a sentence together twice in the year since. And he outright changed the subject when Famitsu asked him about it last month...

With Alisaie coming back into the MSQ shortly, I can only hope that we'll be seeing the other 2.X raid story folded back in as well, in some capacity. At the very least I'm surprised Nero hasn't been spotted poking around Azys Lla yet, and I still refuse to accept that "I'm aborting my character arc to preserve this prominent-yet-underutilized MacGuffin for some undefined purpose in the future!" isn't a direct sequel hook. Someone still has to prove to Krile that she's not the last of her kind...