Thread: [spoilers]3.2 MSQ Discussion/Reaction thread

I don't buy this Unukalhai => (lesser) Ascian, just because of the last cutscene involving him.
An Ascian showing something like fear and drawing his mage staff just because a garlean legatus shows up? Did any Ascian ever draw a weapon on impulse, to defend himself? I don't think so and I think Unukalhai acted all human.

Also this mask-thing... 1) If it's a morphed Elidibus, why wear a mask? Can't you change your face (what we've never seen before anyway), too?
2) If it's anyone else, we won't meet (or haven't met yet) in other circumstances, why wear a mask?

I don't remember precisly, but was it Unukalhai's mask which was picked up from the table in the end of MSQ? I just don't buy this 'an Ascian who dresses up physically, to hide his identity', because.. rly?

Originally Posted by Neophyte

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You're a SMN, come on now. Everything you've said there is answered in the SMN questline. I replied to you above about the weapons, but yes, Lesser Ascians use weapons. Chalice is the only one that doesn't - he's the exception, not the rule. Don't you remember fighting them? You kill off the rest of Lahabrea's Lesser servants alongside Chalice; one uses a Sword (unsurprisingly Sword), the other uses a BLM staff like Unukalhai.

As for the masks - because Lesser Ascians wear masks. Keep in mind they need to inhabit corpses, this likely has something to do with the decay on their face. Though I really think it's more symbolic than anything to do with the condition of the bodies they inhabit. But all Lesser Ascians have the full face mask. We have yet to see an exception under any circumstance when they're robed. The one exception was from 1.0 and things were...different back then. We don't even know if it was a Lesser Ascian.

You seem to be confounding Lesser Ascians and Overlords, I'm not sure why you think they're "dressing up" at all. Can you elaborate on this statement with the above information in mind?

But Unukalhai doesn't show fear to Regula. Where are you getting that? He draws his weapon. That's all.
Read the dialogue again. He's defending himself, but fear? No. Quite the opposite, he tells Regula off.

I doubt it. You Garleans never learn. You covet the means to enslave primals─but in your headlong dash to control that which you do not understand, you show less wisdom than the very beast tribes that summoned them!

As for the mask, no it's different. The mask in the ending sequence is a halfmask, Unukalhai's is full.
Edit: To Frederick, it's a lot, lot more than that. I have a huge post edited up there with evidence. Also, look at the last page for some quotes.

So... What happened to Midgardsormr? Dude just flew off at the end of 3.0 and we haven't seen him since... Dude is the worst father ever... He is the Britta of Dragons... You'd think being as old as time would mean you'd have learned how to discipline your damned kids...

Originally Posted by Rocl

He's trying to put his Silvertear Seal puzzle back together. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize it's a lot simpler if you start at the corners...

The one he broke? Still can't get over that... All the ways to take out the Garleans, and he opts to crash their ship into his seal... Even if that was a "Primals will get summoned and that'll slow them down!" like I've seen suggested in the past... No, he is a giant serpent who can coil around their ship and crush it, nevermind the mouth beam of death... I'm pretty sure he could scare them off alone if he didn't opt to coil around a crashing ship and "die" with it...

"Where the serpent lies" in Sephirots lyrics is becoming more and more questionable the more I dwell on this... I'd rather have a suddenly evil wyrm, than one that is seemingly as incompetent as Middy is coming off as...