Lore behind Ozma?

[Cipher_Zaabiz]

When you look at the way, ozma changes and the information SE gave us beforehand, u know 2 things.

1. Ozma is a defense mechanism between the outer and the inner border for the null stone.

2. It is an energy source, that nourishes most of the parts in Mhach as said in the prereview of SE.

[Anonymoose]

Mythical floods can get pretty deep. Considering the Sixth Umbral Calamity refers to torrential rains that led to the building of an Ark? I'm guessing modern historians would put the water level somewhere around 22 fulms and 6 ilms above the summits of the highest mountains.

1. Ozma is a defense mechanism between the outer and the inner border for the null stone.
2. It is an energy source, that nourishes most of the parts in Mhach as said in the prereview of SE.

Going back to some stuff from earlier, I did come up with a citation for "defense mechanism". It's a Yoshida interview with Famitsu.

Famitsu
今回のボスもすべて妖異ですか？
Are all of the bosses going to be voidsent?

Yoshida
基本的にはそうですが、オズマはマハの魔道士たちが作り上げた防御機構と呼んだほうが正しいかもしれません。
Basically, yes, but Ozma was created by the mages of Mhach and it might be more correct to call it defense mechanism.

Where is the energy source bit from?

[DamianFatale]

I'm interested in how the FFXIV lore compares to Ozma's lore of origin in FFIX. Any observations on that?

[MaikoRaines]

I actually like the fight.

Every time he casts "Blackhole" I always think of "Blackhole Sun" By Soundgarden and find myself humming that song during that casting.

[Kotemon]

I'd assume Ozma is the space that separates two points in reality. To get into the top chamber of the pyramid we need to go through it since no one is around to turn it off or turn it into a doorway. By Caitsith's description its a dreadful sphere that has devoured whole cities. Given that there are some Atomos' in side of it. I'm just assuming it was made in a manner similar to Atomos or from it. If anything the inside does look a little like a stripped down Walk of Echoes, only cleaner and sun light. Same ominous hole in the sky and below the platforms.

Is it me or does part of the sound effect played during "black hole" sounds like laughing near the end when you appear at Atomos?

[Kallera]

Why does Ozma have a world and atmosphere inside of it? I assume bad things happen to those that stay but then how dies everything grow in there? or is it a simulation?

if its a similation, why would it make exits, and easy listening music, and fluffy rainbow birds?

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

Well, the world inside of it is a swallowed Nymian structure of some sort, so I'd guess it's a piece of reality literally transposed inside of Ozma (which kinda makes you wonder what was left in the space it used to occupy). As for the birds and the other adds, they're all called things like "singularity shards" or whatnot, so maybe they're physically-manifested quantum phenomena of some sort?

[Cilia]

Well... quantum shit notwithstanding...

The innards of Ozma are a great big causal anomaly. It apparently ate Nym, or at least parts of it, atmosphere and all; everything that was on the outside - oxygen, air pressure, ground, aether, etc. - is now on the inside. The adds are known as "Singularity [X]," implying they too are causal anomalies - there's no way they should be able to exist, and yet they do. Ozma is evidently bigger on the inside. It's a giant causal violation.

As for the gentle music, it's implicitly to get you to stay in there forever (or at least until Ozma casts Doomsday). If you look at the Ozmashade while it's casting Assimilation, you get an Assimilated debuff that will stack as you continue to look at it until you're stuck in, I believe, a "Singularity / Assimilation Gaol" and can't move or attack. You're just so amazed by Ozma(shade) (or your brain is freaking out at the sheer impossibility of it) that you don't want to do anything.

[Wolfandre]

quantum shit

The thought that he sucks you into a black hole got me thinking a little. One of the theories that at the center of a black hole is a worm hole. What if, instead of being a causal anomaly, Ozma is actually just a physical worm hole? It sucks us in and we're met with....stuff. Weird stuff. Incomprehensible-to-the-human-mind stuff. It didn't eat Nym, it just threw it somewhere else in the universe via a fold in the Void. The monsters we see are what we assume to be ripples and other weirdness, but they're actually leftovers of Nym. We get past all that and ride the worm hole back. After we destroy it, it inverts and throws matter out rather than sucking it in, rebounding us to the top of the pyramid.

This is all bypassing the assumption that the WoL is immune to the effects of spaghettification and other physics nonsense that renders human bodies incapable of still being called human bodies. Oh, and also assumes that the WoL remains sane on the other side of all this.

I have no idea what I'm doing.

[Malackai]

As for the gentle music, it's implicitly to get you to stay in there forever (or at least until Ozma casts Doomsday). If you look at the Ozmashade while it's casting Assimilation, you get an Assimilated debuff that will stack as you continue to look at it until you're stuck in, I believe, a "Singularity / Assimilation Gaol" and can't move or attack. You're just so amazed by Ozma(shade) (or your brain is freaking out at the sheer impossibility of it) that you don't want to do anything.

And then you get killed by a enormous meteor if that is not a perfect defense weapon I don't know what else is. almost like a creepy version of a moth lamp :S