Lore behind Ozma?

[Morningstar1337]

Does anyone have an in-world citation for the "defense mechanism" bit?

I think Cait Sith said something to that effect...which means It's time for me to head off to Youtube...

and It seems all Cait Sith had to say about Oza was that it's in the way and that we must defeat it, bacillary. The whole defense system thing might just be speculation and headcannon at this point

[myahele]

(ON a side note I couldn't find the Oschon symbol during my trip and the videos I seen, oes anyone ahve a snapshot of it?)

Here's what I got

Seems like the platform where it sucked us into had the Oschon symbols on them. I guess I need to look at the CS again, but Cait Sith was talking about defense mechanisms of which Ozma was probably one of them.

Afterall, Forgall was trying to break the ward placed in the entrance of the pyramid (in his brief text) and then there was that giant monolith on the way to Ozma. After Ozma there's Caifosteri

Calofisteri haunts the Tomb of the Nullstone as the relic's self-appointed guardian. This mighty sorceress of Mhach achieved a twisted form of immortality by combining the power of aether-infused crystal with the ritual consumption of voidsent blood.

Back on the subject of Ozma, it does seem like he's got a dimension within himself where the people/cities sucked will be obliterated via the meteor it summons within itself?

[Yasuhiro]

I'm going to assume the world Ozma sucks the party into is a world he devoured which is probably Nym going by what I found on the Final Fantasy General wikia. I'd love to know more about XIV's interpretation of Ozma, he was a weird boss then full of mystery and nothing has changed in 2016's rendition of him.

He might look like a giant marble but he's also pretty fascinating.

[Nalien]

See, now I'm disappointed.. When I first realized the Parrock was now an actually zone, I was excited, claiming 3.3 to be the best patch for the dozenth time... Yet, going back... There is still no Rammbroes equivalent for the Shadow of Mhach... I was always disappointed with him after Syrcus Tower, given he didn't provide much lore on the bosses there, but now SE has just dropped that idea entirely? Really disappointing that they don't have Cait Sith sitting in the Parrock (well, she(?) is sitting around there...) providing us with some lore tidbits on Void Ark/Mhach and the bosses we encounter...

[Kallera]

Seems wierd that such advanced civilizations, capable of making dimensions and contracting demons, could fall apart from a flood.

[Wolfandre]

Seems wierd that such advanced civilizations, capable of making dimensions and contracting demons, could fall apart from a flood.

We don't know much about that Umbral Event other than its source: the Elementals and Oha Sok, their rage manifest. However, given the fact that the Void Ark was so high up for so long, we can probably assume that it wasn't your average flood. We've seen how weird Aether can make natural occurrances.

[Alberel]

We don't know much about that Umbral Event other than its source: the Elementals and Oha Sok, their rage manifest. However, given the fact that the Void Ark was so high up for so long, we can probably assume that it wasn't your average flood. We've seen how weird Aether can make natural occurrances.

When you arrive at the city Cait Sith actually mentions something to do with how high the water was when he was last there. 'Flood' seems to be entirely the wrong word to describe the disaster. It sounds to me like it was actually a tsunami taller than the pyramid of Mhach... Not at all surprised something like that would wipe them out, technologically advanced or not.

[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?