Lore behind Ozma?

[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.

[MaikoRaines]

With the fact that Ozma is so large and the anomaly on the inside is clearly structures swallowed, it makes me wish that we can further explore it on the inside to see what other treasures or lands we can discover. Makes me feel that some kind of buried, time lost weapon is in its core just waiting to be discovered and wielded once again.

How deep does the Rabbit hole go?

[Cilia]

How deep does the Rabbit hole go?

Infinitely deep.

It's a quantum singularity, after all.

[Morningstar1337]

With the fact that Ozma is so large and the anomaly on the inside is clearly structures swallowed, it makes me wish that we can further explore it on the inside to see what other treasures or lands we can discover. Makes me feel that some kind of buried, time lost weapon is in its core just waiting to be discovered and wielded once again.

Something tells me that might also be part of Ozma's plan, after all we can't grab the Nullstone if we're too busy being amazed into stupor or looking for ancient weapons (cough*Omega)

Plus whne you think about it, Ozma is a time lost weapon, As Cilla points out it is a causal anomaly, one that was weaponized and destory the parts of Nym that weren't Tonberries. I imagine that if Mhach survived the War of the Magi or worse, if Allag had managed something like Ozma, that Hydaelyn would had been destroyed rather easily.

Of course the Ascians might see that as too much of a risk for their plans if such weapons were used prematurely...on the "Prime" world, But I can imagine them setting up one of their rejoinings with an Ozma of one of the fractured universes devouring the Hydaelyn(planet) of the same universe, with the Elemental's Flood symbolizing the loss in the Prime universe

[Wolfandre]

Just musing, but we're still not sure where the Ascians play into this Umbral Event. We can sort of assume they appeared to the Elementals, as they summoned Oha Sok to bring the Calamity about. But what if they also appeared to Mhach and Nym as well?

If we assume a little bit of Ozma's lore from FFIX and apply it to FFXIV, perhaps Ozma was what was left over of a Mhachi Hydaelyn/Void crossover summoning. A pseudo-primal, then? Straight conjecture. I have no real basis for my ideas, but I just can't help but shake the Ascians have a lot of blame to take for the onset of the War of the Magi.

[Toranja]

Everything inside that Pyramid is a defence mechanism.

My personal take on the Ascians is that they bring the next Era by rising one civilization above the rest, just with knowledge apparently. Honestly, they don't need to do much else.