Thread: 3.4 speculation

Originally Posted by Morningstar1337

Took a few second to look at those "Ark Angels" and I feel like that might be the case. Unfortunately I can only fin that they are a thing, that they consist of one member of each of that games races, and that they seem to be associated with negative emotions, so their lore in XI is lost on me.

The lore behind the Ark Angels was rather contradictory and anachronistic in FFXI's storyline - on face value they represented each of the five race's fundamental flaws (in FFXI, each race had a 'vice' or negative aspect that cursed them effectively - humes (aka hyur) were apathetic, tarutaru (lalafell) were cowardly, elvaan (elezen) were arrogant, mithra (miqote) were envious and galka (roegadyn) it was rage.), but were also stated as having been created before the five races as guardians of the Mothercrystals, but they were inadvertently warped and twisted into vengeful beings by the Meltdown that destroyed the precursor Zilart race and turned their protohuman offshoot Kuluu brothers into tonberries.

They formed part of the main antagonists of the Rise of the Zilart expansion where Archduke Kamla'naut and El'dnarche sent them to destroy the meddling adventurers who were proving to be thorns in their side, but they were defeated and destroyed - they were virtually little more than automatons made of crystal (they literally shatter upon defeat - the taru Ark Angel's death animation was especially hilarious).

Although having a similar sort of battle here in FFXIV would be fun, sadly the six Spoken races of Hydaelyn do not have a similar origin story to the races of Altana in FFXI which could fit into FFXIV's story easily. But I'm sure Mr Maehiro along with Mr Oda and Mr Koji Fox would work out some way of having a similar concept here in FFXIV.