Thread: Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

Okay, Nybeth Obdilord being the Floor 100 boss of Palace of the Dead just seems more likely now... unless the colour of the robe is all a coincidence.

Originally Posted by Nestama

Okay, Nybeth Obdilord being the Floor 100 boss of Palace of the Dead just seems more likely now... unless the colour of the robe is all a coincidence.

No. It's a Final Fantasy game, so more likely it's Scarmiglione from FF4. Especially with the cloak being in tatters like it is.

Originally Posted by DarthSanguine

No. It's a Final Fantasy game, so more likely it's Scarmiglione from FF4. Especially with the cloak being in tatters like it is.

The Palace of the Dead is a direct reference to the same place with the same mechanical concept in Tactics Ogre though, of which Nybeth is the final boss. We've already had a number of Tactics Ogre crossovers in various forms so this would be no different really.

Originally Posted by DarthSanguine

No. It's a Final Fantasy game, so more likely it's Scarmiglione from FF4. Especially with the cloak being in tatters like it is.

Except everything that has happened in FFXIV's Palace of the Dead so far makes Nybeth the most likely culprit. Also Fog of Phantom was playing. Currently, we do not know if this will be a boss theme, or one of the Palaces themes.

None of his work was an unqualified success--he complained that he could either revive the spirit or restore the body, but had not managed both for the same person. His subjects became mindless zombies; only at their moment of destruction did they regain their sanity, if only for a moment.

Sound familiar? While Blackbosom was far from mindless, she was clearly not the Edda we knew (who also mentioned she saw a robed figure, or in other languages, a wizard).

Originally Posted by DarthSanguine

No. It's a Final Fantasy game, so more likely it's Scarmiglione from FF4. Especially with the cloak being in tatters like it is.

Square owns the Ogre franchise now, and if there's any doubt in your mind that Palace of the Dead isn't a reference to it, then listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8ze7HfmZ4

This is the music used in Palace of the Dead in Tactics Ogre. It is the exact same song used during the 3.4 trailer during the Palace of the Dead segment.

It's going to be Nybeth, the reincarnated versions of Edda and the other various people from our past we encounter in the first 50 floors are strikingly similar to his dabbling with resurrecting the dead in hindsight.