Thread: Revelations from Patch 3.4

So rather than cover what actually happened I'm gonna dive straight into extrapolations from the new information.

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If the void is actually the thirteenth shard then does this mean Atomos can actually be considered a primal after all now? Everything that lives in the void is technically the same as in any other parallel world, just corrupted with darkness. Now that both Bahamut and Alexander have had Primes and Atomos had a Prime crystal core in WoD can we say that voidsent have primals of their own? I raised this theory back when we first found Atomos Prime but everyone argued that he was just a voidsent...

I'm also tempted to argue that Unukulhai's story about Warriors of Light developing a thirst for aether and transforming into monsters is actually how the thirteenth world fell. He basically explained how the first voidsent were born. This even gives rise to the possibility that the rulers of the Void actually are these warriors.

I'd also like to touch on Ga Bu's summoning of Titan. I know the obvious interpretation of what happened is that the primal took on aspects of the summoner's mental state at the moment of summoning. I can't help but notice, however, that Ga Bu fell unconscious at the precise moment Titan appeared. Titan then proceeded to talk literally as if he were Ga Bu himself. The kobold also awoke immediately after we defeated the primal... Did we perhaps bear witness to a new form of summoning in which the summoner takes direct control of the primal? Could this be a step towards that now-mythical FC summoning system? Yoshi always said he was waiting for a story excuse to allow us to do it...

The revelations from this patch have far-reaching implications for everything we know about the cosmology of FFXIV though. I have a feeling we may need to go back and revisit a LOT of old theories with this new information.

If I were to actually highlight my favourite moment this patch though it would be the quiet moment with Alisaie in the Floating City. The story in this game often rushes character development but this patch had several amazing quiet moments dedicated solely to building on the likes of Alisaie, Aymeric and even the WoL themself. I feel more invested in the characters now than I ever have before. I'm thoroughly impressed by the quality of the storytelling in this patch and I hope this is setting the bar for the expansion.