Thread: Revelations from Patch 3.5

The Final Beast tribe chain turned out to be a lot more interesting than I thought it would be:

The core story was pretty similar to the ARR one with even the same primary villain who, if he survived his airship being blown up in mid air by Kobald bombs, almost certainly survived this. He is really going to start hating Beast tribes and the WoL. The really interesting thing for me was all the other details.

- Vanu Vanu dances, at least if my speculation is right, make a lot more sense. In the 52 or 54 DRK quest you travel to the Sea of Clouds to visit a Vanu healer as they are said to be able to diagnose illness from reading a persons Aether. This, combined with the dance makes me suspect the Vanu Vanu are Aether sensitive. The dance isn't merely a physical display but a display of Aetheric strength. By that logic it would make sense when other Vanu would potentially be made fearful by a dance. The fact that the dance in this questline purged several Vanu of what one can assume is some form of Aetheric corruption in a similar manner to how the dragonsong does later just emphasizes this. Of course, without definitive proof this is speculation still.

- We get a hint at how the Allagans perhaps caught so many dragons. Clearly the Neural Links were necessary to make control permanent but those mind control guns would make capture a lot easier. If an older dragon can fall to a well placed shot its hardly surprising the Allagans caught so many samples to play with. Its not suprising Taimat would know a potential counter. If a child dragon could break the effect one of the First broods Dragonsong would have made it very difficult to use such a weapon in an open battlefield but still it explains a lot.

- We now know that the Meracydian Dragons in Azys Lla are all nuts, probably from exposure to this Aetheric corruption/control technique. It probably helps explain why Taimat wasn't pissed at us for fighting her children. Shame we still cant convince her to move on. Even Deftarm felt unhappy just walking away.

- This is also so the first time we see that the Garleans have had some success in their attempts to recover tech from Azys Lla. The question is if the tech the Garlean researcher was using here is known to the Garleans at large or if he had been persuing it in private to try and claim all the credit and glory when its revealed. We might after all end up running into dragons when fighting Garleans after all.

Anyway, overall pretty enjoyable. Nice to see Deftarm has grown.

I just discovered this
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Yuyuhase_(1.x)

I never knew Yuyuhase was in 1.0 o:

Sounded like a bit of a prick back then too
"Halt! Thou must needs swear a solemn oath before gods and man to seek naught but wealth and riches by way of yon aetheryte! Wilt thou!?"

the body disapear actualy, u won't see any

Nael/Eula van Darnus' body literally exploded into aether at the end of 1.23 and she still came back.

Any sort of death is far from permanent.

When it comes to Louisoix's spell:

There is indeed a distinct visual difference between it and Papalymo's, and that's the lack of the sigils associated with the Twelve in the latter. This, after all, is what Louisoix's looked like:


Papalymo's has the sphere that forms around Bahamut initially, but it stops there. What I take this to mean is that Louisoix used his half-summoning of the Twelve to bolster a pre-existing sealing spell, which Papalymo used on its own. Of note, that spell isn't what took Louisoix's life, so Papalymo may not have sacrificed himself after all; then again, there are any number of ways the circumstances could be tweaked to require the life of the caster this time around.

Kinda throws into question Ilberd's claim that his Primal - whatever it may be - is stronger than Bahamut, too.

After seeing the events at baelsars wall It made me realize that if eorzea was to go head on against the empire they wouldn't have a chance. Their magitek weapons seem far too powerful for the average footsoldier, they have a near infinite supply of troops from 2 continents (both larger than aldernard) and lets not forget an airship fleet that none of eorzea's ships could compete against, so hearing that the empire might stop being an antagonistic group a mere 2 expansions away makes me wonder how exactly it's going to go about.

It does seem like the current Garlean regime is on shaky grounds, which is why I think Varis had to quickly make the Gration to re-establish Garlean power after the War of Succession against his own uncle. Speaking of which, the lore book says that his uncle and his supporters were against the Garlean expansion policy and it's need to eliminate all eikons. So there already exists a Garlean faction that might want to help the WoL ... unless they were all killed.