[SPOILERS] Revelations from Patch 4.01

[Anonymoose]

Will be working my way through updating an OP as I go along, but one cutscene into Omega is enough for it to appear that it has greater cosmological ramifications than the entire MSQ, lol.

TURN 1

• The Allagans DID NOT create Omega.
• Omega is from another world.
• Midgardsormr knows of this world.
• Omega can weave aether into life.
• The machina hangs out in the rift to test unfinished products, as creating life weakens it.
• It creates such life to self-improve by combating the strongest enemies it can find and/or conceive.

TURN 3

• This is not limited to real concepts; imaginary ones work just fine.
• Halicarnassus and the Dimension Castle is a popular folktale rooted in the 4th Astra Era, most likely

TURN 4

• Exdeath is likewise an old folktale.
• Cid is curious why Omega would choose defeated villains rather than victorious ones.
  Moose Posits: To test the WOL? To find the champion of the tales that would signal their coming in defeating them?
• More to the point, Omega has discerned that "heroes" that achieve impossible victories occur too often to be statistically acceptable anomalies and wishes to test us, holding humanity on Hydaelyn hostage to stress us enough to bring out our potential.

Ancient Tomestone

• Written by an anonymous technologist 170 years after Xande's death, confirming aetherochemistry was invented under his reign.
• Omega first activated 150 years after Xande's death
• Omega first discovered 50 years after Xande's death (underground for incalculable time).
• Its AI learned the Allagan tongue in moments
• It had come from another planet and was covered in damage which was slowly being undone by consumption of aether.
• Allag aided in its recovery and studied its mechanics.
• Omega forced the face on its back to mimic the Allagans.

[Eyvhokan]

Great, no one knows where Omega is from!

No one knew where FF5 Omega was from either.

[Anonymoose]

Things like this always make me nervous, lol. On one hand, it's possible (often likely) that the similarities are merely loyalty to theme; that both are independent entities that come from elsewhere. On the other hand, SE has to know they're kicking a hornet nest and many will assume the entities are one and the same and the games are thus now intrinsically linked forever. And yet ... what if one day they are?

All I can do is hold the twin bulwarks of what is confirmed and what might fit on the edge of Occam's Razor.

[Daralii]

Things like this always make me nervous, lol. On one hand, it's possible (often likely) that the similarities are merely loyalty to theme; that both are independent entities that come from elsewhere. On the other hand, SE has to know they're kicking a hornet nest and many will assume the entities are one and the same and the games are thus now intrinsically linked forever. And yet ... what if one day they are?

All I can do is hold the twin bulwarks of what is confirmed and what might fit on the edge of Occam's Razor.

If they end up being connected, I'm gonna laugh if the longstanding rivalry between it and Shinryu was actually with Midgardsormr.

[EdwinLi]

Final Fantasy Mobius covered this part as all FF world are connected to each other through the Aether river that carries the souls of the people from all FF world. If a person should die in their FF world they may ether be reborn into the FF world or are carried off to a new FF world to live a new live.

[Yasuhiro]

It's literally

Exdeath

same character, same personality, it's him from Final Fantasy V
Now can people stop memeing? Square went back on their word that FFXIV is its own thing and void or not a character from a FF game that's not part a arguably non canon event showed up.

[EdwinLi]

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Yep this is Exdeath from FFV. From the looks of it this is him before he entered the world of FFV because he has yet to learn how to control the Void which gave him the power we know he has in FFV. Here he has just "finally" obtained the power to control the Void.

Omega raid could actually be a prequel to FFV storyline setting events that would lead to what FFV world becomes.

I also believe Alpha may actually be young Boco who is Bartz's chocobo.

If Gilgamesh returns for Omega storyline later as well it would also explain how Gilgamesh ended up in FFV.

However, this is only part of things as it seems Omega is trying to recreate position where Heroes battle great threats being FF Antagonists and win

This may actually be a Dissidia Storyline for FF14 WoL.

We know the worlds of FF are all part of a Multiverse and some FF worlds are part of the same Universe but on different planets and are also connected to each other.

[Cilia]

Now can people stop memeing? Square went back on their word that FFXIV is its own thing and void or not a character from a FF game that's not part a arguably non canon event showed up.

"Memeing?" I didn't know there was a meme surrounding that.

Either way it doesn't change anything - the Interdimensional Rift is widely acknowledged to be the link between various Final Fantasy worlds, and it serves that purpose here as well. The point of contention people have with the issue is people constantly parroting there's a direct link between Hydaelyn and various other Final Fantasy worlds, especially Ivalice, due to the myriad name references. The Interdimensional Rift, a place explicitly beyond Hydaelyn's borders, changes nothing.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

It's literally

Exdeath

same character, same personality, it's him from Final Fantasy V
Now can people stop memeing? Square went back on their word that FFXIV is its own thing and void or not a character from a FF game that's not part a arguably non canon event showed up.

I don't think this is true. The characters we fight are just copies of the original created by omega. At least that's how I'm understanding it. It's using the information it has gathered from legends and historical documents and creating copies based on that information. It's not as if omega has transported that actual character from another dimension. This is evidenced by the fact that Omega can create copies of even fictional characters. If it was actually transporting a physical being, then it would be impossible to manifest a fictional character.

It's a fun concept because it means that literally any character or monster from past Final Fantasy, or even entirely original characters are fair game to show up as enemies in the omega series. I look forward to seeing what the rest of the raid holds for us. Personally I'm hoping for some old FFXI villains to show up. A fight against our fallen Scion allies would be cool as well. It's fun to think of the possibilities, the sky really is the limit and kudos to SE for making the lore for this.

[Vulcwen]

Hmm, why does spoiler mark not count to word count..

Well, considering Exdeath is seen as "folklore" in this game, perhaps the other FF games are simply played by Allagans back in the day lore-wise :P