So...Dalamud in Othard?

[Zohar_Lahar]

There is a fan theory that the Dawn Throne may have once been the remnants of the launch pad for getting Dalamud into orbit.

That said, it is rather strange how little the Calamities come up in Othard. You hear how the Fourth Calamity related to Bozja and Heaven-on-High, but no mention of the Endless Frost or the Great Flood occur at all. Every history in Othard is given such vague timelines you never know how to align it to the Eorzea calendar.

[Iscah]

It is interesting how well [the Spire card] fits into what the Crystal Tower's original purpose is though (giant solar collector/power generator). As far as I can tell though, it never received energy from Dalamud itself until Xande tried to summon the Cloud of Darkness and triggered the 4rd Umbral Calamity.

I thought there was a reference in the game to Dalamud being designed to transfer power to the CT? In any case the lorebook talks about Dalamud being launched specifically to gather concentrated energy to power the voidgate, though it doesn't mention regularly transferring energy to it, which was the system I had in mind. But I don't have quotes on hand.

And doesn't the scale-model CT housing item have a mini Dalamud circling the spire? That would suggest they're two pieces of a system.

They got rid of Dalamud and now they are getting rid of Nocturnal stance...

I'm interested to see what they make of the stances, lore-wise. They're talked about a lot in the Stormblood storyline - particularly using the shielding of Nocturnal Sect to mend the wards.

[Recon1o6]

I'm interested to see what they make of the stances, lore-wise. They're talked about a lot in the Stormblood storyline - particularly using the shielding of Nocturnal Sect to mend the wards.

none probably, they literally stopped caring about job lore. Otherwise they'd have gone back and changed all the 30-60 astrologian quests during shb. (Royal road, whats that? oh wait, deleted)

[Iscah]

none probably, they literally stopped caring about job lore. Otherwise they'd have gone back and changed all the 30-60 astrologian quests during shb. (Royal road, whats that? oh wait, deleted)

They did change those bits of script. Clumsily, but they did. Leveva tells you that Jannequinard will explain the Royal Road concept to you - that much was in the original, IIRC - but now he just fluffs around and says he can't remember lessons from over a decade ago. Which is totally in character, if not particularly helpful that we never followed it up.

I'll be interested to see if they just do similar patching-over or go to a bit more effort with the script. Probably not, but maybe.