So...Dalamud in Othard?

[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.