Quote Originally Posted by Alastair_Helyous View Post
What really bothers me with the whole "This is not an Ivalice sequel!" are actually the Ascians.

Not only are they named after the Scions of Light, but their sigils are the same as their Dark counterparts, but reversed.
All Final Fantasy games borrow designs, concepts, and assets from previous Final Fantasy games, while giving those things entirely new identity and purpose in the newer game. FFXIV is no different, except in that it does so far more liberally than any other game in the series. It doesn't change the fact that when you see something in FFXIV that resembles something from the previous games, you can make no safe assumptions about it.

The Ascians' sigils may be borrowed from a previous game, but that does not indicate any kind of relationship with that previous game.