Thread: Revelations from Patch 4.3

One thing that struck me about Varis is how ridiculously huge he is. Like, I always got the impression he was a big guy, but he towers over Zenos by a good several inches, and Zenos is himself huge.

Originally Posted by SilverArrow20XX

One thing that struck me about Varis is how ridiculously huge he is. Like, I always got the impression he was a big guy, but he towers over Zenos by a good several inches, and Zenos is himself huge.

I originally thought garleans were just big people but many of the garleans we've seen recently through the ivalice raid are midlander/highlander size, and Cid is also on the smaller side with nero and gaius being significantly taller. Most military officers who are more often than not purebloods are also larger than most races.

It's expanded on in the lore book. Both Giaus and Regulus have studded older ways of using gunblades then most people use and both are very, very good at it. This is contrast to Nael who used a lance and Zenos who used Katanas. Giaus and Regulus are the only legatuses we've seen who use the traditional Garlean weapon, and they're both older then the other two legatuses we've met. The only other person we've seen use a two-handed gunblade is Nero I believe, but he's abandoned that in favor of his war-hammer Mjolnir. I'm interested if using more "common" weapons is a trend with the younger Garlean generations given that Garlemald isn't as isolated as it used to be.

Neither Gaius or Regulus are using normal weapons either. Heirsbane was given to Gaius by Midas nan Garland when Gaius was promoted to the rank of Legatus. Regulus' blade is a prototype he's testing for the Magiteck Academy to see how well it preforms in actual battle. I'd be very surprised if we ran into anyone else using a two-handed gunblade at this point. They don't seem to be considered a common weapon the way the one-handed gunblades are and even those aren't that common. The only people we see using them are the officers in the Imperial Legions almost all of whom are Garleans.

So doing the Ridorana Lighthouse these pas few weeks have made me wonder something...

Ivalice

I'm confused on the function of that Construct 7 guardian: it claims "anomalous intelligence detected", and after the math mechanic, it then claims re-education failed and goes into Tartarus and Annihilation modes. So did Goug have a really hardcore education system or is the robot malfunctioning? Also, speaking of Goug, anyone else notice we seem to pass through an Aethyrite to reach it?

It's not an Aethyrite exactly. It's a callback to how dungeons in FFXII work. You usually would find a small crystal-like thing (forget the exact name) that would transport you to somewhere in the dungeon and you had no idea where it was going the first time. This would unlock it for further use. Eventually you'd use entire networks of the crystals in dungeons to travel to different parts of the the dungeon.

Presumably, there was a similar network in Goug to make getting around the huge tower easy. Somehow the WoL or Ramza found a teleport crystal that skipped over all the destroyed part of the tower and transported them from the bottom floors to the very top floors that still existed.

Heaven on High:

Really neat to have the Allagan connection with Heaven on High; the Onishishu seem like an absolutely fascinating organization. Given the founder's references to Princess Salina and Desch, they must date back all the way to the Fourth Umbral Era. I wonder if reaching Floor 100 reveals any more, or if the quest On the Shoulders of Giants is the extent of it?

Oof, I'm even more disappointed that story for HoH is limited to just the first 30 floors now.