Thread: [4.4 Discussion] "Change the Future"

I don't think its Alphinaud, seeing as how this it is believed to be an immensely powerful being, Alphinaud may be a skilled veteran scholar in the future, but capable of soul stealing and time manipulation? I don't see it. Nabriales called upon Zodiark to affect time, and (iirc) there are crystals capable of retaining a soul.(dark crystals iirc)

Originally Posted by Kallera

I don't think its Alphinaud, seeing as how this it is believed to be an immensely powerful being, Alphinaud may be a skilled veteran scholar in the future, but capable of soul stealing and time manipulation? I don't see it. Nabriales called upon Zodiark to affect time, and (iirc) there are crystals capable of retaining a soul.(dark crystals iirc)

It could be Zodiark using Alphinaud as his voice like what Hydaelyn is using Minfilia for.

Originally Posted by Kallera

Um...It's possible!

So about the Flood of Light...I have a theory.

What if its from the alliance using the House of the Crooked Coin?

The House of the Crooked Coin already has a belief among the Dotharl that if you die there, you do not reincarnate. A flood of light is described as Fate where the soul experiences neither life nor death. And the alliance is planning to make The House a battery for its air defense shield, one similar to Azis Lla.

Now, the Garleans, are currently one order away from counterattacking Ala Mihgo...and their ships need to take the route through the Burn... so assuming Varis can't politically hold things down(Quite possibly from someone's assassination attempt...)
The Garlean troops see this shield in the Burn, go "Hey, didn't Cid make a thingamajig to break through this sort of thing?" They stick that on their Big Ships, and have a go at forcing through the shield. Now that cranks up the juice at the House of the Crooked Coin...Which, either through the assault to break through or the tech connecting it to the shield failing...goes out of control with the energy demand and unleashes its power unhampered...All that un-reincarnating power...

And there is your flood of light...

Some problems there I think.

The Burn is between Garlemald and Othard, not Ala Mhigo.
Cid didn't make that thing, the Sharlayans did, we dug it out of the Gubal Library.
A flood of light, to our knowledge from 3.4, isn't just some big aether explosion.

Some supposition but I think the outcome of the Crooked Coin being overloaded is more like to be like the end of Allagan Empire. It's basically an aetherial electrical grid substation and the vast majority of them were overloaded when Dalamud was hooked up to the network, blew up, and caused the "Calamity of Earth."

Originally Posted by Cybylt

Some problems there I think.

The Burn is between Garlemald and Othard, not Ala Mhigo.
Cid didn't make that thing, the Sharlayans did, we dug it out of the Gubal Library.
A flood of light, to our knowledge from 3.4, isn't just some big aether explosion.

Some supposition but I think the outcome of the Crooked Coin being overloaded is more like to be like the end of Allagan Empire. It's basically an aetherial electrical grid substation and the vast majority of them were overloaded when Dalamud was hooked up to the network, blew up, and caused the "Calamity of Earth."

Aether does strange things when it blows up in such violent fashion...

It was mentioned in the story that there isn't a refueling station in Rabanastre anymore for the ships. If the Garleans are going to demolish Ala Mihgo with ease as Zelidibus suggests, its going to be by getting airships to make the trip.
It seems strange to me that the House would have that particular rumor from the Dotharl about it, as well as the stated fact that by turning on its aether output will have large environmental effects. Aether does weird things at times, if the Dotharl's rumor and Y'shtola's observation have weight, perhaps an explosion of that same energy across the land would have results akin to the flood.

Originally Posted by Kallera

Aether does strange things when it blows up in such violent fashion...

It was mentioned in the story that there isn't a refueling station in Rabanastre anymore for the ships. If the Garleans are going to demolish Ala Mihgo with ease as Zelidibus suggests, its going to be by getting airships to make the trip.
It seems strange to me that the House would have that particular rumor from the Dotharl about it, as well as the stated fact that by turning on its aether output will have large environmental effects. Aether does weird things at times, if the Dotharl's rumor and Y'shtola's observation have weight, perhaps an explosion of that same energy across the land would have results akin to the flood.

That was all in service to the defense of Doma. Ala Mhigo is west of Ilsabard while Rabanastre is east of it. Judging off the world map, Ala Mhigo is even closer to the Garlean capital than Rabanastre is.

To my understanding of the scenes, The Crooked Coin throughout the Dotharl history was a dammed resevoir of aether that funneled energy away from locations. This could include people who threw themselves upon it. What Y'shtola did was open the floodgate, restoring natural flow of energy.

Then there's the way the Flood of Light happened. By the Warriors' account what they had done was quash all Darkness in their world until all of creation began to de-aspect, that doesn't sound the same as a flood of ambient aether flowing through the world.