Thread: [4.4 Discussion] "Change the Future"

Originally Posted by Anonymoose

Catching up with all the new posts, I've been ruminating on a lot and trying to sort out the pieces and probabilities. Not that probabilities are doing much heavy lifting for us with all these twists lately.

I've been twirling the Mysterious Voice pieces around and statistically they still feel Zodiark-shaped. As far as I can tell, we do not know of anything that could pull off a transdimensional soul-call conversation aside from a great crystal. We do not know of anything that would promise to force the barriers of time and space if only we would open the gates aside from Zodiark. Ergo, it is most likely either Zodiark or something we do not know.

(Whether Yshtola messing around with the purple moon crystal in the cave with the snake statues is related on top of that assumption...)

I've been trying to work out, for the sake of covering all the bases, how the Twin Dooms could be related rather than mutually avoidable and I've only got one idea so far:

If Souce-side, localized Light and Dark forces (i.e. the "bearers" of that power) are not in balance, it might just be generally unsafe to attempt to blow out a dimensional barrier. If Elidibus is making a Calamity-level move, the pieces must be roughly where he wants them and it's time to bring the confluence of chaos to a crescendo. If Thancred clandestinely moves to cause Garlemald to turn on itself and attempt to uproot the Darkness in their midst, Calamity-level machinations going off around the same time might be catastrophic.

This does the most lifting for the least work, but, again, logic alone hasn't been getting us very far lately.

Well, if the Rejoining requires the barriers between the worlds to be broken down, a flood in either direction could "spill", so to speak - especially if it occurs just as at the time of the Rejoining, and not in the distant past as on the 13th, so you may be right. Either way, a Calamity would be a very bad thing, Rejoining or not.

Edit - something interesting I came across today on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...en_44_msq_and/

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