Sooo about that moon...

[Corue]

Only screenshot I can find is this one from Reddit.
Anybody have any screenshots of their own? May just be a visual bug.

Interesting to note that in the latest lorebook it's revealed that Hydaleyn turned Zodiark into the moon.

[Iscah]

That does look odd, but not yet enough to conclude it's deliberate based on a single screenshot.

I haven't had a chance to spot the moon ingame for myself yet. Has been cloudy weather when I've remembered at night.


(Also it just seems odd to pull the " changing moon" trick twice. :/

[Enkidoh]

Doesn't look that odd to me, it's just the effect of shining through a cloudy sky (take note of the sky around it, it's clearly overcast). Now, if it was glowing like that in a completely cloudless sky... then, then we would have reason to think "Okay, what is it with this world and it's moons???" But as it is, there is nothing strange about it (based on that screenshot anyway).

Also, I don't buy Zodiark being the actual moon, but more just encased within it (after all, even the accuracy of the lorebook is questionable, given it's actually written from an in-universe perspective). I'm probably going to be proven horribly wrong though.

[DevonEllwood]

I'm pretty sure I've seen the moon do that before in certain locations. It's just the way lighting reacts under specific weather. I still don't trust it though; that moon is clearly up to something.

[Seraphor]

If this isn't a Lunar Cry and it's just a glitch, I hope they still use the idea later. It would be sad if the Silvertear Lake/Moon/Lunar Cry connection is just a red herring. Besides, anime/video games have a trope of re-using a similar theme of reoccuring catastrophes. Like in Gundam, there was the project Star Dust to drop a colony on the Earth, then years later it was reattempted again. In FF9 you rid the world of Mist by destroying the Iifa Tree, yet when Memoria appears all the mist comes back. It's likely the concept of a Dalamud 2 is pretty reasonable, but I like the Lunar Cry idea more

But they did use it. The calamity = the lunar cry.

[Jonnycbad]

The last calamity used a combination of FF4:TAY and FF7 and FF9 tropes. FF4:TAY had the True Moon being a lunar base for a high tech civilization and FF7 had meteor dropping on the planet to destroy it. Meanwhile Bahamut being a raging berserker dragon that requires another summon to stop it is from FF9 where Bahamut doesn't converse or attempt to communicate, only destroys.

[Dyvid]

Just went to Mor Dhona and it's the same. I will say that it would be cool if Shadowbringers (SR?) has FFIV references like going to the moon on the Lunar Whale and fighting the four fiends from that game as well as other boss like Magus Sisters.

[TheHeavenAbyss]

I don't think it's anything, but I sure hope for there to be some really cool content related to the moon in the future. Maybe a Zeromus trial, maybe a Crystal Palace dungeon and Lunar Cry in the MSQ (not the moon falling, but thousand and thousands of monsters falling from the moon to wipe out civilizations).

[odintius]

I had same feeling when fishing the moon just seem more pronounced in brightness if their pictures before the last patch to see a side by side comparison be nice. Although it could be mostly we know the lore of the moon and it just seems like it and is wishful thinking on our part not a bad thing though would be nice if Dev did do something and been silent on it. /Shrugs

[Hysell]

I doubt they would ever do anything of any major substance to the physical appearance of the older maps in the game. If you are standing in mor dhona you could still be in the ARR storyline or you could be in the HW storyline or completely caught up to date with the SB storyline. They aren't going to implement new story content that somehow physically changes the look of something on an old content map because it would make no sense lore wise depending on what part of the story a player is in. Its one reason I feel like nothing will ever happen to any of the city states because they wouldn't change the look of the maps with new story content when there are players who have not reached that point yet. Unless they are going to cause a calamity and redo everything over again....which I wouldn't mind lol