Crystal Tower theories

[Fenral]

We were supposed to be getting an explanation for what Middy was up to when the Allagans built Syrcus Tower on his lawn, IIRC, but then he sacrificed himself during the Omega storyline and was never brought up again. We could finally be getting to that.

[Rocl]

I just feel the need to point out that the door of the First's Crystal Tower has the same markings as our Crystal Tower. (Two stylized regents facing each other with a palm outward)

[Nalien]

See, I was thinking the explanation for two Crystal Towers could be a whole lot simpler... Xandes basically just copied the design... Plagiarism does seem to have been an Allag specialty...

We already have a precedent set for that with Amdapor copying the design of Sin Eaters... Perhaps dying lets one glimpse the other Shards in some capacity? Amdapor then raises the dead and they "saw" Sin Eaters and built off that... Naturally, Xandes died as well, saw the First and Crystal Tower, then copied it in the Source... Bonus points if that "justifies" him wanting to open the Voidgate; He saw a world consumed by Light, naturally you'd want to balance that out if you're a crazed despot... Or perhaps our current mysterious voice gave him unclear instructions... "Throw wide the gates...", didn't really specify which gates...

I can't quite recall when exactly our Crystal Tower was constructed though, have a nagging thought that it may have been built prior to Xandes revival, in which case... Disregard I guess!

[YianKutku]

A slide from the artist dev panel:

In case anyone wanted to yell at the censors.

[MrThinker]

Okay, from what I can tell, both of the words are 'years'. In further support, the kanji for 'year' appears similar to one of the kanji censored. As for the numbers in front of them, the first appears to be double digits and the second is a single digit, either 9, 8 or 6. The first digit of the first number is not 1, in fact, it has a rounded top, meaning it could be any of 2,3,6,8,9. The 2nd digit of the first number does not appear to be 0, 1, 2 or 7 as the digit appears to have that line running through the middle. What does everyone else see? My guesses are 94 years and 9 years atm.

[Daralii]

The fact that the CT appeared, instead of being constructed, is the key bit. A question I now have is if that's also what happened on the Source, and Allag just claimed it as their own.

[Fenral]

Japanese text says it "warped" to the First, which increases the likelihood of it being the original. Just, how?


Screw it, I'll start:

In the original timeline we won't experience, Solus turns the Flood of Light to his advantage using Black Rose (somehow?) and eliminates the Eorzean Alliance in an Eighth Calamity, securing a Rejoining and victory for Garlemeald. X years later, G'raha Tia awakens in Syrcus Tower, except instead of being greeted by a bright and hopeful future, everything sucks. By following the history of the WoL, he discovers when and why everything went sideways, and transports the Crystal Tower to the past on the First, overshooting by a number of years. He keeps himself in partial stasis, watching events unfold until that moment, later interfering by pulling the Scions out of the Source to prevent their demise, and lastly pulling the WoL, with the intent of restabilizing the First before it can be used in a Rejoining.

[MrThinker]

Japanese text says it "warped" to the First, which increases the likelihood of it being the original. Just, how?


Screw it, I'll start:

In the original timeline we won't experience, Solus turns the Flood of Light to his advantage using Black Rose (somehow?) and eliminates the Eorzean Alliance in an Eighth Calamity, securing a Rejoining and victory for Garlemeald. X years later, G'raha Tia awakens in Syrcus Tower, except instead of being greeted by a bright and hopeful future, everything sucks. By following the history of the WoL, he discovers when and why everything went sideways, and transports the Crystal Tower to the past on the First, overshooting by a number of years. He keeps himself in partial stasis, watching events unfold until that moment, later interfering by pulling the Scions out of the Source to prevent their demise, and lastly pulling the WoL, with the intent of restabilizing the First before it can be used in a Rejoining.

At this point, I'm open to anything, and this makes use of what little we know.

inb4 the crystal tower is essentially a giant interdimsional aetheryte

[Daralii]

Japanese text says it "warped" to the First, which increases the likelihood of it being the original. Just, how?


Screw it, I'll start:

In the original timeline we won't experience, Solus turns the Flood of Light to his advantage using Black Rose (somehow?) and eliminates the Eorzean Alliance in an Eighth Calamity, securing a Rejoining and victory for Garlemeald. X years later, G'raha Tia awakens in Syrcus Tower, except instead of being greeted by a bright and hopeful future, everything sucks. By following the history of the WoL, he discovers when and why everything went sideways, and transports the Crystal Tower to the past on the First, overshooting by a number of years. He keeps himself in partial stasis, watching events unfold until that moment, later interfering by pulling the Scions out of the Source to prevent their demise, and lastly pulling the WoL, with the intent of restabilizing the First before it can be used in a Rejoining.

So the question becomes if we'll know on Tuesday, or if we'll be left hanging for 3 months.

[Rosa_Frandlia]

So the question becomes if we'll know on Tuesday, or if we'll be left hanging for 3 months.

"I'm not ready to get your full body over yet, but await word for me at the Rising Stones and then come meet me at the Crystal Tower when I'm ready"

My one question, if we walk up to the tower how would those who haven't done the 24-man raid get to the front door? I won't spoil it beyond that so those that haven't done the raid can do the quests.