Crystal Tower theories

[Iscah]

Yeah. It's too weird how he's all but confirmed, but so much doesn't add up. They even drew specific attention to how they can't name Yuma Uchida's character yet during Yoshi's talk show, which means either the name would be some kind of spoiler, or Ferne told Yoshida how they could yank a bunch of chains during Fanfest ahead of the patch. Since he's always watching over us...

For what it's worth, even now that we know we're traveling Shards and not Time Itself, the Voice is still on about waiting years and unwriting (or rewriting) history, which at least leaves that particular instance of time travel on the table.

I agree - in some ways it's the clearest they've shown it, and yet I'm not sure whether we're closer or further from confirming that it's him. We're missing critical pieces in the puzzle that affect how the whole thing fits together.

My brain genius theory is that Crystal Tower itself is one single structure existing in every (possible) shard at once.

It makes sense in some ways, and I wondered the same thing - but would that include the inhabitants of the Tower, or just the structure itself? If Xande is opening a voidgate at the top of "our" Crystal Tower, what happens on the other worlds?

Could people on the other worlds see that the door had opened when we entered the Tower?

Not shooting down your idea, just equally perplexed by what it might mean.

[Anonymoose]

inb4 everyone gets into a debate about whether transdimensional Allagans built it or Ascians inspired its being built on every shard in the same place and it's just this one time with just this one dimension-hopping time-travelling catteboi.

[Fenral]

I think most of the post-keynote rage has an outlet in the Hrothgar, so I suspect things here will stay pretty civil (for once). At this point all we can really do is throw crack theories at the wall and see where they decide to hang the dartboard come 4.56.

[LycorisSelunis]

Totally no basis for this idea whatsoever, but I wonder if the Tower is able to be concurrent in two places/times at once?

[YianKutku]

inb4 everyone gets into a debate about whether transdimensional Allagans built it or Ascians inspired its being built on every shard in the same place and it's just this one time with just this one dimension-hopping time-travelling catteboi.

NGL I was actually thinking it could have been something like the latter, although whether it was Ascians (/handgestures) or something else is something I didn't think about.

It might tie in to the different architecture of the "Labyrinth of the Ancients", where even the Allagans have their own "ancient history" that they might not be fully versed about. They rebuilt/repurposed an existing "Crystal Tower" to serve their own energy-production needs, possibly?

Also I was thinking about that old interview where Koji Fox mentioned that there was supposed to be Something Important buried under Silvertear Lake (beyond the whole "Lifestream nexus" and "Primals" thing), and it might have been shelved by the events of 2.0. If there is a version of the Crystal Tower in every Shard around the equivalent of Silvertear, might it be overseeing fourteen (now six) different versions of that Something Important?

(Fragments of Zodiark?)

[Anonymoose]

Also I was thinking about that old interview where Koji Fox mentioned that there was supposed to be Something Important buried under Silvertear Lake (beyond the whole "Lifestream nexus" and "Primals" thing), and it might have been shelved by the events of 2.0.

I have no idea! We've taken to calling this mysterious entity The Presence of Silvertear Lake, and I almost want to see them not mention it until all of this is over, then use it for a later [Eorzea II] expansion; end where we began, you know? But if they tie it to the Ascian / Zodiark story just to tie off the loose end, no qualms.

When it came up in conversation with friends we did this whole workshop about Silvertear being the wound where She launched Zodiark out of the Sea into space and SoMeThInG PoWeRfUl was imprisoned in the "cauterizing" of that wound so Midgardsormr could keep an eye on everything. But that's some fan-fic-y nonsense.
(Oddly in line with Ultima, though!)

[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)

[Remedi]

inb4 everyone gets into a debate about whether transdimensional Allagans built it or Ascians inspired its being built on every shard in the same place and it's just this one time with just this one dimension-hopping time-travelling catteboi.

No fair that is my horse!

[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!