Quote Originally Posted by Ardox View Post
Ok, I see what you mean now,

To be honest, the Source people don't really use Astral/Umbral either in their dialogues. At this point, I'd have to replay the game and pay attention when they use the terms astral, light, umbral and darkness to see if they make any distinction. From what I understand, in Eorzea, astral and light are just as much synonyms as astral and darkness would be in Novrant.

yeap.. it's confusing..
Every time I try wrapping my head around this topic it explodes again. There's some really awesome discussion here that helps a lot. At first I thought it was simple enough, but the more I read, the more I realize I don't fully understand the concept Uriangier was explaining.

For the reason you state, I can't wait for New Game+. I've replayed bits of the game on alts and when you go through the story once again, knowing the significance of what's to happen in the future, it puts everything in a different light. At the launch of 4.0, I didn't even remember encountering Meffrid at Quarrymill. However, after I revisited ARR post-Stormblood, doing that segment and talking to the people at Little Ala Mhigo I'm like "WAAAIT... I'm starting to see all these connections now!" If it wasn't such a slog, I'd like to replay the game after each expansion because it all takes on a different color once you learn things that the new story presents.

There's a lot of conflicting speculation about whether Emet's supposed convictions and goals are based on reality, if they're exaggerations or even perhaps deception. When I see Ascians pop up earlier in the story now, so much more weight and context is lent to those events after receiving the lore he's given us with Amaurot. Whether the events surrounding the Sundering happened as he portrayed them or not, it still just makes earlier events so much more interesting IMO. I hope New Game+ is challenging and gives some good titles/rewards and hope that what we've learned has some grains of truth at least. It seems unclear to a lot of people (myself included) what New Game+ actually is beyond changing the MSQ flags, but I'm excited to go back through nonetheless.