Revelations from Gamescom 2019

[Iscah]

Question 7 was mine, and I had to go back and sanity-check the original post to make sure I hadn't referred to the whole race as Ascians. (I hadn't, but they've neatly rolled a second question into it by adding that mistake-and-correction.)

[Crushnight]

Did not expect my questions answered

Glad to see they are very respectful to each other characters as they write individual scenarios for things, also now i can save any specific Emet/Vauthry/Exarch questions for Natsuko Ishikawa rather than blindly asking everytime.

Also nice to see that Ran'jit's strength was purely his rather than being a mix of his martial style and sin eater boosting, did not expect to get the information about his ancestry being from outside Norvandt which truly makes his martial style a lost art unless a random person in Eulmore army was trained which i doubt at this point.

[ChaoticCrimson]

I didn't really expect the WoL/D to be a sundered Hythlodaeus, so that comes as no surprise to me. I am glad we got clarification that the Ancients are not all Ascians, however. I did kind of get that impression before, as I expect the title of "Ascians" was coined by the three unsundered members of the Convocation to give a name to those tempered by Zodiark (most likely after the sundering), so that information seems to lend credence to that idea. Also, I agree it makes sense that the recreated simulacrums of the Ancients appear the way they do, given how much time has passed for Emet-Selch since the Terminus and the subsequent sundering. Knowing this, however, makes me wonder how incomplete the recreation of the city of Amaurot itself must be, and how much grander it must have actually been before its devastation.

[Lauront]

I didn't really expect the WoL/D to be a sundered Hythlodaeus, so that comes as no surprise to me. I am glad we got clarification that the Ancients are not all Ascians, however. I did kind of get that impression before, as I expect the title of "Ascians" was coined by the three unsundered members of the Convocation to give a name to those tempered by Zodiark (most likely after the sundering), so that information seems to lend credence to that idea. Also, I agree it makes sense that the recreated simulacrums of the Ancients appear the way they do, given how much time has passed for Emet-Selch since the Terminus and the subsequent sundering. Knowing this, however, makes me wonder how incomplete the recreation of the city of Amaurot itself must be, and how much grander it must have actually been before its devastation.

Emet-Selch's budget ran low when it came to the character models.

[YianKutku]

4. Emet-Selch remarks that we are of the Source, "seven times rejoined". Is he talking about our soul, or only the world? If our soul has been rejoined, does that mean everyone on the Source has been rejoined to another soul-fragment each Calamity, or are we (and perhaps other specific characters) special in some way?

Oda: Each time there is a rejoining, any living things have the souls rejoined. This is true for everyone equally. The souls get more dense, and potentially more powerful.

But what about Alpha, though.

[RyuDragnier]

But what about Alpha, though.

Alpha was created by a being that only came onto the planet AFTER the Sundering. Just like the dragons, Alpha and Omega are not Sundered. But that DOES pose a question as to what happens to those not originally from the Source when Calamities occur.

[YianKutku]

Alpha was created by a being that only came onto the planet AFTER the Sundering. Just like the dragons, Alpha and Omega are not Sundered. But that DOES pose a question as to what happens to those not originally from the Source when Calamities occur.

It's just that Alpha didn't have a soul when he was created, but he gained a soul through his experiences and actions during the course of the Omega storyline. So where did that soul come from?

[RyuDragnier]

It's just that Alpha didn't have a soul when he was created, but he gained a soul through his experiences and actions during the course of the Omega storyline. So where did that soul come from?

We DO kinda have a habit of releasing a ton of Aether into the surrounding area when we fight, it wouldn't surprise me if Alpha's soul was created from the excess Aether absorbed during our fights in Omega.

[QT_Melon]

But what about Alpha, though.

Alpha was in the category of Omega and Midgardsormr?

[AmemeAmeklin]

Now I have to check back on cutscenes to see how our mask is different from Hythlodaeus's...it looked the same to me but it was a vague, faraway glimpse.