Revelations from Gamescom 2019

[QT_Melon]

That or Alpha is the "special snowflake" exception where a new soul was born from excess aether?

[RyuDragnier]

17. None of the new job actions added in Shadowbringers get any real lore explanation or backstory. I would like to know more about these new actions! Could you provide this information to players somehow?

Yoshi: This also ties back to the previous question. We want to do story for the level 80 actions, but changes are still in motion right now, and we want to avoid contradictions where the "facts" don’t match the skill.

I understand why they haven't considering changes that keep being done each expansion, so I have a suggestion for them, merely have the job trainers act as though we're making up these moves, that we ourselves came up with them as the reason for them existing. As lazy as that seems, there's no real way for us to have learned these skills from anybody, so merely acting as though we're creating them sounds like the best course of action, lorewise.

[Eyvind]

In response to point 18 (Keeper of the Moon names) am calling it now, "aliapoh" will turn out to be ancient Amaurotine for "pretends to be an orphan for money"

[JeanneOrnitier]

It's kind of a relief to see that they do seem to have plans for the Heart of Sabik. Though I liked the idea that it was tied to Ultima the High Seraph, but I don't think the timeline works.

[Lauront]

It's kind of a relief to see that they do seem to have plans for the Heart of Sabik. Though I liked the idea that it was tied to Ultima the High Seraph, but I don't think the timeline works.

I wonder if she was something similar in nature to those monstrosities that plagued the Amaurotines, or somehow the result of creation magicks, without being your typical Primal, bearing in mind that this monstrosity acquired sentience through worship due to her destructive potential. Perhaps a relic of the original world that somehow evaded sundering, or in spite of it retained a great deal of power. It's implied that due to the Source's lack of aetheric density required to weave the spell that she may be from another world, but another time could also make sense.

[Eyvind]

I don't know what plans they do, or did have the Heart of Sabik, but note that Sabik is a star in the constellation Opiuchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Ophiuchi

Ophiuchus's other, older name is Serpentarius. Which is an alternative name for Zodiark in the Ivalice games where he was introduced: https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki..._and_symbolism

Therefore, Sabik=part of Serpentarius=Zodiark

Make of that what you will.

[Sathona]

I don't know what plans they do, or did have the Heart of Sabik, but note that Sabik is a star in the constellation Opiuchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Ophiuchi

Ophiuchus's other, older name is Serpentarius. Which is an alternative name for Zodiark in the Ivalice games where he was introduced: https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki..._and_symbolism

Therefore, Sabik=part of Serpentarius=Zodiark

Make of that what you will.

Lahabread did say "Behold but a sliver of my gods power" or something along these lines so it seems its a given.

But id love for it to be expanded more in general

[Apoptomon]

Thanks for posting this summary! Some interesting stuff here!

[Alleluia]

Questions 2, 3, and 19 were mine. So happy right now. lol

The answer to question three went a direction I wasn't thinking (I meant, like as part of 5.0, was there something we generally hadn't noticed as players yet and did they want to hint at it), but now I'll certainly be going and checking Stormblood stuff again. But hey, he answered the Hythlodeus speculation in it, too, so that was cool.

EDIT: Oh, and credit where credit's due, I know I'm hardly the first to wonder if G'raha stopped physically aging. I was just the one who verbalized it in that particular thread.

[Rannie]

Hmmm I'm wondering though does he mean the quests that are part of the post stormblood story line or was he meaning the start of shb?

Btw thanks moose for this thread. Much appreciated.