Revelations from Gamescom 2019

[Brightamethyst]

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.

I'd been wondering about that for a while. If after all the rejoinings we of the Source are somehow more complete, more... real, than the people native to the remaining shards.

[QT_Melon]

The part about the Ancients make sense. You're recreating the general idea, but details may get lost over time. That and the fact recreating everything to that amount of detail could take quite a strain.

[Iscah]

A post in General Discussion has a rough but complete transcript now.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n-Gamescom-Q-A

[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.)

[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.

[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.

[Eyvind]

So for the reason Hythlodaeus and othe Amaurotine words sound Greek I could have answered that. It is because Sir Thomas More used Greek words in Utopia.

Hythlodaeus was the European visitor to Utopia. His name means "giver of or expert in nonsense."

Amaurot was Utopia's capital. It means "the darkening place."

Anyder was Utopia's main river. It means "waterless" (anhydatos).

Achorian were their neighbours. Their name means "people without a country."

And so on. Basically every place name in Amaurot is lifted from Utopia, whose name can either mean "good place" (eutopia) or "no place" (outopia). The Utopians in More's book had all their material needs met and lots of leisure time but little personal freedom. They spent their free time learning and debating.

[RyuDragnier]

Bozja Citadel was where the Garlean's first attempt to contact/use Dalamud, and it fired a beam that destroyed an entire city and killed Cid's father. Found this on a reddit post, but it's taken from EE1.

The more interesting part to me is that Bozja is located in Othard, and many people thought it was going to be related to Stormblood's story because of it. Some people were debating on if the Burn itself was actually the remains of Bozja where could be feasible but I think that's more of the focus on repeated primal summoning which is also what the dungeon briefing for 4.4 says as well.

As mentioned in the Gunbreaker questline, it's also the former capital of a Hrothgar clan. The level 80 GNB quest gives hints that it will be one of our visitable cities in the next expansion, as survivors are planning on rebuilding it.

[Lauront]

Hmm I don't think they understood the question about the Chrysalis, or it was perhaps mistranslated, but all the same the answer is interesting, and lends some weight to the idea that the Twelve, in turn, may be a collective memory of the Convocation, given its own twists and flairs.

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.

My interpretation of it is that it wasn't so much that he was uniquely powerful, in the way Zenos or Emet-Selch might be, but that he was able to blind side us somewhat. In a sense there is a bit of borrowed power involved, due to the bond with the serpent, but certainly nothing Sin Eater.

[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.