Crazy Personal Headcanons

[lycropath]

Suspecting the person who graduated ahead of Papalymo in the Studium was Forchenault now since they are fairly close in age..

[Recon1o6]

New headcanons: miqote are the most populous race in eorzea overall. Au ra females are a close second over time, hyur take hte spot for most males.

Lalafell fat is considered an unusual ingredient (see culinarian relics) because it can't reliably be harvested

The real reason the black boar gate in Gridania is never open is because there's housing plots for sale behind them and they don't want adventurers to come in and buy them all

Viera can hear the elementals in Gridania but only the padjal are allowed leadership.

The adventurer's guild is secretly a protection racket. The retainers are another arm of them in order to steal the assets of adventurers as well.

Martyn would have beaten Siegfried if he used final sting instead of self destruct

[Catwho]

Tossing mine in here: The Sineaters were only so soulless and vicious because they were tempered and aspected to light so thoroughly and completely. Unlike the voidsent on the 13th, whose ancestors were tempered so long ago that entire civilizations have risen and fallen on that world since the time it was lost to darkness shortly after the Sundering+ years ago. Unlike the Source, which had Ascian interference, the civilizations remained relatively primitive. They are thousands of generations removed.

But this is why you can converse with a Voidsent, make a contract with one, etc, and they don't just immediately eat your face like a Sineater would. Voidsent are people.

Also, the imps are the 13th's former Lalafells.

[Erendis]

I've been thinking. If they needed to use aetherically dense people to fuel Zodiark, crystals as we know them must've not existed back then. And when Zodiark rewrote laws of universe he "nerfed" people by knocking large amounts of aether out of them which then became crystals. And that is why even though we are already 9/14 we are nowhere near originals. And that's why Venat feared Zodiark.

[Cilia]

At least part of the reason Hydaelyn was summoned was to prevent the Convocation from turning the world into a static state that bowed to the whims of Amaurot.

Recompressing the world back to its original state and culling mortals in accordance with the Convocation's original plan would not restore the glory days of Amaurot. Enough Ancients would be disgusted enough with what their brethren had done to summon a check against Zodiark even more powerful than Hydaelyn.

Hydaelyn was summoned because Zodiark's new laws governing the star were only temporary. As we've seen in the Endwalker FMV the Terminus beasts are all coming back, meaning Fandaniel is somehow undoing Zodiark's laws in 5.55. Further Fandaniel would have to know what caused the Sound or he wouldn't be able to break Zodiark's laws keeping it in check.

Anima is the tortured soul of Zenos' mother.

Endwalker will... end with a post-final battle where after going against Zenos with superpowers, we end up just slugging him into submission, after which he becomes our genuine friend. (Might still hafta toss him in gaol tho.)

[MrPresident]

. . . . And Anogg and Konogg from YoHRa are the counterparts to Alphinaud and Alisaie.

Could be some foreshadowing of the future of one of them then...

[Matthew21]

My theory revolves around Adelberta Sterne, the Mining Guild master in Ul'dah. It concerns her parents.
Her father was the mining guild master, but he was originally a gladiator who was known for his odd love of a set of clanking metal armor, and a helmet that looked like a widebrim sunhat. He was known for being very stubborn and stuck to his beliefs almost to the point of stupidity, nevertheless, he was an extremely loyal friend who loved his wife and "little girl" very much. He became a miner in order to find top-rate metals for his wife's armor and weapons. His wife is a famous member of the Sultansworn elite, who lost an eye in battle early in her career. she looks quite alot like her daughter and is known for being rather well-endowed, to the point that Captain Jenlyns has to make himself to stare directly at her face when giving her orders.

Yes, her mom and dad are Beatrix and Steiner.

[Bright-Flower]

Lyse has no idea what she's doing and Raubahn is constantly having to run interference to keep Ala Mhigo functioning.

[Recon1o6]

Lyse has no idea what she's doing and Raubahn is constantly having to run interference to keep Ala Mhigo functioning.

I thought that was already canon?

[Iscah]

Lyse has no idea what she's doing and Raubahn is constantly having to run interference to keep Ala Mhigo functioning.

Lyse would be the first to admit she doesn't know what she's doing, and she appreciates Raubahn's support.

It's stupid that the plot put her in there as leader with no real credentials in the first place, but seeing as she is there, she's not oblivious to the fact that she lacks them and she's trying her best to get it right.