Crazy Personal Headcanons

[ChazNatlo]

Oh my I have been waiting for a crackpot theory thread to share this one.
Moonkeepers and Duskwights have Argyria/silver poisoning.

Think about it. The shroud is the only source in the base game that contains silver. The silver is found near a water source. Argyria comes from the ingestion of high quantities of silver. Moonkeepers and duswights are wildfolk who live off the land outside of society who could easily have to resort to drinking from less filtered water. Argyria turns your skin blue.

Huh. Not just "In the shroud" in the shroud in the area that has the historical Duskwight living area and the primary zone you encounter Moonkeepers.

[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.

[TaleraRistain]

OP, I always liked the idea that the WoL actually hears the music being played, and that is why their summoning on the first resulted in not only a skewed version of the primal they actually fought, but the music is also similar; but not quite right.

I've wondered about this sometimes, most especially because the music is muted when you go inside Cerberus. I always thought it was a nice touch, but also interesting for the implications.

[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...

[Tensaihime]

I have this head canon where once we disperse primals they get a talking to from Hydelyn and then allowed to just play with other dispersed primals or go back to mortals.

Right now Ifrit, Garuda, Leviathan, Ramuh and Titan are all having an identity crisis.

I know this comment is a year old, but it still makes me happy because I like Susano and want to imagine him enjoying himself somewhere without draining all the aether.

[MrThinker]

The name of the moon of Hydaelyn is "Menphina" after the Eorzean goddess of the moon.

"But why would different cultures who have their own moon gods/goddesses call the moon by the name of some foreigner's deity?"

Because Allag. It's always Allagans. Now while Allag did eventually become a scientifically driven society with no belief in true deities, it was originally an Eorzean city-state, and thus had a patron god from the Twelve (probably Azeyma because of all the associated sun symbolsim we see) and probably called the moon by the name of their known moon deity.

Even after the loss of faith in the Twelve, they probably didn't bother to change the name they used to refer to said celestial body, and so when they conqueured everyone on the three continents and spread their language, they also forced them to refer to the moon in the same way they did. And this remained ingrained in the descendants of those people even after Allag's fall. This reasoning is also why Dalamud is known as Dalamud by everyone.

[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.