Lunar Whale location

[Fengalon]

I read in another thread that some people speculate that the lunar whale remains in Sharlayan.

I also thought so , but today i studied the worldmap of Hydaelyn and i recognized a floating whale in the clouds above the garlean empire:



What do you think? is that a hint to our "cap to the moon"or just art ?


Ps: yeah my english is bad, my apologize , many years past since school

[ItMe]

I don't think well get there via whale.
I think everyone will piggyback on a DRG and we're all gonna jump there!

[Iscah]

The Lunar Whale concept is being used for the Fan Festival merchandise mount, so it seems unlikely that it will appear in the game story.

[LineageRazor]

The Lunar Whale concept is being used for the Fan Festival merchandise mount, so it seems unlikely that it will appear in the game story.

I don't think the fact that it's a mount necessarily rules out it being used to go to the moon. After all, you can ride the Skyslipper in cutscenes without ever obtaining the actual mount. I could see the Lunar Whale being a cash-grab: folks who pony get the mount all the time, those who don't get a few cutscenes with it and nothing more.

That said, I could also see it as being nothing more than a Festival-only homage, like Wind-up Rydia and so on.

[Iscah]

I don't think the fact that it's a mount necessarily rules out it being used to go to the moon. After all, you can ride the Skyslipper in cutscenes without ever obtaining the actual mount.

I don't think that's a comparable situation because you see it first in the cutscene and then later get a chance to own it.

Having it freely for sale on Mog Station from level 1 and then making a big deal of it revealing it late in the story seems counterproductive.

[Hank_Hotspur]

I don't think the fact that it's a mount necessarily rules out it being used to go to the moon. After all, you can ride the Skyslipper in cutscenes without ever obtaining the actual mount. I could see the Lunar Whale being a cash-grab: folks who pony get the mount all the time, those who don't get a few cutscenes with it and nothing more.

That said, I could also see it as being nothing more than a Festival-only homage, like Wind-up Rydia and so on.

The last Fan Fest mount was Cloud's Fenrir motorcycle from Advent Children and that had no effect on the story.

[JeanneOrnitier]

I don't know if they'll outright use the Lunar Whale. Part of me wonders if we'll be using the Void Ark as a reference to it since Fandaniel's new buildings resemble Mhachi stuff.

[Cilia]

If anything our transport to the moon's probably gonna be that Star Destroyer lookin' thing in the logo.

[GoldStarz]

If anything our transport to the moon's probably gonna be that Star Destroyer lookin' thing in the logo.

An Allagan Starship. And yeah we're probably gonna salvage one from the coils or the Burning Wall.

[Enkidoh]

An Allagan Starship. And yeah we're probably gonna salvage one from the coils or the Burning Wall.

Right, that's what I thought too - specifically, an Allagan Ragnarok-class Internment Hulk - they're a close shape to that flying wedge in the logo, and it's already clearly established in the lore that they're spacecraft.

I doubt we get one from the remains of Dalamud though, as those weren't in too great shape (being blasted down to earth during the Calamity wouldn't have helped their structural intergrity). :P

Considering that there are Allagan ruins all over the place, it's not entirelly that unfeasable that the Ironworks may locate one and get it operational - it could even be called The Great Whale (to differentiate it from the Lunar Whale FFIV Amano art mount being offered with the upcoming digital Fanfest), and of course, yet another FFIV reference.

I just hope when they do, the BGM theme for either the mount or flying to the Moon is a Soken remix of this track.