Loppurets: Their purpose

[Katie_Kitty]

Part of the Source being up there would make sense in a way. We have a lot of areas of the planet like the chasm under Ishgard that can't sustain life, almost like something that is supposed to be there is not there. Since we saw the WoL kill one of the Terminus there at the end of the trailer, I suspect it may be the "cancerous" parts of the planet that had the biggest corruptions from the Sound. Sound can't travel in space after all, it'd be the perfect way to shut it down. Add into it the cleaving of the world into 14 copies, and it also severely limits the power of the corruption still remaining, allowing for easy eradication.

If that was the case, though, then you'd imagine that three un-sundered ascians would've been enough to destroy it a long time ago.

[RyuDragnier]

If that was the case, though, then you'd imagine that three un-sundered ascians would've been enough to destroy it a long time ago.

Assuming they themselves were not corrupted, or even aware it was there.

[DamianFatale]

4. Part of the planet was sent into Orbit, along with where Zodiark, and so Ancient architecture isn't out of place. Lopporits were part of that new seeded life that got sent there by mistake.

I could see it being similar to the Thea theory. Thea crashed into the earth, and then formed the Earth we know and the moon with it. Perhaps somehow the source itself split apart into two.

[Khalithar]

I assume they were created by the same Amaurotines who fashioned the structures on the moon to possibly to serve as helpers in the absence of fellow Ancients.

This was my interpretation as well.

Though I have a crazy theory that the Lops are Amaurotines that somehow managed to survive and since degenerated and/or evolved in to space bunnies.

[Alenore]

This was my interpretation as well.

Though I have a crazy theory that the Lops are Amaurotines that somehow managed to survive and since degenerated and/or evolved in to space bunnies.

Someone please replace Emet-Selch model by a Lopporit on the after-Hades cutscenes.

[Hysterior]

Their purpose? They look like food to me...

[LystAP]

I would think the buildings on the moon would be where Elidibus spends most of his time when he's on the Source. And the Loppurets are his servants that he created to keep him company. They look the way they do because Elidibus was still young. At least I think this. It would explain how they got there in the first place. Of course, Option B was that the Allagans introduced them.

[Vipes]

Maybe they could surprise us last second and have them playable? Hrothgar was also a last second surprise if I recall.