On "the dreamer" (MSQ):
A living being, willingly trapped in an endless dream in order to generate significant amounts of energy and sustain some kind of magical construct... Wait a sec, that's beginning to sound a lot like a Fayth. They did already show us Anima...

FFX featured Kazushige Nojima at his most blatantly philosophical, and I still turn over its themes in my head every now and again. (To the chagrin of many, here and elsewhere.) Natsuko Ishikawa is, by her own admission, not a very philosophical writer, but Shadowbringers already touched on similar themes with Aumarot and the summoning of Zodiark. I can't help but wonder if she's been feeling a bit of FFX influence lately, and if we'll be getting a lot more of that in Endwalker.