Consequence of other Stars [SPOILER Discussion]

[EdwinLi]

My thoughts on your thoughts:

I...really hope we’re done with Zenos, but I got to thinking. Yoshi P seemed to imply that Zenos’s voidsent would be more important than it ultimately was in EW, which leads me to believe we haven’t seen the last of IT, at least. I’ve also mulled over how (and please correct me if I’m mistaken), in the case of Lahabrea and Thancred, TWO souls existed in one body, one dominating the other. I can’t help but worry that when Zenos breathed his last, his soul latched onto the only other living thing there, us.

About Zenos fate......

I believe Zenos is dead for good since as he said he spend all his remaining life energy fighting WoL in the Final Boss fight to a point there should be nothing left for him to live. That was all he ever desired after all.

His voidsent, however, is another story.

[Theozilla]

I do have my own couple of spoiler related questions/clarifications relating to this that I wanted to ask (sorry if any have already been addressed earlier in the thread, I didn't see them explicitly addressed in my skim of the thread)

One minor quibble, unless I missed something, Zenos’ reoccurring dream of the Final Days (from 5.2) and Fandaniel’s commentary of “Could Emet-Selch have found a way…?” wasn’t ever addressed/explained, correct? I wonder if it’s something that’s being saved to explore later in the future MSQ or side content (like maybe the Pandemonium raids?), or is it just a dropped plot point? If it’s the latter it’s not a huge biggie, but somewhat surprising that something depicted in a voiced cutscene wasn’t at least somewhat followed up on.


My other question is in regards to the status of the inhabitants of Ultima Thule after finishing 6.0: namely, are the inhabitants of UT now actually alive/living for real now?
Because I understood that the areas aren't the actual remnants of the original planets (i.e. stars) that the Meteia encountered in their journey, but rather are recreations of them. And I believe Y'shtola and/or Urianger compare the inhabitants to the shades of the Ancients in Emet-Selch's recreated Amaurot. So wouldn't that mean that like the Ancient shades, they weren't the actual original souls of the dead planets, right? But after Meteion is beat and she restores "life/hope" to the universe, did that turn the inhabitants of Ultima Thule into for-real alive/original souls denizens?

Because the way the game discusses them and the side-quests treat them (after beating 6.0), it appears like they are living beings with souls now. (and from what I understood Meteion collected the dead souls of the planets she had visited and sequestered them away in the dead sun, so that they wouldn't continue to be reincarnated/reborn into potential future new lives, right?)

Or were the inhabitants of UT always alive, & it was only the specific individuals that the Scions had to emotionally overcome in order to progress through the zone (the ones that turned into black birds) that weren't alive and were only recreated shades?

Also if anyone was wondering, the 68.3% of the universe being made of dynamis is almost certainly a reference to work done in 2013 based on the Planck spacecraft observations of the CBM (Cosmic Microwave Background), which gave an accurate estimate of 68.3% dark energy, 26.8% dark matter, and 4.9% ordinary matter (which includes anti-matter and regular energy), for the composition of the universe.

[Theozilla]

One other question I just remembered, is it ever specified if the "Deneb III" the Ea spoke of is supposed to be the name of the Ea's homeworld, or was it just some other planet/world they had observed/knew of? Or are we just supposed to assume it was the former?