(6.0 spoiler?) what's the deal with platinum color?

[Kozh]

So if anyone else remember, Yoshida hyped 3 things before endwalker. First is the platinum color, second is the Amano artwork of hydaelyn and zodiark, and last is "things on eorzea (pre-endwalker) that only Yoshida know, not even foxclon realize it". And he subtly implied those three are important for EW.

After finishing 6.0 though, I still don\\'t understand them. For hydaelyn and zodiark artwork, I guess it about "oh, that\\'s actually how they look like"?. Can\\'t find anything about platinum nor "things only Yoshida know" though.

[kaynide]

Of interest, the Alchemical symbol for Platinum is a joined sun and moon. The sun is identical to Azem’s symbol..or rather the Azem symbol is the alchemical symbol for “Sun”.

I chalk it up to YoshiP having a soft spot for the more metaphysical things/symbolism.

[van_arn]

Of interest, the Alchemical symbol for Platinum is a joined sun and moon. The sun is identical to Azem’s symbol..or rather the Azem symbol is the alchemical symbol for “Sun”.

Clearly the conjugation of time between our incarnation of Azem and Hydaelyn.

On a completely unrelated note, I want a dog version of Emet-Selch. Argos was perfection.

[kaynide]

Very likely; I can’t imagine it’s just “Look! Azem’s goin to the moon!”

In addition, I would say it’s a shade of grey (not black or white; somewhere between), and also the Japanese today sat “Platinum” for platinum,…but it can be referenced as “Shirogane” which means “white metal” and includes all other silvery metals like silver or white gold.

[Kozh]

Clearly the conjugation of time between our incarnation of Azem and Hydaelyn.

On a completely unrelated note, I want a dog version of Emet-Selch. Argos was perfection.

But hydaelyn is never symbolized as moon though. If you say it's Azem (sun) meeting past emet (representative of zodiark, which is the moon), I can understand that. Though it's still a stretch too imo.

[van_arn]

But hydaelyn is never symbolized as moon though. If you say it's Azem (sun) meeting past emet (representative of zodiark, which is the moon), I can understand that. Though it's still a stretch too imo.

It's exceptionally easy to symbolize her as the moon after playing through the MSQ. She did make the thing, after all.

[SilverObi]

It's exceptionally easy to symbolize her as the moon after playing through the MSQ. She did make the thing, after all.

Venat is another Azem though so that'd be two suns (arguably white and red knowing her role) meeting, not the sun and moon.

[Penthea]

But hydaelyn is never symbolized as moon though. If you say it's Azem (sun) meeting past emet (representative of zodiark, which is the moon), I can understand that. Though it's still a stretch too imo.

Venat as Hydaelyn made the moon. Venat was also the previous Azem. If anything platinum symbolises her, when you take what I just said and platinum's alchemical symbol into consideration.

[butwherestherum]

I think y'all are reading way too much into it.

Platinum is a very interesting color/element. The rusty texture adds shades of black beside the silverish surface. Black and white. Dark and light.

I think it was implying that the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc only existed as a basis or foundation for something beyond (they were literally created to serve one purpose), in the case of platinum, light and dark coming together to give rise to something made of both, but different. Which implied Endwalker's endboss would be something beyond Hydaelyn or Zodiark, and a new "foundation" made of both - which turned out to be dynamis. Dynamis being the realm of emotion is made of both extremes of light and dark. Meteion herself turned platinum multiple times, and she regains her color at the end.

The endboss being other than Zodiark is kind of spoilerish which is why Yoshi-P was so hesitant on the live letter when he mentioned platinum and insisted "I already said way too much."

Least that's my take on it.

[Nekaru_Infitima]

Venat, and Themis's hair are platinum, sorta so is Emet's.