Not Leviathan, so what is it?

[Zaaku]

Its a Pikachu!

[Zyph]

Its a Pikachu!

[Duuude007]

Its a Pikachu!

I was going to say Ling Ling:

[Rau]

Is that from... Billy and Mandy?

[Antanias]

Is that from... Billy and Mandy?

Drawn Together.

[Rhomagus]

They're taking Bahamut back to his mythological roots.

Bahamut is now the fish he was always meant to be.

Thank you SE!!

[KoujiGeki]

its Garados!

[Lienn]

Upper one is Yoshida's leviathan...the one that will be primal.

Lower one is Tanaka's leviathan, the giant sea serpent that we see when we start in Limsa Lominsa (and that prolly will be removed when they redo the city tutorials).

[Ryuko]

I sort of like the old sea serpent in the Limsa Lominsa intro. I never thought it was Leviathan (because I assumed Leviathan would look more similar to the newer model), but I did like the effect it gave. I don't think any of us will forget this scene from the benchmark, or from beta. I hope they don't change it.

That said, I LOVE the new Leviathan.

I think the 'old' Leviathan was a generic term for a huge sea serpent. There may be others like it, or at least similar to it. The 'new' Leviathan is the avatar/primal we know and love... completely unique (there are none other like him).

[viion]

If you load the Sea Serpent in game you will see it was never intended to be fought with lol it is longer than your view distance by double.

That said, all lore people say "Sea Serpent", it is never referred to as Leviathan by the Lore people, I think this is something where people just took characteristics and threw labels on it, or a dev might have said it sometime.