What is Vashaun?

[Cleretic]

Yeah this seems to be accurate. When I first learned that he was what he was I went wait he's an android!? I do wonder if we'll see more like him since he's the most advanced artificial being we've come across post sundering. I do wonder if it just stares off in the distance the few times they and Vrta are in the same room/area since we don't see him take the eye back the few times we see this.

I mean, if he's an artificially-grown biological body, which appears to be what he is (there was the implication that Varshan's 'big brother' got older and 'moved away', so it seems like they age), then that's basically Allagan cloning techniques by a different route.

[Cerbolt]

I mean, if he's an artificially-grown biological body, which appears to be what he is (there was the implication that Varshan's 'big brother' got older and 'moved away', so it seems like they age), then that's basically Allagan cloning techniques by a different route.

I think the implication was they were put out to pasture so to speak.

[Cleretic]

I think the implication was they were put out to pasture so to speak.

Oh, yeah, this is absolutely what happened. But given the cover story is clearly working, and people only mention one recent predecessor, I figure that the body ages until they retire it. Otherwise either the body sticks around long enough that people notice it's weird how Varshan's brother didn't age, or they go through those bodies before signs of aging could appear, which would require a fairly suspicious amount of turnaround.

[Lihtleita]

hes vrtras boysona

[EaraGrace]

hes vrtras boysona

Thanks I hate it.

[Anvaire]

i think its more, that the puppet has its own distinct personality but when it is possession of the eye vtra can see and feel everything, communicating with the puppets own identity. This would explain the difference in behaviour between dragon and the puppet.

[SannaR]

Didn't think we'd be getting more Vrashan. It's most likely that Vrtra's eye which allows their body to survive the few times they dipped their toes in the 13th. I wonder how much degradation happened to the body. Love how they still blink even when in the same room as Vrtra. I just hope that Vrtra needing to be I guess in a meditative state won't lead to a bad situation.

[Alleluia]

I wonder if this is the same child body from back when he first had it made?

Its a simulacrum, so it may not experience any normal biological function, including aging. Would explain why he felt the need to remove it from the public eye every couple years. Kind of a Highlander situation. After about 5 years of use he recalls the body and gives excuses to those that know him, then lays low for a year or so, the body gets a makeover with an aesthetician, and then the satrap suddenly has a new favored page running around again to replace the old one.

[MoofiaBossVal]

I wonder if this is the same child body from back when he first had it made?

During the Final Days in Thavnair, Vytra had Varshan reverted back into the eye and placed back in his (Vytra's) head. He has both of his eyes in the Thavnair dungeon. After the situation in Thavnair calms down, he removed his eye and had the alchemists reshape it back into Varshan, who he sent to Sharlayan to check up on the status of his people. Earlier on in Endwalker's story, the alchemists reveal that they had suspected that Varshan was connected to the dragon of Thavnair, because they reshaped a dragon eye into the simulacrum. So Vytra has probably been taking his eye in and out and has had his eye shaped into a simulacrum many, many times. The Varshan we see might be his preferred appearance, but is not the same simulacrum that he sent through the gate 5,000 years ago.

[KageTokage]

Considering how Hraesvelgr kind of dematerialized his eye and transferred it into us temporarily to aid in defeating Nidhogg, I feel like Vrtra probably does something similar with his puppets as opposed to having to resort to more physical measures.

I still can't help but feel like it's a rather...dangerous prospect to have a significant portion of his power detached from him, though; especially if there's a risk of his real body being corrupted by proxy if his vessel is compromised in this coming journey unto the void.