Fun Lore Facts?

[Cleretic]

So Allag took the Omnicron route of screwing over the ecosystem? Makes you wonder if they really cared about the places they took over after the conquering was over. Though maybe not to the same extent considering who was pulling the strings.

Nothing we've seen about Allag, and that the era Azys Lla was from in particular, makes me think they were ever even remotely kind or cared. They didn't conquer Meracydia because they thought they'd run it well/better than the people who were there, or even because it had resources, they conquered it because it was there and they hadn't conquered it yet. And then left it a blasted wasteland, because their only real objective was conquering it.

This trend continues in all relic lines until the Manderville weapons really (though I've been so put off by XIV these past couple of years that I actually haven't finished one to its current highest progression point). Though some of the weapons from FFXI that were referenced were actually just various strong weapons from different endgame eras in FFXI's history.

Does this trend actually continue until Endwalker? Because relic weapons stopped getting unique names with the Eurekan Weapons in Stormblood, with the brief and short-lived exception of the first-tier Resistance weapons. The .0 job gear gets named weapons, and for Warrior have all been FFXI weapons: Farsha in Stormblood, Chango and Skullrender in Shadowbringers, and the Gigantaxe (usually spelled with a space) in Endwalker.

By my reading, either the trend stopped in Stormblood when relic weapons stopped getting unique names, or never stopped because every time WAR gets a level-cap weapon, it's one it had in FFXI.

[Vyrerus]

Trend Continues

Yeah, it has. The oddities to it are... the weapons referenced aren't always relics from XI rather NM drops or non-rares. Some of the XIV jobs do get unique weapons that have no XI counterpart to my knowledge.

Also with the Eurekan weapons(Stormblood), the naming convention manifests twice, once at the start and again at the Hydatos stage. Idk. I'm going completely off memory. But like, the DRG spear eventually becomes the Daboya, and that's an Empyrean weaponskill spear from the alternate upgrade path through The Walk of Echoes rather than through Abyssea in FFXI, resulting in a weaker weapon but granting access to its powerful WS.

I guess in Endwalker the trend continues with job AF armor referencing item level AF armor from XI in addition to the AF weapons granted by the MSQ this time around. Though those aren't the actual relics.

The trend could still pop up again at the very end of the Manderville line, I guess. We'll see.