Fantasias are going to get lore now it seems.

[SannaR]

With this most recent LLP we were told that they will be putting in a low level quest that will explain what a fantasia is. So, I guess they'll have lore now?

[Anonymoose]

I wonder how close the quest will be to Koji joking around about it years back.

Fantasia works in a unique way. I can’t simply turn you into whoever you want, or people could get away with anything. Crime would be out of control. Even on Earth, people have the opportunity to change who they are – cut their hair, get a facelift, find a new career or a different spouse – but we often aren’t willing to make those drastic life changes. Fantasia gives you the courage to make the changes you’ve always wanted to make. Maybe you are Lalafell trapped in a Roegadyn’s body, it’s time to break out! And all you needed was that courage in a phial!

[Wyssahtyn]

it's gonna be another auri limbal rings moment, i bet. shit lore to explain something that doesn't need to be explained.

[SannaR]

Well hopefully whatever it will be. I just hope it's better than the Mountain Zu. Seriously I feel my WoL will want to have a talk with Vrtra after learning that his country's alchemist are still messing around random wildlife. Though at least these don't look like they could become feral or something to that affect. Unlike what happened with the red chocobos. If I were to guess Thavnir got a lot of the Ancients that made creatures that make you go "but why?".

I do wonder if Jandelaine will be part of the quest or not. I still can't believe he's another heir of a lower Ishgardian house.

[LilimoLimomo]

Personally, I like lore for stuff like this. When there are mechanics in the game like glamour and they come up in the story, it makes it feel more like a cohesive world and less like detached game mechanics.

[Cleretic]

This one will be great mainly for collapsing the uncertainty. I can't imagine any resulting Fantasia lore will be an earthshaker on any level, and that kinda naturally means it'll have more haters than outright fans (it's a given that someone's gonna be mad about it, there's always someone mad about something), but I think the payoff here will be for all the people who have that lingering question answered, even if they didn't care that much about the answer. I guarantee, the roleplaying community will be happy with any answer they give, just because it's an answer. We can talk about Fantasias now, and actually have an implicit agreement about their existence!

[SannaR]

Personally, I like lore for stuff like this. When there are mechanics in the game like glamour and they come up in the story, it makes it feel more like a cohesive world and less like detached game mechanics.

It's not that I don't like this kind of thing getting lore. Just more of a shock and kind of funny. As for the longest time fantasias were in a sort of grey area of are they canonical or not. The same with collectors edition mounts; but then in came Emet-Selch in Elpis who popped out the ShB CE mount. That and it was always funny if not weird how every npc still knew who you were after using one. One second you could be out in the middle of the Lochs just having talked to Thancred as a min height male lalafell. Only to show up five seconds later as a maximum height fem roe and he would just ignore that you look completely different.

[Alleluia]

It's not that I don't like this kind of thing getting lore. Just more of a shock and kind of funny. As for the longest time fantasias were in a sort of grey area of are they canonical or not. The same with collectors edition mounts; but then in came Emet-Selch in Elpis who popped out the ShB CE mount. That and it was always funny if not weird how every npc still knew who you were after using one. One second you could be out in the middle of the Lochs just having talked to Thancred as a min height male lalafell. Only to show up five seconds later as a maximum height fem roe and he would just ignore that you look completely different.

Yeah, either Fantasia alters reality and makes it so you were always "xyz appearance", alters your own mind so that you aren't different to others but are to yourself, or... it actually just changes you and you basically have to send out a newsletter announcing the changes so ppl know who they're dealing with. lol Fantasia-addict WoLs, regularly visiting leaders and making security checks way more complicated than they needed to be. XD

[Iscah]

Making Fantasias canon with an explanation in dialogue seems super weird to me as a prospect. It seemed much simpler to just treat them as non-canon. I hope they've got a good reason to change that.

Maybe it's made of ground-up glamour prisms or something.

[Alleluia]

Making Fantasias canon with an explanation in dialogue seems super weird to me as a prospect. It seemed much simpler to just treat them as non-canon. I hope they've got a good reason to change that.

Maybe it's made of ground-up glamour prisms or something.

Maybe the quest giver will be that colorful lady in Vesper Bay, again.