The Aracadion Raid Series

[EZGIL]

I want funny signs in the background like you see at wrestling matches.

(real sign btw)

[mallleable]

Gonna bet it starts off as a regular tournament arc, but quickly reveals what the actual plot is early on. It will be cool if we face off against a contestant using cheats, and eventually we start fighting computer viruses.

[TaleraRistain]

That blurb mentions crowds howling and clamoring so there will definitely be an audience. I described it as Omega in a cyberpunk setting with an audience but saw someone point out it may near be lightning so we might get "Thunderdome" memes. I would expect no less from Koji if so.

I would love some solo duties between the raids like Omega again.

[TheRealQuah]

They aren't going to reveal the whole plotline before the expac is even out. We might fight in a tournament in every floor of the tier. Or we might just turn up as the final fight of the tournament is taking place, and then the story goes from there. There is no point speculating yet

[GTK0HLK]

TBH, unless the Ascian Angle is something of big, BIG WORTH(Read: BEEG WERTH)

Then sure, though maybe it's just me hoping that Red Hologram is nothing at all to do with the Ancients, or Ascians.

[We don't need them for this. Let them rest for at least a bit]

Though Arenas, HighTech, Holograms. <Just feeds my Neptunian themed Copium>

it feels like there may even be Duties/Raid/Fight with Multiple Boss in at least one tier.
[Kinda like Halatali(Hard), except actually amped with raid mechanics.]
<More Copium for actual multiple bosses, rather than just adds in one fight>

But we will see, doesn't feel like it'll be anything heavy story wise so far. (More so an adventure some of us would of liked to Tell their Crystal about.)

<Almost curious if we'll get a S9 PVP Map sometime after the Tiers finished. Or Multifloor Duties Ala "T:Legacy">
(Mind running away with stuff. But I know it ain't gonna happen 1-1)

[Infindox]

Feel like they have to be extremely vague with what the raid is because it's heavily tied to what Solution Nine is, and this is the best way. Iirc they were very vague about both Eden and Pandemonium.

[Jeeqbit]

they were very vague about both Eden and Pandemonium.

The truth is, despite how extremely vague Eden was (literally showed us a picture of a plant), it told us everything. We knew what Eden looked like from FF8. We knew the plant represented "regrowing" everything after the Flood of Light on the First. And given it's a raid, we knew we'd somehow fight bosses to regrow it.

Pandaemonium was harder to figure out but we knew it was underground/hell themed and related to Lahabrea and thus represented the only significant line Lahabrea ever said that referred to the underground: "from the deepest pit of the seven hells". But if you played previous FF games then you may know it flat out is where the Ultima spell was made which gives it away even more. The only thing I couldn't figure out with Pandaemonium was how we would interact with Lahabrea when we killed him. I thought, maybe we didn't kill him. But well, you know how we ended up interacting with him. To a degree my thought that we didn't kill him was right in that part of his own being, Athena, survived the fight.

For as vague as they were before, this feels like the vaguest one. Or maybe it's not and maybe it just literally will be a boring gauntlet.

[MikkoAkure]

For example, OP mentioned about an Ascian mask reference and that could be the "Omega Dragonstar-like lore". But it could just be that it's resembling Japanese kanji a bit and there's nothing to it.

Could still be a bit of a reach but in another thread I mentioned it looks like a stylized segment of the FFXII esper Ultima’s glyph upside-down (Ascian names come from the Scions of Light from FFXII who are counterparts to the espers in the lore and their sigils are segments of the full esper glyph upside-down, Ultima had no corresponding Scion of Light IIRC so her Ascian counterpart would be Altima).


The three lines on each side, the “horns” and the spiky “crown” on top are there in both even if it’s not an exact replica like the other Ascian sigils.

The same symbol is also mostly cutoff but present in a second spot in the concept art, on a billboard on the bottom center-left.

So it’s there in two places which could mean something, or it could not and it’s just a tease.

[Lyth]

...

One interesting point that came up in Lore was the three-headed figure that shows up on the bottom right of the original image.

When you compare the two, that 'glyph' looks like a stylized form of the same three-headed figure, who might be the first Autarch.

[MikkoAkure]

One interesting point that came up in Lore was the three-headed figure that shows up on the bottom right of the original image.

When you compare the two, that 'glyph' looks like a stylized form of the same three-headed figure, who might be the first Autarch.

Solution Nine has nothing to do with Tuliyollal according to the lore blurb on the website so that makes less sense to me.

My best guess about the 3 heads is that they may be other Arcadion gladiators we meet who work in a trio, or they're the announcers.

I've been wrong before, but I still think the red glyph that's both on the building and on a billboard is a stylized/corrupted Ascian sigil. It looks too much like it could be derived from the Ultima glyph to be anything else imo. Either Altima could be central to Arcadion or even Solution Nine and still alive, or she could have died long ago on a different shard due to the time wobbliness between shards and her glyph changed over time for the people who were under her. They are using the Ancient alphabet after all.

Or the artists and writers have led us on a wild goose chase in order to keep us talking about the game during the content lull and the nature of the red symbol and the people's use of the Ancient alphabet will never be revealed at all.

WHAT IS THAT?!?!

THE WARRIOR OF LIGHT IS SUMMONING 7 ADDITIONAL FIGHTERS!

THEY ALL HAVE STEEL CHAIRS!

IT'S ABSOLUTE CHAOS IN THE RING, FOLKS!

We beat the last boss in the last raid and the announcer tells us we've won the championship belt but then says we can only keep it if we beat that guy and Altima just shows up out of nowhere, beats the crap out of us, and then disappears for the rest of the game.