1.23a Patch Notes!!!

[1Damz]

As a 3 day player, I have no idea what any of this means but hey all the excitement in the thread must mean its a good thing, so woop!

[Powercow]

As a 3 day player, I have no idea what any of this means but hey all the excitement in the thread must mean its a good thing, so woop!

You know that big red thing in the sky in-game?

It's gonna be bigger.

[Tonkra]

As a 3 day player, I have no idea what any of this means but hey all the excitement in the thread must mean its a good thing, so woop!

time to play the big company story missions till the story ends forever

[Nuru]

time to play the big company story missions till the story ends forever

Experience all of the cutscenes!

[xMysteriox]

As a 3 day player, I have no idea what any of this means but hey all the excitement in the thread must mean its a good thing, so woop!

Haha, I just thought the exact same thing

[Xaimera]

:O CRAZY!

[dragorian]

:O CRAZY!

nice i love it

[Orophin]

when you think about it..

"A realm reborn"
"A realm"
"realm"

...Atomos will take us to a new realm

If realm is synonymous with parallel timeline then sure. Otherwise Atomos isn't very picky when he sucks in the Garleans with us.

[Tonkra]

Atomos has something to do with going back or forward in time?

it will be part of one of the new mini missions:

- "Monster of Maw Most Massive"


in the trailer we can see that Louisoix is saving our lifes with sending us into the future.. does this thing maybe has anything to do with it? storywise? well, lets see

The term "Maw" doesn't have to mean Atomos, if you look at the art work for other incarnations of Atomos they all look similar, just better graphics, as technology improved, yes there are other differences but you can see where its roots came from. The quest and Atomos may not just be a coincidence but he was brought into the game as Atomos, not a Maw, also if you talk about "The Maw over Bluefog" there is a good chance that none FFXI players know what you are talking about.

in german the quest is called something like "hell's mouths/maws high in the sky" (Höllenschlünde hoch im Himmel) (sorry dont know which definition fits perfect for that)

and if i look at that picture, it seems to come from the sky. (ok dalamud also^) but in the english version its described as a monster and in german the quest description says that it is high in the sky.

[Delsus]

Atomos has something to do with going back or forward in time?

it will be part of one of the new mini missions:

- "Monster of Maw Most Massive"


in the trailer we can see that Louisoix is saving our lifes with sending us into the future.. does this thing maybe has anything to do with it? storywise? well, lets see



in german the quest is called something like "hell's mouths/maws high in the sky" (Höllenschlund vom Himmel) (sorry dont know which definition fits perfect for that)

and if i look at that picture, it seems to come from the sky. (ok dalamud also^) but in the english version its described as a monster.

Atomos is traditionally a gravity based summon, his ability being G-Force 199, and it sucks everything into his mouth. Now in FFXI I expect SE went with the idea of a black hole and a lot of sci-fi saying if you travel into the gravity well of a black hole you will be transported to another dimension/time, which is why Atomos sent us into the past in FFXI, now we know thats not true, theoretically we could travel in time if a wormhole and both ends at the same point in the universe, but at differant time periods, and bam you can see how Atomos works in FFXI, putting old fiction and theorized possibilities we have a mix that links Atomos and time travel for FFXI.

Yes he could be involved in the quest but that doesn't make him a maw, the maws are Atomos in FFXI, but they have been called maws since release. FFXIV Atomos has been called Atomos since these patch notes and nothing else, calling him a Maw will confuse none FFXI players.