Quote Originally Posted by Tonkra View Post
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.