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[Leonesaurus]

Greetings all! Grab a cup of Windurstian tea and pull up your chairs, because the lore train has arrived and is mixing metaphors faster than I can put a notch on the torch in my belt.

(Moments after reading Fernehalwes' entire post)

OMG, Fernehalwes, that was such a GREAT read man!!!

You've got to write more man!!! This is such awesome lore!!! I love this game's lore and you just knocked one outta the park dude!

Please do more of these more often, I think sharing this with people interested in the game or even throwing these into in-game books or something for people to read would be FANTASTIC!

Keep doing an awesome job man and I swear... If there's EVER another Ahriman NM in ARR they damn well better name one of them Fernehalwes! Haha

Thanks again for the lore post!! Just had to say it myself~ :P

[KraggyKor]

Until next time!

Can't wait.

I played 1.0 since closed beta till the end, on and off, but never did the primal fights or anything else in the end-game. I don't understand some of the things you wrote about here, but I knew enough already to know there was a depth to XIV's lore .. your narrative here show's it's a lot deeper than I realised.

Excellent post, probably one of the most wonderful 'expositions' I've seen for any game.

/bow
/admire

[Anonymoose]

I will find a way to get 'sacrelicious' in to ARR, no matter what it takes!

I humbly await this moment...

I'm even far to speculate that Travanchet is an Ascion

I'm not sure if you've played the Limsa storyline, so I'll throw this out there just in case. Y'shtola (a member of the Circle of Knowing, possibly an Archon) was primarily in Limsa Lominsa to track down "The Key," an item stolen from Seal Rock, which some to believe to be a mythical island called Swallowtail Roam; home to a mythical sea serpent (NOT Leviathan, much to my chagrin!) created by Llymlaen.

Y'shtola directly states that the Ascians are after the key, and we know that Ascian means "without shadow." She makes several inquiries as to whether people have noticed anyone around who is missing a shadow, and demands to see Emerick's "shadowless associate." Emerick was, of course, colluding with Travanchet to steal the key.

The case against him is pretty damning. But, hey, I was wrong about Leviathan and that was pretty much the only thing in all of my theories that I actually would have bet money on aside from the Dalamud = Prison thing. The Twelve are just really into creating great beasts that seem to be a lot like primals but totally aren't.

In retrospect, I guess I should have bet against it being Levaithan because that would have made him the only primal who just showed up and cleaned house without talking. The other primals just drone on and on about "Feed me aether" this and "Don't summon the others" that. All the serpent ever said was "RAAAAAAAAAAAAA." Same with Midgardsormr. No diatribes about being the only god, just "RAAAAAAAA-explodes" It's all so clear now.

NEW RULE:
From now on, it's not a primal until it gives a pretentious monologue.
(Oh sh- wait, does that mean I'm a primal?)

Another thing was that Yoshi-P said something about perhaps Hildebrand making a cameo appearance in the end trailer

The gunhalberd was definitely Nael's, but you should keep in mind that Hildebrand might not exactly be 100% canon; he treads the line very carefully. Comic relief characters who tread the fourth wall like a tightripe, never falling victim to their own hilarious idiocy in any way, are somewhat of a trope. XIV took a very dark and serious turn that engulfed us in nothing but concepts like genocide and hopelessness in order to balance out the dangerless-ness of 1.X and justify the drastic changes coming for ARR. Hildebrand let us take a break from that; he was practically a mockery of our own apocalypse.

I'm sure he's going to survive much worse than an inadvertent skydive sans parachute in the future without it ever being called attention to.

As for him being at the final battle, remember also that the End of an Era cinematic was supposed to be serious and depressing. It's far more likely that in the future we'll meet up with Hildebrand, who won't even have a scratch on him, and he'll weave some wildly unbelievable and hilarious tale that lets us see the final battle through his eyes - which will again probably be a mockery of the actual events and probably not 100% canon.

(I can't wait.)

then I guess it would be possible for them to turn into a ... Moogle.

...

...

We're dead. We're all dead. They've already won.

That's it, man. Game over, man! GAME OVER! What the #### are we gonna do now!?

[Davorok]

Greetings all! Grab a cup of Windurstian tea and pull up your chairs...

Stop trying to make this into FFXI-2 !

/sarcasm off

That was a great read. Thank you.

Now, is anyone else on Excalibur gonna keep playing so that I can complete all these quests so that I can know what the heck you are talking about?

[Anonymoose]

Now, is anyone else on Excalibur gonna keep playing...

o/

(I'm also starting a lore guide)

[Catapult]

Servers are back up. We've got ten days at least till they re-assess.

GET IN THERE!

EDIT: Been re-watching cutscenes and discovered I still have a question about the opening CG movie. I'll start with this quote:

Minfilia: The Echo allows you to breach the wall of a person's soul, and hear the resonations of their past. You will be there in their memories, seeing things as they saw them. You may even interact with that which lies therein. However, the past is like a stone tablet. You cannot uncarve what is already written.

How does a guildleve allow me to "breach the wall of a person's soul?" Whenever I use the echo, the person I'm using it on is physically present.



Also, I found another Horn in Court in the Sands:

Ironically, a number of people go into a bit of a rage not long after this fella and the Songstress of Ul'dah start performing.


Edit Edit:
OMG HOW DID I MISS THIS!?!?!

^Sealing Dalamud ritual on the banner above Minfilla's desk.

[Catapult]

Niice find, but... hmm

The letters in the center. The left one closely resembles the Eorzean F, but the right one... doesnt match any eorzean characters at all. the Latin letter F perhaps, but that has no place there, right?

Numbers. It is "12" and can be compared to signs in the market wards.

[Majoga]

As for him being at the final battle, remember also that the End of an Era cinematic was supposed to be serious and depressing. It's far more likely that in the future we'll meet up with Hildebrand, who won't even have a scratch on him, and he'll weave some wildly unbelievable and hilarious tale that lets us see the final battle through his eyes - which will again probably be a mockery of the actual events and probably not 100% canon.

I agree, only reason I brought it up was because of the Live Letter after the final cinematic where he mentioned Hildebrand in the first question, I mean he straight up said that we'll see him in 2.0, but the comment about him having a cameo appearance in the cinematic I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or hinting at something. Also no idea if he'll be the same in 2.0, as horrible as the final events were wars have been known to change a man. Not to mention we have no idea how it was on the surface of Dalamud, or if he got to the core with Bahamut I'm sure 2.0 will tell us, but I'm pretty sure that guy has gone through alot.

[Majoga]

After Ferne's post it really got me to thinking though questioning if the Twelve are in fact what we think they are? When I first saw Ifrit he mentioned the false gods (I think he was talking about the Twelve) and also mentioned our creator was a different Primal although we never really found out which one. At first it sounded like he was just jealous, but after Ferne's Lore-bomb it got me to thinking what if Ifrit was right? What if the Twelve are just some old ancient race using superior technology to make them god-like? Sound familiar (Zilart)? Idk about you guys but to me Dalamud seemed to be one such device. So thinking of it this way I can see how broke free from the second Pokeball and Goku Spirit Bomb Bahamut Giga Flare everything.

Also not to piss anyone off, but I personally think since we're going to get Arcanist/Summoner to me it kind of makes sense that we would start off summoning our own Primal (Carby). Ijs.

[Soukyuu]

@Fernehalwes: Thanks for posting that, good read. Too bad you can't tell us more (yet)

Maybe he became this dude:



They both have silver hair :x

Which quest is that from? I don't remember anything like this (Gridanian here)