Page 29 of 91 FirstFirst ... 19 27 28 29 30 31 39 79 ... LastLast
Results 281 to 290 of 962

Thread: CG Midlander

Dev. Posts

Hybrid View

  1. #1
    Player
    NoloeTazier's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    Location
    Ul'Dah
    Posts
    865
    Character
    Noloe Tazier
    World
    Balmung
    Main Class
    Gladiator Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Majoga View Post
    This whole "shadowless" thing has opened up a new can of worms for me. I've been watching cutscenes and Eikons, the vans, Arcons, CG party, Cid, all have shadows. Not really sure what else to look into haven't checked elementals, moogles, or sylphs yet. I'm even far to speculate that Travanchet is an Ascion, an equivalent to an Arcon perhaps? Idk..

    Another thing was that Yoshi-P said something about perhaps Hildebrand making a cameo appearance in the end trailer, I don't kno if he was joking or being serious. Just so many different thoughts when it comes to Hildebrand, I mean the lance-gun he fires to get to Dalamud looks identical to Darnus'. If he was alive on Dalamud I'm pretty sure his cameo appearance was one of the chunks rocketing down to Eorzea. Personally I don't think he'd survive. Also with Odin (looks like he could pass off as a van too quite honestly), first thing that popped into my mind was Luzaf in Xi making a pact with him. I really doubt they'll have Hildebrand as the Dark Rider, but again more speculation. Idk...
    Not sure if Ascians and Archons are opposites, but hey they're spelled similar and have the same amount of characters (7), we take whatever we can lol. If Ascians can transform or morph into an Elezen (if the grimreaper get-up is their real forms) then I guess it would be possible for them to turn into a Beastmen or Moogle.
    (0)
    Check out my Lore posts:
    An Eorzean Timeline: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/64377-An-Eorzean-Timeline-Reborn

  2. #2
    Player
    Anonymoose's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Limsa Lominsa
    Posts
    5,038
    Character
    Anony Moose
    World
    Excalibur
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Fernehalwes View Post
    I will find a way to get 'sacrelicious' in to ARR, no matter what it takes!
    I humbly await this moment...


    Quote Originally Posted by Majoga View Post
    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?)

    Quote Originally Posted by Majoga View Post
    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.)

    Quote Originally Posted by NoloeTazier View Post
    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!?
    (13)
    Last edited by Anonymoose; 11-21-2012 at 05:25 PM.
    "I shall refrain from making any further wild claims until such time as I have evidence."
    – Y'shtola

  3. #3
    Player
    Majoga's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Posts
    90
    Character
    Mariko Aeiouk
    World
    Balmung
    Main Class
    Blue Mage Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
    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.
    (0)

  4. #4
    Player
    Catapult's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Lotus Gardens
    Posts
    3,240
    Character
    Thal Icebound
    World
    Ravana
    Main Class
    Dancer Lv 100
    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.
    (24)
    Last edited by Catapult; 11-21-2012 at 09:13 PM.

  5. 11-21-2012 09:21 PM

  6. #6
    Player
    Catapult's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Lotus Gardens
    Posts
    3,240
    Character
    Thal Icebound
    World
    Ravana
    Main Class
    Dancer Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Duuude007 View Post
    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.
    (2)

  7. #7
    Player
    Majoga's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Posts
    90
    Character
    Mariko Aeiouk
    World
    Balmung
    Main Class
    Blue Mage Lv 50
    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.
    (0)
    Last edited by Majoga; 11-21-2012 at 10:03 PM.

  8. #8
    Player
    Inzoum's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Gridania
    Posts
    373
    Character
    Inzoum Zimia
    World
    Masamune
    Main Class
    Goldsmith Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Catapult View Post
    OMG HOW DID I MISS THIS!?!?!

    ^Sealing Dalamud ritual on the banner above Minfilla's desk.
    I can't say I paid much attention to that then, but this was probably in the game before the whole Dalamud idea came to be, so I highly doubt it initially represented the sealing ritual. The characters inside are "12", and there are twelve staff-like shapes around the circle. To me that's either a symbol representing the Twelve themselves, or just a banner for the Path of the Twelve. This is in Minfilla's office after all.

    What is highly possible, however, is that Dalamud's exterior aspect and the sealing ritual's eye candy were imagined in relation to this symbol, giving it a new meaning in the process.
    (5)

  9. #9
    Player
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Posts
    1,462
    Quote Originally Posted by Inzoum View Post
    I can't say I paid much attention to that then, but this was probably in the game before the whole Dalamud idea came to be, so I highly doubt it initially represented the sealing ritual. The characters inside are "12", and there are twelve staff-like shapes around the circle. To me that's either a symbol representing the Twelve themselves, or just a banner for the Path of the Twelve. This is in Minfilla's office after all.

    What is highly possible, however, is that Dalamud's exterior aspect and the sealing ritual's eye candy were imagined in relation to this symbol, giving it a new meaning in the process.
    Well the possibility of Catapult been right is there lol we don't know how good she is with Echo and she could have witnessed the first sealing ritual.

    My own theory is that banner representing the event that awakes our echo power, the star shower from the opening and they conveniently put 12 falling stars to represent the 12 deities
    (2)

  10. #10
    Player
    Inzoum's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Gridania
    Posts
    373
    Character
    Inzoum Zimia
    World
    Masamune
    Main Class
    Goldsmith Lv 90
    My point was that the game designers came up with the Dalamud storyline a long time after this asset was included in the game. Tanaka's vision of FFXIV didn't lead to it being destroyed by the moon's descent. If this was part of the original game before Yoshida took the lead, then it's impossible to attribute this symbol's origins to the sealing ritual that created Dalamud, because that's something Yoshida imagined, not Tanaka. Thus, it has to have another significance: I wouldn't look much further than "represents the Twelve, because this is the office of the Path of the Twelve's head missus"
    (4)

Page 29 of 91 FirstFirst ... 19 27 28 29 30 31 39 79 ... LastLast