CG Midlander

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Before I even start, am I the only one that's been writing in a quick reply window and half-mindedly hit the "+ Reply to Thread" button, only to lose PAGES of shit you've just written!?

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TAKE TWO. Now, a lot of that seems to be just the jargon you use when promoting a fantasy game. But I'll play along...

Eorzea seems like it has a ton of things that are unstuck in time - prophecies, echo-jumpers, one of their gods ... Sharlayans. Even the future is chronicled history. However, most of the current day events, even the ones told prophetically, leave the outcome extremely ambiguous. It looks to me like the events of the past have inevitably led to this present, as if they've found a way to band-aid most of their problems up until this point when we have to deal with them once and for all (Bahamut, anyone?) - and the final future has already been decided and foretold in prophecy. However, the how and who and what of everything that happens in between is on the "forgotten pages" of eternity, and we'll have to fight the battles ourselves.

The Twelve really do seem to be home to just Eorzea, however. Who knows where all this is going - the only thing I can say for certain is that mythology has them playing favorites with areas that turned out to be of pretty critical importance (Mor Dhona) and creating great mythological beasts that it turns out really do exist (Midgardsormr, the Sea Serpent, etc.) and yet don't seem to be primals (they don't give pretentious monologues or start cults). Who or what they are is up for grabs, but there's something up for sure.

Eldritch/Crimson could very well be Dalamud, as eldritch means "unearthly." One possibility is that the Fall of Dalamud was part of an original story that was dismantled and rebuilt to suit the purposes of relaunching the game. Another is that we're just seeing it in hindsight 20/20. Eldritch could refer to the Void, to some other aetherial realm, anything - and crimson is... well, everything. It's blood, it's great fires, it's the skies when they send ominous warnings.

As for the call of "Destiny," at first, the conspiracy nut in me wants to start microanalyzing Dissidia looking for clues, because XIV and Dissidia use a TON of the same buzz-words (Call of Destiny v. Destiny Odyssey // Stray Seeds Quicken v. Seeds of Hope // Shapeless Melody v. Melodies of Life), but in the same span of time, Destiny Odyssey would become both a storyline in Dissidia and a quest in FFXI - so maybe they were just playing homage games or being (sorry) SUPER not creative over at SE for a little bit.

Again, I can't stress enough that this seems like obligatory use of fantasy jargon. I'm really not sure the Lore department and the Marketing department communicate a hell of a lot of deep content - and I'm almost positive that they didn't in the bad inter-team management in the Pre-Yoshida days.