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[HiirNoivl]

Mind.... = Blown.

NO WAY

[Catapult]

I like the theory about the can and is alluding to Fenrir. That seems like a pretty good guess. But what about the my pain clue? If it even is a clue?
"I will share your pain with you."—Yuna, Final Fantasy X
"Feel my pain! Come, Anima!"—Seymour Guado, Final Fantasy X



Duh, duh, Duh?!
Clip of a summoning : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpTPpglhKsE
And that starshower at the start of the clip looks very familiar too...

So you have either:
- Uncovered a conspiracy theory; or
- Read too much into this; or
- Taken the bait.

A tough one...

[Seraphe]

Is this already known in this Thread? I can't recall >_<
(Putting it in a box as long as I don't know, please confirm)

Cross-posting from the other forum where I posted my translation of Connect! On March issue.

Had a glance at Connect! On. Some nice details in the rather long interview:

There are about 40 mini pet things (like the Baby-Behemoth) ready. We'll know exactly what role they serve in phase 1 of the beta. The 3 things in the Year of the Snake illustration are included in that 40. (For what purpose exactly has got me thinking. Some people on 2ch are thinking they might have some kind of retainer role!)

Gear-sets have a completely new system from what was shown, I guess they didn't like how it had some restrictions. Will get to test in phase 3.

Housing will be released immediately after launch.

2013 will bring in Housing and PvP (certain). There's no certainty that the long raids will be concluded in 2013 though. There should be 1~2 primal battles implemented too.


They're in talks regarding the advancement of raids and so on via Live updates. They're not sure if it'll happen (Perhaps just Yoshi-P's thoughts) but something to do with the recovery of Alamigo.

The place where you'll find Odin is indeed the black shroud. I'm guessing it's a place we've not yet seen. He's described as not being a normal interactive primal, he is one who has no recollections, having forgotten the meaning of his existence. It won't be a normal battle.

It wasn't shown clearly in the opening movie but actually an alarming amount of people survived the 7th Umbral era (Bahamut's attack). To these survivors we, the adventurers who were transferred into the future, are known as "hollow beings".

Behemoth will be tackled via the FATE system. There'll be many steps to go through in the fight to defeat him. Made it so it'll be fun with a large number of people. Will be in at launch.

You won't be able to just "walk" right into Crystal Tower. (I'm assuming this means there are pre-requisite quests)

Sahagin's will be in at launch.

As regions expand they will probably add more primals per new beastman tribe or something.

As for changing jobs in dungeons being possible or not, they're thinking it'll be good to be able to change in between content.

Players who have come from 1.0 and new players will be treated differently by NPCs. It's not a big difference and it will even out at later stages in the story. Legacy players will kind of be having the "stronger new game" kind of thing going.

Some other stuff was talking about the functions of the smart phone application.

Oh, and a question was asked about DRG having a pet, which was replied to with "Not just Dragoons..." (Hmm. )

Edit: some other stuff I forgot:

Regarding keeping in touch with the users: For In-game purposes the development team are going to establish a free company. He encourages players to come give them a belting in PvP. As for out of the game, they're considering some kind of small round-table events and so on (ala. Vanafest, I suppose.)

When are flying mounts coming? - If the Ahriman is good, it's just a matter of being on the stand-by list for implementation. (I'm not sure this means it's a "real" flying mount)

Any other secrets from A New Beginning trailer? - The warrior left something behind 5 years ago (Bravura lol)

Urianger was a temporary NPC and is taking a brief break.

Seraphe speaking again:

I don't think there's a connection between Odin and Urianger but like we assumed before Louisoux

[Rau]

3. Who is the mysterious primal that scared the Garleans away?

What is this question referring to? After Bahamut is released, the Garleans leave Aldenard? Can someone link/explain to me what leads to asking this question?

[HiirNoivl]

It's referring to after the conquering of What's that place called? I forgot. Oh yeah Ala Mhigo.

I kinda was wondering about Odin being Louisoux too. That makes fighting Odin really sad of course, if it's true.

[Anonymoose]

I think that Anima theory is a perfect example of how we ended up at Siren for Echo-giver in the past; it just fits so well now, doesn't it!?

I still think it's most likely that the primal that scared the Empire out of Eorzea at the border of The Black Shroud is the new Black Shroud Resident Primal ... Odin.

Not that I'm not dying to see Anima turn up in something again; though she's extremely heavily based in Catholic lore (See: Anima Sola), as was most of FFX, so I imagine it would be hard to pin her in the ancient Greek-based Eorzea.

[HiirNoivl]

I thought Eorzea was more Nordic. o.o

[Anonymoose]

I thought Eorzea was more Nordic. o.o

In September 2010, there was a delightfully lore-packed page called the Eorzea Prelive Report, WHICH HAS BEEN LOST TO THE AGES AND WE COULD REALLY USE AN ARCHIVE COPY OF, that explained it very well, but the long and short is that it's inspired by the Persian invasion of the Greek city-states.

The Twelve = Olympians
City-States = Athens / Sparta / Mycenae (independent, history of war, align to face a threat)
Etc. Etc.

[HiirNoivl]

But the Primals are totally different from that. We could still have Anima or whatever other ff summon really.

[Kirito]

Might be old information but there is a machina section in the main site in the lore category.