CG Midlander

[Anonymoose]

I've always been better at disproving something than proving it, I guess.

Falsification is the best approach to any theory or belief; if you're not ready to welcome having your ideas and faith challenged, you barely have the right to claim them as your own in the first place, because you don't truly care about nurturing their quality. Have at 'em! Worst case scenario I end up being totally full of crap and we get closer to the truth.

As you can see, the character model of the ascian is explicitly not impacted by the environment's lighting. If anything, it is actually brighter at night, but that may just be contrast playing with my eyes.

For the sake of playing Devil's Advocate, I'd like to throw out a possible way to explain this one. The Ascian cutscene is rendered real-time via in-game materials, i.e. 3D renders from DAT packets. These are subject to whatever settings you currently have running. The Ascian seen here just appears to have all data settings related to shadows disabled entirely. What you're seeing might just be the raw Zbrush (or whatever they used here) independent of any lighting effects.

The Odin cutscene, however, was pre-rendered as a CGI video. This is very different.

I'm not saying I'm ready to buy into the Odin = Ascian relationship, as Ascians themselves seem to be not-of-this-world and thus would probably not worship such deities, but if it were this case, this would explain the discrepancy.

So that's 12, unless Moogle King wasn't really a primal and we're waiting on something else.

While I also think we should leave the number capless, we might have a little wiggle room even if you cap at twelve.

[T]hey summoned forth their legendary king as they would a primal, and seemingly upon a whim <...> remaining in our dimension requires that Good King Moggle Mog XII devour copious amounts of aetheric energy. <...> The primal must be vanquished, that the power of the crystals might be allowed to nourish the land.

At first he clearly says that Moggle is a simple legendary king, summoned AS IF he were a primal. Right afterward he directly calls him a primal, of course, but I think this might have been an accidental contradiction. Moreover, unlike the other primals, Moggle is the same species as his worshipers, which is a solid distinction from the other primals.

Also, Alexander is pure speculation at this point. There's no evidence he's going to be in this game as of now, but he's my own little pet theory - not so much in an "I'm telling you guys, just watch" capacity, but more of an "If it turns out I'm right, holy shit the street cred." capacity.

On the other hand, if you look at their hands, Odin's seems to be exactly the same shape as the Ascian's.

Same style definitely; though I do believe I see a fifth finger on Odin and not on the Ascian.

Though, wasn't Odin usually the Primal of the Humans?

I'm not sure the summons have ever been so specifically aligned before. Far as I know, Odin was just... enemy of Alexander, lightning-hater, cleave-shit-in-two guy.

...I didn't know they changed the name of Gridania to Grandia. Must have happened while we were in that aether rift...

The 1.X factors changed so much so fast that I think the FFXIVMAPS people just gave up and ditched. Every now and then there's some activity on the site that leads me to believe it might breathe again, though, lol.