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[Warlock]

Wait a minute >_< Ferne didn't answer if the creature in the CE cover is indeed Garuda or not... someone summon him again!!


EDIT: I'm surprised Moose hasn't done his victory appearance yet :O!

[Jacien]

Read the entire thing. Gonna reread again so I can brag that I know about the peeps from those cutscenes.

So it was the Elezen male that left. My bad. :P Now I wanna know why he left! Could there be a tweeeeest in the plot? Could he... have joined the Empire?

Would really love to see them ingame and even fight with them, or against them in a PvP style raid. (you can thank Skyrim's newest DLC for giving the idea lol)

I also like the clarification about the Echo. So basically, you relive someone's memories as if you were there all along. But things aren't actually changed in the past, just that person's memory if they noticed. Like the kid from the ALC quest thought you were the one that helped him.

But some people are resistant to being influenced by it and will realize what you did. Like the Rival from the THM quest, or the one Seedseer in a sidequest.

Also:

[NoloeTazier]

Thanks for the post Ferne and thanks Anonymoose for the thread, Catapult, Warlock, Zenaku and others who have gathered information and posted things that brought up great discussion topics. Now we can sit and discuss what happened to the male Elezen, maybe the Miqo really did 'grow weary of the company' and mpk'd him.

What I have been allowed to say is, the Sanguine Sirens are different from the sirens which are mentioned in the blacksmith/armorer class quests, and both are different from Siren of Final Fantasies past (who has not been mentioned in-game). And then there's the provisional artwork that was recently released...

So wait, does this mean there is no Siren primal? Well, that remains to be seen.

Wonder which artwork is in question.

Oh well, now to watch Cutscenes and look for shadowless people.

[Anonymoose]

Oh well, now to watch Cutscenes and look for shadowless people.

Travanchet is a given... At first he appears to be nothing more than a regular serpent reaver (a member of the woken races who is truly allied with the sahagin), but it becomes clear pretty quick that this guy's got far darker allegiances. The thing is... he's clearly shadowless, travels via the starshower, and absorbed The Key into his chest using the Final Fantasy signature black and purple "dark magic." He's already been outed... but could there be others? O.O

Ohhh, I love any mystery where the baddies blend in; it always leads to scenarios that make you question whether it's really the outsiders you have to worry about in the first place, or if the people on your own side are just as bad...

[Mieck]

Travanchet is a given...

Pulled this out of my Limsa character's screenshots. The rest of the cutscene absolutely has shadows running.



I trawled through all my Ul'dah GC screens as well, but no-one there seems to be missing their shadow.

Edit: Great posts, Fern. Very interesting points. I'm interested in seeing how the story is presented in ARR.... it was a major gripe of mine that in 1.0, it was so unclear as to what was where, whose memory you were in, and when it all was in relation to 1572 6(A). In my view, not much point in telling a good story, even one that is designed to keep dripping information and reveals out, if it's being obfuscated by the story telling method itself.

[Zenaku]

I said many time he was just a sea serpent i remember reading it in a quest nice to know that i was right.

So the twelve could just be normal humans race living back with magic or technology that is beyond the comprehension of the commonfolk it's pretty much a hint. I wonder what the high Elezen come to play and who there are i wonder if that the people who was the Twelve or just other high race back then. I hope we get to hear more about pass race i know grid talk about a high elezen race that i forgot to mention here but i knew there not going to be much information on them yet

Now about the part of dragons are beast tribe and they have there own primal i wonder if bahamut is there primal or if there a beast tribe of wyvern also and there primal is bahamut which if so that mean they still a primal who is a dragon missing.

And lol so the BLM was the female and i thought it was the male i wonder if he was just being a asshole and left or the kitty cat just piss him off so he left or other reason. i hope we get to see them in the game one day maybe we can have a event that there in our team and fight with us that be fun

So much information but then again so many question unanswered and have to wait for 2.0 I knew that most of the story told in FFXIV was made up by people who was told the story and only told the part they like and made up the rest. The shadow thing got me i play with it on but never really look at there shadows o.o

can't wait for more ffxiv have such interesting and complicated storyline more so then FFXI can't wait for me..

[Catapult]

Wow. Thanks, Ferne. And Moose, who has already covered most of what I wanted to say in true annonymoosy fashion.
I cannot "like" your posts enough.


It seems we were mostly on target with a lot of stuff, or at least someone was on target in almost every instance. Although I don't think anyone actually called the Blackmage being a her. Yeah, that one got us. Well, it smacked me about a bit at least.

I also wouldn't have called the Sea serpent =/= Leviathan one unless I had to fix that German translation. I was previously sold to the other side of that debate.


Ferne is taunting us about Siren.... That means it isn't Siren.

I'm starting to like the "Lodestone" theory more now (I know I proposed it, but I was originally only lukewarm on it, mostly because I didn't like any of the other theories). Since we now know Midgardsomr was the proverbial Champagne Cork, the great wyrm's passing would easily become a "holy crap" moment for the Lodestone and her security. Previously guarded by Midgardsomr, she now needs new protection and lots of it.
My original theory on the results of the battle of Silvertear Skies was amusingly the opposite - that the crystaline explosion put a crude plug in naturally flowing aether to cause all that wierd stuff to happen. I'm gonna have to stew over this a bit more....

...and re-watch cut-scenes. Especially around Gridania where there has been no talk of Ascians.

[Warlock]

Of course the Sirens from smith/armorer quest are not the same at all as the pirate crew.
The pirates have simply just named their pirate guild after the mythical sirens because they are all women but the ones in the armor/smith quest are actual sirens that hypnotice you i assume they are disguised as mi'qote,elezen and hyur.

Now we think the female voice that awakens our echo is Siren the primal but it could be just as well be the mother crystal.

I don't remember seen anyone w/o a shadow in Gridania story line so i assume is an Ul'dah exclusive thing as when you see the only Ascian sight in game is around Ul'ddah, people without shadows are their servants?

Now we know the 12 can't be "Knights of Round" as some have suggested and they were never actually gods to begin with (maybe?) as Ferna hinted stories are exaggerated through History as more people tell it maybe the 12 are just Eorzean legends of uncommon folk that did good deeds or bad...the question is...what they did happened before Allag? maybe the 12 were the creators of the "jobs"

[Jacien]

I don't remember seen anyone w/o a shadow in Gridania story line so i assume is an Ul'dah exclusive thing as when you see the only Ascian sight in game is around Ul'ddah, people without shadows are their servants?

The Ascian you see in the main story is part of the Path of the Twelve questline. Which is after when all 3 city-state questlines merge together.

[Orophin]

Thanks so much for taking the time to answer some of these questions Ferne. A lot of things were cleared up, and I'm glad to know the things you couldn't touch on much should at least get resolved in ARR.