lets analyze answers!

[Warlock]

Except they didn't :P

Wrong Yoshi-P just said so in live letter ...as soon as he and his team took over the game first thing they agreed with was Dalamud been Bahamut's cage

[AlexNiculaie]

I don't see much need to analyze the song too deep. Lyrically, it's a generic "hard times a-commin'" song. Like any prophetic statement, it's open enough to interpretation to fit almost any story with portents of war.

[Dannythm]

Answers was well written and can fit in many events, Yoshi was smart enough to thread all so t seemed it was the flow of the game since the start, and he did one of the best jobs I've ever experienced at that.

I'm more intrigued about the title of the second story arc,"A Realm Reborn", not Rebuilt or other similar term, but Reborn, like with Bahamuts Megaflare the realm didn't needed to be rebuilt, but something else was tiggered and it "Reborned" saving the realm and taking it to a state resembling a past time.
The connotations are different, and I'm sure the wording will have a full meaning once we experience the lore, but for now I just think there's something fishy.

[Kraggy]

I'm more intrigued about the title of the second story arc,"A Realm Reborn", not Rebuilt or other similar term, but Reborn

Wasn't 'Reborn' one of Yoshi's 'four words' which he used back when he took over? Not sure.

In any case, I'm not sure that the semantic difference between these two words is that significant, though to me 'reborn' is kind of more poetic and fitting for a title, 'rebuilt' is more, I don't know, 'mechanical' and unfeeling.

Who knows. Maybe the OP is right about the song's meaning, or your and the others' replies to him suggesting he's 'overthinking it' (my word) is right, but I think the same applies to looking at the title Yoshi has adopted for 'version 2'.

It will be intriguing to find out, one way or the other.

[Dannythm]

It will be intriguing to find out, one way or the other.

And the intrigue is just a plus to ARR success! I want to know what happens!

[Majidah]

Answers was well written and can fit in many events, Yoshi was smart enough to thread all so t seemed it was the flow of the game since the start, and he did one of the best jobs I've ever experienced at that.

I'm more intrigued about the title of the second story arc,"A Realm Reborn", not Rebuilt or other similar term, but Reborn, like with Bahamuts Megaflare the realm didn't needed to be rebuilt, but something else was tiggered and it "Reborned" saving the realm and taking it to a state resembling a past time.
The connotations are different, and I'm sure the wording will have a full meaning once we experience the lore, but for now I just think there's something fishy.

Well,

In one fleeting moment from the land doth life flow = Realm destroyed
Yet in one fleeting moment for anew it doth grow = Realm reborn

:P

[AlexNiculaie]

I agree that Reborn is simply a more poetic word than rebuilt. Seriously do not get why it is so hard for people to just accept the simplest explanation; that we merely went 5 years into the future as stated. Not an alternate reality, or the distant past. If you look at the trees in the new shroud, the tops have all been sheared, and the growth obviously new. Most of the new buildings are wooden, and easily built in less than 5 years. It has been stated that new ruins and areas have been uncovered by the devastation of the Dalamud event.

Land recovers pretty quickly from natural disasters in the real world. I sincerely doubt that anything we have been shown is beyond reason in 5 years, especially when magic exists to aid it. I just don't see a need to conjure overly complicated explanations.

[Kallera]

I agree that Reborn is simply a more poetic word than rebuilt. Seriously do not get why it is so hard for people to just accept the simplest explanation; that we merely went 5 years into the future as stated. Not an alternate reality, or the distant past. If you look at the trees in the new shroud, the tops have all been sheared, and the growth obviously new. Most of the new buildings are wooden, and easily built in less than 5 years. It has been stated that new ruins and areas have been uncovered by the devastation of the Dalamud event.

Land recovers pretty quickly from natural disasters in the real world. I sincerely doubt that anything we have been shown is beyond reason in 5 years, especially when magic exists to aid it. I just don't see a need to conjure overly complicated explanations.

Several things, we were left with leaderless states or at least ones missing the bulk of their armies. And the Garleans are not brought to their knees. What happened? Are we truly needed in the new world if they lasted years without us. Perhaps the echo will be seen less as some savior and more a harbinger of bad things to come...

[KaiTBF]

I agree that Reborn is simply a more poetic word than rebuilt. Seriously do not get why it is so hard for people to just accept the simplest explanation; that we merely went 5 years into the future as stated. Not an alternate reality, or the distant past. If you look at the trees in the new shroud, the tops have all been sheared, and the growth obviously new. Most of the new buildings are wooden, and easily built in less than 5 years. It has been stated that new ruins and areas have been uncovered by the devastation of the Dalamud event.

Land recovers pretty quickly from natural disasters in the real world. I sincerely doubt that anything we have been shown is beyond reason in 5 years, especially when magic exists to aid it. I just don't see a need to conjure overly complicated explanations.

After examining his statements I think what he's really trying to say is that our explanations are actually magical chants, and when the remaining conjurers chant it, the land will heal and Bahamut will go away.

If that's the case, then quickly! Moar overly complicated explanations!

[Zenaku]

The song Answer show a war happening and the idea of each starting start up a company was plan before the fail of FFXIV. The only question is if dalamud was plan from the start and bahamut was there all this time. This could have been in the storyline from day one and just ended up doing it now to remake the game.