Lore update!!

[Jouten]

Edit: Well it's more like a lore recap.


Located in this link is the apparent lore behind what has happened leading up to Dalamud. I've been slacking lately on the story so this was a pretty decent summary.

[Tigercub]

Thank you! I'd been slacking too. I love the story but the gameplay kind of kept me away in a lot of cases.
SE really wrapped it up nicely. The 7UE trailer was amazing, Louisoix is my new hero :'(
I just wonder if we're going to meet any of our other NPC friends on the other side, or did they all die?

[KaplanHomahru]

nice summary

[Ingolf]

I assumed he sent them straight five years into the future, but I guess it was more of an OoT dealy.

[Vilhem]

Ah that's what I thought... he sent us into another place while the land healed. Wonder what it feels like...waking up from a 5 year nap lol

[Decconi]

Very nice!

[Airget]

Hm, I kinda of feel like I"m the only one that feels a little dissapointed that it was actually a spell to send them into the future. Though I think I just have issues with stories that use said "deus ex machinas" to handle a situation. Since then it enters my mind, well if he had the power to send thousands of adventuers into the future and stop them from getting hurt, then why couldn't he send the white raven into the future, one entity, or bahamut himself into the future and give them more time to prep for the attack or even Dalamud itself into the future to give them more time to crash into eorzea.

Rather than do that though he uses the last of his magic to send thousands of adventurers which I imagine is a lot more stresfful then the other ways he could have used it lol.

It is what it is though, perhaps there will be an explanation as to why he couldn't use this spell for the other entities and only the adventurers, I would have really rather have it where the adventurer's themselves become part of the seal that trapped Bahamut and then awaken years later once the seal itself was strong enough to contain Bahamut as well as revealing what will be known as the labyrinth of bahamut.

Though I also guess this is where the mystery as to what exactly did stop Bahamut then, he pretty much sent the only hope away into protection so now there is only the GC, Cid, the rebels and a bunch of NPCs to handle the situation. So it does make you wonder what exactly occurred in those 5yrs that actually stopped the chaos from continuing since something had to save the world from Bahamut.

[Jouten]

Well it says that "Louisoix summons the last of his strength to call upon Althyk, the Keeper, god of space and time, to send those surviving heroes into an aetherial rift" which makes me think that he didn't use any of his strength to do it but Althyk made the decision to. Seeing how the gods couldn't stop Bahamut and was under threat of the Garlean empire, that Althyk only had the strength to keep the heroes safe since somebody who's being saved wouldn't really want to struggle with the spell.

[Vilhem]

I'm sure the price of time travel was at the cost of the user's own life (or probably more that we don't know about yet). Some kind of restriction that I'm sure we'll find out in 2.0.

Warping Darnus or Bahamut would have been like wiping his hands of them and sending them to a new generation of people to deal with altogether, i.e. just postponing the genocide lol.

He also sent us into some unknown place where we lay dormant until 5 years have passed...that is, he didn't shoot us straight into the future.