Gold/Yellow structure in new ARR Video...

[hrdndv]

Possibly The World Tree (Yggdrasil)? It does -look- like a tree, especially in the concept art. Also, if I remember correctly in the DRG Job quests there were rumblings of the possible reawakening of Nidhogg, who, after doing a very cursory search, resides within Yggdrasil. Considering the appearance of Odin as well...I can't help but think that it could infact be Yggdrasil.

I'm not very schooled in Norse mythology so, I could be wrong.

This Geological Anomally is a strange formation that rose out of the ground and can be explored.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...omaly.-(Where-)

[KaMuiSouZou]

The yellow structure seems to be in Coerthas, as I mentioned in the video thread, based off of the maps released with the original roadmap. Check out the last map here on ffxivmaps.com (move the slider to the left to clearly see the new map).
The midlander party landed in the Black Shroud (Ruin Dungeon Entrance), then rode north into Coerthas (Zone to Forest). I think the yellow structure is in the middle of Coerthas where it says "summit."
This also makes sense looking at the last image from the movie:

From where the party is headed, the crystal tower is behind it, which is close to where Behemoth resides. If the party is at the "Zone to Forest" area at the bottom of the Coerthas map looking towards the "Summit," then the crystal tower would be directly behind it.

As to what that yellow structure is... it seems to be made of aether so the lifestream coming out to stop bahamut/megaflare is a possibility. The map says ???scar which lends credence to this.

This description from the roadmap doesn't confirm or negate it though...

I don't think it's Bahamut's Labyrinth, although it could be a part of it. I say this because I think Yoshi-P said something about how Bahamut's Labyrinth is a multi-dungeon thing, where you have to travel to multiple places, so it's not ONE location.

My problem is with them calling their chocobos... where did they come from? They weren't just waiting around for 5 years in the aftermath of the battleground, were they? That would be very sad.

I had no problem with this because it's using the same in-game logic we've had all along. The cg chocobos arrive the exact same way our chocobos have always arrived for us. Granted it's weird how they appear/disappear so suddenly, but the game has long accepted that that's just how it works.

[Kyri]

Maybe maybe its just the bottom of cocoon and this is how SE is gonna pull lightning into our word ^.-


On a side note wow DannyKang, your very talented! keep up the great work!(the poster above me) No wonder you won the ring contest^^ Good job! Love that ring~

[Nuinn]

My problem is with them calling their chocobos... where did they come from? They weren't just waiting around for 5 years in the aftermath of the battleground, were they? That would be very sad.

I'm surprisingly not bothered by this. First of, I bought my generic GC choco just like that. I didn't raise it, but IT seemed to love me and be loyal to me from day one. Secondly, the Midlander (which is a race I play) seems to be riding a Legacy choco, which definitely isn't mine (yet!), and never even existed in 1.0.

I've never understood where/how does my choco go when I use the whistle in 1.0, but on the other hand, never really cared. Those horsebirds always do that in FF games, so it's kind of an understood thing for me. They've been time-warped (within our whistles), roamed the wilderness searching for food, partied like crazy. . . . take your pick.

[Forgo]

I'm surprisingly not bothered by this. First of, I bought my generic GC choco just like that. I didn't raise it, but IT seemed to love me and be loyal to me from day one. Secondly, the Midlander (which is a race I play) seems to be riding a Legacy choco, which definitely isn't mine (yet!), and never even existed in 1.0.

I've never understood where/how does my choco go when I use the whistle in 1.0, but on the other hand, never really cared. Those horsebirds always do that in FF games, so it's kind of an understood thing for me. They've been time-warped (within our whistles), roamed the wilderness searching for food, partied like crazy. . . . take your pick.

lol chocobo's are Final Fantasy's paradox birds...when you got one in other games from town and got off later they always ran off into mountains of over rivers or just went poof so to see them just run up in the video was the best reference to the old games i've seen in a long time

[Pwnagraphic]

lol chocobo's are Final Fantasy's paradox birds...when you got one in other games from town and got off later they always ran off into mountains of over rivers or just went poof so to see them just run up in the video was the best reference to the old games i've seen in a long time

Lol yeah.. FF has some cool realism, but it's still a game after all.

[Ragento]

could be where mega-flare hit and a flash of aether flowed out and into the world changing everything around it and the left over aether took a rock form to heal the hole in the earth afterward?

Maybe a Megaflare hit a atherlyte node, the image looks like a exagerated version of the pic below to me.



Edit: also it looks like to me in the image that there are chains like the one in the pic above, holding it all together.

[Forgo]

Maybe a Megaflare hit a atherlyte node, the image looks like a exagerated version of the pic below to me.

Could be after all we don't know what a large amount of aether could do to the world maybe why a lot of places have floating rocks now where the aether might have messed up the order of things

[Yrusama]

I think it looks like crystal, and the "smoke" is chunks of land that came up as the crystal grew rapidly. Judging by the video, it's a static object. It looks too irregular to be man-made.

[Lady]

My problem is with them calling their chocobos... where did they come from? They weren't just waiting around for 5 years in the aftermath of the battleground, were they? That would be very sad.

Maybe this is SE's way of letting us know that we get to keep our mounts from 1.0 (not that we didn't already know that)