Quote Originally Posted by Yrusama View Post
I watched all the cutscenes after the scene with the Ascian (which indeed has no shadow), but didn't find anything. It might be in one of the guild cutscenes, or at some point before it. Anyway, it's sort of hard to derive tidbits from 1.x since we don't have it anymore.

One thing I've always been curious about: were the Gelmorrans Duskwight Elezen? They lived underground in fear until they learned to communicate with the Elementals. The Elezen were the first race on Eorzea, and the Duskwights lived in caves.
Yes, Gelmorrans were Duskwight Elezen or atleast precursors to the Duskwight Elezen. As I've stated in multiple posts I believe that Hellsguard Roegydan and Duskwight Elezen are the only "native" races to Eorzea. Hellsguard living in the mountains to the north of Ishgard and Dravania, Duskwight Elezen living in natural and 'man'-made caves under the Twelveswood.

As for Ascians, we searched extensively (we, being multiple people from the CG Midlander thread a.k.a. Lore Central) for characters without Shadows, only 1 was found and that was Travanchet, who along with not having a Shadow has his own theme music.
  • Does FFXIV have something like this in the lore? Very much so. The entire Ul'dah Storyline is very vague and leaves question after question. i.e. What happened to Corguevais? What happened to the Horn he stole? What was in the coffin when Niellefresne opened it and gave him such a shock? List could go on.
  • Can an MMO have any ambiguous plot elements? Yes.
  • Do you think this type of trivia helps sustain interest in a game many years later? Not everyone will be into the Story and are more into the rush of Raids. While I'm into Raids AND into the Storyline. That's why I'm here, it's a Final Fantasy title that will (or should) get better with each patch. There's plenty of antagonist to keep things going as well: Garleans, Ascians (maybe?), Primals (maybe?), Beastmen (maybe?), and Enemies Within (Lord Lolorito maybe?). Lots of maybes but that's only because we don't know if they're truly 'Evil.'

As for why Gaius van Baelsar calls Bahamut/Dalamud a 'sin,' its because he's on the side of the Emperor, they view Primals as abominations and that's who their 'real' enemy is.