Quote Originally Posted by Lady View Post
I find it interesting to note that no matter what we did, we couldn't stop dalamud from decending....
I think this fact goes to illustrate a specific point in SE's place as a storyteller. It's meant to emphasize either:

  • The nature of the Archons as more fallible than end-all Godly Incarnation
  • The nature of the Twelve as more fallible than end-all Godly
  • The true power of the Primals as compared to The Twelve
  • The true power of the descendants of the Allagan civilization

I think it's a combination of all of them, really. I think the Twelve are less omnipotent than we think of them, that the Primals are more akin to them than not, that the Archons just have powers we wouldn't expect, possibly granted through contact with their "primals" among The Twelve, that the Allagan were more in tune to the true nature of all these beings than we are (which heightens the drama because even that couldn't save them) - and that when we think of the modern Allagan descendants and contemporaries, such as van Darnus, it's reminiscent of the Zilart of FFXI.

And all of this has to be understood through the lens of one thing: Under the threat of a primal, the in-game characters used it as a call to arms and saw them as an obstacle to be overcome. Under the threat of an Ascian, they hid from sight and required a change of pants. That's sure to come up again.

I can't speculate beyond that, really, because it all has to do with what's to come and I prefer attempting to understand the full truth of what has already passed.