Seven Hells?

[Mtoto_Wamoto]

Sorry to bump this, but I didn't see any mention of this in this thread.

According to Kipih Jakkya, the journalist who wrote for The Raven, Atomos is ancient Eorzean meaning "The Indivisible". The name comes from an ancient Hyur myth of an entity with the power to breach the borders between worlds.

Seeing that the realm is several thousand years old, Atomos may have likely appeared before in the past, likely during events which led to other umbral eras or even during those umbral eras.

From what Ferne has told us, Atomos is able to travel to our world when the rift between Hydaelyn and the Void is large enough for it to do so. If the presence of Dalamud (Bahamut) is able to alter the aetherial flow of the planet, perhaps when Bahamut was last free to roam the skies, there was a similar effect on the planet's aether, allowing Atomos to come to our realm from the Void, thus creating the ancient myth that Kipih Jakkya spoke of.

As for the Black Warden...I have two theories.

One theory is that the Black Warden is as Moose has said - Diablos. Yet something tells me that they wouldn't put Diablos at the helm of something as large as the Void, or the Seven Hells. He could however be one of the lords of the other hells.

My second theory is that the Black Warden is XIV's version of Chaos. We're seeing a sudden surge of older Final Fantasy enemies and elements that are going to make an appearance in ARR. Xandes, Cloud of Darkness, Ultima Weapon, Demon Wall, Tiamat (Hydra version), Typhon, etc. All of them are somehow tied to the lore in some way and as we know, XIV is essentially the love letter to every final fantasy before it. To have Chaos involved in some way wouldn't surprise me, nor would having Exdeath (we're getting Gilgamesh), the Four Fiends, or the Demons of the Rift included somehow. Anyways, that's all just personal opinion until we get more details.