Hatching Tide hats?

[Betelgeuzah]

We should be getting some update tomorrow if they're planning on updating the event on a weekly basis until the beginning of May.

[Benji]

I think they've somehow tied the lore of this game into the date of Easter for us. I'm hoping something big is going to start happening on Sunday..

[Lienn]

Well, if you want some random guesses, the element eggs and the verses both point to an order...its explained bt Bricot in Gridania...and, while we can't trade eggs in certain order, we do can speak with NPCs in this order.

Note that they're exactly the weather that happens at 3 nations (Jihli verses also say something about weathers)...Ul'dah has sandstorm (earth), Limsa has rain (water) and Gridania has thunderstorm (lightning)...here what bricot says:

Bricot: Once we have all the eggs, Jihli'll ready the summoning. Oh, and I'll help! I remember exactly what she told me! The Archon egg goes in the, um, middle, and the others go around it. Lightning, then water, then earth...or was it water, then lightning, then earth...or...um...

Also, we can see that these 3 elements are related....so lightning is supposed to be in the middle since, no matter the orderit is the middle (earth > lightning > water or water < lightning < earth) so it could indicate an order of talking.

But, anyway, its just completely random guesses...but i'd love to see the event having an update triggered sunday (since the new caps are already ingame i don't think a patch would be needed...just like events have timer to end they might have timer to start too if needed).

[Sorel]

We brought it on ourselves I guess. We asked for a more intricate holiday event. They gave us one. We asked for puzzles and riddles to solve that tie into the lore of the world. Well, here you go.

It might smack of gimmickry ... but now that I know that this is more than "collect eggs, turn in eggs, get a hat" I'm going to be an egg collecting fool then next 2-3 days.

[Gramul]

We brought it on ourselves I guess. We asked for a more intricate holiday event. They gave us one. We asked for puzzles and riddles to solve that tie into the lore of the world. Well, here you go.

It might smack of gimmickry ... but now that I know that this is more than "collect eggs, turn in eggs, get a hat" I'm going to be an egg collecting fool then next 2-3 days.

To be honest, trying to figure this out is my favorite part of the game at the moment. This sort of deep open engagement is the what I love.

[Reika]

Who wants bells? ^^

[Lienn]

Who wants bells? ^^

Nowai! Screw bells! =P This does is much more entertaining than ringing a bell evety 8 hrs! ^^

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I find it completely annoying, I don't mind a challenge but they don't give you anything but some silly riddle to draw a conclusion from. Why not post something on Lodestone about the complete history of the event as a bigger hint.

[Suzaku]

For the record, here's the verse you get when you start one of the egg quests. In case anyone wants to give it a look (I copied it from the LL NPC, and I'm from Ul'dah, so, btw):

From a land not our own, a hero will come
To answer the song the Archons have sung.

And with his strong hands, an egg he will grasp
To grant it his warmth, for this is his task.

Yet one will not serve, as all lack a mother.
Twelve grant him strength to take up another.

A Twelve-fold vision to the Dreamer is due,
And from thence to the eggs, a spell she'll imbue.

When magicks have stirred the soul deep within,
The egg must be passed, and prayers begin.

Till flames of the heart see all rime effaced,
The Dreamer shall wait while the circle is paced.

The first three stanzas appear to just be talking about getting eggs, holding onto them, and getting more.

The fourth stanza could indicate getting the Pristine hat from the eggs, or it could indicate that there's something more the Dreamer can somehow do if we figure out how to trigger it. It could also just be talking about the imbuing of the elemental energies into the eggs before we're given them.

The fifth stanza could again indicate the crafting of the Pristine hat, the passing of the archon and elemental eggs to the NPC, or some other effect that we haven't seen yet.

The sixth stanza seems to talk about something we haven't figured out yet. "...the circle is paced" could talk about an actual physical route to take, an order of NPCs to talk to, or something else. I'm actually not sure.

At this point I should probably go back to the Lodestone and see if there's anything else I can glean....

[Peregrine]

Wonder if crafting jobs paint them or something.
My lodestone profile is also not an egg hat any more. That's suspicious.