History Fridge / FinalFantasyXIV

* Lalafell seem to be rather.. weird, given how they tend to invoke the UncannyValley by being so small and child-like yet totally being able to grow facial hair, have [[BadassBaritone deep voices]], and all sorts of adult factors. However, if one looks at them as walking embodiments of the chibi designs of classic Final Fantasy characters, it makes a bit more sense -- besides the kids, most cast members in the early series were all of similar small size by graphical limitations, regardless of how mature the plots and events around them were.

* Some have balked at TimeTravel even being a plot point, except technically it always was; the Echo in 1.0 explicitly allows the Warrior of Light to travel into the past, not just mentally like in ''A Realm Reborn'' onwards but physically. They [[YouCannotFightFate can't change history]], but they could physically acquire items and bring them back to the present if it doesn't change history (ie. dungeon loot). The Crystal Tower effectively embellishes the concept to its maximum degree, breaking a strained rubberband by physically producing an alternate future -- which makes sense, as it's the peak of Allagan technology which itself was created by an empire secretly manipulated by the Ascians. G'raha Tia effectively stumbled into inheriting the legacy of research and technology all sourcing back to magicks that might as well make one a RealityWarper and got the right push from the Garlond Ironworks, who legacy-wise have broken meta-physics already in the ''Omega'' raids, to finally change what should've been immutable and alter the concepts of the Echo far beyond even an average Ancient's capability.

* Some have balked at TimeTravel even being a plot point, except technically it always was; the Echo in 1.0 explicitly allows the Warrior of Light to travel into the past, not just mentally like in ''A Realm Reborn'' onwards but physically. They [[YouCannotFightFate can't change history]], but they could physically acquire items and bring them back to the present if it doesn't change history (ie. dungeon loot). The Crystal Tower effectively embellishes the concept to its maximum degree, breaking a strained rubberband by physically producing an alternate future -- which makes sense, as it's the peak of Allagan technology which itself was created by an empire secretly manipulated by the Ascians. G'raha Tia effectively stumbled into inheriting the legacy of research and technology all sourcing back to magicks that might as well make one a RealityWarper and got the right push from the Garlond Ironworks, who legacy-wise have broken meta-physics already, to finally change what should've been immutable.

* Some have balked at TimeTravel even being a plot point, except technically it always was; the Echo in 1.0 explicitly allows the Warrior of Light to travel into the past, not just mentally like in ''A Realm Reborn'' onwards but physically. They [[YouCannotFightFate can't change history]], but they could physically acquire items and bring them back to the present if it doesn't change history (ie. dungeon loot). The Crystal Tower effectively embellishes the concept to its maximum degree, breaking a strained rubberband by physically producing an alternate future -- which makes sense, as it's the peak of Allagan technology which itself was created by an empire secretly manipulated by the Ascians. G'raha Tia effectively stumbled into inheriting the legacy of research and technology all sourcing back to magicks that might as well make one a RealityWarper and got the right push from the Garland Ironworks, who legacy-wise have broken meta-physics already, to finally change what should've been immutable.

* If anyone ever wondered just how so many outlandishly exaggerated monsters could evolve naturally on the Source and its reflections, ''Endwalker'' provides the answer: ''they didn't''. Almost every creature that exists was in fact purposely engineered by the Ascians and evaluated via peer review before being released into the wild of Ethyris. The main reason so many of them are over-the-top is because the Ascians were apparently [[NightmareFetishist very fond]] of gigantic, ridiculously deadly creations. It should be noted that they do have a facility where they study natural selection. This means they designed monsters that were built to last.

* For all the hype the Au Ra race got in the previews for ''Heavensward'', there's barely any [=NPCs=] of said race. This is easily explained by the Au Ra you meet in the Dark Knight and White Mage job quests where they tell you that some of their kind were attacked and killed by the Isghardians because the latter mistook the former as dragons. Even outside of Ishgard, the Au Ra were met with scorn and persecution by others.

* 6.3 Mentions that killing a voidsent in the Source is Permadeath... Why was the Nullstone needed for the Mhach alliance quests, since it was stated to scatter Aether and stated (if not heavily implied) to be necessary to kill them?

* The Ascian's goals of the Rejoining was already screwed for years. With the Thirteenth's collapse into the void that ended up making it literally a useless world of neverending death, it's not just that restoring Amaurot was a doomed dream since a fully-completed Zodiark would have never truly saved all of their kind, but also that ''one'' Zodiark fragment was seemingly, permanently unreachable. Even if they did manage it, it would require bringing the Voidsent from that shard into the Source, which itself would've been a second Umbral Calamity, and as far as the story showed, the Ascians all but packed up and left once they failed the world, meaning they completely lacked the voidgates or the strategies to even begin to attempt this. Once they "won" too well in a polar contrast to the First, the entire goal of the Ascians was officially AllForNothing, and the Paragon's continuation of their goals in spite of this was effectively ignoring the giant elephant of failure in the room for centuries because they were either [[IveComeTooFar too far to stop now]] or otherwise [[CameBackWrong couldn't ever hope to stop by choice]].

** This also means that the ancient's and by extension, the Ascian's plans were absolutely doomed from start. Especially so in the latter's case because of all the self-defeating death and despair the Ascian's were causing with the rejoinings and their plans to feed all life to Zodiark to bring back their brethren. Over thousands of years, Meteoin's songs would have seeped into their hearts anyway and the despair of 14 entire ended worlds worth of tortured dead souls (which Meteoin is perfectly able to interact with) would have surrounded the Ancient's population, but with or without the sundering, the protection would have proven insufficient either way and the Ancient's in their tempered and dependant mental state would have relied solely on feeding Zodiark even more cultivated life (or eventually, out of desperation, falling back on sacrificing thier own population) for greater shielding or even more extreme alterations to reality in a counterproductive cycle of diminishing returns versus the devestatingly expotential growth of Meteoin's endless song being fed by so much resulting loss and despair.

** It has nothing to do with luck. The point this quest was making (or, rather, reinforcing) is that what helps us forge through the hardest of times is the support of people close to us, and sense of purpose. It pretty explicitly compares Khalzahl, who turned into a Blasphemy, with Djinabaha and Nashvan. The former, a fellow trader, admitted that he was too busy dealing with problems to fall into despair, while the latter, while he was at the time at the end of the rope due to having witnessed his child's death, nonetheless found the strength to endure thanks to Djinabaha's support. Khalzahl, on the other hand, has pretty much lost everything when Thavnair was closed off, and he had no one who could help him shoulder his grief. As for Ancients, the part about support is the most important, considering that, as was shown by Elpis, and also a short story about Hermes, when it comes to psychological support, their idea of it came down to "Just smile and don't think bad thoughts", which is a problem, to put it lightly.

* The most we see of Garlemald in ''Endwalker'' is its capital after it's little more than frozen wastelands and bombed-out ruins, one sole non-functional subway of a shelter aside. After beating it, talking to Maxima at the Alliance's camp has him point out that they can begin to rebuild now, but not only is it a lot of work, there's all of Garlemald's provinces ''and'' their numerous missing Legions that are completely unaccounted for. It really hammers home the sheer scale of what the heroes are completely unaware of, and further threats from Garlemald remnants that might be lingering -- if there's even [[EverybodysDeadDave much of the nation or its denizens left out there anymore]] to begin with.

* The Dragonstar -- or the remnants of it -- that we see in Alphascape V2.0 and Ultima Thule has been rendered nearly inhospitable due to the Omicron invasion. No life, not even vegetation, other than the extremely resilient dragons could live on it. Baby dragons ''could'' be born, but they all come out horrifically mutated. Whatever isn't barren black rock is covered in sickly-green aetherochemical pools that most likely weren't there when it was a thriving planet. Now, think back on what forms of attacks that the Omicrons commonly use. [[FastKillingRadiation Atomic Ray]], [[DeadlyGas Mustard Bomb]], [[DirtyBomb Chemical Missile]]... The Dragonstar became the way it is precisely because the Omicrons [[NukeEm nuked the whole planet to oblivion]], and we have been visiting the deep space equivalent of Pripyat.