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*** It would, but you're forgetting the reason why they went to Damcyan in the first place: Rosa was dying a slow, feverish death in a inn, the only remedy is something known to Edward, without even counting the fact that as they speak Golbez and his minions (the ones who actually murdered Anna and turned Damcyan in a ghost town) are closer and closer to their goal. So I can see why Cecil would go as far as to slap Edward even when he is in a dire situation like that: Cecil risks to lose the woman he loves, and will go at any length to save her. Perhaps it was handled badly and hastily on a meta level, but still considering everyone's situation at the moment, yes, telling him to stop mourning because he can save a life is a necessary cruelty.
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*** It would, but you're forgetting the reason why they went to Damcyan in the first place: Rosa was dying a slow, feverish death in a inn, the only remedy is something known to Edward, without even counting the fact that as they speak Golbez and his minions (the ones who actually murdered Anna and turned Damcyan in a ghost town) are closer and closer to their goal. So I can see why Cecil would go as far as to slap Edward even when he is in a dire situation like that: Cecil risks to lose the woman he loves, and will go at any length to save her. Perhaps it was handled badly and hastily on a meta level, but still considering everyone's situation at the moment, yes, telling him to stop mourning because he can save a life is a necessary cruelty.cruelty.
* The twins can't be un-stoned easily because they did it to themselves. What if they cast Break ''on each other''? Would it be easier to cure them then?
** Fridge Brilliance: It's not that they cast it on themselves, it's that they did it ''willingly'', with the intention of turning to stone. '''They're actively maintaining the spell.''' Can't see whether everyone's out of the room if your eyes are made of stone, after all. Anyone who wants to restore them has to overpower both the magic ''and'' their combined wills, making it significantly more difficult than normal. That's why it takes the Elder to free them: It's not just that he's that powerful, but that he's someone they ''trust''. If he says it's safe to drop the spell, then it's safe.
* When the Dark Elf nearly kills Cecil & Co., Edward very dramatically struggles to walk across the room to get his harp and save the day, nearly killing himself in the process. But, given that the doctor and nurse are right there, and there are no other patients in the infirmary, why does he not simply ask them to bring him his harp?
** He does try to talk to them a bit, but they don't understand the importance of playing it ''immediately''. And possibly the doctor doesn't want him playing it right now at all, since it's a form of exertion.
* The twins can't be un-stoned easily because they did it to themselves. What if they cast Break ''on each other''? Would it be easier to cure them then?
** Fridge Brilliance: It's not that they cast it on themselves, it's that they did it ''willingly'', with the intention of turning to stone. '''They're actively maintaining the spell.''' Can't see whether everyone's out of the room if your eyes are made of stone, after all. Anyone who wants to restore them has to overpower both the magic ''and'' their combined wills, making it significantly more difficult than normal. That's why it takes the Elder to free them: It's not just that he's that powerful, but that he's someone they ''trust''. If he says it's safe to drop the spell, then it's safe.
* When the Dark Elf nearly kills Cecil & Co., Edward very dramatically struggles to walk across the room to get his harp and save the day, nearly killing himself in the process. But, given that the doctor and nurse are right there, and there are no other patients in the infirmary, why does he not simply ask them to bring him his harp?
** He does try to talk to them a bit, but they don't understand the importance of playing it ''immediately''. And possibly the doctor doesn't want him playing it right now at all, since it's a form of exertion.
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** Well, it's not like Cecil was going to harm the kids once he started the whole redemption plan. Maybe he thought the Elder was testing him to see if he was able to truly repent and protect people.
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* At the beginning of the game, Cecil and his men raided, pillaged, and presumably murdered people in Mysidia. He had deep misgivings about it, but he did it regardless. Later, he washes back into that town, and wishes to repent. The Mysidia Elder tells him how, by becoming a Paladin. He must survive the infamously deadly Mount Ordeals. And... the Elder sends two small children, Palom and Porom, with him. Two small children... with a known terrorist... to a place famous for killing people. And he seems mighty surprised later when Cecil comes back alive with the kids in tow... and sends those two kids with him along his journey... And then the kids petrify themselves to save the rest of the team. Granted, story does reveal that the Elder does not, in fact, want these children dead, but why didn't the thought ever enter Cecil's head?!
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** Given that Cecil & co. reach it via airship, the Tower of Zot is presumably floating above the surface of the Blue Planet (much like the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Flying Fortress]]) and possibly continuously in motion so as to not be conspicuous or easily located (depending on how high in the sky it is, of course). The tower is likely Golbez's primary base of operations prior to its destruction [[LoadBearingBoss when Barbariccia dies]]. ([[NoEndorHolocaust Maybe its wreckage landed in the ocean?]]) Some fans have alternatively speculated that the Tower of Zot and the Tower of Babil are part of [[StarScraper some sort of superstructure]], likely due to the two locations sharing the same architecture in the SNES version; the limitations of 2D graphics also make it ambiguous whether Cecil and Kain's airships, when they head towards it, are going higher into the sky or heading north (which happens to be where the Tower of Babel is from your location at the time.) As for the name, I'd assume there's no real meaning behind it and the word was chosen because [[RuleOfCool it sounded cool and/or imposing]]. [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zot#Albanian The word "Zot" can mean "God" in Albanian,]] which would make for a nice parallel to the Tower of Babil, but [[LuckyTranslation I personally wouldn't throw any weight behind that being intentional]].
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** Given that Cecil & co. reach it via airship, the Tower of Zot is presumably floating above the surface of the Blue Planet (much like the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Flying Fortress]]) and possibly continuously in motion so as to not be conspicuous or easily located (depending on how high in the sky it is, of course). The tower is likely Golbez's primary base of operations prior to its destruction [[LoadBearingBoss when Barbariccia dies]]. ([[NoEndorHolocaust Maybe its wreckage landed in the ocean?]]) Some fans have alternatively speculated that the Tower of Zot and the Tower of Babil are part of [[StarScraper some sort of superstructure]], likely due to the two locations sharing the same architecture in the SNES version; the limitations of 2D graphics also make it ambiguous whether Cecil and Kain's airships, when they head towards it, are going higher into the sky or heading north (which happens to be where the Tower of Babel is from your location at the time.) As for the name, I'd assume there's no real meaning behind it and the word was chosen because [[RuleOfCool it sounded cool and/or imposing]]. [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zot#Albanian The word "Zot" can mean "God" in Albanian,]] which would make for a nice parallel to the Tower of Babil, but [[LuckyTranslation I personally wouldn't throw any weight behind that being intentional]].intentional.
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*** Rosa IS the daughter of a knight according to brief dialogue if you take her to talk to her mother after you rescue her the second time. Cid however is just an engineer albeit a brilliant one the king trusted to build his airships. I think it's more likely that the characters without last names just don't have them because they're all from mage tribes which don't have traditional family structures. Hence why they're "Of Mist" or "Of Mysdia". Tellah is implied to also be of Mysidian origin even though he eventually traveled the world and settled down in Kaipo.
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**** After Years shows that Rydia frequently traveled back to the surface and was eventually asked to leave and not return to the Feymarch unless she had desperate reason to by Asura not long after 4's ending to avoid exactly this problem so she probably didn't spend as much time there as it appeared.
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*** After Years kind of makes that look suspect since the cast are in their 30s and 40s and still pretty youthful seeming while Cid was only a few years younger than Tellah in the first game and looks notably younger and sprier and in After Years is a decade older than Tellah lived to be and while he does look about as old still is in pretty good shape than Tellah was (his stats don't go down when he levels) so unless health care improved dramatically in the next 15 years that's unlikely. Although given that magic can tap from life force if you cast recklessly and the Elder mentions Tellah was reckless in his youth with his spells at once point it's possible that Tellah expended so much mana over his career as a Sage that he prematurely aged himself a bit.
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** "Dual Classing" for lack of better term is implied to be very hard in the world of this game, to the point where Sages that are masters of both magic like Tellah are rare and it's considered a very difficult path, and a genius mage like Palom who could cast Meteor at age 5 would struggle with it. And "Red Mages", characters that are skilled in both schools of magic and also capable melee fighters just flat out do not seem to exist. It seems like characters are just limited in what they can learn and Cecil already mastered swordsmanship and several other types of weapons so his magic learning is limited. Even Rydia had to give up pursuing White Magic to master Summoning.
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** The Elder had access to an entire town of mages and the Tower of Wishes. Maybe it took more magical power than one person could muster, so he linked with others to do it or the Tower of Wishes granted the wish to unpetrify two children because it was a small wish and easily granted.
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*** There is something to that theory. When Rydia has Mist Dragon as a summon, the damage it deals is equivalent to Rydia's current HP. If you use a cheat device to force Rydia's current HP to 9999, the Mist Dragon will deal 9999 damage.
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*** Let's not forget that Rydia does not keep her summon on the field of battle. She summons, it appears and deals damage, then instantly goes away. And since she has Mist Dragon as a summon, then it must mean that a summoned monster does not die when it's user is killed.
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*** As commander of the Red Wings Cecil might have had access to a good stock of otherwise rare magical items, so he could easily afford using them to fight off monsters. After his demotion he likely lost access to those stockpiles.
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*** Well, we know nothing about them aside from Edward, who is just a prince and wouldn't have been setting policy. It's also possible that the presence of the Fire Crystal ''naturally'' desertifies the surrounding lands and that they refused to give it up despite this because of its (unspecified) powers or because it just would have desertified somewhere else anyway.
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** Possibly, if Cecil was reluctant to hand over the crystal or insisted on seeing Rosa first, they would have been able to take him into that room and show her to pressure him without the risk of him rushing over to free her (since she was in a deathtrap that could be activated at any time.) But Cecil was an idiot and just handed over the crystal, making this unnecessary.
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** Given that Cecil & co. reach it via airship, the Tower of Zot is presumably floating above the surface of the Blue Planet (much like the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Flying Fortress]]) and possibly continuously in motion so as to not be conspicuous or easily located (depending on how high in the sky it is, of course). The tower is likely Golbez's primary base of operations prior to its destruction [[LoadBearingBoss when Barbariccia dies]]. ([[NoEndorHolocaust Maybe its wreckage landed in the ocean?]]) Some fans have alternatively speculated that the Tower of Zot and the Tower of Babil are part of [[StarScraper some sort of superstructure]], likely due to the two locations sharing the same architecture in the SNES version. As for the name, I'd assume there's no real meaning behind it and the word was chosen because [[RuleOfCool it sounded cool and/or imposing]]. [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zot#Albanian The word "Zot" can mean "God" in Albanian,]] which would make for a nice parallel to the Tower of Babil, but [[LuckyTranslation I personally wouldn't throw any weight behind that being intentional]].
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** Given that Cecil & co. reach it via airship, the Tower of Zot is presumably floating above the surface of the Blue Planet (much like the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Flying Fortress]]) and possibly continuously in motion so as to not be conspicuous or easily located (depending on how high in the sky it is, of course). The tower is likely Golbez's primary base of operations prior to its destruction [[LoadBearingBoss when Barbariccia dies]]. ([[NoEndorHolocaust Maybe its wreckage landed in the ocean?]]) Some fans have alternatively speculated that the Tower of Zot and the Tower of Babil are part of [[StarScraper some sort of superstructure]], likely due to the two locations sharing the same architecture in the SNES version. version; the limitations of 2D graphics also make it ambiguous whether Cecil and Kain's airships, when they head towards it, are going higher into the sky or heading north (which happens to be where the Tower of Babel is from your location at the time.) As for the name, I'd assume there's no real meaning behind it and the word was chosen because [[RuleOfCool it sounded cool and/or imposing]]. [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zot#Albanian The word "Zot" can mean "God" in Albanian,]] which would make for a nice parallel to the Tower of Babil, but [[LuckyTranslation I personally wouldn't throw any weight behind that being intentional]].
