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** It's not a common knowledge, no. Spreading word about immortal, powerful and body-hopping sorcerors would create more panic and paranoia that its worth. Also, since Ascians are perfectly capable of possessing the living, as Thancred can personally attest, cremating bodies will only increase the likelyhood of some unfortunate soul losing their body.
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** It's not a common knowledge, no. Spreading word about immortal, powerful and body-hopping sorcerors would create more panic and paranoia that its worth. Also, since Ascians are perfectly capable of possessing the living, as Thancred can personally attest, cremating bodies will only increase the likelyhood of some unfortunate soul losing having their body.body stolen and perverted.
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** Evidently so, since if Zenos was walking around Garlemald with his throat slashed, one would imagine that more people would have believed the truth of him being possessed by Elidibus.
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* It's not common (or even semi common) knowledge that Ascians can possess dead bodies around the time of the Post Stormblood quests, right? Because since Ascians can easily possess dead bodies, obviously the dead should be cremated so they won't get perverted by Ascians.
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* It's not common (or even semi common) knowledge that Ascians can possess dead bodies around the time of the Post Stormblood quests, right? Because since Ascians can easily possess dead bodies, obviously the dead should be cremated so they won't get perverted by Ascians.Ascians.
* The Warrior of Light being the same between Legacy and 2.0 is fine and all, but then it raises brows about a potential ContinuitySnarl with your openings, which to Endwalker remain unchanged: a no-geared adventurer wandering in via caravan with no context for anything going on in Eorzea, having come to find their calling as an adventurer. The Legacy import opening explicitly has the character warp in and wander to their assigned city state by themselves instead. It creates the question of how Louisoux warping them five years into the future even lines up with non-Legacy characters being implied to have traveled quite far, unless we're supposed to just assume it's LaserGuidedAmnesia to themselves off-screen?
** It does make sense when you go through Heavensward to explain it. Louisoux did a perfect cast of a variant of the ''Flow'' spell, the same one Y'shtola casts at the end of ARR to save herself and Thancred. The catch to that spell is that even a perfect cast of it requires an additional sacrifice of all affected. In Y'shtola's case it was her natural vision and for Thancred it was his ability to manipulate Aether. What was the Warrior's sacrifice? His memories.
* Rowena, the ever growing wealthy merchant, sets up shop in Mor Dhona for all of 2.0. In 3.0, she is still there and somehow is also in Idyllshire at the same time!
** Both Revenant's Toll and Idyllshire have aetherytes that she could teleport between, and she can ''certainly'' afford the fees involved. And [[OffscreenInertia how do you KNOW she's in both places at the same time]]?
** Seems like 3.1 finally explains how, or at least gives Rowena a new way to travel. She has a mini aetheryte in her Mor Dhona shop, allowing her to travel between there and Idyllshire.
* In a similar manner as Rowena, Urianger will always appear in the Waking Sands if you haven't completed all the quests to unlock A Realm Reborn's Extreme Primal trials. Even after the Scions move to the Rising Stones, when he's adventuring with the rest of the Scions, or when he's on the First with no way to get back to the Source. Even better, he's still in his old outfit from before Shadowbringers. Of course, this is explained as earlier content always happening before later content no matter your place in the story.
* It is explained that the reason people are charged gil to use aetherytes via the Teleport spell is Eorzea's way of paying off the debt incurred to have the aetherytes rebuilt with wealthy businessmen from Ul'dah footing the bill. It is never explained (other than for gameplay purposes) why adventurers still have to pay gil to teleport in between areas that man has never set foot into, such as Azys Lla and the Churning Mists.
** Teleportation may cause wear on the local aetheryte network in some way, even if no one else is there to maintain the destination point.
** Most chocobo stations charge money for the obvious reason that the chocobokeep wants a fee. But when you find unattended stations in Dravania, the Warrior of Light leaves a fee there anyway -- basically out of superstition.
* So what exactly happened to the Allagans? Yes, there was an earthquake, but Hydaleyn must have many tectonic plates just as Earth does, which should mean that even a very violent earthquake wouldn't stretch across the entire planet's surface. And even if it did, the Allagans were a spacefaring race - the moon Bahamut was sealed in didn't create or get into its orbit itself. Anyone that can create a death star sized moon to hold an Elder primal must have the ability to create colonies (small moons, perhaps?) elsewhere in the star system Hydaleyn resides in. And as of patch 3.2, it is know that time manipulation/travel is possible. Did a colony of Allagans simply move to another time. To the current game's imminent future, perhaps?
** It's possible that the majority of the Allagan Empire was localized in Eorzea or other smaller countries rather than a complete global superpower. It's possible such devastating earthquakes in a single continent that rivalled the Calamity would be enough to wipe them out. We know that they were able to launch Dalamund, but that doesn't mean the Empire had the means of colonized space travel (the captive didn't have to worry about food or water in this case).
*** It ''was'' actually confirmed that at one point they did control most of known civilization with the exception of Meracydia (though it is unknown if this included the New World). Perhaps the destruction wrought from Xande's pact with the Cloud of Darkness and the power from the Crystal Tower truly was close to an EarthShatteringKaboom.
*** The official lore book goes into more detail on this. The Allagan Empire was in fact centered in Eorzea, but the entirety of the civilization was powered by the Crystal Tower, which among other things was a gigantic solar panel. The Empire bound Bahamut into Dalamud and sent it into orbit, with Emperor Xande's plan to use the primal's fire-aspected nature to more efficiently absorb solar energy, and then send it directly to the Crystal Tower. However the Allagan scientists did not properly account for the sheer amount of power that Dalamud could produce, and the tremendous force of the connection almost instantly created a power surge and massive earthquakes that would bury the Tower and much of the surrounding area. That which was not destroyed in the earthquake was left without power, its technology useless. The survivors of this calamity decided that rather than try to rebuild, they would destroy or hide what was left so that future generations would not succumb to hubris in the way that their own civilization did.
*** Further explained in ''Shadowbringers:'' aether imbalances on one of the shards cause the excess aether to spill into the Source world, amplifying associated disasters into full-blown Calamities. So if an excess of earth aether was poured into the Crystal Tower's earthquakes...
* Why does the fake Inquisitor Guillaime even bother antagonizing the Scions? They have nothing to do with the reason he's there and if any group could possibly expose what he's doing and ruin his entire scheme it would be the Scions. It seems like he's taking a huge risk for very little reward and he could do a lot more damage by just letting the Scions do what they came there to do and leave without drawing attention to himself, or even help expedite their quest (which he's in a position to do) so they leave faster and do less damage to his cause and his allies. They want something from his allies, true, but it's something completely useless to them. Instead, he gets in their way, forces them into an alliance with his enemies, gets a lot of his allies killed and his plans blown apart, then dies, and his allies lose the thing the Scions were after anyway.
** The second the Scions started snooping his plan was going to fail in the worst kind of MortonsFork scenario: Let the Scions into the Stone Vigil and they wipe out the occupying Dravanians enough that Ishgard can reclaim it for both strategic and sentimental reasons (which ends up happening anyway), or give them access and tell the dragons inside to just let them go peacefully, which would cast a ''ton'' of suspicion on him... if they didn't just ignore it anyway, as it's made pretty clear that Nidhogg and his brood don't give a damn about the Heretics until they've become a dragon themselves.
* In the Ivalice Raid storyline, we learn that Garlemald has a hand in covering up Ramza's involvement in the Zodiac Braves story generations ago since Ramza was a heretic to the church at the time. But why would Garlemald, an athiest state, try to cover up the actions of a heretic to a church? Probably mostly since the story wouldn't work without it, but it doesn't really make much sense.
** It might be that the digging they did while considering making the records public knowledge lead them to (correctly) realize that he was not only a Warrior of Light but also very much closely connected to some very anti-Garlean Primal activity, likely leading to the Garleans (or Solus if he was directly involved) to continue the coverup so it didn't get out that a heretic was not only in actuality one of its greatest heroes but also a blessed of a Goddess the Garleans claim doesn't exist.
* So here's what I don't get about the Four Lords quest line ending. If Suzaku has access to revival magic, why didn't she use it to save Genbu during the fight against Koryu, instead leading to Soroban to summon Genbu's spirit as part of a FusionDance?
** Resurrective magic in this game seems to functionally be a magic defibrillator, so while Suzaku's powers could revive her adds (an extension of herself) and probably heal someone who was effectively dead, reviving someone truly dead is only the realm of necromancy. Even if her powers were that strong, it would be moot anyway because Genbu's body dispersed into Aether upon death so there was nothing to raise.
* To kill an Ascian, and we mean KilledOffForReal, it requires distinct resources and specific means to accomplish that only the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and very close associates like the Scholars of Sharlayan are privy to. How in the world did Gaius, with no magic and only a Garlean Gunblade to his name, become the Shadowhunter by killing ''several'' of them as what amounts to a BadassNormal? The story doesn't even imply he has White Auracite or a means to produce a Blade of Light, either.
** Most of the masks Gaius had were belonging to black-masks, the underlings who are implicitely (per the Summoner quests) not able to evacuate their bodies and die with them. While he does have a few red Overlord masks, there's never anything to say he permanently killed them, at best he most likely just drove them from their host bodies by killing them (itself a masterful display of skill and power).
* When evacuating the people of Thavnair, why did the Sharlayan council think it was a good idea to march them ''straight through Garlemald''?!
** To use the Tower of Babil to send them up to the moon without having to use their ship. It wasn't just evacuating them from Thavnair, it was beginning the process of migrating the world's population up to the moon, and having a working teleporter that can instantly send people up there en masse was a more attractive option than having to use a ship with limited capacity and fuel requirements, and that wasn't even finished by that point. It was a risk to be sure, but the Final Days couldn't wait, and with the Garlean Empire in ruins and the Ilsabard contingent covering their exit, it was seen as an acceptable risk to take. They didn't bank on the Final Days coming to Garlemald until it was too late.
* One of Endwalker's biggest reveals is that the moon itself is a construct created by Hydaelyn to serve as Zodiark's prison, and then as an emergency ark to get the people of the Source to another planet if necessary; however, there is one problem: if you go to Elpis, and look up, you can see that there's ''already a moon''. Since Elpis is pre-Sundering, it doesn't make sense for there to already be a moon, especially when it's explicitly stated that the current moon was ''created'', not ''transformed'' by Hydaelyn.
** Technically it's possible that the original moon got destroyed as part of the final days, considering that when we run through the Amaurot dungeon, we get a view of the planet which is clearly lacking a moon and shows a meteor shower of massive proportions going down on the planet. The original moon might have gotten destroyed during the original Final Days and Venat decided to replace it as part of her plan to stop Zodiark.
* So the Omega quests in EW reveal that despite the base expansion saying giving in to despair is what causes a transformation into a Blasphemy... it's in fact entirely up to luck (which probably explains why Sharlayans weren't popping into monsters, can you imagine how many of them would turn into Blasphemies over getting a bad score on their A levels?). So the whole "be strong and never give up" thing was... bunk. So then what does that mean of the Ancients? Was there actually a chance for them to gain control over the rampaging magics? Was everything just the result of Venat jumping the gun in fear she would otherwise doom the entire planet if she didn't hurry? Also what happened to the souls of people who turn into Blasphemies? Y'shtola says they vanish, but then it turns out it's just Meteion's illusions obscuring them? 6.1 was very confusing, and it's clear the writers want to move away from the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc quickly.
** 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.
*** That doesn't track. What kind of life did that kid have that even having his father present next to him caused him to despair to that level? The father being consoled AFTER doesn't change that nadir of despair at the time. The quest seemed to sever the tether of become a blasphemy from being a moral failing (what omega was looking for was a reason why they failed to resist, like his race did) to random chance if it affected you enough *at the moment* to the extent of turning.
*** There's nothing random about a child being afraid of all that's happening around them and falling into a state where they are succeptible yo becoming a blasphemy. Even a toddler who wouldn't know despair can fall into it. It's not a moral failing, it's a storm of negative emotions that person for one reason or another just can't handle.
* 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?
** Assuming it's not just a plot hole, it's plausible that permadeath only applies to Voidsent who ''physically'' enter the Source through a large enough Voidgate, which are exceedingly rare and often only allow weak Voidsents like Imps and Bombs to fully cross over, and most other strong Voidsent (prior to 6.3) only enter with their soul inhabiting a vesselk. Diabolos was summoned by the Mhachi, who used a lot of vessels to help them in their mass-Voidsent summoning. Presumably, a Voidsent killed while its soul inhabits a vessel simply has their soul go back to the Void, while the Nullstone is capable of completely destroying a Voidsent even with that clause.
* The Warrior of Light being the same between Legacy and 2.0 is fine and all, but then it raises brows about a potential ContinuitySnarl with your openings, which to Endwalker remain unchanged: a no-geared adventurer wandering in via caravan with no context for anything going on in Eorzea, having come to find their calling as an adventurer. The Legacy import opening explicitly has the character warp in and wander to their assigned city state by themselves instead. It creates the question of how Louisoux warping them five years into the future even lines up with non-Legacy characters being implied to have traveled quite far, unless we're supposed to just assume it's LaserGuidedAmnesia to themselves off-screen?
** It does make sense when you go through Heavensward to explain it. Louisoux did a perfect cast of a variant of the ''Flow'' spell, the same one Y'shtola casts at the end of ARR to save herself and Thancred. The catch to that spell is that even a perfect cast of it requires an additional sacrifice of all affected. In Y'shtola's case it was her natural vision and for Thancred it was his ability to manipulate Aether. What was the Warrior's sacrifice? His memories.
* Rowena, the ever growing wealthy merchant, sets up shop in Mor Dhona for all of 2.0. In 3.0, she is still there and somehow is also in Idyllshire at the same time!
** Both Revenant's Toll and Idyllshire have aetherytes that she could teleport between, and she can ''certainly'' afford the fees involved. And [[OffscreenInertia how do you KNOW she's in both places at the same time]]?
** Seems like 3.1 finally explains how, or at least gives Rowena a new way to travel. She has a mini aetheryte in her Mor Dhona shop, allowing her to travel between there and Idyllshire.
* In a similar manner as Rowena, Urianger will always appear in the Waking Sands if you haven't completed all the quests to unlock A Realm Reborn's Extreme Primal trials. Even after the Scions move to the Rising Stones, when he's adventuring with the rest of the Scions, or when he's on the First with no way to get back to the Source. Even better, he's still in his old outfit from before Shadowbringers. Of course, this is explained as earlier content always happening before later content no matter your place in the story.
* It is explained that the reason people are charged gil to use aetherytes via the Teleport spell is Eorzea's way of paying off the debt incurred to have the aetherytes rebuilt with wealthy businessmen from Ul'dah footing the bill. It is never explained (other than for gameplay purposes) why adventurers still have to pay gil to teleport in between areas that man has never set foot into, such as Azys Lla and the Churning Mists.
** Teleportation may cause wear on the local aetheryte network in some way, even if no one else is there to maintain the destination point.
** Most chocobo stations charge money for the obvious reason that the chocobokeep wants a fee. But when you find unattended stations in Dravania, the Warrior of Light leaves a fee there anyway -- basically out of superstition.
* So what exactly happened to the Allagans? Yes, there was an earthquake, but Hydaleyn must have many tectonic plates just as Earth does, which should mean that even a very violent earthquake wouldn't stretch across the entire planet's surface. And even if it did, the Allagans were a spacefaring race - the moon Bahamut was sealed in didn't create or get into its orbit itself. Anyone that can create a death star sized moon to hold an Elder primal must have the ability to create colonies (small moons, perhaps?) elsewhere in the star system Hydaleyn resides in. And as of patch 3.2, it is know that time manipulation/travel is possible. Did a colony of Allagans simply move to another time. To the current game's imminent future, perhaps?
** It's possible that the majority of the Allagan Empire was localized in Eorzea or other smaller countries rather than a complete global superpower. It's possible such devastating earthquakes in a single continent that rivalled the Calamity would be enough to wipe them out. We know that they were able to launch Dalamund, but that doesn't mean the Empire had the means of colonized space travel (the captive didn't have to worry about food or water in this case).
*** It ''was'' actually confirmed that at one point they did control most of known civilization with the exception of Meracydia (though it is unknown if this included the New World). Perhaps the destruction wrought from Xande's pact with the Cloud of Darkness and the power from the Crystal Tower truly was close to an EarthShatteringKaboom.
*** The official lore book goes into more detail on this. The Allagan Empire was in fact centered in Eorzea, but the entirety of the civilization was powered by the Crystal Tower, which among other things was a gigantic solar panel. The Empire bound Bahamut into Dalamud and sent it into orbit, with Emperor Xande's plan to use the primal's fire-aspected nature to more efficiently absorb solar energy, and then send it directly to the Crystal Tower. However the Allagan scientists did not properly account for the sheer amount of power that Dalamud could produce, and the tremendous force of the connection almost instantly created a power surge and massive earthquakes that would bury the Tower and much of the surrounding area. That which was not destroyed in the earthquake was left without power, its technology useless. The survivors of this calamity decided that rather than try to rebuild, they would destroy or hide what was left so that future generations would not succumb to hubris in the way that their own civilization did.
*** Further explained in ''Shadowbringers:'' aether imbalances on one of the shards cause the excess aether to spill into the Source world, amplifying associated disasters into full-blown Calamities. So if an excess of earth aether was poured into the Crystal Tower's earthquakes...
* Why does the fake Inquisitor Guillaime even bother antagonizing the Scions? They have nothing to do with the reason he's there and if any group could possibly expose what he's doing and ruin his entire scheme it would be the Scions. It seems like he's taking a huge risk for very little reward and he could do a lot more damage by just letting the Scions do what they came there to do and leave without drawing attention to himself, or even help expedite their quest (which he's in a position to do) so they leave faster and do less damage to his cause and his allies. They want something from his allies, true, but it's something completely useless to them. Instead, he gets in their way, forces them into an alliance with his enemies, gets a lot of his allies killed and his plans blown apart, then dies, and his allies lose the thing the Scions were after anyway.
** The second the Scions started snooping his plan was going to fail in the worst kind of MortonsFork scenario: Let the Scions into the Stone Vigil and they wipe out the occupying Dravanians enough that Ishgard can reclaim it for both strategic and sentimental reasons (which ends up happening anyway), or give them access and tell the dragons inside to just let them go peacefully, which would cast a ''ton'' of suspicion on him... if they didn't just ignore it anyway, as it's made pretty clear that Nidhogg and his brood don't give a damn about the Heretics until they've become a dragon themselves.
* In the Ivalice Raid storyline, we learn that Garlemald has a hand in covering up Ramza's involvement in the Zodiac Braves story generations ago since Ramza was a heretic to the church at the time. But why would Garlemald, an athiest state, try to cover up the actions of a heretic to a church? Probably mostly since the story wouldn't work without it, but it doesn't really make much sense.
** It might be that the digging they did while considering making the records public knowledge lead them to (correctly) realize that he was not only a Warrior of Light but also very much closely connected to some very anti-Garlean Primal activity, likely leading to the Garleans (or Solus if he was directly involved) to continue the coverup so it didn't get out that a heretic was not only in actuality one of its greatest heroes but also a blessed of a Goddess the Garleans claim doesn't exist.
* So here's what I don't get about the Four Lords quest line ending. If Suzaku has access to revival magic, why didn't she use it to save Genbu during the fight against Koryu, instead leading to Soroban to summon Genbu's spirit as part of a FusionDance?
** Resurrective magic in this game seems to functionally be a magic defibrillator, so while Suzaku's powers could revive her adds (an extension of herself) and probably heal someone who was effectively dead, reviving someone truly dead is only the realm of necromancy. Even if her powers were that strong, it would be moot anyway because Genbu's body dispersed into Aether upon death so there was nothing to raise.
* To kill an Ascian, and we mean KilledOffForReal, it requires distinct resources and specific means to accomplish that only the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and very close associates like the Scholars of Sharlayan are privy to. How in the world did Gaius, with no magic and only a Garlean Gunblade to his name, become the Shadowhunter by killing ''several'' of them as what amounts to a BadassNormal? The story doesn't even imply he has White Auracite or a means to produce a Blade of Light, either.
** Most of the masks Gaius had were belonging to black-masks, the underlings who are implicitely (per the Summoner quests) not able to evacuate their bodies and die with them. While he does have a few red Overlord masks, there's never anything to say he permanently killed them, at best he most likely just drove them from their host bodies by killing them (itself a masterful display of skill and power).
* When evacuating the people of Thavnair, why did the Sharlayan council think it was a good idea to march them ''straight through Garlemald''?!
** To use the Tower of Babil to send them up to the moon without having to use their ship. It wasn't just evacuating them from Thavnair, it was beginning the process of migrating the world's population up to the moon, and having a working teleporter that can instantly send people up there en masse was a more attractive option than having to use a ship with limited capacity and fuel requirements, and that wasn't even finished by that point. It was a risk to be sure, but the Final Days couldn't wait, and with the Garlean Empire in ruins and the Ilsabard contingent covering their exit, it was seen as an acceptable risk to take. They didn't bank on the Final Days coming to Garlemald until it was too late.
* One of Endwalker's biggest reveals is that the moon itself is a construct created by Hydaelyn to serve as Zodiark's prison, and then as an emergency ark to get the people of the Source to another planet if necessary; however, there is one problem: if you go to Elpis, and look up, you can see that there's ''already a moon''. Since Elpis is pre-Sundering, it doesn't make sense for there to already be a moon, especially when it's explicitly stated that the current moon was ''created'', not ''transformed'' by Hydaelyn.
** Technically it's possible that the original moon got destroyed as part of the final days, considering that when we run through the Amaurot dungeon, we get a view of the planet which is clearly lacking a moon and shows a meteor shower of massive proportions going down on the planet. The original moon might have gotten destroyed during the original Final Days and Venat decided to replace it as part of her plan to stop Zodiark.
* So the Omega quests in EW reveal that despite the base expansion saying giving in to despair is what causes a transformation into a Blasphemy... it's in fact entirely up to luck (which probably explains why Sharlayans weren't popping into monsters, can you imagine how many of them would turn into Blasphemies over getting a bad score on their A levels?). So the whole "be strong and never give up" thing was... bunk. So then what does that mean of the Ancients? Was there actually a chance for them to gain control over the rampaging magics? Was everything just the result of Venat jumping the gun in fear she would otherwise doom the entire planet if she didn't hurry? Also what happened to the souls of people who turn into Blasphemies? Y'shtola says they vanish, but then it turns out it's just Meteion's illusions obscuring them? 6.1 was very confusing, and it's clear the writers want to move away from the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc quickly.
** 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.
*** That doesn't track. What kind of life did that kid have that even having his father present next to him caused him to despair to that level? The father being consoled AFTER doesn't change that nadir of despair at the time. The quest seemed to sever the tether of become a blasphemy from being a moral failing (what omega was looking for was a reason why they failed to resist, like his race did) to random chance if it affected you enough *at the moment* to the extent of turning.
*** There's nothing random about a child being afraid of all that's happening around them and falling into a state where they are succeptible yo becoming a blasphemy. Even a toddler who wouldn't know despair can fall into it. It's not a moral failing, it's a storm of negative emotions that person for one reason or another just can't handle.
* 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?
** Assuming it's not just a plot hole, it's plausible that permadeath only applies to Voidsent who ''physically'' enter the Source through a large enough Voidgate, which are exceedingly rare and often only allow weak Voidsents like Imps and Bombs to fully cross over, and most other strong Voidsent (prior to 6.3) only enter with their soul inhabiting a vesselk. Diabolos was summoned by the Mhachi, who used a lot of vessels to help them in their mass-Voidsent summoning. Presumably, a Voidsent killed while its soul inhabits a vessel simply has their soul go back to the Void, while the Nullstone is capable of completely destroying a Voidsent even with that clause.
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** Memories can be altered as Hermes proved. Venat was also in the facility when Kairos triggered: So they could argue that it screwed her mind especially badly. Venat also was seen as an oddball by most Ancients; having completeled her duties, yet refusing to return to the star. If she suddenly claimed the end of the world was coming without proof, people would probably believe she had just finally fully lost her marbles. Which is why she recruited people she already knew like the Ancient the Watcher was wrought from. If they wanted to know her intentions, which the echo doesn't provide, perhaps they could do the "ascian fusion" with her, but Lahabrea would oppose it on principal after what happened with him and Athena. Anyone believing her after said fusion would be seen as "corrupted" by her "madness".
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** Memories can be altered as Hermes proved. Venat was also in the facility when Kairos triggered: So they could argue that it screwed her mind especially badly. Venat also was seen as an oddball by most Ancients; having completeled her duties, yet refusing to return to the star. If she suddenly claimed the end of the world was coming without proof, people would probably believe she had just finally fully lost her marbles. Which is why she recruited people she already knew like the Ancient the Watcher was wrought from. If they wanted to know her intentions, which the echo doesn't provide, perhaps they could do the "ascian fusion" with her, but Lahabrea would oppose it on principal after what happened with him and Athena. Anyone believing her after said fusion would be seen as "corrupted" by her "madness"."madness".
* So when an Ascian possesses a dead person, do they heal anything that would kill the body? Zenos slit his throat and Asahi was impaled (Albeit [[SpecialEffectFailure without even so much as breaking the skin]]) yet when Elidibus and Fandaniel are using their bodies, they're no worse for wear.
* It's not common (or even semi common) knowledge that Ascians can possess dead bodies around the time of the Post Stormblood quests, right? Because since Ascians can easily possess dead bodies, obviously the dead should be cremated so they won't get perverted by Ascians.
* So when an Ascian possesses a dead person, do they heal anything that would kill the body? Zenos slit his throat and Asahi was impaled (Albeit [[SpecialEffectFailure without even so much as breaking the skin]]) yet when Elidibus and Fandaniel are using their bodies, they're no worse for wear.
* It's not common (or even semi common) knowledge that Ascians can possess dead bodies around the time of the Post Stormblood quests, right? Because since Ascians can easily possess dead bodies, obviously the dead should be cremated so they won't get perverted by Ascians.
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** Too big of a risk for the ButterflyOfDoom? Showing them the source of what was to come could mean that everyone put their energies in trying to prevent Meteion's song of oblivion at the source, but being unable to reach her source, they'd waste time and resources and thus be unable to recover from the Final Days when they did strike. While the future of Etheirys isn't ideal, it still exists and thus can fight back. To take an alternative action would have been a gamble with too great a risk of losing.
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** Too big of a risk for the ButterflyOfDoom? Showing them the source of what was to come could mean that everyone put their energies in trying to prevent Meteion's song of oblivion at the source, but being unable to reach her source, they'd waste time and resources and thus be unable to recover from the Final Days when they did strike. While the future of Etheirys isn't ideal, it still exists and thus can fight back. To take an alternative action would have been a gamble with too great a risk of losing.losing.
** Memories can be altered as Hermes proved. Venat was also in the facility when Kairos triggered: So they could argue that it screwed her mind especially badly. Venat also was seen as an oddball by most Ancients; having completeled her duties, yet refusing to return to the star. If she suddenly claimed the end of the world was coming without proof, people would probably believe she had just finally fully lost her marbles. Which is why she recruited people she already knew like the Ancient the Watcher was wrought from. If they wanted to know her intentions, which the echo doesn't provide, perhaps they could do the "ascian fusion" with her, but Lahabrea would oppose it on principal after what happened with him and Athena. Anyone believing her after said fusion would be seen as "corrupted" by her "madness".
** Memories can be altered as Hermes proved. Venat was also in the facility when Kairos triggered: So they could argue that it screwed her mind especially badly. Venat also was seen as an oddball by most Ancients; having completeled her duties, yet refusing to return to the star. If she suddenly claimed the end of the world was coming without proof, people would probably believe she had just finally fully lost her marbles. Which is why she recruited people she already knew like the Ancient the Watcher was wrought from. If they wanted to know her intentions, which the echo doesn't provide, perhaps they could do the "ascian fusion" with her, but Lahabrea would oppose it on principal after what happened with him and Athena. Anyone believing her after said fusion would be seen as "corrupted" by her "madness".
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* Considering that FF1's Warrior of Light and his three companions ended the time loop which erased what they did from history, how does the residents of Hydaelyn have the knowledge of his legend to make minions of him and two of his other companions, replicate his armor, turn into a primal version of him (which is why I'm not simply writing it off as easter egg stuff and bizarrely enough replicate his hair?
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* Considering that FF1's [=FF1=]'s Warrior of Light and his three companions ended the time loop which erased what they did from history, how does the residents of Hydaelyn have the knowledge of his legend to make minions of him and two of his other companions, replicate his armor, turn into a primal version of him (which is why I'm not simply writing it off as easter egg stuff and bizarrely enough replicate his hair?
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* So if an Ascian is sundered, do they technically "die", or do they just get "reincarnated" and this process makes them skip the reformation? And if that's the case, when Emet-selch implants the memories into the reincarnation, is he implanting their genuine memories or are they skewed in some way? (ie Zodiark's tempering, Hermes's "Make everyone forget" spell.)
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* So if an Ascian is sundered, do they technically "die", or do they just get "reincarnated" and this process makes them skip the reformation? And if that's the case, when Emet-selch Emet-Selch implants the memories into the reincarnation, is he implanting their genuine memories or are they skewed in some way? (ie Zodiark's tempering, Hermes's "Make everyone forget" spell.)
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* I've seen people ask why Venat didn't use the Echo to show Emet Selch and the other members of the conclave what happened with Meteion. My interpretation was that they wouldn't have believed her because they didn't like the implications, but is there more to it?
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* I've seen people ask why Venat didn't use the Echo to show Emet Selch and the other members of the conclave what happened with Meteion. My interpretation was that they wouldn't have believed her because they didn't like the implications, but is there more to it?it?
** Too big of a risk for the ButterflyOfDoom? Showing them the source of what was to come could mean that everyone put their energies in trying to prevent Meteion's song of oblivion at the source, but being unable to reach her source, they'd waste time and resources and thus be unable to recover from the Final Days when they did strike. While the future of Etheirys isn't ideal, it still exists and thus can fight back. To take an alternative action would have been a gamble with too great a risk of losing.
** Too big of a risk for the ButterflyOfDoom? Showing them the source of what was to come could mean that everyone put their energies in trying to prevent Meteion's song of oblivion at the source, but being unable to reach her source, they'd waste time and resources and thus be unable to recover from the Final Days when they did strike. While the future of Etheirys isn't ideal, it still exists and thus can fight back. To take an alternative action would have been a gamble with too great a risk of losing.
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** Lorebook says the original Nael died in a poorly managed mission arranged by their father. Eula went mad as she could not do anything to heal his wounds and murdered their father and people she think were responsible for his death. She also has an unhealthy obsession with her brother, not in an incestuous way, so she assumed his identity to bring honor to his name.
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** Lorebook says the original Nael died in a poorly managed mission arranged by their father. Eula went mad as she could not do anything to heal his wounds and murdered their father and people she think were responsible for his death. She also has an unhealthy obsession with her brother, not in an incestuous way, so she assumed his identity to bring honor to his name.name.
* I've seen people ask why Venat didn't use the Echo to show Emet Selch and the other members of the conclave what happened with Meteion. My interpretation was that they wouldn't have believed her because they didn't like the implications, but is there more to it?
* I've seen people ask why Venat didn't use the Echo to show Emet Selch and the other members of the conclave what happened with Meteion. My interpretation was that they wouldn't have believed her because they didn't like the implications, but is there more to it?
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* How did Nael van Deus die and why did Eula assume his identity?
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* How did Nael van Deus Darnus die and why did Eula assume his identity?
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* How did Nael Von Deus die and why did Eula assume his identity?
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* How did Nael Von van Deus die and why did Eula assume his identity?
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**Sundered means split into 14 pieces. The Unsundered (Selch, Eldibus and Lahabrea) find the sundered versions of their comrades and unlock all their memories of their past as an Ancient and past lives they've lived. And as seen with Amon/Fandaniel, they don't always side directly with their Ancient self or beliefs.
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** In the Praetorium, Lahabrea believes that the Warrior of Light is too dangerous to let live, because the more powerful they become, the more powerful Hydaelyn's influence on the world becomes.
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*** Of course they did, they were there to use the tower in the first place. But airships can't just land wherever you want, there needs to be space for them and docking facilities and stuff like that. So they landed as close to the tower as they could, tried to walk to it, ran into the horde of Blasphemies, and gave up on approaching the tower as too dangerous and went back to the plan A of only using their spaceship.
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* How did Nael Von Deus die and why did Eula assume his identity?
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* How did Nael Von Deus die and why did Eula assume his identity?identity?
** Lorebook says the original Nael died in a poorly managed mission arranged by their father. Eula went mad as she could not do anything to heal his wounds and murdered their father and people she think were responsible for his death. She also has an unhealthy obsession with her brother, not in an incestuous way, so she assumed his identity to bring honor to his name.
** Lorebook says the original Nael died in a poorly managed mission arranged by their father. Eula went mad as she could not do anything to heal his wounds and murdered their father and people she think were responsible for his death. She also has an unhealthy obsession with her brother, not in an incestuous way, so she assumed his identity to bring honor to his name.
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* So if an Ascian is sundered, do they technically "die", or do they just get "reincarnated" and this process makes them skip the reformation? And if that's the case, when Emet-selch implants the memories into the reincarnation, is he implanting their genuine memories or are they skewed in some way? (ie Zodiark's tempering, Hermes's "Make everyone forget" spell.)
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* So if an Ascian is sundered, do they technically "die", or do they just get "reincarnated" and this process makes them skip the reformation? And if that's the case, when Emet-selch implants the memories into the reincarnation, is he implanting their genuine memories or are they skewed in some way? (ie Zodiark's tempering, Hermes's "Make everyone forget" spell.))
* How did Nael Von Deus die and why did Eula assume his identity?
* How did Nael Von Deus die and why did Eula assume his identity?
