History WMG / BravelyDefault

* FridgeBrilliance here, in game, Brave and Default are two different things. To Brave is to lunge and spend momentum and to Default is to hold back gain momentum. Only a split timeline can Bravely/Default at the same time. This is why both endings are required to get TheStinger.

Hence [[spoiler: Magnolia Arch's]] naginata.

* [[spoiler: That doesn't mean that they'd all look 100% identical. In all of the worlds where an "Airy" traveled, the outcome was either a)her killing the party and moving to another world to repeat the process or b)her being killed by the party as the Normal/False ending shows, but with Ouroboros's plan still not derailed for good. The party that you control is the only one to break that cycle, due to influence from Airy's "sister" who at some point betrayed her master but whether this is out of genuine concern about the fate of the worlds or [[SequelHook for her own ends]] is not certain.]]

[[spoiler:The Big Bad created multiple versions of Airy to send throughout the multiple Luxendarc rather than there just being a single one. Similar to the Maenads from ''FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'' the Airys are clones sent to awaken the multiple crystals, and 'Airy"s sister' was just one of the many Airys, only this one went renegade.]]

[[spoiler:The Big Bad created multiple versions of Airy to send throughout the multiple Luxendarc rather than there just being a single one. Similar to the Maenads from FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight the Airys are clones sent to awaken the multiple crystals, and 'Airy"s sister' was just one of the many Airys, only this one went renegade.]]

** Partly Jossed but also partly confirmed. It's implied during the final boss fight that [[spoiler: the other worlds that assist you had to fight Airy as well. However, Airy's sister has a different look and voice, as well as wing pattern.]]
** [[spoiler: That doesn't mean that they'd all look 100% identical. In all of the worlds where an "Airy" traveled, the outcome was either a)her killing the party and moving to another world to repeat the process or b)her being killed by the party as the Normal/False ending shows, but with Ouroboros's plan still not derailed for good. The party that you control is the only one to break that cycle, due to influence from Airy's "sister" who at some point betrayed her master but whether this is out of genuine concern about the fate of the worlds or [[SequelHook for her own ends]] is not certain.]]

[[WMG: There are multiple [[spoiler:Airy's]].]]
[[spoiler:The Big Bad created multiple versions of Airy to send throughout the multiple Luxendarc rather than there just being a single one. Similar to the Maenads from FF4TaY the Airy's are clones sent to awaken the multiple crystals, and 'Airy"s sister' was just one of the many Airy's, only this one went renegade.]]

WMG: [[[[{{Wutai}} Wa]] didn't sink. It was transported to the moon.]]

[[WMG: [[[[{{Wutai}} Wa]] didn't sink. It was transported to the moon.]]

You start rebuilding it before you even plug up the giant hole crater that sucked in Old Norende. Not to mention, you only see it in your menu; it's not on the world map. It's even there [[spoiler: when you move each AlternateUniverse]] or if you choose at the same level of completion in NewGamePlus. It's like [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts Traverse Town.]]

* The Nemesis Ba'ali are coming from the hole that sucked it old Norende. It's a crack in reality left by the Crystal's darkness. And Outside is very....hungry. Fortunately, the Ba'ali can't actually attack the spiritual residents; they can only fight a crew attuned to both the spiritual plane and the physical. Your party.

I posted a fridge logic that points out that Asterixs are basically Job Materia made from the Crystals (which are the source of jobs prior to the creation of asterixs). By this logic I propose that in FF7 we see what happens to the Life Stream when the world's Life is weak and sickly. Under normal circumstances the Life Stream would have formed natural Crystals but Shinra constantly draining the Life Stream stopped the Crystals from forming properly. At some point in the past FF7's world destroyed their crystals for some reason and they were never able to reform.

** [[spoiler: Also in (at least one of) the endings we see Agnes awakening the crystals again, though it's safe to assume that it's a partial awakening compared to what Airy had her doing.]]

You start rebuilding it before you even plug up the giant hole crater that sucked in Old Norende. Not to mention, you only see it in your menu; it's not on the world map. It's even there if you choose at the same level of completion in NewGamePlus. It's like [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts Traverse Town.]]

* [[spoiler:Confirmed, somewhat. Awakening the crystals seems to have no effect on the present world, but causes the next world that the Holy Pillar links to to experience the darkening of the crystals and formation of the Grand Chasm.]]

As in, going the whole five yards or whatever. [[spoiler:Simply breaking off the darkness on the crystal would be enough to restore its power.]]

[[WMG: There are multiple Airy's]]
The Big Bad created multiple versions of Airy to send throughout the multiple Luxendarc rather than there just being a single one. Similar to the Maenads from FF4TaY the Airy's are clones sent to awaken the multiple crystals, and 'Airy"s sister' was just one of the many Airy's, only this one went renegade.

As in, going the whole five yards or whatever. Simply breaking off the darkness on the crystal would be enough to restore its power.

The Big Bad created multiple versions of Airy to send throughout the multiple Luxendarc rather than there just being a single one. Similar to the Maenads from FF4TaY the Airy's are clones sent to awaken the multiple crystals, and 'Airy"s sister' was just one of the many Airy's, only this one went renegade.

To quote a post I made on another forum, both are/were heavily based on ''Final Fantasy'', then distanced from the series later on (''SD1'', or ''FinalFantasyAdventure'', was called ''Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden'', while ''BD'' was reworked into a new IP during production), and will likely be further distanced from the series in later games. Not sure if that means ''Bravely Default'' is eventually going to get a remake that removes most of the ''Final Fantasy'' influences, though.

* I thought it was a distant future version of ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy|I}}'', too, it seems as if they've advanced from the crystals merely being [[MacGuffin crystals]] to actively using them. It's been long enough for a religion to form around the crystals, and for technology to advance and/or be rediscovered, and jobs seem to have changed from being... either innate abilities or whatever you trained for (whichever was the canon explanation) to mystical powers afforded by the asterisks. The game meshes well with the ''FF''-verse, too, which isn't surprising considering it's the SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight''.

Compare the map of Luxendarc to the map of Final Fantasy 1 on its side, and you notice several similarities. Perhaps Luxendarc is set in the future of Final Fantasy. Due to continental divide and shift, Cornelia/Provoka could easily have become the Caldisla region, Lufenia exists as Ancheim, Onrac as Florem, and the Crescent Lake area as Eisenberg. Likewise the Carida Islands could have become the Crescent Islands over time.

* The Nemesis Ba'ali are coming from the hole that sucked it old Norende. It's a crack in reality left by the Crystal's darkness. And Outside is very....hungry. Fortunately, the Ba'ali can't actually attack the spiritual residents; they can only fight a crew attuned to both the spiritual plane and the physical. Your party.

You start rebuilding it before you even plug up the giant hole crater that sucked in Old Norende. Not to mention, you only see it in your menu; it's not on the world map. Especially since people from AlternateUniverse (ie, the Internet, or Streetpass) can join and help rebuild; it's actually a spiritual dimension closer to the world of the gods. [[spoiler: [[RealLife Our World.]]]]

You start rebuilding it before you even plug up the giant hole crater that sucked in Old Norende. Not to mention, you only see it in your menu; it's not on the world map. Especially since people from AlternateUniverse (ie, the Internet, or Streetpass) can join and help rebuild; it's actually a spiritual dimension closer to the world of the gods. [[spoiler: [[RealLife Our World.]]

They might have even intentionally created it. Not everyone is in the position for the SocializationBonus. Carrying over 20 villagers from the demo is enough to unlock the village early for people patient enough. It sweetens the deal that people who use the villager bug may be thinking they're getting it "illicitly."

[[WMG: SquareEnix knows about the Demo Villager bug.]]

Compare the map of Luxendarc to the map of Final Fantasy 1 on its side, and you notice several similarities. Perhaps Luxendarc is set in the future of Final Fantasy. Due to continental divide and shirt, Cornelia/Provoka could easily have become the Caldisla region, Lufenia exists as Ancheim, Onrac as Florem, and the Crescent Lake area as Eisenberg. Likewise the Carida Islands could have become the Crescent Islands over time.

* I'm no Sonybrony, but it's likely seeing how the game's visuals appear to be designed with higher resolution in mind, and the Vita can also do AR.

* I'm no Sonybrony, but it's likely seeing how the game's visuals appear to be designed with higher resolution in mind, and the Vita can also do AR.

[[WMG: The Asterisks are [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts of Doom]] that slowly turn their holders evil.]]
* Which is why every Asterisk bearer you encounter is irredeemably evil. Praline probably didn't have hers for that long, so it didn't effect her as much as the others.

* I'm no Sonybrony, but it's likely seeing how the game's visuals appear to be designed with higher resolution in mind, and the Vita can also do AR.