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Andrew Verse
Mar 30, 2011

My theory is that the Sound was the deathrattle of the Lifestream.

Throughout FF14 we've been told about how important the balance between elements is, and when one element overtakes the others is when a calamity occurs. And then here we have Amaurot, a world full of immortal creatures who can create life with their creation magics. Not only do Amaurotian souls not go into the Lifestream due to their immortality, they're constantly draining the Lifestream by creating living beings.

Life and death are completely out of whack, and then one day the Lifestream simply breaks. This causes the final days.

Now, the Amaurotians have the idea of creating Zodiark to save their world, and they do so by sacrificing half of all Amaurotians to create Zodiark. But the thing is, Zodiark doesn't actually do anything. The world is saved because all those sacrificed souls return to the Lifestream, fixing what was wrong with it, and the Ascians laboring to undo this would've doomed the world once more.

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Andrew Verse
Mar 30, 2011

Estinien's last name is Estinien.

In Endwalker we'll meet his brother, Luigi.

Andrew Verse
Mar 30, 2011

Begemot posted:

My money's on them having some sort of deal with the Unsundered Ascians, and not knowing that this is all being caused by Fandaniel going rogue and actually trying to cause the End of Days, and not just Emet up to another scheme.

Like, if you knew him and what his deal was, Garlemald launching yet another war/invasion would be no big deal, even if they were using some sort of scary new primal weapon. You could even have it be like "oh the Sharlayans have special magic technology that allows them to see everything that happens on this star," but they don't know about Emet and Elidibus dying because it happened on the First.

Yeah, that's my theory too. They think this is "just" another Calamity, not the literal end of the world.

Andrew Verse
Mar 30, 2011

If it weren't for Azem's superpower of making friends wherever they went, Zenos would still be in the grave. We befriended him so hard that instead of just accepting his loss and staying dead, he was compelled to come back to life just so he could keep on being our friend.

Andrew Verse
Mar 30, 2011

sexpig by night posted:

it's so funny to me that the ultimate power behind the scenes of the very world just had a handgun

It just shows that Emet-Selch's approach of hanging out with us had its merits.

When Elidibus stabbed the Exarch with his magic, it did basically nothing. Emet-Selch had figured it out from spending time with the Exarch, so he brought a tool that would work.

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