#ff14 6.4 spoilers

[englass]

I swear to god, if by the end of this we don’t get another piece of our soul I am going to be very upset…

[onigirina]

In celebration of clearing the second boss of Another Mount Rokkon today, I'm sharing the diagrams I made for the last mechanic.

Not pictured are the crossing line aoes you need to dodge while standing in your last circle.

I wish that for some mechanics there would be a bit less RNG involved.

[sunnythanalan]

I never lost faith that we would meet again. I told you as much, did I not?

[sangrefae]

then this all has meaning. our time together—every moment—is worthwhile... ... and i am unburdened by regret.

[diadoescomics]

Pandaemonium Anabaseos no context reactions

[haunted-xander]

I'm not the only one who thought of this surely...?

[syqy]

athena doodle :)

[hazoret]

Let her in :)

[ofdarklands]

i... it's them

[just-pug-things]

i am the true divine

[blaky6]

Fleeting Moment

[englass]

Current three theories for our void soul piece are currently: Zero (strong contender bc she's taking a very similar role/vibe as Ardbert esp since she's taking a central role in the story), "Golbez" aka Durante (weaker, but it could work as a twist of "he has good intentions trying to save the world but look he's following the Ascians' actions"), or real-Golbez (trapped in the memoria, now sucked into Zeromus, will undoubtedly be playing a central role in 6.5, what glimpse we got of him he did have WoL-vibes the same as Zero and Durante). Time will tell, but I'll be excited either way.

To be honest, I’ll be super disappointed if it is Zero, but thankfully that doesn’t appear to be the case with what this latest patch gave us. The moment we got that first-person echo after touching the memoria, my mind was set on that trapped soul being ours. Which is further supported imo by the way the camera focuses on it being absorbed/consumed by Zeromus followed by what Zero says to Vrtra about souls being devoured by each other: how the soul persists within the devourer and the emotions/fears of those devoured souls can be inherited by the dominate soul. How, for all intents and purposes, they are still alive. Just in a state of limbo until they are either freed with their collective death or are somehow reawakened within the dominate host (implied in the way Zero says that Vrtra needs to call out to Azdaja).

Hell, it appears the whole reason Golbez fed Azdaja to Zeromus in the first place was to implant her hopes and dreams of seeing her world again into Zeromus. I guess to effectively give this living aether a purpose that it was solely lacking after Zodiark was defeated and his piece (and by extension his will comprising/containing it) in the 13th dissipated.

With that said…

I think we will get close enough to Zeromus to resonate with that trapped piece of our soul. Whether we connect with it and it becomes as a literal beacon in the dark within Zeromus, helping us to destroy/weaken him from the inside out; or we somehow manage to straight up take it from Zeromus outright, making our soul denser with its rejoining to us and therefore being better able to fight and withstand the darkness’s corruption — I think that’s how we’ll do it. That’s how we’ll win: our soul rejoining.

And truly — I really bloody hope that the real endgame, the true proper proper endgame, is us completely rejoining our ancient soul. So yeah, if this doesn’t end with us becoming 10/14 I will be very upset; but thankfully that appears to be where this is going (there is the possibility that the soul piece will reform itself if we free it tho which is what I’m kinda a bit concerned about…). It’s just a case of how at this point, but I think it’s one of the two ways I mentioned. As you said, the memoria is going to play a crucial role and I completely believe that this is its role.

But the above is merely my theory at any rate 🤷🏻‍♀️

[windupnamazu]

fleeting moment

[honewys]

“And among these uncountable stars, it was yours that crossed my path.”

[hotshotriot]

this is such a lie btw everyone is excited for the grand boys night out return including me

[rbillustration]

Athena, the Tireless One 🦋

Coming soon as a holo sticker and potentially a small print too!