FFXIV story/lore thread

[Edelweiss]

Oathkeeper is also still MIA; presumably the PLD questline in future installments will continue to revolve around it and the Monetarists (the Syndicate). The accused thief (former captain of the Sultansworn, Solkzagyl) didn't steal it, and he leaves the Sultansworn in Jenlyn's hands as he continues searching for it.

[Eldelphia]

There's something about Bronze Bull in the final blacksmith quest. A mithra commissions a new blade for him but wants you to present it to him. You make it and he uses his new sword to destroy the old one. He mentions the red phoenix and seems to know what the gift is about. I wasn't sure what was going on.

[Niiro]

Aldis's sword is Frenzy (guy from the GLD quest), the other one used by Leavold isn't named afaik.

[Rocl]

There's something about Bronze Bull in the final blacksmith quest. A mitral commissions a new blade for him but wants you to present it to him. You make it and he uses his new sword to destroy the old one. He mentions the red phoenix and seems to know what the gift is about. I wasn't sure what was going on.

The Hellfire Phoenix? That was the gladiator Greinfarr fought in a tournament during 1.0 and she threw the match because of the Syndicate wanting her to or some shit and was then shamed out of Ul'dah for losing? I don't recall specifics unfortunately.

[Eldelphia]

Yep, that's the name. She commissions a new sword for him via the guild and then wants you to give it to him on her behalf. You see her listening in around the corner. I could tell there was back story but had no idea about it because I didn't get further than level 15 in 1.0.

ETA: sorry about the vagueness, I've been sick the past few days.

[Qeomash]

I'm guessing the new locked tunnel in Revenant's Toll is going to be the zoneline to Coerthans Western Highlands.

[solracht]

[Kaixin]

Huh, five. Hmm...



Also, lol @ "learned men of Garlond Ironworks." So, Cid.

So, when you see Bahamut being reformed after T9, where are you exactly? A different "coil"/ragnarok? You shut it down and there are 2 laser beams left out of the 3 original that you see post-T5. Judging from the perspective of the lasers you see, at the end of T9 it appears you are on the ragnarok that I labelled 2 in the above screenshot. But the depth of the T9 ragnarok is so, so much lower than the T5 one.

[Rocl]

Five makes sense, if you look at the original Bahamut head post T5 it looks like there's 4 Coils and the one you're standing on.

Bahamut being reformed under T5 and T9 is the same place, under Carteneau Flats iirc (which is where the second half of T9 takes place holographically)

Also there's more people in Garlond Ironworks than Cid, Biggs, and Wedge but I wonder if they all died/left Eorzea after Cid's presumed death.

[Kaixin]

My main questions are:

1) Who deactivated the first coil?
2) How come T9 is so much deeper below the surface than T5 (2.5 miles)? I guess the chamber is just closer to the surface near wineport and further away from fallgourd. NVM, answered my own question as I was writing it.
Edit:
and 3) If you squint your eyes and try to imagine the chamber and its relation with the continent of Eorzea, can you predict which coil is where? For example, which one do you think lines up with the suspected entry point in Coerthas?

[Raldo]

Knowing that those are neurolinks, the "one" in Coerthas could actually be a few. It certainly looks like more than one ring, if I'm recalling it correctly.

[Edelweiss]

If I had to guess who shut down the first coil? Louisoix.. assuming he wasn't immediately tempered upon Megaflare going off, or survived long enough to do so before tempering.

[solracht]

I always assumed it gets turned off when we use the terminal in the main bridge (the one that also brings the walls down), or it's implied Allisae does it as we're leaving.

I don't think it's an important plot point and most likely the CS makers forgot about it.

EDIT: Missed the reason why the question was asked, since I never saw Kaix's edit. I was talking about the "first Coil" as in the one in the Ragnarok Main Bridge, which isn't explicitly turned off.

[Raldo]

Where does it say that anything was turned off (haven't cleared T9 yet, but idk if it's spoilers from there)

[solracht]

The beam from the second Coil disappears after Allisae turns off the machine. The beam from the first Coil never actually goes away before we leave the chamber, but then it's gone in the Second Coil (and everyone in the CSs acts like we turned it off while we were in the first Coil)

[Edelweiss]

Then it's just an oversight then. lol

[Kaixin]

I was referring to the mysterious already-deactivated laser that I labeled with a 5 in the screenshot. In other words, by the end of T9, we've shut down lasers 2 and 3. I also thought that it was clearly said that there were only 3 coils.

[Rocl]

The beam from the first Coil never actually goes away before we leave the chamber,

The beam is gone when the walls come up and we see Nael/Louisoix, yes. But there's 5 coils, I assumed Kaixin was talking about the turned-off one in the upper right corner.



When we arrive at the Second Coil mechanism there's 3 lines going to Bahamut (including the one we're standing on)

[Kaixin]

The beam is gone when the walls come up and we see Nael/Louisoix, yes. But there's 5 coils, I assumed Kaixin was talking about the turned-off one in the upper right corner.

That's the one. In other words, Coil 1 (T1-5) is the second of five lasers turned off. Sorry for being unclear.

So: Who turned the first one off? How did Bahamut get here in the first place? (I'm assuming this is something that's yet to be explained). Do the other coils make sense geographically? From my shitty mental image, I can almost place one in Thanalan (Burning Wall) and the other in.....Ala Mhigo?

[solracht]

The beam is gone when the walls come up and we see Nael/Louisoix, yes.

This is why I should always factcheck myself before posting. My mistake