New Year Greeting

[Eldelphia]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...9f53dba629018c

Gerun Chronicles... Sea?

[lilbubbles]

Well. if Diadem is to Sky as Gerun is to Sea..

[Silenka]

But it is my hope for 2016 that we remember how it feels to be a new player, and I want to keep this in mind as we move forward together.

Please god why

[Appie]

Please god why

Because those are the only people who will sub for more than 3 months a year.

[Evane]

"For hate of the Star, to seas He cast His doom."

Who's the star? Elidibus? Unukalhai? Who betrayed Zodiark?

[Rocl]

The star is the planet, Hydaelyn. It's a very archaic term used frequently since 2.55. Gerun was mentioned in the MSQ, it's pretty much like the Dead Sea Scrolls (and the Occuria dude from XII).

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Gerun

The Moon is, ofc, likely Zodiark. On the surface of the moon at the end of 3.0 there's a destroyed Zodiark statue (like the one in the Chrysalis) and Zodiark's sigil from XII is also hidden in the sands (much like the Ascians wear the Esper Sigils on their faces corresponding to their XII-Scion name; Cuchulainn in Void Ark also has his XII Sigil plastered on his stomach)

The poem circles back to Ramuh (lol) "for light and dark given form when man was born" etc. Some primordial god shit going on, potentially either pulling a fucking "this is all final fantasy mythos" explaining each game as a sea (and why crossover so possible ecks dee)

tl;dr star is Hydaelyn (planet), Hydaelyn (goddess) had kids, put them in the sea (prob mortals)
Zodiark mad af, sends his "doom" to plague the kids (prob ascians)

another popular interpretation of the fourteen seas are the Astral/Umbral Eras (we're up to 14 now) and the Twelve (who are really 13 + Zodiark = 14)

[Evane]

If you're gonna add Zodiark to the 12 then you should add the goddess as well and count Nald'thal as one.

Do we know if the goddess has a sign or a sigil similar to the Twelve's? If not then could it be possible that Zodiark is an Ascian and not a "God" tier? And Hydaelyn too. A renegade Ascian (think FFXII Venat)?

[Lokus]

I never noticed that Cuchulainn had the glyph marks on his stomach, which going by FFXII's scions of light/dark, means he's supposedly opposite to Nabriales. So that's the 3rd appearance of the light/dark scion motif from FFXII, Zodiark being the opposite to Elibdus (his Ascian mask bears Zodiac's glyph) and Belias opposite to Loghrif (though we never see his Ascian mask and Belias is in Egi form.)

[The Stig]

But it is my hope for 2016 that we remember how it feels to be a new player, and I want to keep this in mind as we move forward together.

Please god why

[Shenrien]

http://i.imgur.com/XS5LK.gif

[Nama]

I took the sea mentions literally as meaning ocean expansion since it was mentioned that Yoshi chose sky over sea for Heavensward.