Without breaking NDA, there are three big things that happened about five years ago...
1) Aether got all bent out of shape. This was happening already before Bahamut's arrival, and the landing of Dalamud did nothing to help matters.
2) Huge and immediate changes were made to the landscape. Rivers shifted course, forests burned, dams broke, and so forth. We've seen some of the extensive damage already from preview screenshots, and watching the end of an era made it clear that ain't nothing getting by without scratches.
3) The adventurer population dropped off immensely. This might not seem like a big deal until you remember that adventurers were the people going out and ensuring that wildlife remained small, manageable, and non-threatening. All those leves you did in which you ensured that no miteling stepped within a hundred yalms of Gridania? Yeah.
As a result, while Bahamut may not have summoned a big Monster Convention and told everyone to go wreck things, he was arguably directly responsible for the huge changes to landscape and environment that prompted a monster population encounter. The last five years have featured monsters getting more aggressive partly because they've just had fewer restraints.
1) Aether got all bent out of shape. This was happening already before Bahamut's arrival, and the landing of Dalamud did nothing to help matters.
2) Huge and immediate changes were made to the landscape. Rivers shifted course, forests burned, dams broke, and so forth. We've seen some of the extensive damage already from preview screenshots, and watching the end of an era made it clear that ain't nothing getting by without scratches.
3) The adventurer population dropped off immensely. This might not seem like a big deal until you remember that adventurers were the people going out and ensuring that wildlife remained small, manageable, and non-threatening. All those leves you did in which you ensured that no miteling stepped within a hundred yalms of Gridania? Yeah.
As a result, while Bahamut may not have summoned a big Monster Convention and told everyone to go wreck things, he was arguably directly responsible for the huge changes to landscape and environment that prompted a monster population encounter. The last five years have featured monsters getting more aggressive partly because they've just had fewer restraints.
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