(10-31-2015, 01:30 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: (I will come back later and link sources and such, but hope this helps! ^^ )
Follow up lore post:
THIS POST HAS SPOILERS THROUGHOUT!
You've been warned!
You've been warned!
-Seven Celestial Wyrms Bleed Crystal
-Dengeki Article on Dragon Lore
-Dragonspeak and Dragon Lore Thread
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Bahamut
Louisoix Wrote:Twas in the twilight of the Third Astral Era... The southern land of Meracydia suffered invasion at the hands of the Allagan Empire. With no atrocity too depraved for their purpose, the forces of Allag were unstoppable in their advance. Desperate for salvation, the dragons prayed to one of the first brood - to their ancestor Bahamut. Infused by the power of their fervent supplications, Bahamut arose from the abyss of death and took wing as the Meracydians' newborn god.
Hraesvelgr Wrote:In an age long past, mine own kin were guilty of like folly. Beguiled by the dark ones' lies, they attempted to resurrect a king amongst wyrms - yet the divinity they called forth merely borrowed the semblence of my fallen brood-brother. Such gods are not summoned, but created. Phantoms spun from the threads of misplaced faith.
Tiamat Wrote:Hearken to my tale, child of man. I am Tiamat, of Midgardsormr's first brood. In a time before time, my father did come to this star, bearing seven eggs. From these eggs did my brood hatch. And once they were full-grown, they took wing and spread across all the lands of Hydaelyn. Together with my brood-brother Bahamut, I journeyed south to Meracydia. And together, we brought forth innumerable children into the world. We abided in peace, and all was well... until the men of Allag came, some five thousand years since. They slaughtered my children in droves, and took from me my beloved Bahamut.
Twas then, when I had fallen into the depths of despair, that black-robed men came unto me. The Ascians. They offered to resurrect Bahamut through their dark arts, and I, in my grief, accepted - a decision which I shall regret unto my dying breath. For what they brought back was a mockery of my beloved. Worse, the Ascians gifted his murderers the means to entrap him. Know this, child of man: the beings thy call gods are but specters of thy mind's creation, given form at great cost to Hydaelyn. Many such beings yet slumber across the land, brought to heel by the selfsame empire that bound me. They must not be released into the world.
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Ratatoskr
Hraesvelgr Wrote:Two centuries of harmony were to follow, during which time the Elezen learned much about us, not least that the eyes of a great wyrm are the wellspring of his strength. Twas out of selfish desire to possess this strength that King Thordan then conspired to undo all that our peoples had achieved together. With the aid of his leal knights, that most noble of Elezen lured my brood-sister Ratatoskr into an ambush, and took from her that which he craved.
Fain would I strike the image from my mind, yet still the scene doth linger - of my brood-sister's tattered corpse, defiled by her Elezen allies. They had torn out her eyes, and feasted upon them in a manner of wild beasts. Yet that was not all, for from their bloody banquet, the fiends had gained strength beyond that of mortal men... Even now, I labor to comprehend the enormity of their betrayal.
Nidhogg was the first to learn of the atrocity, and he took to the skies, hungry for vengeance. But though he slew Thordan and some few of his knights, their fellow butchers knew only too well where to aim their spears, and with now-practiced savagery, they set about my brood-brother, sending him flailing from the field...
Nidhogg Wrote:We are undone by covetous mortals. They did take Ratatoskr's eyes... and glut their appetites upon her essence...
Haldrath Wrote:Aye... the wyrm lies broken and my father is avenged. With the wellspring of his vitality thus denied him, Nidhogg shall not linger long in this world. But behold the terrible price we have paid.
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Tiamat
Tiamat Wrote:Millennia have passed since I was brought low by the men of Allag. To think that war rageth still between our kinds...
Midgardsormr Wrote:It hath been five thousand years, my child. Wilt thou not forgive thyself?
Tiamat Wrote:The release of death is denied me here, yet I desire not freedom. Nay, Father. I shall live with my regret until the world itself hath ceased to be. Such is my just punishment for consorting with Darkness - for calling forth a loathsome and lamentable creature which blackeneth my beloved's memory.
Basically, Tiamat gave up the will to live and likely allowed herself to be brought low and captured by the invading Allagan forces under the resurrected Xande's command. I don't think she chose to be mounted like a trophy in Azys Lla, that's just where the Allagans took her after they bound her using sophisticated Neurolinks. They captured and tortured her and showed her off to the world to show everyone the power of Allag.
In the third post I linked at the top, Fernehalwes gives us an interesting blurb about "Esh Thom," an area in Delta Quadrant overlooking the captive Tiamat. Esh Thom, Fernehalwes explains, is a name made up by the Allagans when they believed they had mastered Dragonspeak - a language before thought to be unlearnable in a life time. Their intended translation was "the lowest of spirits" - likely referring to the beaten Tiamat. The Allagans didn't want to kill Tiamat. They had already won. They were rubbing it in her face.
Here's the text:
Fernehalwes Wrote:There also happens to be one place on the Azys Lla map that features a name in the dragon language. One may ask how this is possible, as it goes completely against the naming conventions used for other locations in the area. Well, the story behind this is that the name is, in fact, an Allagan creation, not something that the dragons themselves coined. At the height of their civilization, the Allagans felt that they had achieved intellectual supremacy over all other beings on Hydaelyn, the mighty dragons included. Even the dragon language, once believed impossible to crack, was fully deciphered by Allagan linguists─or so they claimed. Using the ‘impossible’ language became a fad, and dragonspeak was, for a time, incorporated everywhere from restaurant names to cereal brands. The claw-like formation in the Delta Quadrant—Esh Thom—is an attempt by an Allagan to make a play on the dragonspeak word for god “es{h}e{h}d,†which is, in fact, a compound meaning “highest spirit.†The Allagan who coined the term took the e{h}d portion (highest) and replaced it with “t{h}om†(bottom-most), possibly to express the late Allagan civilization’s departure from matters theological and their disdain for those who still adhered to their belief in an almighty being watching over them. It turns out that the joke was on the Allagans, as not only did a planet-wide calamity put an end to their reign over Hydaelyn, but the name Esh Thom does not translate into “the lowest of spirits,†but more closely to “an underdeveloped spirit,†a trait which can possibly be attributed to the fall of their people.
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Midgardsormr
Midgardsormr Wrote:Who treadeth now upon my bones and waketh me from slumber sweet?
![[Image: xe2ylq0.png]](http://i.imgur.com/xe2ylq0.png)
Yep, not dead, only sleeping! Also, he still very much has his eyes in this cutscene!
Now, going back to that top link I posted which explains how the massive explosions of crystallized aether we see in areas such as Tharl Oom Khash (Ratatoskr's grave), the Aery (where Nidhogg rested when wounded during the Dragonsong War), Antithesis (where Tiamat was tortured by Allagans), and finally Mor Dhona (where Midgardsormr was wounded in the Battle of Silvertear Skies) - we can theorize that the massive explosion we witnessed at the start of 1.0 was actually more Midgardsormr's aether leaving him, not only the result of a random cereluem explosion. Hence why the Mor Dhona region went from being a lush forest to a purple crystallized wasteland.
Sightseeing Vista #017 Wrote:Tharl Oom Khash
An ancient structure half consumed by crystal, its name means "crystal from remorse" in the tongue of dragons. From the sheer mass of crystallization, it has been posited that an entity possessed of aetheric power to rival the seven great wyrms laid down its life here...
Sightseeing Vista #079 Wrote:Rathefrost
The fall of the Agrius into Silvertear Falls not only drained the magnificent multi-tiered lake, but instantly crystallized the majority of the region's flora - a result of mass quantities of ceruleum fuel reacting with aether released upon Midgardsormr's death. What remains is a brilliant, yet dead landscape akin to a twisted garden pocked with blooming geodes.
Hope this helps! ^^ Lemme know if you have more questions about this!
EDIT:
(10-31-2015, 11:24 PM)Mae Wrote: My understanding is that events went, roughly, in the following order:
-- Ascians give the Allags the means of capturing and killing Bahamut.
-- Allags kill Bahamut.
-- Ascians then approach Tiamat and instructed her in how to 'resurrect' Bahamut.
-- Tiamat and the dragons of Meracydia 'ressurect' Bahamut... in the form of a Primal.
-- Tiamat realizes that Primal-Bahamut is a Bad Idea... as is summoning -any- Primal.
-- Ascians give the Allags the means of imprisoning Primal-Bahamut for their use. The Allags also imprison Tiamat.
-- Allags eventually die out. Primal-Bahamut is left in Dalamud, Tiamat is still imprisoned.
-- 10,000 years or so pass.
-- Calamity happens.
-- Coil stuff happens.
-- MSQ in Azys Lla happens. Tiamat is still imprisoned. She is offered freedom, but declines it as punishment for being the first to summon Primal-Bahamut.
Kinda, there's a few tweaks that need to be made though:
-- Meracydia repels Allag for years under the leadership of Bahamut.
-- Allagans kill Bahamut during the 1st Reign of Xande or sometime during the 1,000 years between Xande's 1st and 2nd Reign.
-- Ascians teach Allagans the art of Summoning.
-- The Allagans reach mastery of magic and technology. Summoners lead Allag's armies against their enemies.
-- Allagans develop clones and mannequin technology. Allag's armies are replaced with machines.
-- Allag begins to fall into decline. The provinces of Allag begin to rebel against the Empire.
-- Xande is resurrected and begins the 2nd Reign of Xande, returning Allag to its glorious zenith. The war with Meracydia is reignited.
-- Xande consorts with Darkness and Allagan magi begin experimenting with voidsent.
-- With an army of machines, summoners, and voidsent demons at his command Xande attacks Meracydia with everything. The Ascians convince Tiamat to summon Meracydia's champion Bahamut as a primal to defend her brood. The Allagans capture Bahamut and imprison him within Dalamud - a satellite used to collect energy/aether from the sun, Azeyma.
-- The Allagans have now achieved infinite energy with Bahamut powering Dalamud and Dalamud transferring the energy of the sun into the Syrcus Tower. The Syrcus Tower then spread that energy across the entire world.
-- Having become completely consumed by the horror of his own death, Xande consorts with the Cloud of Darkness and seeks to cast all of Hydaelyn into the Void. However, the energy needed to open a voidgate of such magnitude is too substantial and a burst of energy from Dalamud causes the Syrcus Tower to shatter Hydaelyn, causing a great earthquake which swallows the Allagan Empire.
-- 5,000 years pass. Allag is all but forgotten. Dalamud passes into religious mythology as Menphina's Hound.
-- Through the research and discovery of ancient Allagan tomestones and Allagan relics, Garlemald discovers the true nature of Dalamud. They seek to control it. The Bozja Citadel is razed and the Garlond Ironworks defects to Eorzea.
-- Nael van Darnus, a descendant of Allag, becomes "tempered" by Primal Bahamut. Nael van Darnus alters Dalamud's orbit and the ancient satellite begins curbing the flow of the Lifestream away from Midgardsormr's Seal. Hydaelyn begins to lose all of her lifeforce to Dalamud.
-- The Calamity. Bahamut breaks free of Dalamud and uses Hydaelyn's lifeforce to exact his revenge upon mankind. Hydaelyn has too little aether for the Twelve to be summoned to the realm, so instead Louisoix prays to the Twelve to make him the primal Phoenix to combat Bahamut.
-- Bahamut clings to life, once more absorbing Hydaelyn's fleeting aether to rebuild his massive form.
-- Bahamut is slain and at long last Tiamat can have some small measure of peace. Even if she intends to punish herself for all eternity.
