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Marisa · **06-15-2015, 01:59 AM**

Because I strongly suspect that power metal is secretly responsible for everything awesome in the world, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the similarities between Ishgard, and Dark Moor's 2002 album,Â Gates of Oblivion.Â

Now, anyone who's big on both fantasy and metal has at least a passing familiarity with Dark Moor. Meaning at least one person on the dev team is probably fanatical about them. So I guess we should start with the most obvious connection, the album cover. Â

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That's more than a coincidental similarity. That's somebody at Square Enix going "Oh. My. God. This is the best. Make this!"Â

So what's on this album? Uh, just a bunch of harpsichord and pipe organ music about templars and stars and dragons n' stuff. How about a few samples:Â
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At this point I'm willing to bet Heavensward will contain at least one weapon called Starsmaker or Eibereth, but I guess we'll find out. I mean, I suppose this could all be one big coincidence since both are based heavily around gothic fantasy... BUT WAIT, WHY IS VISHAPS THEME THE SAME THING AS CITADEL OF LIGHT?

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\m/ I want to believe.

So here's why Ishgard is based on a Dark Moor album (conspiracy theory time)

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