So the next dungeon according to the previous Live Letter is going to be named Anamnesis Anyder. It's a clear reference to the Akadaemia Anyder dungeon, right down to the image they released.
Anamnesis is a real word. It has one of four meanings, all connected to memory and the past:
Clearly it's the fourth, and FFXIV is about to genre shift into tense ER medical drama.
Jokes aside, all the lore geeks are expecting a massive lore dump with this dungeon, related to who the Warrior of Light was among the Ancients, and what role they played. The first three meanings all have echos (pun intended) with the Warrior of Light's experiences.
I was wondering, too, about the Ayder part.
For those who don't know, Anyder (an+hydatos - meaning "Waterless") was the river that passed through Utopia in Thomas More's novel of the same name. It was also the name given to the big school that taught Creation Magics at the heart of Amaurot (also from Utopia, its capital city, meaning "The Darkening Place"). The school seems to have been run by Lahabrea, who was a professor of "Phantomology" (basically monster-making) and the statues around seem to suggest he was instrumental in designing the Zodiark summon.
I suspect that Lahabrea still has a role to play in the story, living, dead, or reincarnated - and that he may have played a part in creating the original crisis as well as stopping it.
Obviously we won't know for a few weeks, but I was wondering what other people's thoughts were on it...?
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Anamnesis is a real word. It has one of four meanings, all connected to memory and the past:
- For the disciples of the Greek philosopher Plato, people knew all they needed to know already, but forgot it in the trauma of being reborn (they were reincarnationists). They believed that you could access the true knowledge from your life or lives before, that you could be made to remember other lifetimes.
- Also for the followers of Plato, it could mean memories of the perfect, true world (the World of Forms or World of Ideals) that they believed to be beyond this shadow of the world we inhabit - they believed our world was a bad construction job built by a contractor who was either incompetent or lacked good materials, but that we could reach the better world through our thoughts.
- For Christianity, it meant remembering or even experiencing Christ and his sacrifice when taking the bread and wine of communion.
- It is medical jargon for a patient's past medical history.
Clearly it's the fourth, and FFXIV is about to genre shift into tense ER medical drama.
Jokes aside, all the lore geeks are expecting a massive lore dump with this dungeon, related to who the Warrior of Light was among the Ancients, and what role they played. The first three meanings all have echos (pun intended) with the Warrior of Light's experiences.
I was wondering, too, about the Ayder part.
For those who don't know, Anyder (an+hydatos - meaning "Waterless") was the river that passed through Utopia in Thomas More's novel of the same name. It was also the name given to the big school that taught Creation Magics at the heart of Amaurot (also from Utopia, its capital city, meaning "The Darkening Place"). The school seems to have been run by Lahabrea, who was a professor of "Phantomology" (basically monster-making) and the statues around seem to suggest he was instrumental in designing the Zodiark summon.
I suspect that Lahabrea still has a role to play in the story, living, dead, or reincarnated - and that he may have played a part in creating the original crisis as well as stopping it.
Obviously we won't know for a few weeks, but I was wondering what other people's thoughts were on it...?
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