I really enjoyed this latest patch and I had some thoughts about the events that happened in 7.4 and what they might mean going forward.
First of all, Halmarut talking about the "death of the world" caused by an absense or silence of "the will of the star" is very interesting. To me, the will of the star read at the moment as Zodiark, since it was supposed to be this being that embodied the desire of the ancients to endure and resist the threat that Meteion posed on Etheirys and the other stars. What makes it even more interesting to me is that Halmarut is supposedly "specialized in fungal and plant life," as that was her previous role in Akadaemia Anyder during the unsundered days, and, all that talk about the "witheringto come", the death of the planet... to me it reads as in the star is suffering from a biological death, "life is withering". Could that have been a result of killing Zodiark?
And it does indeed align somwhat with Calyx purpose: halting death, ending the cycle of rebirth. Maybe there's some sort of poison in the lifestream that is slowly tainting life? Just like Meteion threatened to do with her dead sun in Ultima Thule? Maybe she succeeded in poisioning the lifestream? Don't know, don't think that's it but I feel like all of these themes and events are connected: Calyx search for immortality, Meteion's actions and the death of Zodiark, these events to me seem somehow connected now after Halmarut monologue.
Also, the way Halmarut sounds, she does not sounds like a villain, she is afraid of us and is seemingly preventing the death of the Ninth, but probably has conflicting ideals that threatens the life of the Warrior of Light or the Source or maybe she has knowledge of something we do not and if we knew we might not stand in her way?
I got to say, it DOES sound a lot like what was happening in 4.4 and 4.5 before Shadowbringers, even the way Halmarut is introduced is very reminiscent of Emet-Selch. I hope they are not trying to replicate these story beats for the purpose of nostalgia or as a "in case of emergency break glass" but I have faith that the new story will be different enough to differ from that case of aether stasis.
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First of all, Halmarut talking about the "death of the world" caused by an absense or silence of "the will of the star" is very interesting. To me, the will of the star read at the moment as Zodiark, since it was supposed to be this being that embodied the desire of the ancients to endure and resist the threat that Meteion posed on Etheirys and the other stars. What makes it even more interesting to me is that Halmarut is supposedly "specialized in fungal and plant life," as that was her previous role in Akadaemia Anyder during the unsundered days, and, all that talk about the "witheringto come", the death of the planet... to me it reads as in the star is suffering from a biological death, "life is withering". Could that have been a result of killing Zodiark?
And it does indeed align somwhat with Calyx purpose: halting death, ending the cycle of rebirth. Maybe there's some sort of poison in the lifestream that is slowly tainting life? Just like Meteion threatened to do with her dead sun in Ultima Thule? Maybe she succeeded in poisioning the lifestream? Don't know, don't think that's it but I feel like all of these themes and events are connected: Calyx search for immortality, Meteion's actions and the death of Zodiark, these events to me seem somehow connected now after Halmarut monologue.
Also, the way Halmarut sounds, she does not sounds like a villain, she is afraid of us and is seemingly preventing the death of the Ninth, but probably has conflicting ideals that threatens the life of the Warrior of Light or the Source or maybe she has knowledge of something we do not and if we knew we might not stand in her way?
I got to say, it DOES sound a lot like what was happening in 4.4 and 4.5 before Shadowbringers, even the way Halmarut is introduced is very reminiscent of Emet-Selch. I hope they are not trying to replicate these story beats for the purpose of nostalgia or as a "in case of emergency break glass" but I have faith that the new story will be different enough to differ from that case of aether stasis.
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