*whew* so, lots here. Where to begin...
he renamed himself Golbez (mistranslation, blah, blah we all know the rest).
Actually, I don't know about this. I know in Japan he's called "Gorubeza," which could work out to Gorubeza, Golubeza, Gorbez, Golbez... but I still don't really see any significance in any of those.
It is likely he took up residence in the Tower of Babil, which was likely of Lunarian creation before humans had a written history (or had evolved significantly enough) and used that as an anchoring point to keep the moon stabilized in orbit. The Lunarians had a dangerous weapon on the moon with them called the Giant of Babil that... for some reason could be called with interplanetary elevator down to the Tower of Babil (may have been originally purposed for the mass movement of the Lunarians down to the Blue Planet) that Zemus wished to use to wipe out the humans but FuSoYa stopped him and sealed him in a deep sleep.
Hmm... It's got an awful lot of firepower for something that was going to be used as an interplanetary ferryboat. I'd imagine it was designed specifically to wipe out the earthlings. I do believe the tower was a key to the Interplanetary Elevator, though. I believe there is mention of how Golbez needs all eight crystals to activate the tower in order to summon the Giant. So I think the Tower is the mass transportation device, and the Giant, then, is specifically a weapon. I think it's safe to assume that Zemus (and his faction?) created the Giant, but it also seems kind of suspect that FuSoYa didn't destroy it when he subdued Zemus. What, was he hanging onto it just in case those Earthlings turned out to be assholes after all (spoiler: they did - see KluYa)?
I do feel though that the effects of Zemus' growing power was causing previously peaceful monsters to become restless and lash out, many not necessarily under the direct control of Golbez
Zemus, or Zeromus? I mean, Zemus is just a lunarian, albeit a significant one to this story. Can we presume that, as Golbez was simply doing Zemus's bidding, Zemus was just a pawn of Zeromus? I'm actually kind of exploring this in TfW. In my story, Zeromus is/was sort of a godlike entity from the moon, who the Lunarians were aware of and whose power they could control to a certain extent (channel or block as they see fit), but whose existence was thought to be eternal and interminable. As indicated by "I am the hatred," he/it was primarily a destructive force, and therefore the "good" lunarians expended a considerable amount of power trying to keep him/it in submission. In my story, the Earth has a similar type of force, which will end up being the final boss, and the
really fun part of the story will be divulging how that relates/related to the events of the original game. :)
Any thoughts on "Bab-il," by the way? I mean, I know it's a biblical reference, but is there any indication of what the term means to the ffiv universe? I mean, there's a tower and a giant, which are connected, but not really used for exactly the same purpose by any account (that is, yours or mine). So maybe "Bab-il" was a lunarian who was the designer/engineer of these things?
I do not think Golbez or Rubicante anticipated that they would be able to maintain as much of a presence as they ended up doing, when a cave that burrowed into Babil itself was built.
Ah, see I was thinking that the "Cave of Eblan" was the main (Overworld level) entrance in and out of the tower, but maybe that's not the case, and the Eblanians were being really sneaky building their hideout so close (where they'd least expect it).
He seems familiar with Cecil and Kain, which leads me to think he may have been working out of Baron for some time. I believe the "Dr" epithet is probably just another name for a doctor of science, because he's clearly a scientist of some sort and not a medical doctor. It is also interesting that Dr. Lugae in the DS remake mentions that he was made "Golbez's chief strategist". In The After Years as well Golbez laments that Lugae had so much potential and how his fate would have turned out had he taken another path. This in itself leads to another question, we know that Golbez has humans working alongside his monsters, whether it be knights with flame magic, dark knights, girls wielding both swords and magic, so clearly he is attracting more than just your typical evil monsters to his side, but also humans of various professions.
I hold that Lugae was probably some sort of scientist working out of Baron who was enticed by Golbez to join him on his quest and that he was Golbez's chief strategist it goes to show how much trust was placed in him.
Yeah, I kinda thought that, too, that it's more doctor of science than doctor of medicine. Though he does at least dabble in the (always lucrative) field of mad biology.
It always seems strange to me, though, when Final Fantasy tries to put traditional science (primarily medicine) into its largely fantastical worlds. FFVIII is a big offender with this one, too, with Dr. Kadowaki (another "only doctor in the world").
Oh he's old. Really old. The Lunar Whale is just a legend by the time of FFIV, but it was the vehicle that KluYa used to get here. FuSoYa is similarly old as he was the one to seal Zemus in a long removed time. KluYa did not only develop technology, but also the basic arts of magic (seeming to retcon the God of Magic, Minwu out of the game's lore. It is a little difficult to say, but the original game itself did mention that KluYa taught men magic) to the people of the Blue Planet. According to the Scenario Book, the civilization of FFIV is around 800 years old because the world itself is "fairly new".
Yeah, I guess that seems like the more sensible possibility. Although, I don't know if you watch Doctor Who, but if you do, remember that episode ("The Doctor's Daughter") with the cloning device, where it turned out they were only on the planet for like a month, but it seemed like centuries to them because their lifespan was only a day or two? When you shorten the scope of history, what happened 75 years ago might seem like ancient history (bear in mind, Cecil has ascended to the position of captain of the royal air force by the age of ... 18? Yang is around 40 or so, but he's king of Fabul by the end of the story, and it doesn't seem like the old king was killed or anything... Tellah seems really old, but his daughter is youngish amd engaged to ~25 year-old Edward... So we really can't assume the life expectancy is very long in this world.
Assuming, though, that Human history is at least a few centuries old, and that KluYa lived for at least a couple of those centuries, do you still think that Cecilia was the only woman he ever had kids with? Or maybe do Cecil and Theodor have some other surprise siblings out there?
Rydia is far from the "Last Summoner" as the Summoners in the Feymarch itself would attest. Plus there's an old man in the Village of Mist who says "we" in regards to Summoners when referring to where the Summons come from
There are other summoners in the feymarch? Are you talking about the monsters you fight on the way there? I don't think they're the same thing, but even if they are, they're in the Underworld, so it's safe to assume most surface-dwellers would be completely oblivious to their existence.
That old man and his "we" did always get me, though...
Why did Leviathan attack the boat on the way to Baron and kill everyone on board (that wasn't a main character?) that is never adequately explained or brought up again.
Assuming that Rydia is the last
real summoner, I always thought Leviathan was taking her away to protect her from the rest of the world, which in the wake of the destruction of her village he could have perceived as too dangerous a place for her at the time. With that specific goal in mind, damn the collateral damage. What's the lives of a few "dangerous" humans in order to spare the Last Summoner? ... Clearly Leviathan was not a disciple of John Stuart Mill.
Finding Rosa sick in Kaipo - First off, how in the world does she beat you to Kaipo? She would've had to run like an Amazon through the fresh mountain ridge that Titan created. And secondly, how is it that this woman in her battle bikini succumbs to heat stroke (more or less), yet the guy wearing heavy black armor carries a small child across the desert in the blazing heat, fights off four armed guards in the middle of the night, and is just fine after a nap?
Hmm... Very compelling. Furthermore, why did she go to Kaipo if Cecil was only supposed to go as far as Mist? She must not have set out until the earthquake. Unless she wasn't going to find Cecil and Kain, but instead just fleeing Baron because the "King" had seemingly gone mad. At any rate, I think it's pretty certain that she did not take the same path as Cecil.
Ooh - maybe Cid flew her away in an airship, and this is one of several treasonous acts that got him imprisoned!
The hovercraft - Why is there only one of these things in the world? It's like before settling down, KluYa was traveling the world, teaching different kinds of technologic know-how to different areas
I think the hovercraft being Damcyanian has to do primarily with the geography of the kingdom. It's the only kingdom that is separated into several pieces by water and mountains, so they needed to develop a way to get from the castle to Kaipo, to the Antlion cave.
The Dark Crystals - Now, the Light Crystals corresponded to an element, yet the Dark Crystals were just... Dark. I've always wondered what they would correspond to; perhaps other elements, or four of the seven deadly sins (Lust, Greed, etc)
Maybe we're not thinking about the crystals in the right way. We know that in ffv the crystals are largely responsible for the elemental forces, but maybe that's not how ffiv crystals work. Maybe ffiv crystals
draw their power from the elements.
To wit: The Water Crystal is in Mysidia, on that little peninsula surrounded by ocean. The Earth Crystal is in Toroia, surrounded by denmse forest. The Fire Crystal is in Damcyan, in the middle of the desert, where it's always hot. The Wind Crystal is in Fabul... This one isn't quite as convenient to explain, but we know they have a considerable fleet of sailing ships. Maybe there is a lot of wind in that part of the world?
So these are all "elements," a term traditionally used to describe meteorological forces. In the underworld, they don't have weather. They just have magma. So if we can assume the Overworld Crystals absorbed the most significant surrounding elements, then so did the Underworld crystals, only they just absorbed... Dark and lava. Because that's all there is down there...?
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