Patch 6.4 in Final Fantasy XIV finally gave us some answers about one of the game’s biggest mysteries — the Heart of Sabik! Here’s everything we know about the stone and speculation on where the story could go beyond Endwalker and into 7.0!
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Fantastic video as always. I'm so excited to see where they go with this. Makes me wonder if any more quests are going to get the CT treatment and become mandatory at some point.
I noticed too that a lot of Athena’s attacks mirror the same effects and style that Ultima the High Seraph uses in her boss fight. She even has identical minions that ultima had with her.
Awesome video!! I hope this has some use in the upcoming expansion. Maybe it gives us power to be able to Traverse the other shards
We REALLY shouldn't have let Claudien keep the freaking SOUL COURRUPTING NUCLEAR WEAPON….just a thought.
I’ve learned recently that one of the reasons the High Seraph comes is due to high amounts of bloodshed, hence her title as the Angel of Blood. I have to wonder if I’m certain periods of time before her imprisonment that high death tolls in large scale wars ever brought her to interact with people. We know how bloody the campaign of the Allagan Empire was. But I have to wonder about the time in the Unsundered world. How Athena came into contact with the auracite. Was it Ultima herself before she became sentient or just her influence. Before becoming the High Seraph, I do think she was just a factor of the universe. Like a cosmic entity meant to make auracite and destroy stuff, but that could be stepping into eldritch god levels of speculation. While not absolute proof, the savage content has some details that are hard to ignore.
Ah yes, time to watch this and then enjoy a big fat taco.
Hello 7.0 msq story . The Heart of Sabik
While Im certainly not smart enough to predict how the Heart of Sabik could impact future storylines. I can easily see how the High Seraph being confirmed as extra dimensional being where the next 10 year arc leads to. I mean with us defeating what is without a doubt the most powerful threat in our dimension, there is really only one place to go. Another dimension, or multiple fuck lets get wild
Cool video man
When Meteon(s) first made contact with us, I thought she found Jenova.
Love the video but might want to add EW normal spoilers in either the title or start of the video just to be safe!
Just look at Eureka and the Baldesion Arsenal, we can DEFINITELY trust the Sharlayans to contain unimaginably powerful weapons of mass destruction and nothing can possibly go wrong.
Where to begin….
The first time the term "auricite" was used, to my knowledge, WAS in FFT.
The final boss of the RTI raid is St Ajora, not "ah-HOR-ah". and "Altima", not "Ultima". Two different things.
While yes, the Ranza in the raid series is a member of a Garlean Troupe, it is discovered that his father is actually Alazlam Durai, the decendant of Oran Durai, the one who chronicled the story of FFT (who was executed as a heretic for doing so). The same one who narrates the start of FFT. This raid series is a direct tie in to Ivalice, and Fran's presence kinda confirms this.
How, you ask? Not sure. But my theory is that the events of FFT happened during FFXIV's mysterious 4th Astral Era. Why do I speculate this? The fall of the Allegan Empire led to those survivors going back to simpler times, and avoiding technology, with religion even making a comeback. This is reflected in FFT with machines from "long ago" being "found" beneath Gaug, which would make sense, as if the Allegan Empire proceeded this, the earth would have swallowed much of it up, as well as any "auricite" that existed during that time.
Crazy theory: Someone will either merge/eat the hearth of Sabik OR the Hearth of Sabik is actually an egg. And now without Athena's hold on it, the creature inside can hatch. Probably villain, dunno.
As with any good mystery, the answers to it raise even more questions and mysteries for us to investigate and solve
I’ve been wondering about this since 2018 when I first started playing.
I would not be surprised if it’s central to the 7.x msq.
The Heart of Sabik maybe become the new key point to the new saga of the 10 long-years story. Someone take it, use it and try to do something villainly. In the end, the heart is destroyed.
Despite Pandemonium being a FF2 reference, the plot is almost FF7 in disguise. We have an alien woman (Jenova/Ultima) coming from outer space to consume the Lifestream of a world (Gaia/Etheyris), fighting against an ancient people (Cetra/Ivalicians), and gets a hold of an agent to do her bidding (Sephiroth/Athena) who ends up having an angelic god form the party has to beat to save the day.
All because of a black rock (Black Materia/The Heart of Sabik).
Appreciate the video, and so quickly. I forgot about a lot of the Ivalice stuff 😂
I can't wait to see this come back into the story in the future, and I couldn't begin to tell you how they'll do it.
My theory is that the heart that Claudien has is only a piece of what Thordan cut through and we'll end up finding the other pieces. It would be interesting if we end up having to use the spell and something from within (something new entirely) get's unleashed.
Nobody does it like Stout. LOVE this vid. Touched on a few things at the end that other theorists just arent and I appreciate that
It is the forbidden popsicle
I tell you my dream idea. The Heart of Sabik becomes a class quest for the BLM. Once you get it, you get the spell, Ultima. Or maybe Demi Ultima? Or they could change the LB3 to it.
My belief is that we'll be getting a call to Old Sharlayan at some point either in 7.0 or 8.0's post expansion content, most likely frantic ones as Claudien's gone missing once again, being influenced by the Heart of Sabik. Hopefully, we stop him in time before he goes fully insane given the events of Pandaemonium.
If it were up to me, I'd bring it to the Ultima Thule then toss it into the horizon never to be seen again. Auracite's dangerous even at the simplest form, something as potent as that damnable stone would leave naught but ash in its wake.
It'd be hype if the heart somehow ties in to whatever leads us to Meracydia. And so long as the heart is still in vulnerable hands (I mean hell, Claudien already got brainwashed once into taking it from Azys Lla), there's always the chance shit is about to go down when that thing activates again. Claudien's desire to study it further may very well already be the heart taking control of those desires again.
One thing I'd like to point out though is if this might be related to Urianger and Thancred. After the 6.4 dungeon, the following cutscene has Urianger speak of the duo's next assignment and how their "client" needed Archons of neutral stance from Sharlayan. I wouldn't be surprised if it was to keep tabs on Claudien's research on the Heart. But man, we just gotta wait and see where Yoshi'll be taking us next.
Also side note, like the mention of Terra from FF9. They definitely pulled the plot elements from that as inspiration for the Rejoining. Super ancient civilization met with calamity, and it's only recourse to sacrifice worlds in the hopes of preventing further destruction or in the case of the Ascians, bringing back the world they once had.
It's possible that they're saving the Heart of Sabik for a future expansion. We have yet to go to Meracydia after all.
Another incredible video!
I literally googled the heart the other week bc I wanted to know more about it! thanks for your video 😀
One thing that I am curious about is it's name. Prior to the end of the Pandaemonium raid, we could only speculate about the stones origins. And, presumably, it's name was derived from those origins. But we now know that isn't the case. So why name it Sabik?
Sabik is actually a real star, and is part of the constellation Ophiuchus, which is Zodiark. This revelation seems to indicate a connection to Zodiark long before his actual creation. After all it was Lahabrea who created Zodiark's concept. So there is something there that we are unaware of at the moment.
And the connection between Zodiark and Ultima's "rivalry" from XII isn't lost either.