The Key is shaping up to unlock whole new worlds for us to explore.
We may not know much about it yet, but what we have seen has given us many theories.
The Key & Azem â FFXIV Lore Theory
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Makes you wonder if they are going to do a reflection war
This depends on if Alexandria is really from the 12th shard
So the biggest part of theory is based on yet not showed (if it will ever be) ability of grail-time travel? That's the biggest stretch i've seen
Predicting… the WoL's true Ascian name, before Azem, is Chronos.
So hear me out, hear me out!!!
WHAT IF… Azem is us from the future after rejoining with our other selves from the rest of the reflections just like we did with Adbert… and after that we ended up in the far past for some reason (maybe a very important reason) knowing all what would happen in the future. Knowing that if we somehow would prevent all the calamities would create a paradox and destroy our future as it is (or maybe we try but is not possible to change it, so we accept it) the final days happen and then we get sundered and the cycle starts again.
I know it sounds crazy but remember the symbol on Azem's crystal! It looks like two snakes eating each other resembling Uroboros, we have neither a beginning nor an end, we are the chosen one, we are the Warrior of Light.
Now, Azem might have created the key in the past for a reason, maybe for us to use it for a specific task. What for? We don't know yet.
(Edit) If this is the case, this would mean the end of our story, so it would be something like the ending of FFXIV story. Or at least they could show us a glimpse of a future that will never come for us as we keep playing the game anyway. Like in FFXI's Iroha's story, telling us what our future looks like and what will become of the Warrior of Light…
I believe that Azem created the Key before the Sundering! I think Azem could use it to travel Time & Space! The LaLa's were on their Island during the 5th calamity! They used the Azem Key to teleport & they went through time & space to the 12th calamity!
TATARU IS AZEM!!!
I hope we get a better explanation of electrope in the future. It's a bit too much "magic mineral" or MGS "nanomachines" right now, and it'd be fun to find out how it originated and what can really be done with it.
Well an easy answer to why the Milala after the first intershard travel couldn't use it is that the High Elder of the Milala that DID use it was Azem's partial self for that time period, obviously there had to be previous Azems to us, and that was a very long time in the past. So after that Azem passed away and returned to the Lifestream, nobody had the resonance with it to make it work. Til much later when it was brute forced into working, but again they didn't know how to guide it so it just did what it did based on the amount of energy put into it.
Also going with a bit of a Star Trek reference here, but with Aetheryte travel, we travel between Aetherytes via the Lifestream(which spans all shards, hence us being able to travel to the 1st). The Key however may make use of the idea that "what if it's Space/Time that's moving and we're standing still?" idea. You connect 2 points in space/time(not 100% sold on the time aspect at ALL), like a wormhole or Dune's folding of space travel method, or even perhaps in a way Elite Dangerous' Frameshift, you're not the traveler in that case, you're the station and you're moving the destination to your location(not physically moving it mind you, just via the gate it seems that way, but with the interdimensional fusion, maybe brute forcing it causes that effect?)
7:16 hm. I think it's more that it can be used to open portals elsewhere than being it's intended purpose since well, there were no reflections and other stars where more of a theoretical concept.
I feel like it's really easy to assume the key was made by Azem, was made in Ancient times but if this is true then the key itself would have been sundered meaning that THERE ARE 14 KEYS.
Something else I noticed, and someone correct me if I am wrong, but the key never actually activates unless the WoL is present. It can be there, shown in cutscenes and inert, but it doesn't actually do it's thing outside of the WoL's/Azem's presence. You can will it to transport you all day but it won't do anything like the Milala tried to do to go back to The Source. Suggesting that a shard of Azem may have been present when they fled the calamity of ice.
See I figured the Key is the beacon or 'node' that connects different shards, and that's how we're able to summon allies from everywhere with azems stone. Basically even without us having the key, whenever we used Azems stone to summon allies in the past the key activated on its own to facilitate it.
Is fitting for The Traveler have a magical device that allows him to open portals
i hope azem to be the last enemy/antagonist of the last expansion, they are cooking with him
I think the key could be the main thread from which everything stems for the main story arc over the next 10 years. It's functions open limitless possibilities for destinations & time travel, & storywise it could go back & forth between the wrong hands & ourselves & of course there's it's own origin story which we very likely could uncover with an Azem story expansion.
The way it was displayed sitting on the map at the end of DT might not be just a hint of where we might go next, but a huge tell of foreshadowing. And what better moment to foreshadow the next 10 years?
Or then again, it could just get destroyed in patch 7.1 đ
Maybe Azen was alerted to our presence in Elpis, and stealthily spied on our and Venat's subsequent activities. The crystals we've got so far are a breadcrumb trail for the WoL to follow and eventually rejoin the shards non-destructively
I believe Azem will eventually be the main antagonist. I have no idea yet how, but he's always been there in the shadows, ans he's definitely going to be a big part of the future MSQ given his link to the key. That would be a great way to build some excitement, as opposed to introducing another random villain #10 which we have no connection to.
My guess is that Azem was going to help with PandĂŠmonium, but through the Echo saw us descending from the heavens like a shooting star(their words), and decided to stay out of it. Weâve seen the Echo show powers of foresight and precognition, separate from seeing the past from anotherâs perspective. Lore wise, the Echo is how we dodge AoEâs in fights. So Iâd say itâd be safe to assume that Azimâs power of the Echo was more powerful than others.
I don't think the Key makes sense to send someone forward in time. But I do think it's connected to dimensional travel in some aspect, because Azem is the Traveler. It makes sense for the key's magic to allow interaction with other dimensions because Azem's spell can do the same thing.
The connection to the aetheryte look is something I noticed as well, though, so I suspect that the key's main focus is sort of an inverse of Azem's crystal. Where the crystal calls others to the user, the key is designed to teleport the user (and those around them) somewhere else. Dimensional fusion is an extension of this principle.
Whatever way we slice these theories, if there is one thing I'm almost sure of, it's that the artifact will be used. If not in the patch quests, then in the coming expansion. Also with how all the signs are suddenly pointing to Azem, I get a sneaking suspicion we will be crossing paths with him/her soon enough.
I think it would be very, very interesting to consider that it might not have been Azem who created the key, considering there were no other shards in Azem's time and Azem was sundered. But another shard of Azem like the WoL would both have a connection to Azem and possibly a motivation to travel between shards. And they not be as noble as we are. At this point, could there be any other threat bigger than an anti-WoL? (Can't even call them the Warrior of Darkness, dammit Ardbert)
I really really reeeeaaally hope that they dont start to throw around with shards every Expansion now. It just has lost its charme for me. There are still so many cool and interesting places in our shard. I just hope they slow down with it.
Given we seem to have 2 other reflections in play, Alexandria's homeworld (Unlost World), and the reflection Mecha-Sphene tried to steal from, I would love it if the natives to one of them come knocking to see what the fuck is going on (Unlost noticing the lightning dome is gone, or the one she attacked looking into said attack).
Excellent theory! And I agree Azem = our future self who is brokenly stupid powerful, I always thought it was after we rejoined with all of our sundered selves but now it's unclear. The ancients saw him as a 'full ancient' though.
I really am against further time travel, so an alternate theory is Azem was a precog. We know it is a power some Ancients had if Bojza and the echo are any indication.
Though much like time travel, I think seeing 10,000 years into the future seems a bit excessive, so hopefully it would only be precog up to the sundering or something.
Preferably to me, no precog or time travel would be involved, and this artifact is perhaps the product of another incarnation of Azem (be it in the past of the Source or another reflection), OR, the artifact has nothing to do with Azem and Azem's stone simply interacted with the artifact, giving the WoL the ability to use it more freely (vs it previously known state to almost never work).
My concern is things getting too convoluted with either excessive precog planning, time travel, or things becoming too "grand scheme all along!" plot.
But we shall see.
I hope the Eternal Queen Extreme gives us hints
If Azem was keeping an eye on us to tbe point where he knew our every move, there's a strong possibility that he's someone we already know. My guess would be Alphinaud, as he's been there since day 1.
I am fully convinced Azem is going to be a penultimate and final boss either for an expansion or for the entirety of the game itself.
Simply because of their name in and of itself. A is the Beginning and Z is the End. Their actions were the reason we were able to begin our adventure and they may also be the grand finale.
That's Azem's Forbidden Fruit Gummy of time-space travel for sure, as opposed to the Forbidden Fruit Gummy of Summoning The Squad. As soon as it was branded with Azem's emblem I knew it was ours, and I wanted to say the Speaker might have been a previous incarnation of the WoL, which was how she was able to activate it and send everyone to safety. After all, the way to activate Azem's crystals is for them to will them to work, so why can't she have been our predecessor as the Source's shard of Azem?
I think the key is a fail safe of sorts that Azem created in response to both The Convocation and Venat's plans for the Final Days. A way to reestablish connection between disparate shards and "rejoin" them peacefully through interdimensional travel and not the Ascians calamitous rejoinings. I dont think he was happy with either the summoning of Zodiark or Venat's sundering and spent his/her time devising an alternate solution.
I have the feeling we are Azem. Like the actual one, not a reincarnation. We have proven time traveling already.
It's an Ancient Auracite like The Heart of Sabik.
We know that "future sight" was one of the (probably rarer) powers of the Ancients. Mikoto's Echo grants her this ability, in a very limited form obviously. While Azem's job was helping people and their specialty was travel, it's quite possible they had the ability to see future events too.
If we allow that Azem had this massive foresight, I suspect the key was created by them as a solution to a problem that has not reach reached it's crisis point.
My theory is that the aetheric imbalance shown by all the Shards thus far (The First overbalanced to Light, the Thirteenth overbalanced to Dark, the UnLost World overbalanced to Lightning) is that problem. While the Ascians were using it to bring about Rejoinings, nothing could be done about it, and Hydaelyn and the Twelve (And even the Ascians) were in place to correct and steady the balance of the Source after a Rejoining. But the fact that Alexandria's world suffered a Calamity, seemingly without Ascian involvement or a matching Calamity in the Source suggested that Shards can collapse to imbalance all on their own, and really the Ascians were just nudging them past a tipping point they already teetered on by their very nature. This suggests a NATURAL Rejoining could happen… and would likely be devastating, with none of the Ancients or their tools present to stabilize the world after.
I think the key is intended as part of some kind of fix Azem was working on for this.