Buried Memory is here in 6.2, and Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker has a new threat to an unfamiliar world. Here’s what we know about Golbez so far, including who he killed, and the dream that his followers say they are willing to die for. Enjoy!
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It could be Cecil he killed remember the world was fallen to darkness if it Cecil then the enemy he is aiming for is none other the zeromus combine the two dragons into himself he was becoming the new warrior of darkness on a god primal lvl in order to face zeromus but it’s just my opinion
I don't think Golbez is our shard as I feel they are setting up Zero to be our shard.
OMG Golbez is in XIV!!? I have to keep with the story i leave it after beating the main Endwalker story… now they bring FFIV into the main story of the game? IV is one of my favorte FF games.😱 hype💯💯
Okay this is a spoiler for those who did not finish all job quest of Shadowbringers..
Spoiler below:
Unukalkhai is actually on the 1st now if you completed the Shadowwalker quest- you find out that Cyella the barmaid is also from the 13th- she travelled along side of the Warriors of Light in the 1st to help them tip the scales to bring a calamity. I believe it was patch 6.4- you get an addition quest where you bring Unukalkhai soul to the 1st and he mets up with Cyella. He states that he will work on a way to bring the 13th back just like how the 1st came back.
If the next expansion is not cantered around the 13th and stopping Golbez or what Golbez has done in the source then I will eat my hat.
While I think Golbez will open a gateway to the shards, I can see him going further and connecting all reflections to the void. Imagine giant void rifts appear just like Fandaniels Towers- but this time they not only cover the areas of the source but the first too and other reflections we will see because of that. We could end up using this to explore every shard! That would surely cover a 10 year saga haha. – Also in regards to Zodiark, yes he is gone but it was also said dark aether still seeps out of the moon and lingers…you can see it on our moon right now actually. Golbez could target all moons and gather the remaining corrupted aether on all moons! Maybe the moons will be where the rifts appear!
I like to think that the 13th is like the Chaos alignment ending for Shin Megami Tensei but in Ff14. Where the demons won and the Strongest rule. It's a dog eat dog world and I'm liking it
The comment about the prison of tranquility makes me think he might actually be aiming for the First, not the Source. The light eather that's overpowering the first is stillness, stagnation, the opposite of the dark in the thirteenth. The Crystal Tower which has previously opened a door to the 13th is in the first. He might be trying to equalize the two shards by marching to the first to feast on the light eather there.
Also I prefer the theory that Zero is the shard of Azem because Zenos WOULD seek out his friends shard for his voidsent 😛
Is he a voidsent? Why did they put in the theme of the crystal tower when showing him? A friend of mine thinks he's Zande from the first.
Like I said before, I Just Hope we don't see Zemus or Zeromus in any capacity…
I must have missed something major. I knew the WoL is an Azem shard (or two Azem shards, technically, because Ardbert) but this is the first time I've heard anything about them being a combination of nine shards. What/who are the other seven that I missed?
Since ff4 plays a prevalent theme in endwalker ive dubbed the white robed ascian construct on the moon fusoya. Venat may have made other guardians or watchers like him on the reflections moons to keep an eye on the other pieces of zodiark
This is my theory, When zodiark died his shards went to the aetherial sea with him, BUT NOT IN THE 13TH. The soul or souls in this case cannot rest because of the power of darkness that ruined the natural order of that shard. Because the watcher of the 13th seemly dies in his flashback, its likely this is Zodiarks 13th shard that became its own person as the prison of passivity is likely his prison that was on the moon.
It’s probably zemus and zeromus again
Maybe he kill his world watcher :think:
There's something here that isn't being brought up: Golbez KNOWS WHAT DRAGONS ARE. Dragons only largely exist in the source, so the only way he could know what kind of creator Azdaja is, is if somebody who's familiar with the source told him. And my theory for who contacted Golbez is Igeyorhm. Golbez in FF4 does an 11th hour switch to the hero's side, and we already know that trying to restore the 13th is the plan on the scion's end; what if it turns out Golbez's plan is to use Azdaja's power (and perhaps the power from the 13ths shard of Zodiark) to conquer the Void, bring order and "stasis" to a realm dominated by chaotic umbral aether and thus tip the balance of the 13th? And perhaps Igeyorhm is the one who set Golbez on that path, hoping to redeem his mistake (Igeyorhm being the one responsible for what happened to the 13th)? And perhaps Golbez is the 13th's shard of Azem, the warrior of light, giving him the power to partially resist the corruption of the void?
That's the theory I came to anyway
During the cutscene for 6.1, they are anticipating specifically our coming as an opportunity for something. Golbez reminds them to focus on their mission to bring salvation to their star. He definitely seems like some 'by any means necessary' antihero, unlike the characterizations of the fiends we've seen so far in the follow-up side quest. With all the talk of travel to the reflections and the mention of the light, I wonder if the gateway they mention is to the First and not the Source.
ooh golbez being an azem shard is an interesting theory…
Well if he wants to lead his people to the source, he's leading them to oblivion, you don't mess with people from the source man.
All I'm saying is you could add three more letters to Zeros name… like a S M and U.. you can make up the order for all I care 🙂
Cant wait to see the other fiends look like in XIV
Cagnazo is my fave, his form is so bad ass
Goblez and his relationship with the four archfiend is like the reverse version of Femto and the God Hand from Berserk.
I think that Gobez will be like the Lunarian (FF4) who snaps out of Zeromus’ mind control and become the redeemed soul in FFXIV. Just speculating.
I cringed a little at the name pronunciation(italian is hard).
Now i may be wrong, but this is my speculation for future trials:
6.3: the 2 remaining fiends in the same fight
6.4 golbez and azdaja as his shadow dragon
6.5 Zero gets overwhelmed by the crystals just like the heroes of old and becomes the trial boss
You can be certain that Zeromus and Zero is too close to be a coincidence
I personally think Zero is the azem shard.
What if Golbez is another Ascian who was unsundered, but assumed dead by the other Unsundered because of what happened on the 13th? What if he is wanting a rejoining?
I'm not entirely sure Golbez is a voidsent or even a native of the Void. While he wears black armor, he seems to wield light aspected aether. He could be from the Source or even a survivor of the 12th reflection, as both worlds would have a strong connection to the Void due to proximity. In any case I get the sense that his exploits in the Void are a means to an end and he doesn't particularly care what befalls its inhabitants so long as he gets what he wants.
One thing that I think is worth looking into: At Zero's Refuge, one of the voidsent makes note of the paladin statue noting: "They were supposed to the hero that came to restore balance to the void… whoever they were." (or something to that effect)
That plus the fact that we never got a wind-up Cecil likely indicates that we will see Cecil in some form or another before this expansion is completed. Since this is technically an original story and is only inspired by FF IV – the biggest plot twist of all would be that Golbez and Cecil are one in the same in this universe. Golbez is a "corrupted" version of Cecil, who was one of the original Memoriate.
It's a crazy theory, but it's fun to speculate.
I think there might be a connection between Golbez and Zero, though admittedly the proof is slim.
Also I'm still trying to find the right word to describe those who share remains of an Ancient's/Amaurotine's soul. Shard seems to be what the other worlds are called during Shadowbringers. Reflections might work because Hades says in the boss fight "We must overcome these vain reflections". It could also be fragments…I'm going to check the new codex and see if it says something
I suspect Azdeela has become Golbez's Shadow Dragon. But as for Golby? Given that in Zero's domain there is a statue to a Paladin… Well…
My nice theory: Golbez is actually in his 'redemption' arc and what he wants is to get everyone out of the 13th to a safer location. Not to feast, rather to save everyone by bringing them somewhere in the hopes of the balanced light they can return to their true states. Perhaps he killed the Watcher because he thought the Watcher was no different than the Asciens and lashed out in a fury. (Was corrupted, killed the Watcher only to learn after doing so that the Watcher was innocent and that not all Asciens are evil.)
My not nice theory: Ulia…. I can't spell it, but perhaps that kid reminds Golbez of Cecil, and when Elidibus ran off with the child Golbez went in persuit. That his 'war' is him looking for Cecil.
Without going into spoilers…
I just hope it is not Azem's shard. I think I would prefer Zero to be Azem's shard, which I also dislike.
I found it kind of interesting that 'every Voidsent knows about Golbez' but Zero said she doesn't. She didn't even recognize the name. But he's presumably been around from the beginning. So either Zero lied about having never heard of him, or has somehow lost all memory of him. No idea where that's going though. Well, none worth really speculating on yet, at least.
I'm fairly certain that Golbez's line 'the prison of passivity must fall' was him speaking directly to the Watcher in that flashback, right before cutting him down. What else would be Zodiark's cage be but a prison of passivity? Zero said the Contramemoria was what eventually caused the Flood of Darkness, but I think that the inciting event was similar to when Eden was created on the First.
I'm going to wager that Golbez was the person who unwittingly unleashed the Flood of Darkness. The Ascians went to him and urged him to go to the moon and kill the Watcher and break the seals, for power or whatever motivated him, probably hoping that the shard of Zodiark would rejoin itself to the Source, but things backfired because they hadn't worked out the entire process of rejoining a shard. The Thirteenth was used as an experimental grounds for them to test out the most direct method of rejoining the worlds- just break the seal on Zodiark and let the chips fall. Obviously, that failed. (Personally, I think that the aether between shards was not distributed evenly when Venat sundered the world, so the Thirteenth was considered the most expendable.)
Golbez was left to his devices on the now worthless (to the Ascians at least) Thirteenth. Zodiark himself was the root of the Flood of Darkness, just as Eden was the root of the Flood of Light (Eden having been created out of Mitron, since the Ascians certainly weren't going to get Hydaelyn to cooperate with destroying the shard with Light). As for his current goals… Well, if he's after the rest of Zodiark's aether, he's in for a rude surprise. I'm guessing he wants to somehow restore the world and undo his mistake, but the method he's chosen for doing so is to just steal the aether they need from some other shard.
Strong suspicion that Golbez is the Wol's soul.
Maybe the "the prison of passivity" he refers to is Hydaelyn, and his endgoal is to complete the rejoining? He probably don't believe that something could be done to restore the 13 and its people to the original state, and to him, the only way to save them is to rejoin them to the Source. Also interesting that voidsent is already "fuse" with each other, so from their perspective rejoining with the other shards wouldn't be seen like some terrible end of existence, they are doing something similiar anyway. No surprise that Golbez would see it as a perfect happy ending and salvation he seeks, abandon the broken world and live a normal life as a part of gheater whole.
So to put a more thoughtful approach, Golbez thus far strikes me as a redeemer. Considering he isa reused character seekign redemption, and his plan seems to be on a far grander level then most of his kindred, I suspect his aim is the salvation of the 13th. This is highly unusual, but if Azem is a savior as a soul, then it aligns that Golbez would have a similar desire, and had been a warrior of light himself that fell.
It is my suspicion that the Azem of the past is the literal Wol that we play ingame however. Their precognition of our arrivals and seeming avoidance of the player has always struck me as off, especially given their ability to literally predict your arrival in the past. Given this, I think that by the end of the Golbez's story, we will reassimilate him, with future stories seeing us re-assimilate the other parts of our soul. In turn, we eventually go into the past, possibly permanantly, with all our memories as the fully unsundered Azem, able to help the ancients and predict our past self's arrivals and trials. But this also means in turn that we stay in the world of the Ascians, and must face death and sundering. Emet Selch…poor creature…how many times have you had to slay your dearest friend? It's a trajedy…
I'm leaning towards Golbez being Xande, or a clone of Xande, just for the hell of it. He already has a connection with the 13th, came from the first, and has dealt with dragons. Leading a voidsent army is a cake walk for a guy like that. While I have no proof and it's purely speculation, it would be kind of interesting to delve further into allagans again. That and their builds are pretty similar.
My theories is I think behind him may have bigger threat.
Meteion always use this quote 'Greeting, Can you hear me? Do not be alarmed—I mean you no harm. I wish only to hear your words, share your feelings, and know your thoughts. May we please be friends?'
she said this when she meet interesting person, WoL example.
but before she shared consciousness, she said this quote while look at sky, cleary not to her sisters(it not make sense to greeting her sisters because her have schedule to share consciousness).
I think keyword 'friend' may have something interesting than just word from Zenos.