For all its serious themes and cohesive story,Final Fantasy 16isn’t without its mysteries. After crying hard and finally getting your thoughts together, you’ve realized there are a lot of other unresolved questions that you’re left to wonder about all on your own regarding Valisthea and its magic.
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This long game is bound to keep you hooked through its world’s deep lore and complex characters. But after thinking hard, you’ll wind up finding a few things that don’t make sense, even if it’s a game that has people controlling the elements at will and turning into giants and gods.
10Being a Bearer Or a Dominant
Becoming a bearer is a blessing that society sees as a curse, which is a thing that doesn’t make a lot of sense either. Most cultures in the game praise Dominants,except for the Dhalmeks, who view Bearers and Dominants as impure. Being a dominant essentially makes you a person capable of summoning the elements without the mecha transformation.
Why one is treated as a curse compared to the other makes little to no sense, but what makes even lesser sense is how a Bearer or a Dominant comes to be. Forget Clive’s mysterious Ifrit for a moment, and think about the Bearers who are the first of their kind in their families. Or look no further to Jill, who later awakened Shiva after her time as a prisoner. How they manifest these Eikons, or become a Bearer, is a phenomenon that comes as naturally as wind and water—without the science backing them.
9A Moogle Surviving In The Blight
Moogles are magical creatures that selectively show themselves to humans, and even fewer people understand these fluffy beings. But for all their cuteness, moogles have great magical power, so it’s curious to see Nektar surviving among those in The Hideaway in the middle of the blight.
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Maybe Nektar doesn’t draw magic from its surroundings and is just magical on its own. you’re able to only speculate, but regardless of how this adorable creature is surviving, at least you get to see them safe and happy—especially when spoken to.
8How Aetherfloods Work
Aetherfloods are a weird phenomenon that often happens around the Mothercrystals, and maybe it really is for the best that all the Mothercrystals are destroyed. If they don’t drain the world of Valisthea of magic, then there’s the potent possibility that a zombie-like apocalypse could be unleashed bythe creation of more mindless yet powerful Akashic.
But even with this phenomenon wreaking havoc, it doesn’t make a lot of sense as to why they pool around and cause a lot of trouble for all living beings. If the world is already nearly drained of magic, then there shouldn’t be an influx of aether lying around.
7The Second Eikon Of Fire Being The First Of Its Kind
It makes sense as a thrilling plot device that makes Clive Rosfield stand out, albeit in the most tragic way possible. But if you’re a longtime fan of Final Fantasy, then Ifrit is no stranger to your screen. It’s strange that it chose Clive since he’s supposed to inherit the Phoenix as the firstborn son of his household.
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But other than Ifrit choosing to manifest onto Clive, the Eikon is a mystery to Valisthea itself. How it came to be and the fact that people address Ifrit as the “Second Eikon of Fire” suggests that nobody knows of its identity other than Clive himself.
6Ultima Still Being Everywhere
Joshua’s ability to entrap Ultima and his ability to survive him isn’t the biggest mystery. It’s the fact that Ultima could still project himself and be physical that doesn’t make the most sense. How this alien could have the power to be omnipotent even as part of it is trapped in the flames of the Phoenix is unknown.
Ultima is pure evil, but you can’t deny the atrocious strength and the masterful cunning that had him manipulating the events of the game—even though he was already in a debilitated state.
5Garuda Returning To Benedikta
The power of friendship isn’t the only thing driving this game, but so is the power of will. How a person could re-manifest their Eikon through throwing a desperate fit isn’t the most sensible. Maybe emotions do play a huge part in summoning Eikons, just as Clive did at a desperate time.
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But emotionally calling onto spirits yielded inconsistent results, and there were many times that Clive wasn’t able to summon Ifrit. To see Garuda come to Benedikta at her most desperate is amazing but also not normal.
4Mothercrystals Breaking Without Consequence
You’d expect that the thing that powers the world bursting into a trillion pieces would take the world with it, but it didn’t.The deaths of the Mothercrystalslooked beautiful instead and were a sight to behold—if they weren’t busy fearing the consequences of a shattered crystal.
It just doesn’t follow the laws of physics, especially for an object that, according to Cid, draws magic. In other words, it attracts and contains energy. For this energy to do nothing to its surroundings after being absorbed and contained en masse is nonsensical—but it’s admittedly lucky for Valisthea.
3Turning Into Dust After Too Much Magic
Another strange thing about magic in this world is that it sucks the life force out of people. It follows the old adage of everything having a price, never mind the previous entry of crystals exploding into smithereens but not nuking Valisthea’s continents flat.
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It turns out that magic does ask for something in return, and that human bodies aren’t fit to wield it for long. You can keep asking why, but Valisthea’s science isn’t nearly advanced enough to know. All we know is that the untimely consequence of too much aether funneled through a person is their return to dust.
2Space Fight
This fight was full of surprises and is arguably the most cinematic fight of them all. But taking the fight outside of the Earth—or Valisthea, in this case—probably left your mouth agape. Don’t these people need to breathe? Does that mean Eikons don’t need oxygen? You’ll never know.
But the cherry on top was the zettaflare andBahamut’s willingness to burn the world out of rage. The reaction isn’t so much of the shocker, but the appearance of the spell definitely was.
1Ultima Regaining A Physical Body
Ultima is smart, but it’s his arrogance that made him overlook the harms of returning to a physical body. Maybe he understood the risks of becoming physical and thought Clive’s spirit was crushed enough for a little complacency to take Clive’s body.
But was there really a need to become a physical being? Wouldn’t a physical form be limiting and dangerous for a god, prior to the final fight of the game, could remain unscathed until the end of time? We’re not complaining about this inconsistency because at least there’shope of killing this puppeteer.
