Dromarch could be the whole keep. that makes more sense for him to represent himself as a shield protecting his lady, rather than a decorative head sculpture thing.

13:07 this confirms that after saving the world twice Shulk suddenly discovered he was a fashion trendsetter now

11:43 My theory is Takahashi told Saito “Mio is Rex’s kid with his wife” and he’d been so embroiled in writing the game he forgot Saito wouldn’t know which wife he was talking about, and by the time he clarified “Rex’s kid with Nia” Saito had already finished that art

The delivery of the edits as he gets the page number wrong over and over again slays me

‘Lanz always seems to be the first finalized’ Well, you can’t improve upon perfect

About the pneuma core: I think originally Mio was gonna be the pneuma avatar just like nael Is the ontos one. That way mío was gonna get her ultra busted combat mecanic and not just Noah was gonna be op.we have proff of this with nael a cat girl getting a aegis core crystal

8:47 there is a scene at the end of Ch 1 I think about the party needing to change clothes and the boys getting awkward for no reason which they understand. Maybe the scene was originally more fanservicey

19:17 I think her floating swords are just hard water constructs like Greninja’s ninja stars

41:58 When I opened this video, I was exprcting a lot of crazy shit to be said, what I was not ready was for super-early Taion being: “Chilchuck with a flintlock rifle”.

The fighting style concepts are WILD. My favorites that I wish were real are Matthew morphing his gauntlets into a giant hammer and Rex combining both swords into a dual-edge glaive. So cool.

1 am luxin upload when i have to work at 7 GG's sleep schedule

59:13 I don’t think it’s a contradiction of Pneuma’s lore. I think the swords he got in Aionios were designed to replicate his fighting style as best as was reasonable, and that includes a visual throwback to Infinity Blade from 2NG+. I don’t think it’s meant to mean he’s somehow drawing power from wherever the Conduit now is again; it’s just a strong energy attack designed to visually resemble Pneuma’s power. Remember, in 2 Infinity Blade straight-up killed Malos, but the FR version barely scratches Alpha.

The campfire scene at 6:08 was the art for the inside cover of the game box. Although, if you only had the collector's edition, I guess you wouldn't know that.

The spine of the XC2 art book had some art that you could only see when bending the book (Mythra's sword and "thus, boy meets girl" in alreastean) While at first it doesn't seem like there is anything like that on the XC3 artbook, if you look closely you can see some dots on the bottom of each page. These are the lines that are part of the page numbers, but each page number is slightly offset. It seems to be a midi-like notes, and I suspect they are Noah and Mio's off-seeing themes

I wish we'd gotten young mio showing the beginning from her pov. Page 18 camp art is also used on the inside of the game box Mio taking her clothes off concept art could have been done for the scene where everyone changes into their default outfits but they probably decided very early on to not go through with it in favor of the guys reaction to what the girls were saying instead

24:13 Luxin: but this confirms that it's actually the child Ghondor model they use in a couple shots No they used the young Noah for the boy in the cloak, as a model and not Ghondor and yes, he was the boy in the cloak in the concept art but, as a in game model SparksOpus Video Discovered Off-Camera - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Out of Bounds 23:16 It's just young Noah. Edit I hope other people check out the video it's really nice to see how it's actually modeled in game.

38:17 The gold and silver masks on Origins is almost definitely a reference to the chemical/alchemical/divine wedding in between the red/gold king and white/silver queen. Another name for this is the union of opposites. The union of divine male (Animus, the sun, gold, sulphur) and of divine female (Anima, the moon, silver, mercury). The ultimate end result of this is the birth of the hermetic child (representative of the philosopher's stone) which creates the unus mundus (one world). The restoration of the primordial unified reality which all things originated from.

The background for Melia's art also reminds me of what Alcamoth looks like this all the overlapping saucers and domes. Also disappointed we did not get art in either book of XCX Photon Saber wielding Pippito.

I really hope we get to see pre and post Aionios colony 9 in the next game. The arcitechture looks incredible and an actually big, bustling city would be really fun to explore. Plus i want to see what happened to the original colony folk we saw in XC1.

15:21 what intrigued me is the new effects emanating from behind each character on the left hand pages

1:00:20 I can’t believe that Alpha shared a designer with Ino of all Blades or that it explains so much of Alpha’s aesthetic

The creator blurb on the Gulkin page says that he would have liked Tirkin to be the mascot creatures of Xenoblade which is a funny aside. Tirkin party member when? Do it, Monolith.

1:01:08 I guess maybe they were considering having Sharla around FR at one point? That would've been neat.

luxin tries to explain aegis core crystal: accidentally reinvents omegaverse. honestly we're assuming pregnancy but i feel like there's an equally likely chance that blade/human kids could be born by making a new core using their partners dna. we know blades are meant to collect info on their driver in the first place so mythra/pyra/nia would all be able to see that with rex, and with mythra and pyra i feel like they'd be able to make new cores like titans if they tried given they are administrators of the entire blade system. point is it doesnt need to be absolutely true that the blades became pregnant

20:27 Mio standing in the same pose as Nia when using the Lifesage outfit. How long are they going to pretend to be subtle before just making an official statement of some kind?

32:08 it could be in Glimmer’s Blade since That Photo has Dromarch take an interest in all the children

56:33 It’s close to the one on the left. It’s just the blade facing up instead of down, their feet being closer together and of course sprouting the Zanza wing, and you’ve got the final pose

9:00 The purpose was for fans to make banger fanart! Saito has to know what we want! Lol

The new Nia stuff is great but my biggest letdown is that in the weapon section with all these wonderful hi-res, detailed breakdowns of all the weapons there is not one of Nia's sword, a true shame and I think she's the only party member/hero missing there. Her sword is so intricately detailed, I was in denial over its absence and kept rescanning those pages assuming I was overlooking it somehow.

47:26 Dominion Flower concept art I’m guessing

i'm kinda surprised that there was no mention of O's tubes/cybernetics; like it seems like a weirdly specific thing to just randomly throw into concept art, and i think that this, plus the P face reveal indicate that they might have had a bigger role in the game (a more prominent role as the rivals to D&J maybe) before ultimately being cut down to just one encounter. (also while on the topic of consuls; the obligatory "wrong consul, they're clearly all distinct and totally unique and memorable" corrections: The generic consuls use the models of I & L (who goes unused otherwise), not C, but we do see a close up of his mask when he talks to Z). And I herself does appear in at least two cutscenes: one where she reports to Melia in Keves Castle, and a flashback to the execution at Hope's Rest.)

I wonder if Mio with the Aegis core may have been an early idea for Mio to be an Avatar for Pneuma with the idea then being slightly changed and used for Na'el instead

Is it possible that Dromarch IS the Cloudkeep itself? What better role for him in Aionios than a safe haven for Nia?

33:04 seems like the decision to make the sword look like it stabbed Uraya from certain angles completely failed as far as they actually appeared in game, and in promotional art, it’s straight up false advertising

Can we all agree that Luxin is THE XENOBLADE AMBASSADOR!? The GOAT!

31:15 it also reminds me that I’m pretty sure the floor is magically fixed after DJ dies. Or maybe D didn’t break the middle section.

about the Aegis core crystal on Mio is probably they weren't sure if Pyra and Mythra will give Rex their crystal again or just the information of the core is still in Rex's Genes

48:37 Noah’s initial sword which he painted red looks to be the generic weapon for the Kevesi one-handed no shield swordfighters we fight all the time. I don’t like the idea that a bit of Origin Metal in every Kevesi Incursor-style sword is allows Noah to do great things because couldn’t a sizable minority of soldiers do that? Also we know Noah has one or two innate special abilities: moving around during time stops and releasing some kind of shockwave from his sword (from what is either Garvel’s debut scene or Noah explaining his sword to Mio during Chapter 2). He had one of those in the prologue which means it has nothing to do with being in Aionios

I hope mytha kid protag uses A’s unused sword designs. So sick!

The Mio taking her clothes off scene was probably too mature for the game. I wonder if it was supposed to be an intimate scene like something Fei and Elly have in Xenogears. Or maybe it was just for a Agnus equivalent scene of the bath like Keves had. Great video as usual and lots of amazing art in here. I wish we got to see more Moebius faces like the Testaments in Xenosaga but they opted for the villains to be a concept this time around so it makes sense only the important Moebius like Z, M, and N get all the screentime. I would very much appreciate a translation of the Siblings painting. It’s probably only supposed to depict life but confirmation would be nice.

13:47 "Nah, I'd win"

14:40 I think they’re called pigtails

17:09 she doesn’t have expression sketches because her face literally never changes

56:39 the pose is her holding it out across her arms, and then turning it while it turns on and her wing appears. It's more fitting than those, she's super flashy

Ah yes a new film by the great Luxin, haven't watched the video yet, but already know this is going to be a banger

10:15 The middle one has thicker black lines for her skirt

Hour long upload on a Friday I'm so downloading this asap!

28:15 it’s because they spell Grand Old Party and Independent party innit

11:46 Mio being Nia and Mythra's child is a wild theory. I never considered that paining even though Nia and Pyra have some shippable moments. I really need some fanart/stories of this.

So, what I'm getting is that A original had Ries Argent's fighting style.

i love the idea that at some point in development, nio might have been nia's kid with pyra/mythra. thats hilarious and cute

Great video! A classic from Luxin.

1:00:06 Rex just straight up being TWBW Ichigo!

My favorite educated professional yapper! Honestly tho, this was really cool. Can’t wait for xenoblade 4/ xenoblade X remake/ xenosaga remake

I don't know wheteher they used Sharla because she looks very "generic xenoblade NPC", or if they made a NPC so generic they ended up making Sharla all over again, but either way, this is really funny

1:03:26 I’m not sure why they needed concept art of Glimmer tied up by the Liberators I’m guessing

New Luxin vid wooooo!!

New artbook, I get to find new images of the weapons to use for cursors 1:02:08 HERE WE GO BABY A MONADO CURSOR TIME

58:06 does she have two staffs in the top right or is she spinning one staff super fast?

Glimmer’s “bird familiar” is actually Siren

one of the early desings for Kmuravi's mech looks a lot like like one of the early desings for Deus in Xenogears

FINALLY Some official resources for the term order, the deactivated Alpha Monado, and a side view of Transformed Alpha. You have no idea how badly i needed this reference material, because doing a diagonal perspective of Transformed Alpha was going to be a nightmare with only the front.

12:50 this makes me wonder if anyone has remake the trailers using the final cutscenes and pointing out where the dialog used in proper context

Yooo chilchuck dungeon meshi reference Luxin continues to have kino tastes

i just like to imagine rex never finished inside of them (a salvager always pulls out) and the kids are just the result of mio fusing dna of all them together out of frustration

9:00 maybe that art was meant as reference for the oasis scene at the beguining of the game, i guess it went unused tho.

11:43 Plot Twist: the middle art is Mio being Nia and Pyra or Mythra's child. I joke, but remember people, Nia also had feelings for Pyra and Mythra too. This is a full on polycule between the four of them. xP Edit: Dang, twice in a row I stop to make a comment only for Luxin to say the exact same thing right when I resume the video. How does he keep doing that? xP

8:59 idk maybe he just really wanted to show that her undergarments match her outfit lol

23:57 start of chapter 6. Chapter 5 ends when N swings for Noah’s neck

55:20 Looks like its not gauntlets, but entire arm armor. Like Chad from bleach

8:43 11:14 maybe the original intent was that Mio was a fusion of all of Rex's kids 14:29

6:14 The top left camp image is on the reverseible cover of XC3's physical cover!

An hour long video let's goooooo

39:20 why is top right so cuuute?

28:03 This is false, he wears it in the cutscene where its revealed he became a Consul.

clearly mio is nia + mythra's child

I hope we get a Klaus Collection Remastered for Switch 2. Will play everything again.

Nia getting Mythra pregnant is my new favourite HC thanks Luxin 😂

1:01:39 “past city,” thanks to The City existing, is a really misleading way of saying “suburban Earth from Origin’s memory stage”

No Astelle art in the Artbook. Broke my heart

@6:02 sorry to correct you Luxin, but that art is, cropped a little, is on the other side of the box art. If you open the case that the cartridge came in (maybe it's different for the special edition). Regardless, great video :)

Am working on a Hero Nia cosplay, I have analyzed her outfit so much but I wish I had that concept art sooner.

I do wonder if the reincarnation system was originally going to work differently and those weren't just earlier concepts of the main characters. Like their souls were going to be reincarnated but their physical bodies would be different, maybe after so many cycles. The fact they didn't show the others during noah's past lives makes you wonder. The fact ch5 makes you think you might restart another life and try again seems to lean into that. It was just easier and more haunting to reuse the exact same bodies every time.

Isnt the image of the campfire on 6:15 in the inside part of the cover of the game physical case, where he cartdrige is

Matthew and Na'el aren't noticeably tanner than Rex

I kinda wish the chibi pages were sticker sheets :( still nice to have the chibis though

Can anyone give light on the mentioned machine translation about Chrys on 23:35 ?

"Is there a piece of Origin Metal in every blade"? That thought is interesting, and would explain why only kids seem to have been assimilated: all parents manifested in a form that could help their kids defend themselves, in different ways: thier blades. HOWEVER, that is kinda off, for multiple reasons, which would make this theory basiclally wrong unless I miss something: - City people still have blades they can summon, same for avatars such as Shulk - What happens when parents have 3 kids or more? - Nikol can't summon-. wait. I was about to say "he can't summon his blade, does that mean his parents wouldn't protect him or something? that's kinda sad actually, lmao", but no: his father was in aionios as an avatar, and his mom is already lucky seven. no one was there for him to manifest as a blade. Actually, that would give a lot of credit to this theory, now that I think about it... Glimmer has 3 moms + is related to pneuma, and even if they were all busy, a royal family guard without children could reincarnate as a protection for one of the princesses, ig. so she's okay, good supply of potential blade people. same for mio, in a way. hmmmm.... there might be more to dig on that part. but the city people thing still doesn't add up imo. Unless their parents, already born within aionios, became blade in turn or something?

11:50 what you mean by "what we know about the relationship about these characters" sorry but there nothing to point that Nia and Myra/Mythra are into each other, you may can say It If you really forced some scenes but ALL three show romantic feelings only in the contexto Rex AND what is the problem with that? Why people try to make it into a relationship where is a free for all?

32:56 isn't it on p161? And is there any new art of that uraya/tantal looking area from p174 of the first art book?

42:00 I don’t think that’s Rex, I think that’s concept art Noah

8:50 its all gondhor backstory 😂

The Origin mech form looks like it may have taken inspiration from Xenogears' Deus busting out of Merkava kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f992l8yrqtPLoKc.html

Nia pregnant Mythra? Ok? 😱

34:37 FFX anyone?

30:46 Do you mean 193?

8:30 the art that ruined r/Xenoblade_Chronicles for 2 weeks

You should try monster hunter

Wait was it confirmed to be made by Shulk rather then Tora?

11:54 WTF