A few points of clarification/additional info; - We don't learn about *all* the worlds the Meteia visited; only a select few. Hena, dyo, tria, tessera are clearly simple designations from 1 to 4 in numerical order. It then jumps to okto (8), ennea (9), and finally to deka-pente (15) as Emet and the others interject their speeches while presumably Meteion continues her report in the background and we just don't hear her. - Midgardsormr wasn't the only one who left the dragonstar with a clutch of eggs, there were others too (I think this is revealed in one of the sidequests in the area); alas, we don't know the fate of any of the others, but it can be safely assumed based on what Midgardsormr tells Vrtra (Etheirys is the last bastion of hope in the universe), that he, at least, found no other star with aether plenty enough to give birth to uncorrupted dragons. Thus, they most likely perished in the rift between stars (as they were weaker than Midgardsormr), or settled on a star without enough aether to sustain them. - Deka-okto means 18, it is not connected to either okto nor deka-pente in any meaningful way above the other denominations. - Of note, it's worth mentioning that Ostracon is an actual thing, and hints at what these places in Ultima Thule are; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon (in simple terms: "shards of a broken world" is an apt description) - Another point to make is that these aren't the *actual* civilizations we encounter in Ultima Thule. These are just recreations that Meteion crafted through her employ of dynamis. Think of them like power generators that feed her, creating an endless torrent of despair for her to feed upon. Now, when Meteion has changed her tune to that of hope rather than despair, the question is how these remnants of dynamis will develop. - The Ea's "truth" is an actual hypothesis called the heat death of the universe (or the big freeze/big chill). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe - Deka-hexi is 16, and deka-hepta is 17. - The Nekropolis appears to be the most obvious spot for a beast tribe questline to appear - expanding on the idea of running a restaurant at the end of the universe (nice hitchhiker's reference there btw: hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe). It will likely interact with the other factions in the area in some ways, even though they are no longer beings of aether, but simply dynamis given form. - There are clearly more than 20 Meteia, so there's a ton of worlds we know absolutely nothing about. Meteion's report would've taken a very long time to finish, I think. It's unlikely we'll see any of them any time soon, but Meteion could always be pulled on as a resource in the future when/if we ever find the need to traverse the sea of stars again.

There is a note that Meteion also makes a note of a barren desert planet, and one planet completely awash in ice. Omegas travel log described the same planets.

I like that one of the worlds she visited is a literal reference to Terminator.

Looking back at the Omega story in SB, the story of Midgardsormr and his brood in HW etc, we can already see the knowledge of these civilisations being planted and I was left with this amazing feeling of the story coming full circle when I reached Ultima Thule. It was just so beautiful and tragic. Truly amazing world building and story development from the FFXIV team.

The dead ends and the last zone in endwalker was so sad yet so beautiful. Thank you square for this masterpiece

I strongly believe the pestilence in the Blue Star was oil. The stains on the water is pretty similar to leaking oil. And since ordinary matter is made of aether, and ours is replenished with food and such, theirs was contaminated. They were an aquatic civilization and needed seawater to live and breathe. But since they saw an opportunity to expand on dry land, of course they would need fuel. And then the shit hit the fan.

One important note: an ostrakon/ostracon is a piece of pottery, usually broken off a vase or other earthenware vessel. In archaeological or epigraphical context, ostraka refer to sherds or pieces of stone that have writing scratched on them ; a recording, essentially, of information. Deka-okto = deca (10) and octo (8) so 18 Tria = three Deka-hexi = deca and hexi (6) so 16 The Nekropolis is part of Ostrakon Hena. Hena is Greek for one, and so it's the very first world her sisters found. Grebuloff would be Hexi (the sixth), The World Organization would be Okto (the eighth) and the Plenty would be Deka-Hepta (deca 10 and epta 7) due to the duty list when in the Dead Ends listing Grebuloff as the Sixth End, World Citizen/Freedom Fighter world as Eighth End, and the world of the Plenty as the Seventeenth End.

Actually, the Plenty were living perfectly happy lives before Hecta showed up. It was her asking her question that spiraled the civilization into extant despair since they couldn't answer her question.

It's implied the denizens of the rotted blue star (the Grebuloff) are related to Namazu in some way. It's been referenced in the minion descriptions, audio clips, and even some oddly different but corelated themes in their civilization. Where as the Grebuloff had failed in living by conquering and dooming themselves, the Namazu flourish by coexisting with those around them.

I think the Necropolis is a nod to Douglas Adam’s book: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. You can also answer “42” at one quest in EW

I wish meteion landed on 3am Limsa. Sadly it can't time travel

It's incredible just how huge the universe of 14 is. The max even a single Final Fantasy ever goes is to its own moon, maybe an extra dimension of some sort. But 14...has so many worlds, it's like what if The Galaxy of Star Wars was visited by Meteion well after every story could've possibly been told. So many remnants of what happened, only for them all to die out internally or externally. And then when they connected to our Elpis Meteion...who knows how many sets of "life isn't worth it" memories flooded into her head. It's no wonder she went mad. Not a single soul in any universe, real or fictional, could resist being broken by the literal death of a thousand cuts that the Meteia brought. If you think for a single second you could withstand that instant mental onslaught, you are lying to yourself. The even more depressing thing is they didn't even lift a finger to speed up much of that process. Sure, some of them individually went crazy, some of them likely felt the Endsinger's wrath before Zodiark trapped her, but I'd imagine the majority of them simply *witnessed* senseless death and broke. The greatest villain of the story didn't come from some masterminding villain with delusions of grandeur...it was a bunch of lost, broken children. Kind of ironic that so many JRPG's are about kids and teenagers with the power to slay gods...our final boss effectively were children of similar power. And that power *was turned on us* for once. And the thing that worries me now, with the ending? Yeah, it's happy and all, our Elpis Meteion is safe, free and happy... *but what if somebody exposes who she was?* Could you imagine how fucking quickly we'd be right back to tense conflict because someone could potentially identify that little blue bird as the one who nearly ended everything?

The Judgement Day world is one big reference to the Terminator Franchise, especially Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Hell, one of the attacks that the section's boss uses is called "No Future" which is a phase that appears a LOT in Terminator 2.

Awesome video! Didn't get the time to go through those journal entries myself so thank you for that! I think when it comes to the Omega raids, I think at least some of them are supposedly fictional characters from historical stories on Etheriys. It's so exciting we got to explore so much in Endwalker and this opens up the doors for exploring even more of the Universe. Of course we haven't accessed most of our own star yet and I'm excited about that too! Given that Meteion is still alive and is a blue bird flying around in Eorzea, hopefully we can teach Meteion to "learn to walk the earth" in upcoming patches and expansions and show here around.

Thanks, this is something I was wondering about myself. Something that might help in piecing some things together: the reports (and the shards in Ultima Thule) follow Greek numbering (given the influence of Greek myth for the Ancients). So, taking the Ea as an example, they're on the star "Tria", meaning three, and "Ostrakon Tria" would be something like "Shard number 3" :D

Getting a visual image of Meteion/sisters/Endsinger flying an unwilling David Attenborough around to narrate each planets stuff with one sister holding a bigass video camera haha

I was so sad at the end either for meteion who really touched him, or because it felt like the end of this magnificent 10-year adventure, or at the end of the fight against zenos I believed for a few seconds that our character go die, I was sad to defeat our goddess of light etc etc...

Excellent lore video! Thank you! These work really well as reminders when a lot of time has passed between references. Appreciate the thorough refreshers!!

Ever since experiencing the whole Ultima Thule portion of Endwalker I have been absolutely obsessed with this place and everything about it. I want to learn more and indulge myself more into the dispair of these fallen civilizations. Thank you for this video

good video :) but i need to make a correction, the omnicron did not run out of opponents to face as they never once interacted with Eithrys only omega did because they chased after midgardsomr when he fled the dragon star. what really brought them to end their conquest and self terminate themselves was the existence of a tree which they brought back from one of the conquered stars they fought, the tree even tho it was taken from its home persisted in sustaining itself in its new environment it adapted and changed form to survive this struggle and desire to live forced the omnicron to reflect on their brutal campaign and to remember what it was like before they discarded everything that made them themselves instead of mindless drowns bent on becoming invincible.

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I'm sure we'll learn more when the Endwalker Trials start. I'm thinking the Last Dregs questline will have us exploring more of the ruined worlds that Meteion found, as well as fight whatever brought their ends. The Last Dregs questline is modeled very similarly to the Four Lords questline - starting with a instance (Hells' Lid/Stigma Dreamscape), then proceeds with trials. Jammingway will get Stigma-4 to simulate the final dooms of these worlds, and we'll go in and beat the hope into them. Edit: I guess it's a Beast tribe.

The report Meteion gave in Ktsis Hyperboreia of the race that had devoted itself to the enrichment of its people, and who were conquered but then destroyed the enemy and were unable to regain their former glory, I think it might be possible that it's referring to the Omicrons. After all, Sir does mention that they had a higher purpose than war at one point.

Man I’ve been searching for some juicy FF14 lore channels happy to have found this one!

Very interesting video. Thanks for piecing it together.

Even facing a single Peacekeeper is a decent enough challenge to the WoL and their allies and the WoL laid waste to Omega. I have to wonder if 10,000 of those things would have been enough to bring the conquests of the Omicrons to a screeching halt.

Very interesting video. Keep it up!

I might be wrong here but i don't believe Deka-Okto, Tria etc to be the names of the sisters themselves, rather the number order and names given to encountered planets found with life. i was given to believe by the story that all of Meteion's sisters were simply also called "Meteion" and in plural the "Meteia" but if i'm wrong and it was said somewhere that those names are of Meteion's sisters then i'd like to know ;p

Excellent - a lore channel - we need more of these - Sub'ed!

The necropolis is a "The Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe" (Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy) reference. There's an unrelated quest or two that make Hitchhikers Guide references also.

This is really good content. Be proud.

I can't stop thinking about that one planet she reached where a god like being destroyed everything and everyone else on it, she asked it the meaning of life and it just killed itself instead of answering. Mostly because I saw a shitpost that depicted it. But still, interesting to think about.

I really fascinated by all these worlds revealed at the end of the game, its so vast and i can think a lot of things, lots of potentials, its the best moment my life while playing FF game ever. i cant wait for Cafe in Ultima Thule to be opened, chilling and to read or experience the endless stars out there.

The fishing log for UT has a surprising amount of lore in it

nice video!

Nice to see the lore

I appreciate the meta the theme has with the endgame of games in general. There are many worlds that stagnate because they ran out of things to work toward or realized that it's just pointless because it's all for nothing. An example would be the fear that this was the end of FFXIV because they said it was the end of the Zodiark arc and some people misunderstood. So they feared they would run out of things to do. Another example would be my view of games like Diablo. The endgame revolves around an ever increasing difficulty and getting better gear to deal with the increased difficulty. It's an endless cycle that ultimately doesn't matter. (That being said, the true purpose is fun and I in no way imply that those games are bad because of this.) Luckily for us, if we run out of things to do in any given game we can move on to another. Which relates to our WoL's side. For every obsticle we overcome, for every foe beaten, for every heroic task preformed, we are never satisfied. There's always a new adventure. Always a new hope. Always a new goal. Even if we don't know what form it will take, we know it's out there, and we know it's coming.

Per the story from the quests with the Ea, for most part their only drive forward is to re-attain a physical body so they can end themselves with death, as they cannot officially die as they are.

These are all examples for the Femi Paradox actually; i like that they touched it good video

This is really good.

i would have loved if Spira was one of them after all we know that author said that shinra was the descendent of the Albad shinra kid or the planet of jenova etc..

Great Video!

If you think all these planets and star meteion visited made her depress.. could you imagine if she happen to stumble apon the warhammer 40k universe?

Thank you for doing this. I was enthralled by he lore beyond the collections of dead stars out in the universe. I love a good lore tour like this. I could never stop and read anything cause of the W2W stuff, but very cool. Interesting is our star the only star left? Correct?

Nice video ^^ I was hoping I would find a video like this 😀

The known universe being limited to Etheirys and its shards isn't entirely true, we already knew that the dragons and Omega hailed from somewhere far away, and the Ultima Seraph from the Ivalice raids is apparently another kind of extra-dimensional entity from an unknown place (though that could potentially be refering to another shard). Granted, these elements are somewhat hidden in optional content and unknown to the people of Etheirys at large.

I find it interesting how Hena and other words like it are basically just like 1-20 or so in Greek, makes sense as Unsundered Etheryis was Ancient Greek based in a way. It's cool. I hope I'm right and it becomes a Beast Tribe quests area in the future.

I felt so bad for Hermes and Meteion, he created her to find other worlds to share experiences with and for some reason Meteion only found the ones that had already gone or were in the process of being destroyed. Imagine what could've happened if flourishing worlds had been found instead. There would've been no need for any Final Days, no need for Zodiark or Hydaelyn to be summoned and countless Ascian lives would be spared. What would the lore and story of 14 be like then? A "what if" storyline would be really interesting to see.

6.15, do the Omega side quests, it changes EVERYTHING, at least ONE other world survives, we KNOW this Ethyris is NOT alone in beating sorrow and despair.

Love this expansion goes into The Great Filter

Off subject but also kinda on? I really love Meteion's design and hope there is a race/playable version of it some day in the far future, i like to think the race would be one taken as inspiration from either a race found on our world or a not so distant one, maybe one that will play a role in a future expansion? *Crosses fingers*

This was by far the most interesting part of the expansion's lore for me. Kind of combines Star Ocean and FF which SE also owns (publisher rights) and I hear they are trying to revive.

I love these and am looking forward to more lore videos! Please do dragons too next time. There's so much lore behind dravania (why are there moogles, for one) and the dragonsong war

I'm pretty sure the elephants will have crafting beast tribe quests in their alchemist lab or whatever. And Jammingway will have quests for us to further explore and help the dying memories of Ultima Thule. Ultima Thule is literally the embodiment of that Starkiller meme. "They're real to me!"

Since the 6.25 tribal quests for the Omicrons have fleshed out two of the races from the Dead Ends and given a name for the third, do you plan on making an update video detailing any of the new information?

The Ea practice of writing epitaphs mirrors the real world practice of the jisei, or "death poem".

And the worst part (from Meteion view) is the Worlds saw in Ultima Thule and the dead ends are only a small part of all she saw during her journey to bring a response to Hermes and with her ability to feel the emotions of the people it's not suprising she turned insane in despair because of this, she litteraly feeled the fear, the anger, the hatred and the pain of every civilization on the brink of extinction or saw only the reamains after they were extinct trying to find an answer to a flawed question

I'm pretty sure the FF1, 5 and 6 bosses Omega conjured up were just recreations of allagan stories. (?)

All the references ff14 has to its other games i believe these worlds are the very worlds each individual game takes place in but head towards diferent paths than their game counter parts. The bosses and enemies and npcs we encounter being remmants whos memory of their own worlds faded away over time and blended with that of Etherys. (Though this is just my theory which has many plot holes.)

Omega did visit the other FF worlds. Just like gilgamesh, Omega is usually the same being found across FF games, unlike Cid or Biggs and wedge who appear in some fashion but markedly different in each game

I have a theory that the world Meteion visited where the people lived under the hospice of a god that ended up killing the oriole and then self terminating instead of answering Meteion’s question could be the weird big blue planet thing off in the distance and it may be a reference to FFXIII cause that thing looks like Cocoon and that story of people living under the hospice of a god that kills them is very similar to the plot of FFXIII

Final Fantasy XIV is just one massive, decade-long case study on why peer review is important!

i guess now we know that it's not the Ea that are gonna be the tribe that's getting quests, but the Omicrons, i can't wait to see their lore (and potentially Omega's lore) expanded some more

The Blue Star race are called Grebuloff I believe.

when referring to deca-pente, saying "entity elected to self-terminate upon giving answer", i wasn't sure whether she meant the person she spoke to or the meteion herself. i think it's the former but it was chilling to think for a moment that this meteion might've felt so defeated by her findings that she gave her answer to the collective and ended herself. bc she couldn't bring herself to deliver her failure to hermes.

Dunno but I always thought the Greek numbering Tria, Pente and the others are not really Meteion sisters names, more like a simple designation to label the planets they'd encountered. Like Hena is labeled as such because its the first planet a Meteion sister encountered, Okto being the eight planet a sister encountered and so on, etc.

It’d be funny if those “Auspicies of higher power” came back as the new trial bosses

Omega coming into contact with the ff5 world is plausible, since Omega itself is a secret boss in ff5, along with Shinryu

We already hadthe answers to a few of the omega bosses, mainly that the ff5 part was based on a book or something similar, O3 in particular was supposedly based on a demon from the void we fought in an arr dungeon

Hold on. I thought a few did follow Midgardsormr’s example to escape to other stars from the dialogue in the MSQ, but they met tragedy on the worlds they did end up on. Not a lot mind you, just a few. Am I mistaken?

So basically your theory on the Omega raids is that the worlds of other Final Fantasy games, in this case the worlds of Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI, and Final Fantasy I at least, are other worlds that either the Omicrons themselves or Omega encountered along the way in the past? I admit it all makes sense and I like the idea. It’s just too bad we didn’t get to see more worlds, such as the worlds of Final Fantasy VII, IX, XI or XIII. There’s been plenty of tie-in content from most FF titles, with the exception of VII, and very little from VIII or IX. As always, it’ll be fun to see how Square-Enix plays things out. Maybe with FF7 Remake Part 2 we’ll finally get some sort of crossover event.

These sisters seem oddly similar to the Record Keepers in FF Record Keeper mobile game, just not with paintings.

I don’t understand one thing, dragons say they were annihilated in battle. Like it was completely one sided. But Omicrons speak as if it was a kind of a struggle. Even one of the native dragons said one regular omicron was enough to kill a horde of their strongest armored dragons

I'm not sure on the Ea being a beast tribe. I've heard the Omicrons as a guess as well but that depends if these are actually members of these races or just phantoms from the memories in the dynamis that Meteion took into herself.

I really hope we visit Dragonstar, present and past. I want to know how Dragonstar is now after Meteion's sister visited it and what Paradise Dragonkin lost and mourn with them.

Technically we may have already visited one of the worlds that Omega did , since Omega can go through dimensions and The First showed us that The Warrior of Light from FF1 is supposedly from there meaning Chaos was also from that location also Shinryu is supposed to be technically the same Shinryu from the other FF games since Omega is said to always be at odds with it to my knowledge.

A thought. Because of how we interacted with the past of the ancients and it somehow caused our timelines to merge, Is it maybe possible that we have that effect on the other "worlds" we meet, and maybe change their futures like we did our star? hmmmm.

Deka okto=18. Deka hexi=16 Okto=8 Deka pente=15 These words are all numbers in Greek. I am so in love with this expansion being a Greek myself. Hope to see other cultures and civilizations mentioned in future expansions

Wait, did the author not notice the "name" of Meteions sisters are actually stylizations of greek numerals? TRIA = 3 HEPTA = 7, OKTO = 8, DEKA-PENTE = 15, DEKA-OKTO = 18

Considering that Nero or Cid were not familiar with the FF6 bosses and that Omega had to conjure them based on _something,_ the idea that the FF6 world (either as a physical planet or within some culture's literature) was discovered by Omega or Omicrons is pretty plausible.

The answer to existence is existence itself. We exist to progress, not to conclude. I think most people entertain nihilism at one point in their life, but life isn't about the destination, it's about the journey. Is there a point? If it's my biology to grow, learn, reproduce, provide, then fade away; and there's nothing that can be done to alter that, then I have a choice to let that consume me, or make the most of it. I choose to give life my own point. All that matters is now, and what now will look like until I'm no longer capable of observing it.

Considering all the talk of otherwordly travels, Endwalker desperately needs a Jenova fight.

I was under the impression that Omega was the same being in each game.

Wish we could've seen more of Amaurot.

One of those world sounded Eeerily similar to the World of FF7. O ___ O;

As in regards of the Omega species, I am quite sure we encounter an outpost only that disconnected itself from their homeworld. In other words we know nothing about their current state and if they have a crisis at all.

to me, it makes sense that Exdeath and his lackies could have actually met with the omicron in some way. With Exdeaths control of the void, perhaps he could have stepped through universes and made contact.

Omega appeared in those games, the suggestion is that we are fighting the same omega from those games. Gilgamesh supports the idea of beings that exists in multiple games in the franchise

I thought that the world in deka-pente's report was the Omicron's, could be another one tho. Also, aren't the fights in Deltascape and Sigmascape based on fiction found in the world of XIV?

Ok so this hits different after the omicron beast tribe stuff

I wanna be the guy that pushes the button in the dungeon

Was the title of this video changed to avoid spoilers? Coulda sworn this was just called "The Worlds Meteion visited", though I admit it coulda been another video.....

I really hope deltascape and signascape are actual beings in the universe omega discovered. Them just being references always struck me as missed opportunity to use them for story telling, like the crystal tower or the StB raids.

How many worlds did meteion destroy though is a question. How many worlds did they intentionally spread despair to?

Don't you think the passage you read around the 15 minute mark sounds blatantly similar to the part of the dungeon with the rebels and war machines? There's even a thing at the end that's like a seat or throne and he sits in it. Also, subbed. Good video and keep it up, the FFXIV community on youtube is disappearingly small and I'd love to see it at least on par with the WoW youtube community in activity one day. As a WoW player I was spoiled for the last 15 years by the likes of youtube channels such as Oxhorn, Nixxiom, Mooclucking, Nobbel87, Kakio, Taliesin & Evitel, AsmongoldTV, CaptainGrim, Danger Dolan (yes, that Dolan, of super planet Dolan lol) and I'd love to see the FFXIV community just as spoiled.

I feel like "The plenty" is a critique of the supposed "heaven" in Christianity. For eternal joy without sadness is boring and in such a world I would soon be wishing I wasn't alive.

I wonder how the Omicrons would have fared against the Endsinger. It's surprising that Meteoin's existence and weaponized world destroying dynamis was not enough to rouse them to action.

If meteon arrived in balmung… Probably become the worst uwuerper

This zone and Dungeon is a Nihilist's wet dream...

The entire moral of Endwalker is, “don’t ask questions you aren’t prepared to hear the answer to”. The answer might end your entire existence.