12:03 Clearly it means that Riki DID adopt Shulk, and Shulk is now Legally a Nopon.

Ouroboruses are fusions of two characters, and just based on the imagery it's looks like the basically self-sustain their lifeforce rather than stealing it. With that in mind, _Nia._ She is not just a Blade, but a Flesh Eater (and Driver). Most Blades can only sustain their physical forms with the assistance of another being to act as their Driver. Nia's Driver is effectively her sister, who can be argued lives on inside Nia enough to sustain Nia's form, and then the Blade's biology is able to sustain the donor as well. This is the case for all Flesh Eater's, but Nia is also the most potent healer in Xenoblade 2. The biggest weakness of a Flesh Eater is that while their human parts are kept alive from the rest of their biology, they still age and eventually decay giving the Flesh Eater a finite lifespan. Nia's absurd powers perfectly counter this letting her effectively heal her sister passively and _indefinitely_ without any decay. Nia and her sister basically feed off each other in a theoretically endless cycle, each sustaining the other. She's basically a self-contained Ouroborus. This just gets even better when comparing Ouroboruses as a whole to Driver-Blade pairs.

Another thing about Oroborous that you didn't mention that also ties them to blades, is that when the party first awaken to their powers, its the Kevesi characters first who take control of the Interlink and actually moves, attacks and does stuff, while the Agnus party members support them. Much like how a Blade supports their driver.

Missed opportunity for Tora to give the Ouroboros forms all maid outfits. Or maybe he tried, but got shut down by the higher ups.

For the stuff around 6:30, I actually had the opposite interpretation. "The Sword of Origin," simply refers to the fact that it's a Sword from Origin, while "The Sword of the End" referenced its true power.

A couple of things: When lucky seven is unsheathed, it looks like the monado 1, when it’s in Ouroboros form, it looks like the monado 2, and when it’s sheathed, it looks like the monado 3. The main characters from the previous games are also still alive post aionios, cuz after origin restarts it cuts back right to when the merging occurred, and since Tora was alive before the merging cuz he built origin, it’s safe to say that the rest of the cast of 1 and 2 are also alive post Aionios.

Oh my god, the Shulk and Rex spirit idea at the end gave me a massive smile, that’s amazing!

Regarding the fact that Noah can use a copy of Jin's Heavenly Disrupt, it was not lost on me that Lucky Seven is a nodachi with a silver blade and a black/purple hilt just like Jin's.

Watching these videos makes me realize a lot of people didn't even notice the amount of references that were in this game because they were caught up in wanting cameos.

This is honestly so great, it shows on a gameplay pespective the evolution of the combat system and how this one grabs various elements from previous games, and how both parties, the characters we know and love, contributed to the fight for the future as much as we would've believed they had

Interestingly moebius themselves have a unique moebius crystal however M evidnetlay does not. For her it's just her core crystal with explains why interlinked moebius have 2 cores

They were walking with us all along, "hand in hand."

Doesn't riku state that it's not the sword that matters per say but noah's will to shape the world. I guess in a sense it's like a key for him to tap into that power to channel the will of those who want to escape the endless now.

This video actually mirrored a couple of ideas I had in my head! But I didn't even think of the past characters being a course of power for our main cast through Origin's Collective Unconsciousness. Very strong point.

For every flame clock cut in 2. The original cast from both games were by Noah and gangs side. This is just poetic and I accept that as my head canon if not straight up canon.

I find this very compelling, as it presents a mind-body interpretation of quantum mechanics whereas the physical are particles, and the metaphysical are waves. Which again is pretty fitting for a Xeno series

Man you just keep making me appreciate 3 even more.

I really don't like how many unanswered plot points there was in 3... I don't mind some mystery, but theres a fine line between "letting the player figure things out" and "being too lazy to actually explain how things work" and I feel like 3 overloaded itself with too many mysteries and "gimmicks"

Moebius really reminds me of Flesh and Blade eaters- specifically the prototypes we see at the end of Torna. The same way ouroboros reflect purer, successful flesh/blade eaters seen like Nia and Zeke

He’s gone before the construction of Origin so he wouldn’t be recorded in it, but it’s crazy to think that the one character most defiant against an ‘endless now’ is probably pre-experiment Klaus. Zanza on the other hand, with his whole cycle of death and rebirth as well as loose control over the passage of fate (allows free will etc for personal reasons like Z and is killed because of it) is most like Moebius. It would have been interesting to have had a hypothetical ‘evil’ half of Galea be someone who takes preserving the present too far like moebius too but again, not in origin. Meyneth showed resistance to tyranny, but this ‘Moebius Galea’ may have become jaded like the architect - although coming out with an opposite viewpoint that more control is necessary. I think something like this would’ve tied the whole ‘Klaus Arc’ together better if there was a less fan-fic sounding way to implement it well thematically.

Walking every step with us towards the future? That's a really heartfelt sentiment honestly

Xenoblade has redefined what "sequel" means. It's fascinating how all three games connect to each other.

I guess an interlinked ouroborous has more than two people inside of it… ;) Seriously though, this is such a cool concept. The souls within Origin who are afraid of what might happen during the merging of the worlds manifesting as and feeding Moebius, and the souls who want time to move on and to see the future providing power to Lucky Seven and Ouroborous, some of which may or may not include party members and allies from previous games. This is as much of a war among the souls in Origin as it is a war between the soldiers of Keves and Agnus!

You have a really comforting voice, I love listening to you talk about my favorite game series in the background while I'm cooking. Thanks for creating content 😊

Honestly while I do wish we had answers to some of the bigger unanswered questions in this game I do really love how it gives us the opportunity to speculate even after the game is out, with the hope those speculations will be answered when the dlc arrives

This made me oddly emotional. What a beautiful way of explaining everything.

Luxiin, my man. You have gotta make a video where you go down the rabbit hole. I mean the whole life/death cycle controlled by the Moebius is eerily similar to Zanza's cycle of destruction/rebirth, and also happens to remind me a LOT of what Jin says to Rex and co. in Temperantia after he kills Haze. And that just has to be the tip of the iceberg.

The Jungian psychology is the main reason I got into this game. I knew this game was going to be heavily about self reflection.

Just finished the video and damn, this gives me a whole different look on Xenoblade 3. Amazing video luxin!!

14:47 I thought you were gonna mention the purple and silver Zohar shapes in the Consuls’ chests

10:22 I believe even the Gormotti Agnians have them and are all blade eaters - Juniper had one near their shoulder

That ending part about the collective conciousness and past characters being right with us was beautiful. Really lovely interpretation

"gimmick" likely refers to the original meaning of the word (a magical apparatus) rather than the in-game mechanical gimmicks of each game.

Here I thought we were explaining the references outside of Xenoblade that these things were from. Since the video isn't doing that, I'll do it here: Origin and origin metal is basically referencing the Unicorn Gundam/Neo Zeong and psycoframe material in function. You need a certain aptitude (you need to be a newtype) to operate a psycoframe equipped machine and tap into its full power. The psycoframe can resonate with a powerful newtype to allow them to communicate with the souls of the dead and the psycoframe can also function as a medium of people's thoughts/wishes allowing for miracles to happen. Sounds pretty familiar to what was explained in the video right? As for the ouroboros forms, they're ultraman transformations. Specifically, they reference the transformation of Ultraman Ace who merged his being with a man and a woman and needs them to transform together to form him. The beeping and overheating is a reference to the color timer every Ultra has on their chest. The color timer is an indicator of how much energy/lifeforce an Ultra has before they need to revert to their human form(s) because if they exceed that time limit, they will die.

I think Shulk might have been the one who created N's sowrd and after N became evil and took the sowrd with him the Nopons created lucky 7 as a replacement for it to give to whoever the next ouroboros would be

A surprisingly small detail I've yet to see talked about is Noah's power. In the cutscene where Garvel breaks his metal practice sword, Noah generated a sort of shockwave while practicing with it. The other characters react in a way that seems like foreshadowing, but that ability doesn't come back explicitly. This is before he even learns about the Sword of the End from Riku. So there's something special about Noah that we don't know about, and it might have to do with how he was able to move around when time stopped in Alcamoth.

I think lucky seven isn't a replica monado, it's a real one, as far as aionios is concerned. The monados tap into the source code of the universe, and for aionios that would be origin. And lucky seven draws on the power of origin. Hence, it is a monado of aionios

Rex: Yes, you can date me daughter Noah: Really? Rex: Just remember Rule 5…

Even the Gormotti aren't immune. Juniper has a crystal on their shoulder. I don't know if that makes them an exception like Mio or if Gormotti just have crystals too now.

Luxin: *cleverly sussing out important lore* Me and Enel: Hmmmm Unison Strike on Noahboros? Suboptimal

Sword of the Origin/ Sword of the End are two things in my mind. The sword of the End is the base state of it, while the Sword of Origin is the upgraded form used by N later, and the one used by Noah as an Ouroboros. The sword of the origin draws on both sides of Origin, with the two powers combining into one form. That's why it's so much harder stronger, since it's now fully accessing Origin and the thoughts and power of all people.

DUDE thinking that Rex and Shulk were there all along with us helping and powering us up throughout our adventure is just so awesome and I love it!

Going back and looking at Melia's conversation with the party is quite eye opening. Two Sword's of Orgin can exist in the world as one represents the endless now (N's Sword with the infinity symbol) and one represents the desire to move forward (Noah's Sword of Origin/Sword of the End). The Sword of the End isn't just a fancy name, the meaning is quite literal. It is the Sword that ends the endless now and the reign of Moebius. It's also a Sword of Origin as its made from Origin metal and is influenced by the souls within Origin. It also means that N was always going to become Moebius as pre-consul N always had a Sword of Origin with an infinity symbol on it.

The ending of this video actually made me a little emotional, and I think that just goes to show how beautiful these games are, and how well written luxins script is

Man the ending part hits quite hard with the ouroboros arts and lucky seven pulling from the wills of shulk and Rex because Lanz and Sena having ray of punishment and flame nova. In some cosmic sort of way Pyra and Mythra reunited into a single entity again through Lanz and Sena’s Ouroboros form and Pneuma was partially reborn in some capacity. A part of me wished lanz and sena had a third shared Ouroborus form to really hit home this aspect more but I can live without it. The only issue with this is coming up with something for Tion, Eunie and Mio so everyone had something unique to them 😅

Thank you Luxin for the great videos

Thank u so much, this cleared a lot of things up. Also, I just realised that the Noah we play as is the youngest protagonist in the Xenoblade series, as he is 9. Youngest party member is Poppi since we witness her creation

I think lucky 7 is a reference to the fact that there have been 7 monados/aegis swords (pyra, mythra, pneuma, malos, zanza, meyneth, monado 3)

You actually answered one of my biggest questions- I had noticed the Ouroboros arts named after previous ones and had always wondered if the names I didn’t recognize were from prior Xeno games since I’ve only played the Xenoblade trilogy. Guess not.

This is kinda why I want a prequel to explain these things more clearly. I think the theory is solid, but I would like to see it confirmed with in game explanations. We learn about the creation of the Lucky Seven, and then when they fail to defeat Moebius, Melia and Nia devised a plan. Melia would allow herself to be sealed with Origin for the unforseeable future, so that she may use her will to power up the Sword of Origin for when the time would come that they can defeat Moebius.

18:00 - that is the best quote ever

I needed a Luxin video today

In addition, Origin in and of itself is essentially an Artificial Titan. It hold the collective data of preexisting worlds, from which new life is created based off of. The two sides of Klaus individually created their own versions of Titans, and Tora and those working with him created Origin which is effectively an Artificial Titan, and Moebius create Ferronises from Origin, the original Ferronis.

Wow, thats really cool and loved the imagery you said at the end, I hope its all true, if its not confirmed in the end ill still headcanon it as this

LOL I’m with you every time I used “mega spinning edge” I heard Rex yelling it in my head

If any Blade would be THE Xenoblade it would be hilarious for it to be Lucky Seven. The most normal looking special sword in the series.

Nia literally uses a gamer buzzword to describe game mechanics.

The ending caught me off guard it was so sweet, almost made me cry lol. Good vid as always

I hope your inquisitive mind will keep finding interesting topics of discussion before the DLC drops. I absolutely adore your video analyses and seeing them uploaded makes my brain go overdrive

Great video i had some of those same thoughts with connections to past games

In the special edition artbook Melia has Noah's sword in her room behind the painting and not the Monado REX. Please do a video on the artbook next! I found so much stuff that is interesting in it and would love to hear your thoughts.

Honestly this makes so much sense but even some gormotti have core crystals embedded in them! Juniper has one on their shoulder and other characters like Teach and Fiona also have them. If we are able to swap in multiple heroes into the party format like the dlc screen for the third wave implies bring able to play as them or just looking in the art book will be able to show these kinda of more hidden cores more easily.

“All the Gormotti besides Mio” Juniper’s core crystal can be clearly seen on their shoulder even in their official art

17:40 This feels so dang right. I never saw it like this, but I'm going to now. 18:07 This made me laugh so hard. I love it

I like the emotional touch you give to the end of the videos, the music and the message bring me back the moments I've enjoyed playing all this games and incorporating our heroes message. Changing topics, could you make us a video explaining the black fog? Now that we have FC and XC3, what did you think about this matter? I've read some interesting theories on the internet, but I would like very much to know your thoughts on it. Thanks!

Another fantastic XC3 lore / analysis video ^_^ Gosh I'm scraping for as much content as I can find to tide me over until Challenge Mode, which really is just to tide me over till the DLC Story cause omgosh I need more XC3 in my liiife

Peak content as always!

I thought maybe some of the Urayan looking Agnians may not have had core crystals too but some Gormotti have cleverly hidden ones and with Taion confirmed to have one it sure does seem like all Agnians do. The easiest explanation would be something about how Origin stores data yet then Kevesi born from it would seemingly have them too (and it’s likely based on how Alrest was created which birthed people without cores) so I still am in the dark on how that happened. Unless Moebius only pulled people with cores from that side for their war for some reason and thus it’s just an Aionios thing.

So Melia and Nia gave "gimmicks" from their games to the player so we can triumph?

theres also a cave in erythia that disables interlinking just like spirit crucible elps disabled blade combos. might not exactly be the same spot because we know elps is that sand island, but its got to be a reference to it.

I think it's possible that the old party members where reborn as keves or agnus soliders but eventually rebelled, joined the city, then reached their homecomings and passed away, never to be reborn again since as N says those who reach homecoming never come back. Well unless they become mobius like N and M did

did…luxin already forget about the founders statues?

Wow thanks for making me cry there at the end 🥲

This absolutely blew my mind

I thought that Origin metal was suppose to be immune to annihilation effects so other potential Origin Swords couldn't have been lost/destroyed that way.

Your actually spot on about ouroboros being based on the blade system.

I do want to note, when we see the final Noah die in front of his son, lucky seven stays.

I still think that Lucky Seven/Sword of the End is Alvis's sword. He was Monado in the beginning and he will be there to proclaim the end as well... and this thing is called Sword of the End. I just can't think of anyone else it could be. Even though Alvis/Ontos disappeared into another dimension it's possible it might have something to do with Aionios since Alvis is a seer of the future. Furthermore... if Alvis is Consul A it would make sense since Alvis is Alpha while Z is Omega AKA the end. The two might have opposed eachother and Z never knew there was a consul behind the creation of the sword of the end. This might explain how Melia and Riku know eachother cause the sword of Origin was passed down by Alvis or something. My headcanon right now is that Riki and Tora both worked on Origin and Riki is the only character in this game except Shulk, Rex, and Nia and Melia that has some small closure with his legendary biter being in a post game area implying he may have died there.

This was so good.

With all that said I have one question left. Why did the Xenoblade 2 people who created Ouroboros...name it Ouroboros? We know thematically what the name represents, but who sat at the engineering table next to Tora and said "You know what'd be a sick ass name?..."

just want u to know that ive spent an insane amount of time playing this game and watching ppl play this game and yet the first time I ever heard the climax for consul M's theme was watching your video today lmao

How would core crystals be genetically present in the city's ouroboros candidates? If they are hundreds of generations deep? The dna of city residents at this point are probably not homogenous to agnus and keves. There must have been so much interbreeding going on unless there was a specific segment of the city that stuck to a 100% agnus lineage.

I'm gonna need another explanation of this stuff with the new Future Redeemed reveals. I've got some idea on how it all fits together, but pinning down the facts versus symbolic parallels versus theory is rough. SPOILERS FOR FUTURE REDEEMED AND RANTING FOLLOW: With our new understanding of Matthew's Fists of the End being tied to Pneuma's core and N's specific Sword of the End being violently suggested if not as neatly spelled out as Matthew's Fists and Pneuma's ties are, being tied to Logos, I'm really struggling to figure out (or maybe come to terms with?) why the hell it is that Lucky Seven is also referred to as Sword of the End? I understand its abilities that make it stand out as the Sword of Origin of course (I think to when they used it to resonate with and free the controlled soldiers under Moebius Y presumably by resonating with their data in Origin) but Lucky Seven doesn't hold the same tie to Logos as we understand N's to possess, its moniker as Sword of Origin comes before merging with N (X's comments during the fight in Agnus castle) but still after being called a Sword of the End, and thus before Noah would have inherited some of the Logos core. While it's possible that it was made more explicitly by Melia to resemble Alvis' Monado which would explain why it held greater control over Origin as the two were built off the same root schematics, and the entire "-of the End" title given to the two swords and gauntlets just encompasses these three key 'fragments' to the Trinity Processor where Logos' fragment in N's sword closely resembles Lucky Seven as Malos' own Monado already resembled Alvis' Monado, whereas I'd wager that Matthew's gauntlets almost don't even count when they literally contain Pneuma's 'true' core crystal itself (Glimmer's clearly showed no such capabilities), but being how they were at some point tied together justifies the naming convention (and I choose to believe that Pneuma's core crystal seemingly being lost to time doesn't actually complicate any of this and that it is not tied to Noah's arm when he unsheathes Lucky Seven) Good call on the true nature of Lucky Seven being the symbolic embodiment of the [past game's] friends we... lost?... along the way, but Luxin, good luck on answering the many other questions we now need answered.

Update: lucky seven is actually fiora. I will not explain this further

I kinda wish Noah's sword wasn't called lucky seven. It just doesn't have a good ring too me.

18:06 That reminds me. Do you think you'll make a video about The Photo? Plenty of potential for discussion on that.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 really is Xeno fan service to the umpteenth degree!

Gotta say, this is a really good theory. Good enough to be actually confirmed by the eventual story expansion, perhaps. In particular, the similarity of the Lucky Seven to the Monado seems like too much of a tease to be purely a reference. Really feels like something they might work in if the DLC does end up being a flashback. Between the origin of the Lucky Seven(s), the founders, and the destruction of the first city by N, there are a lot of really strong hints toward a flashback story...

my favourite part of this video is when talking imagining rex telling noah he can date mio

Imagining Tora working with Shulk puts a smile on my face.

"It's like poetry, it rhymes."

Also on Moebius, they have cross like shapes around their cores

Noah: *pulls out lucky 7* Shulk: "I'M REALLY FEELING IT" Also i wish we knew what dumb name noah gave his sword

I think that it makes more sense that there were either only 2 or that they forged a new Sword of the Origin after N became a Moebius.

I believe that the cast of XB1 and XB2 arent exactly dead but when Aionion was "created" it basically put the worlds of XB1 and XB2 into stasis and then copying all inhabitants in those worlds into Aionion and let time just do it's magic because the world of Aionion shouldnt possibly exist without the interference of the Wav... Conduit and the Conduit disappeared when Shulk killed Sanza and Klaus gets thanosed by the effect it created because after all the universe of where Shulk exists is not the same universe as where Rex exists unless its the Conduit thats actually ensuring that the metaverse does not merge but I doubt

Honestly, I think that the land of Challenge has something to do with some of this. Mainly the 'direct contact with another world thing. There's a possibility that I'm wrong, but, it's odd to see how it lines up with explaining how Lucky Seven basically uses a Jin move, when it's based off of Bionis' half of things. Plus, now looking back after we know what the plot of three is (even before when we got an general idea), it's like it was hinting to this exact thing happening. Shulk and Fiora being in Alrest and all that. Could easily argue that it's fan service, but I honestly think this is what it was meant to reference. Edit: The rings! The Rings that let Fiora and Shulk stay in Alrest! Oh crap, that could be part of the reason why Ouroboruse works!

I think the reason the Lucky 7 is so sharp is because it's like a remote controller. As it's made from origin it is part of the core material holding this universe together. The equivalent would be a Bedrock Pickaxe in Minecraft. Bedrock is the one material that no tool, no matter how powerful, can cut into, even if in real world logic an enchanted Diamond pickaxe should be able to affect it. Bedrock is the hard coded ultimate component of Minecraft. Since Origin is the hard coded metal of Xenoblade, it can destroy the Flame Clocks. This is because the Flame Clocks are limited to the will of the people who want an Endless Now. They're the strongest tools in the game. Meanwhile the Lucky Seven is like opening the developers tools and deleting lines of code.

I disagree with the theory that the original parties of XC1 & XC2 are running around Aeonios or are dead (at least in the technical sense). I don't believe they are running around as children because, if they were then the player would've originally crossed paths with them. It's presumed that if you do all the side quests, you have freed every colony (even the secret one no one knew about). That is unless there is a yet to be revealed extra colony that would have Consul A, the only consul we didn't fight against in the entire game (and I presume will be used in the future story DLC in some way perhaps). Still it's a big "If" to me. I also don't believe that Shulk and Rex were the founders of City. This doesn't make a lot of sense for a bunch of reasons. For starters, we know that two of the founders were Noah and Mio. Essentially all the founders are those who were apart of the "War System" established by Zed and Moebius in general. As they were the first to reject the world Zed created, and the first to have children, which ultimately led to the citizens that would populate city (people not bound to the 10 term life cycle of reincarnation). Both Noah and Mio would go on to live repeat lives even after they established City. It also brings me to the biggest point of why they aren't around. Zed/Moebius did not revive them. That's right, it's as simple as Zed not using the Origin system to bring them back to life. It's safe to say that basically all life was wiped out by the Intersection event of the two universes merging... with the exception of Nia and Melia, as keys to Origin. I think they are both essentially pilots of each half of the thing, and probably were operating it at the moment of Intersection. Keys to the system working as a whole. That said when Zed assumed control of the system, he took control of the ability to use it to revive anyone who's data was stored in Aeonios. It's mentioned in game that they SPECIFICALLY created this world where YOUNG people would fight, die, and be reincarnated. That their struggle was what made taking their life so delicious and satisfying. So basically Zed used the data to ONLY revive people who were 10 years old at the time of "Intersection". Since Noah was 10 at that moment when it happened, and when the end credit scene plays, we see that as "Origin restarts" and things move forward, when the universes are restored proper, Noah and crew are back to being 10 years old again. So basically XC1 & XC2 parties were never revived because they were too old for Mobius endless War System. So in a way, they are technically dead, or at least don't exist. But they didn't die of old age, or they didn't die prior to the Intersection event. As Nia comments that she will get to see Rex and everyone again as Origin Restarts... and I assume that Origin can only revive those who were alive at the time when the Intersection event happened. Not people who have been dead for ages past.

If I am not mistanken the sword that N use is the opodite/ mirrored versjon of Noa's sword. ( noa's "menado" cirkle points upp while N's " menado" cirkle points down.

Ever watch ultraman... ace more specifically. You understand