Clockwork Spider Taxonomy: Forgekin (Clockwork Spider) Description: Fitted with enhanced weaponry and sophisticated defensive techniques, these clockwork spiders were also possessed of advanced AI allowing them to adapt quickly to emergent crises. Dark Matter Slime Taxonomy: Ashkin (Slime) Description: Slimes are produced when humors leaking out of corpses come to rest on an area enriched by earth aether. The earth aether adopts the aetheric energies left behind by the dead individual(s) and uses them to control the congealed biological material. These particular specimens seem to have come into contact with dark matter, a substance that is capable of melding with other materials and improving it. This … [Read more...]
The Final Coil of Bahamut
Excerpt from ‘Records on the Traverse of Dalamud’s Ruins – A Handbook for Scholars of Allag’ by Archon Niniri Niri. It was at the zenith of ancient Allag, during the second reign of Xande, the revived Emperor, that the elder primal Bahamut was captured and ensorcelled within a colossal metal sphere containing vast apparatus aimed at imprisoning the primal and draining its power. This sphere would later go on to gain the name Dalamud, likely a derivation of Bahamut’s own name by later peoples, and was intended to generate power enough not only to sustain the Empire, but to bring destruction upon it by the madness-invoked apocalyptic designs of the Emperor. The Warrior of Light, in conjunction with the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and other … [Read more...]
The Bestiary of the Second Coil of Bahamut
Lunar Golem Taxonomy: Soulkin (Golem) Description: Golems are beings of stone animated by magic, with rumors suggesting that they may be easier to animate in the path of a calamity, although any real research will demonstrate that this is not the only time they are possible to create. These particular creatures names draw from the fact that they were animated by the energies of Dalamud. Dark Matter Roselet Taxonomy: Seedkin (Flying Trap) Description: Deeply predatory seedkin, flying traps rely on the use of their brightly colored petals to lure in prey which is then stuck to these petals by a secreted adhesive, and drained of nutrients by the plant’s roots. They are also capable of more direct combat, … [Read more...]
The Second Coil of Bahamut
Excerpt from ‘Records on the Traverse of Dalamud’s Ruins – A Handbook for Scholars of Allag’ by Archon Niniri Niri. It was at the zenith of ancient Allag, during the second reign of Xande, the revived Emperor, that the elder primal Bahamut was captured and ensorcelled within a colossal metal sphere containing vast apparatus aimed at imprisoning the primal and draining its power. This sphere would later go on to gain the name Dalamud, likely a derivation of Bahamut’s own name by later peoples, and was intended to generate power enough not only to sustain the Empire, but to bring destruction upon it by the madness-invoked apocalyptic designs of the Emperor. The Warrior of Light, in conjunction with the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and other … [Read more...]
The Bestiary of the Binding Coil of Bahamut
The Allagan Defense System ☠ Taxonomy: Forgekin (Defense Node) Description: The defense node was a creation of the fevered minds of Allag's upper class, too paranoid to entrust their knowledge to anything but a mechanical creation. Vast numbers of these creations could be found across key Imperial locations, and some scholars believe that Dalamud was essentially a defense node on a grand scale. This particular example of the nodes was a large, defense-specialized node, nicknamed the ADS for short by its creators. Capabilities: The ADS was a mighty contraption, and was capable of employing, amongst other things, a self-destruct protocol heralded by a loud 'click timer'. The device was also capable of compressing … [Read more...]
The Binding Coil of Bahamut
Excerpt from ‘Records on the Traverse of Dalamud's Ruins - A Handbook for Scholars of Allag’ by Archon Niniri Niri. It was at the zenith of ancient Allag, during the second reign of Xande, the revived Emperor, that the elder primal Bahamut was captured and ensorcelled within a colossal metal sphere containing vast apparatus aimed at imprisoning the primal and draining its power. This sphere would later go on to gain the name Dalamud, likely a derivation of Bahamut's own name by later peoples, and was intended to generate power enough not only to sustain the Empire, but to bring destruction upon it by the madness-invoked apocalyptic designs of the Emperor. The Warrior of Light, in conjunction with the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and other … [Read more...]
