#and I'll still post the Tephra Cave glitch

[xenobladehistorian]

Future Connected Theory--Ether (!!Spoiler Theory!!)

If you want to remain spoiler-free, avert your eyes now.

This is a small theory, really, but something that crossed my mind as I was writing. I would love to hear your opinion on this!

Throughout the main story of Xenoblade Chronicles, it’s made clear that a cultural tradition is the “returning” of a deceased body to the Bionis via water. I did a theory on this way back on why it’s water, so maybe I’ll dig it up and reblog it.

It’s stressed on how very important this is to at least Homs, "ether to ether,” in a sense. Homs came from their titan’s ether and will return to their titan.

However, this is changed in Future Connected.

In Gran Dell, there is a graveyard. Graveyards are never seen in Xenoblade’s world until now because they returned bodies to water, where they “dissolved.” If they are still on the corpse of the Bionis, and they still are made of ether and live on a world made with ether, why has this tradition changed? This graveyard is right beside a lake. They could be returning everyone, but they’re not.

Is it because the Bionis/Zanza was revealed to be evil and is dead, so returning their lives to the Bionis is pointless?

Now, some people may still prefer this method because it’s all they’ve ever known, making it understandable why there aren’t a horrific number of gravestones. It’s also a human trait to stay with what we grew up with or are used to. And those who were bothered by the deaths the Bionis caused could refuse to be returned.

But on the other hand, so many of the deaths described in the epilogue were during the fight with the Fog King, so if they died in Alcamoth, fell out a hole in Alcamoth or fell off the Shoulder/Soltnar Seal Island, or somehow was consumed by the Fog King himself (who knows), there could be a reason why there aren’t as many graves.

Or perhaps the reason lies in the makeup of the new world.

Shulk remade the world with no need for gods. Could that have affected the ether makeup of the world and exchanged it something more “earth-like”? Do deceased bodies no longer disappear in water, and is this something they discovered after the world was remade?

I do wonder if their world is no longer made up of ether--but there could be many possible theories. So this is where I ask for your opinions! What do you think about Gran Dell’s graveyard? What are your thoughts on this theory?

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition #future connected #ether #bionis #this isn't actually the FC theory I was teasing #and I'll still post the Tephra Cave glitch #sorry I've just been very busy