Final Fantasy 16 Ending Explained

Questions in regards to the Remaining Fantasy 16 Ending? We bought you lined. Spoilers inside.

**Heavy Spoilers past this level. You’ve been warned.

The ending of Final Fantasy 16 leaves many inquiries to be answered. Primarily as a result of all of its finer particulars are hidden away within the recreation’s lore sections and elective facet quests. most of them solely turn out to be accessible as soon as you’ve got accomplished each single one.

We’ll reply all of your burning questions and clarify to you what precisely was happening in the course of the bombastic finale of Remaining Fantasy 16.

What was Ultima’s Plan?

Ultima is a part of a race of godlike beings that misplaced their residence to the Blight. To not repeat the sins of the previous Ultima settled in Valisthea and started to work on a scheme that might enable them to forged a strong spell. A spell would cleanse the world of earthly needs and free will to create a paradise with out the Blight.

To attain that, Ultima and its type wanted two issues: large quantities of Aether (the lifeblood of all residing issues) to gas the spell and a vessel highly effective sufficient to forged it.

To obtain these quantities of Aether, Ultima’s brethren who’re a part of a hivemind changed into the Mothercrystals. These Mothercrystals pumped Aether from the core of the planet to the floor and would retailer it as soon as the time had come.

Making a suiting vessel would take loads longer. For that Ultima created humanity, realizing that someday these inferior beings would produce a vessel able to casting the spell.

Ultima left then humanity to its personal units and over time they developed free will. Which triggered them sooner or later to grasp magic and insurgent in opposition to their god. This might be later generally known as the Struggle of the Magi and led to the autumn of the individuals we now know as The Fallen.

The Ultima’s plan lastly kicked into gear when Clive woke up to his powers at Phoenix Gate, not simply because the second Eikon of Hearth however able to absorbing the facility of different Eikons and utilizing them as his personal.

Since that day, Ultima has been within the background orchestrating the occasions that led to the destruction and liberation of their brethren who fashioned the Mothercrystals. They’d then merge collectively into one and take management of Clive who via millennia of human evolution had turn out to be the right vessel, Mythos.

Mythos and Logos Defined

The sport would not do a superb job of explaining these two phrases outdoors the lively time lore, so right here is the wanting it:

Mythos is the vessel Ultima must forged its spell “Increase”. Which might wipe the slate clear and create a brand new paradise devoid of any emotion or free will. That is additionally the rationale why Mythos let a rampaging Clive within the type of Ifrit seemingly kill his brother, to interrupt him and switch him into an empty husk solely fueled by revenge.

However Clive selected to embrace “Logos” as a substitute. The sport describes Logos as free will, the spirit that makes people human. Ultima can’t management what they can not comprehend, mankind’s cussed and egocentric delight which appears to be the reason for all unhealthy issues occurring in Valisthea. Clive realized that every one the battle and strife are simply a part of what makes him human.

However to turn out to be Mythos, Clive didn’t have to take the facility of the opposite Eikons however they gave him the power to beat Ultima on the finish and defy destiny itself.

Clive’s Destiny

After beating Ultima, Clive has spent most if not all of his energy. And similar to most of the bearers he has encountered on his journey he’s additionally slowly turning into stone. Now that he has additionally consumed Ultima, he has the facility to set issues proper at the price of his personal life.

He first tries to revive Joshua who had died earlier than the ultimate battle. And whereas his wounds appear to heal and Clive remembers his time together with his brother it would not appear to work. All through the sport, Joshua and the opposite characters maintain mentioning that the Phoenix doesn’t have the facility to revive individuals. So why would it not work this time?

Clive then decides to proper the wrongs of Ultima and put an finish to the limitless cycle of struggling created by the Mothercrystals and magic. So he destroys the ultimate crystal and undoes the spell Ultima used to cover the solar and switch individuals Akashic.

We final see him stranded wanting up on the moonlit sky fascinated about Jill and as he dies, the crimson star “Metia” additionally dies signaling the tip of Ultima and the legacy of the crystals.

Remaining Fantasy 16 Ending Defined

After the credit, we get a scene of two boys carrying firewood into their residence. One with black and the opposite with blonde hair, similar to Clive and Joshua. The older one complains that he has to make hearth with flint and metal and needs he had the magick to make it.

Displaying us that far sooner or later, Cid and Clive’s dream grew to become a actuality. Individuals lastly dwell with out magic reliant on crystals and the struggling of Bearers and Dominants. On the finish, the digicam zooms in on a guide from which the youngsters quote “Struggle of the Eikons” a phrase the scholar Vivian used to explain many of the battle within the recreation.

The guide title is revealed to be “Remaining Fantasy”, its cowl options the identical emblem we see within the Hideaway and is written by Joshua Rosfield. Whereas it is debated if this guide was truly penned by Joshua or by somebody utilizing his title, we be taught in a sidequest on the finish that Joshua is an avid scholar of historical past and loves to jot down. So it is not far-fetched that he would’ve written it.

However how did he survive? We’re advised time and again that the Phoenix would not have the facility to revive the lifeless. Ultima was getting ready to forged a spell known as “Increase” to create a brand new world, a spell that the Remaining Fantasy franchise normally associates with reviving fallen celebration members. And with Clive being in possession of Ultima’s energy reviving Joshua would not appear to be out of the realm of risk.

The sport leaves this ambiguous for a motive. Clive’s total journey was about avenging and making amends for his brother’s obvious dying at Phoenix Gate. His reviving his brother brings the story full circle similar to the narration at the beginning and the tip of the sport already signifies.

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