![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Snowflake Challenge #4
Jan. 12th, 2023 07:18 pmPrompt:
In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon.
In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon.
Summoning in Final Fantasy IV
As we know, Mist's guardian died to Kain and Cecil. In doing so, they condemned Rydia's mother, it's summoner, and she died as a result of her connection to the Mist Dragon. So...why didn't Golbez die with the shadow dragon he summoned at Giott's Castle when Rydia made her badass entrance to the fight? Here's my response/resolution to the plot hole:
A Call Answered
TL;DR:
Summoners make a pact when they undergo training in the ancient, dwindling art of summoning in the FFIV realm. This pact demonstrates that Eidolons will come when called no matter the consequence, but this is contingent to their lives intertwining with that of the summoner. Not only will this protect Eidolons from foolish fightingby the summoners by proxy of Eidolons (like a lethal Pokemon battle), but it gives the summoners assurance that when they deem the risk necessary, the Eidolons will always be there for them.
Golbez was powerful and evil enough to essentially "steal" the shadow dragon, as he called on its inherent dark nature to summon it by force. Since Golbez is not a summoner (as far as we know), he did not undergo the pact and as such didn't have to die when the shadow dragon died.
Naturally, Leviathan was pissed; in fact, horrified that Rydia is the last summoner standing, and orders Titan to protect her and give him a chance to bring her to the Feymarch so he could fight in the battle that has killed one of his subjects, and the summoners.
It not only explains Titan creating mountains when Rydia is a child and clearly cannot summon him, it also explains Golbez's weird summoning situation, and Leviathan taking Rydia to the Feymarch and training her to adulthood :)
As we know, Mist's guardian died to Kain and Cecil. In doing so, they condemned Rydia's mother, it's summoner, and she died as a result of her connection to the Mist Dragon. So...why didn't Golbez die with the shadow dragon he summoned at Giott's Castle when Rydia made her badass entrance to the fight? Here's my response/resolution to the plot hole:
A Call Answered
TL;DR:
Summoners make a pact when they undergo training in the ancient, dwindling art of summoning in the FFIV realm. This pact demonstrates that Eidolons will come when called no matter the consequence, but this is contingent to their lives intertwining with that of the summoner. Not only will this protect Eidolons from foolish fightingby the summoners by proxy of Eidolons (like a lethal Pokemon battle), but it gives the summoners assurance that when they deem the risk necessary, the Eidolons will always be there for them.
Golbez was powerful and evil enough to essentially "steal" the shadow dragon, as he called on its inherent dark nature to summon it by force. Since Golbez is not a summoner (as far as we know), he did not undergo the pact and as such didn't have to die when the shadow dragon died.
Naturally, Leviathan was pissed; in fact, horrified that Rydia is the last summoner standing, and orders Titan to protect her and give him a chance to bring her to the Feymarch so he could fight in the battle that has killed one of his subjects, and the summoners.
It not only explains Titan creating mountains when Rydia is a child and clearly cannot summon him, it also explains Golbez's weird summoning situation, and Leviathan taking Rydia to the Feymarch and training her to adulthood :)
Tags:
