#sabik

[jalopeura]

these might be the most important lines of dialogue in all of video game history actually.

[maxiemcsoda]

bunch of ocs with their flags for pride month :>

[newts-and-sharks]

Drew the Ophiuchi Crew! Captain Rasal (spiky one), Navigator Sabik (star with a crown), Pilots Cebal and Murphy (big guy w/fire n tiny thing with tiny horns), Researcher Omi (flower bun), and Engineer Nu (the one always staring at the fourth wall cat ears n little nubs)

[momochimchim]

I was feeling kinda down, so I drew a bunch of my dead-fish-eyed-crew charas ᕕ( ཀ ʖ̯ ཀ)ᕗ

Babies, (some of them are) really fucked up babies... 🤲🏻

Reminder to drink water!! 🌷🌷🌷

I brushed my teeth and drank water and it really didn't make much of a difference but I felt so proud I did it. And I'm so proud of these drawings too, They look great! So now i'm feeling a itsy bitsy better. ^-^

[chupuyo]

Puyo Puyo Vol. 3 Line Stickers

[spookychiptune]

[wip] rough sketch of Sabik lounging. he loves his vices

[klug]

Puyo Puyo vol. 3 LINE stickers

[asleepinawell]

laha ur athena std is showing

[starryscale-art]

steel one (zodiark AU fun)

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

When you think about it, Praetorium and Porta Decumana are really just the world's most awkward barbecue hosted by two sad dads. Lahabrea brought his ex and didn't tell anyone, there was drama, everything kinda blew up, and now everything is burnt and Gaius is just spouting his political opinions everywhere.

[thinkingimages]

Artsi Ifrach & Mehdi Sabik | Kingdom of Morocco

[jalopeura]

spawn astarion at the end of a good ending game: yes.... maybe there is a way for me to walk in the sun again... lets go on another adventure!

sabik: babe i got 30k gold in my backpack rn lets go buy a big diamond and find the strongest cleric in the city right away. you said youd like to die by decapitation? karlach is right there with her axe,

[lazah-bang]

Joke comic on Sabik/Calypso lore

[otherworldseekers]

Pandaemonium thoughts: The Heart of Sabik

Ok. Ok. I want to talk about Pandaemonium. I’m not sure I can actually do anything but incoherent screaming, but I’ll try. 

(This got long so I’m going to divide this up into multiple posts.)

First, the Heart of Sabik. 

I’m gonna be honest. I didn’t think they were actually going to give us any substantial information about it. I really thought they were going to continue sweeping it under the rug. So kudos to the writing team for exceeding my expectations. 

So, what we learned:

While at the Words of Lahabrea, before working at Pandaemonium, Athena “chanced upon” a unique crystal filled with “immense power” and dubbed it “auracite”. She studied it and eventually produced the “Heart of Sabik”. Lahabrea and others suspected the auracite was from another world. 

As demonstrated in the Return to Ivalice questline, Athena’s auracite also magnified desires. At some point, Athena used the Heart of Sabik to contain a density of aether unlike anything Lahabrea had ever seen, knowledge of the Ultima spell, Athena’s memories and some mechanism to give her rebirth in the future. 

After he killed her, Lahabrea took the Heart but made no progress in learning its secrets. He held onto it through the ages. (Sentimentality? Or merely as a tool?) This is how he comes to use it to teach the Ultima spell to the Ultima weapon in ARR. The question remains as to why Lahabrea ascribes its power to his god in Prae. This may simply be something we have to hand wave as a product of earlier writing, though I can’t help wondering... Was Athena possibly influencing Lahabrea from within the Heart? (It would be a neat way to explain the moments in the story where Laha seems to possibly not be 100% loyal to Zodiark.) 

The Heart eventually ends up being lost in the Aetherochemical Research Facility in Azys Lla, where Lahabrea was defeated. And it’s there that Claudien finds it and falls victim to Athena’s plan. 

Questions we are left with:

Where does the auracite come from? We have no definitive answer to this, though the questline suggests that Athena received it from Ultima the High Seraph. If true, this would mean that Ultima had dealings with Etheirys before the Sundering. 

Laha mentions the possibility of the auracite being from another world quite casually. Was this normal? Did the Ancients have knowledge of and even dealings with other worlds? Hermes’ creation of Meteion suggests not. But then again if so, it would suggest that Hermes reaching out to other worlds with Meteion wouldn’t be cause for alarm among the Ancients. It was not unprecedented, which puts a different spin on Hermes’ actions. 

Claudien keeps the Heart and intends to research it. Is this a crumb that will lead to more in 7.0? Will the trail eventually lead us to Ultima and her world? An interesting possibility. (Perhaps Sabik is the name of the star Ultima is from.)

[killikhive]

stupid and grumpy and i love him

[crowteeths]

Obligatory benchmark screenshots ft. The Ear Glowies