10 Question that Remain Unanswered after the Xenoblade 3 Artbook 

"The Bible may contain further Xenoblade spoilers" is such a funny line out of context

I love the headcannon that "Lucky 7" is playing into the codename in xenoblade 1

1: Z’s line about homecoming is in reference to how she shouldn’t be able to pull them out from Origin if they died naturally. But since their lives are so special in relation to Origin, they’re the exception to the rule, just like how they are with everything else. We never see them die naturally from a homecoming before, so there’s no reason to think that the final life they lived before turning to Moebius wasn’t the only time they died naturally. They’re so special because of their “contact” with Logos and N’s sword, which intertwines his fate with Origins as A says. 2: it’s set up for a new game, most likely answer is pneuma backed up his data, because that’s what Aegis’s do, and because the physical core was destroyed, he can’t manifest as his core, which is why he doesn’t in future redeemed, and manifest as N’s sword instead. 3: they’ll be reincarnated in the new world. Like Ghondor implies in the end, with new lives, drastically different from the ones they lived in Aionios. The definition of reincarnation is the rebirth of someone’s soul inside a new body. 4: their lives are sustained. Melias life is sustain because she’s being treated that way inside of Origin. And Nia sleeps in the same type of pod Jin uses in Xenoblade 2 to keep himself healthy and alive for so long. 5: this one’s a lot more difficult to answer, but put simply: it’s fate. Linka says she thinks she’s there for a greater purpose, which implies that powers beyond her are at play when it comes to her, and the rest of the liberators existence. “Fate” or the pre-established harmony is the will of god, who in this game, is Ontos. My theory is that Alvis, who resided inside Ontos, foresaw that alpha would awake and attempt to destroy the world, so what A did was make if so that the liberators never assimilated with Origins collective unconscious, so that then they could appear in the flesh and help beat alpha in the future. They even say this in the ending of FR: “you saw this coming didn’t you A?” - Shulk 6: when takahashi talks about “the flow” and people existing outside of it, it doesn’t mean that they literally exist outside of gate itself. He says himself that power that’s outside the flow can be the wills of young people, and regardless of the trinity processors intervention, their power is in opposition to Moebius’s, and as such exist outside his flow/control. So when he says Nopon exist outside the flow, he’s saying that they aren’t restricted by the rules of Aionios. This could be due to a heavily implied “pact” of “treaty” between the Nopon caravan and Moebius. Moebius would let them exist outside the flow and live forever, if they agree to not intervene with their plans. Also Nopon can be born in Aionios, there are nopon as young as 8. 7: his special power is his sword itself and the power it grants to him. He’s so powerful with it that he doesn’t need any other true of power. There’s also no reason to not think he doesn’t have a monster form, but there’s no reason to use it because he’s already so much more powerful than anyone else. 8: A explains in future redeemed that Fog beast are a symptom of the worlds unstableness and are born from the black fog, which itself is a symptom of unstableness as it heralds annihilation events. They appear in future redeemed because alpha isn’t stabilizing the world anymore, which makes rifts open up. When the world is stabilized again after Fr they don’t appear anymore. 9: the fact that Melia is 80% Homs despite her parents being 1 full high entia and 1 normal hom, shows that Homs aging is the most dominant when it comes to determining how the child ages. Everyone in the clock system was originally a child at the end of 1 and 2, and there’s an implied 20 year gap In between the ends of 1 and 2 and the start of 3. By then all the children would’ve had dominant human/hom genes that make them age at the same rate as them. Also Machina technology is so advanced, that they could also just make themselves age at the same rate as Homs if they wanted too. There’s so much room for speculation. I feel like most of the unanswered questions people have about 3 can be explained by just engaging with the community and the story more thoroughly. Theorizing about lore is what makes these games so fun to play, so this approach to story telling is something I like. It allows the writers to pay attention more to the actual story they want to tell, while providing players with enough evidence to come to their own conclusions.

Nia was the blade of a royal family and since she then became a flesh eater from the lineage I think that’s why/how she became a queen.

Nia and Melia aren't as old as Aionios. Both ended up being put in stasis for long periods, so they may have only been there for a few hundred years of Aionios' existence. It's like how BOW Link is still physically about 17, but 117ish years have passed since he was born

My headcanons about the casts of XB3 in the regular world: Noah: Random homs living in Alcamoth, born shortly after FC. Lanz: Alive during XB1, machina, lived in the Hidden Machina Village before moving to Alcamoth. Eunie: Alive during XB1 and was physically and mentally 8 during it's events. (40 in Homs years) At the beginning and end of XB3 she's physically and mentally 10, 52 in Homs years. Lanz: It's my theory that machina do not physically age but instead undergo "upgrades" over time that emulate aging similar to the robots in Blue Sky's film "Robots." Also due to being inorganic they cannot die from natural means but CAN rust if uncared for and physically die if they're circuits are damaged. Mio: Daughter of Rex and Nia, princess of Agnus, sister of Glimmer. Born sometime after FC. Sena: Brigid's blade awakened sometime after XB2. Brigid became a flesh eater and Morag a blade eater post-XB2 to emulate Zeke and Pandoria's bond in a sort of pseudo-marrige, and then Brigid awakened a blade in order to simulate them having a child. Taion: A blade eater and one of Amalthus' experiments that he performed on one of the refugees living in Indol. Alive during XB2. Escaped Indol during the attack on the world tree. Glimmer: Rex and Pyra's daughter and princess of Agnus. Mio's older sister. Nikol: Shulk and Fiora's son born around a year after FC. Shulk banged Fiora and lost his virginity almost immediately after he got back from the mission on the bionis shoulder. Rex: King of Agnus alongside the three queens Pyra Mythra and Nia. Shulk: Father of Nikol and famed inventor. Matthew: Hasn't been born yet. Is destined to be the grandson of Gondor Vandam, great great grandson of Noah and Mio and the great great great grandson of Rex and Nia. Will be reborn around 120 years after XB1/XB3. Might be featured in a Xenogears reboot as a Fei stand-in. A: One of the three parts of the new Trinity Processor located in Origin alongside Pneuma-Rex and Logos-Shulk. Milton Vandam: Protagonist of XB4, Crown Prince of Agnus, son of Rex and Mythra, and reincarnation of Malos.

X Spoilers sort of calling it now, what happened at the end of 2, Malos got sent to the X universe and ultimately ends up saving the people in it, before being sent into origin.

In another video I've commented that I really like that Takahashi is not answering all the questions now, (maybe we will learn some of these in future games). After all this, I think the new saga will be the "Origin Saga", learning more about it in the future. I know this chapter of Xenoblade is not for everyone, but I really loved how it was handled, its just makes me more excited for the future games. Either way, it was a good video.

I would accept glitches from shulk or rex doing something as explaination for how something happened that didn't make sense.

We already know Noah and Mio reunite. That isn’t unanswered. We just didn’t see it on screen.

#2 is definitely a Xeno 4 question, probably a throwback reference to the Animus and Anima in the style of Xenogears

Noah probably named Lucky 7 something along the lines of "Super Duper Ultra Monando".

Plot twist: Eunie and Lanz are Noah and Joran’s adoptive parents.

My head canon is that Noah named it The Decider, like c'mon he literally calls it THE decider.

For #2, I agree that it is likely a result of the admins messing about. The only other thing I can think of is in the intro to base 3. Noah sees time stop for everything and everyone else, but he's able to keep moving. It's possible this indicates he has some aspect of himself that isn't fully absorbed into Origin. If that's the case, then we can probably assume Mio experienced something similar. That said, it doesn't really answer anything. And it's also possible that everyone had the same experience, seeing everyone else freeze in time.

I can't say I'm too enthralled about how there apparently will be stuff that may pop in xc4 from the original trilogy. I was hoping that everything from this trilogy would be settled and we would go on to newer worlds and lore with different characters.

My best interpretation of Noah and Mio coming back after homecoming is that Z "broke the rules" and edited the world to bring them back, but when he did this it may have caused Origin to register them as "back in the system" and autocorrected by adding another pair of them back into the cycle On an unrelated note, one big question I do have is how ageing works for soldiers because, now I might be crazy, but Mio is in a later term than other characters like Bolearis and Isurd, but she looks a hell of a lot younger somehow

given the lifespans of all six main cast members, it seems that noah is the only one that doesnt have some sort of naturally longer lifespan, though if sena's a blade she might be subject to the rebirth/memory loss thing, but she might also be a blade/human kid like linka is and have no need for that, even then, if her driver ends up being mio or taion in aionios she wont have to worry about that due to them having longer lifespans. basically everyone is gonna outlive noah L

Thanks for the subtitles.

20:52 in xc1 there is a quest that is about a machina who's what ill call growth module stopped working keeping him in a young body while his mind aged and shulk was able to fix it but says that it will make him grow at a normal rate from that point on meaning with that those growth modules could have been modified to be the same with homs to show that the world is of one people. As for high entia due to most of them (pure blooded) got turned into telethia and that more died fighting the fog king they would very likely have formed relations with homs and as zeon and many other npcs have very small wings and of different hair color shows that those offspring are more homs that those that came before and based off of what melia says to explain why tyrea has big wings is that its uncommon for those of mixed blood to keep their wings big so with the only high entia left after xc1 being part homs its not impossible for the next gen to be even more homs like thus aging more similar to them There was also another quest about a machina almost dying but shulk and the party could extend her life but dialed it back a bit to not live for too too long being more proof of machina life span manipulation and as the last chapter gives the party as much time to prep before going to fight zanza and these quest not being timed could have happened like how rex did do the salvaging quest given by the king of tantal in xc2 being brought up again in xc3 where all the quest have to be canon as the last quest is getting the escape ships ready and before that the machines that lead to the ones used in the main game of 3 Also its my head canon that the Aizel in xc3 is Melia's kid named after one of the guards that died protecting her and due to her felling to him and that the gurad next to him is unnamed when he is makes me think so

We DO actually know how Nia (or at least one of the possible ways she did) became queen. Watch Luxin's XC3 Queens explained video for that answer.

My quick thoughts regarding N and M's Moebius forms... I imagine that, since M in particular doesn't event WANT to be Moebius, and N only chose to become one in order to save M, they might have purposefully never even transformed before because they don't want to. Hell I suppose it's possible Z himself made them unable to transform, but either way I think they have no desire to. Which is actually quite tragic when you think about it, because if they could fuse together like Moebius and Ouroboros, N would've been able to witness M's memories and thus understand her feelings toward him and his actions.

I’m thinking that Mr. Takahashi deflected the question about Noah’s name for Lucky 7 bc he and the devs never actually came up with that name lol

Questions to be answered in Xenoblade Chronicles X-2

i mean the ontos core just randomely appeared one day on bionis, is it crazy to think that something similar happened in alrest but just with logos's core?

Well it's called lucky 7 because Fiora is seventh character of course.

The part of life span for characters are weird, since Shulk and Rex could have just change their rate of aging or something similar could happened to Panacea and Linka until they joined the city. Because admins literally can change the anything they want in the world. Basically they could have decide age up everyone in the liberators to be adults and made them slow or even stop aging, until Shulk and Rex became part of Origin. Because if you analyze the named NPC from the liberators, you would realize that if they all aged at the same rate as in the real world, Shulk and Rex would have been babysitting all the liberators for 15 years before future redeemed. Which personally I don’t think it happened that why and everyone was a bit older than the same age. Plus there is the whole we celebrate Linka’s birthday, but her age didn’t change in the affinity chart issue. Plus there is also the problem of truce, which Shulk mentioned that the liberators and Moebius wouldn’t fight each other until alpha was defeated, which would mean before the Alpha incident, the Liberators already existed with Shulk and Rex. Personally I don’t think Shulk and Rex only existed for 15 in Aionios, based on all the information we have, plus Shulk and Rex knowing how to use the power of Ouroboros, Sword of the end and Stones. Makes me think they were there at their creation, based on the souls used for the weapons of Ouroboros. Fiora for the sword of the end, and Pneuma for the original Ouroboros Stone, which Ghondor used that shard to create that fist of the end.

Regarding Malos, I'm thinking next game will explore on the "Jesus as Savior of Humanity" Part of Logos. Since in XB2 is more of Gnostic ver of Jesus who freed mankind from material world ( physical world) but is more extreme. Maybe in XB4 we will see Malos being Savior of humanity this time and also redemption arc for him i guess. Basically XB4 will be Second coming of Christ fanfiction lol I just hope we got see Malos or Logos different alter like Pneuma - Pyra/Mythra and Ontos - Alvis/A. I hope it will also explore the logical and knowledge aspect of Logos.

With Moebius A, A herself says that she and Alpha have a name with the nuance of "the one in the beginning" and that in Aionios, only they can claim that name for themselves as a result. Lucky Seven's true name is vague on purpose. You could say it is a forgein blade to us as the story currently stands. One might even say it is a "Xeno" blade. I think this analogy is fitting. Yeah, Noah and Mio are special, because they actually desire each other so much, that they born outside of the clutches of Moebius. This checks out even with Golden Motes. A important line that everyone forgets about in this scene where Z says they surpass the system- "you being here is of your own choice" meaning Z didn't even brought him there. Noah and Mio just subconsicously want each other so badly. As a side note: About Noah and Mio post N and M, Noah said once they are their repentance. A concept for making up for something. A concept just as Z that boiled up through a similar intense desire. Between N and Noah are probably over a 1000 years. Enough time for such emotions to manifest into Noah and Mio inside of Origin. I think the City people being born in a set fate is a direct conflict involved in Xenoblade 4. Geniuenly about assimilation... Takahashi is not involved with side quests and NPCs, and this interview explains how he keeps things to himself rather loosly. This could unironically be a contradiction between Takahashi and his team in a similar way that there being 26 in base game from Fiona's AQ. I think certain Nopon like Manana are still born in Aionios, because Nopon can still fuck yk. After all only a select few Nopon have the age as ??? while other Nopons are in their 20s and 30s. N's ability might be quantum related based on all his arts name being themed after it. Fog Rifts appeared in Future Redeemed, because Alpha was preparing to depart, which would destroy Aionios. This checks out with the Fog's explanation that Takahashi and A gave us. This is also why they dissapeared again after Alpha was defeated as he was replaced by A.

So nia is able to stay alive forever, in my headcanon at least, because she has the super healing ablility to the point whete she can cause cancer. That's... just OP. She literally cannot die and refer to that one scene in xc3 if you don't believe me. Melia, though... idk she's part telethia, and their rules were always fuzzy. They did have massively extended lifespans though, and melia's father didnt die of natural causes so we arent sure how long they can live.

the wayi always thoguht of it is those who aren't parto f the cycle have regular lifespans like outside of aionios, which since aionios took place within a few seconds in the real world, would mean anyone not in the cycle who wasn't born in aionios would be practically immortal compared to anyone in the system

I just want answers about Astelle. I'm Astelle's number 1 fan

THANK YOU for addressing Melia's age. I've been pointing to Sorean for the longest time and calling Melia's age into question. Maybe it's because she's half-homs and that messes with it? I felt like no one else noticed this discrepancy

One question that was NEVER answered in the base game, even a little- why did Noah and Mio meet, fall in love, and die EVERY TIME before the N and M cycle? That seems too many instances to be a coincidence, especially given the animosity between Keves and Agnus. It’s a miracle they were able to meet and fall in love in the main game cycle alone. It’s a separate question to why they are able to come back post-homecoming.

I still don’t understand it. Even when I do it just sounds stupid So Ryne is an orange metal? Pyra & Mythra are core crystals and Fiona is a sword….? What? Why? How does that add anything worthwhile to this story? Sounds like fever dream nonsense