Abyssos Eighth Circle Theme "Embers" - FFXIV OST 

Shut up and take my thumbs up. *groaning laugh*

YYYYEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I hate and love you in equal measure for that pun.

Ugh take the thumbs up you villain

getout

Still def on the theory that the Lahabrea we see in the MSQ is either Hephaistos or Lahabrea *recombined* with Hephaistos

@@jacobsiron6929 The Crystal the Professor researcher guy is at Aszys La. The place where old Lahabrea got destroyed. It was the same Lahabrea who literally said "I will do everything in the name of the Star" and went batshit insane.

@@Traten65 I really don't know if to count it man. That ammount of time being alive, swapping bodies over and over, that can change anyone after so so long of lives Look how Themir/Elidibus ended up as well

It's not like he would necessarily have intended to deceive, just that the Final Days could've interrupted everything. At which point, having not gotten around to destroying the crystal, the crises might've caused them to consider the research worth pursuit. Which seems very likely to me as the description Athena gives is spot-on for what Ascians are. They pursued this research for its benefits in their pursuit of the Rejoining, both the immortality and the ability to traverse the rift between shards. For the stability of the timeline, it's not like that specifically would be something we could or should go out of our way to meddle with. I think there's more to it than that on Athena's end, including the GIANT HONKIN EYEBALL in the back of A8N. And I think ghost Elidibus and ghost Lahabrea will be there to help us see this to its conclusion in the final wing, which also provides the last bit of closure for Elidibus especially. He just entrusted a blind hope to us before dying. Unlike Emet and Hythlodaeus, he didn't get a front seat to seeing us at least make it to the final boss. I think FF2 has two versions of Pandaemonium and Emperor Mateus, a Hell and Heaven one. The third wing may be a "Heaven" to contrast the VERY Hellish second wing. Despite being called Tartaros, we technically cleared Tartaros already in the second wing (it's where A8 takes place and maybe A7 too), and we will at least offscreen presumably reclear Asphodelos and Abyssos for the third wing.

@@jaeusa160 I'm guessing Elysium. It would fit in with the Greek Underworld thing they've done so far (Asphodel and the Abyss/Tartarus).

This entire fight is just a weird custody battle between two depressed single dads with you stuck in the middle

@@RobdeliaYT you could say it’s a Lahabread sandwich…

Considering the 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 stuff... i felt dirty. Tbh im not gonba be surprised if we find out thay that lahabread we deal with in arr and hw was the clone/cast off.

@@RobdeliaYT not the first time we did this, ShB we had that but with two violent dad's for a daughter.

9.3 will be Lahabrea vs Giott. I dont know how it works but I do know Lahabrea is going to get a concussion. And a nice hat.

Lahabread Medley

@@IceboyMyName Lahabreadley?

@@Azraellix Lahadley

@@Azraellix Lahabread's Mix Tape

@@DarthAlphaTheGreat Laha Hee

"Lahabrea... what have you done?"

Just wait until he breaks out THREE Otamatones for the next Fan Festival.

​@@dragonmangames2523 dear God. Have mercy.

dude even hid the ff prelude in there, it’s really faint around 1:40-ish or so!

@@passivepaints1143 Omg 😱 well heard. That sounds cool af on guitar too.

wtf you mean someone told him he couldn't?

Half loaf

Clever...

CARLOS!

Sliced bread

Honestly the synth gives me major Sonic Spinball vibes. Meanwhile the guitar riff at 1:20 sounds straight out of Evil Foundry from Sonic and the Secret Rings

@@RobdeliaYT When you get past the controls, Secret Rings was soooooo friggin good

I'm glad someone else said it

I was getting heavy Capcom vibes. Especially Mega Man X.

Sonic Adventure 3: Pandemonium

The Anyder motif is itself just the Ascian motif. It also uses the motif from Thunderer (the Ascian boss music from ARR).

I heard the Thunderer moteif, but while I remember it being related to Ascians, I mostly link it to Twintania, because you get the orchastration from her, and I have been progging ucob.

@@Enderlinkpawnu to be fair, thunderer is pretty much over used xD

Why are you crying

FISH ACADEMY* 😡

My bets are that they are saving something 4 phase 2 of P8S

@@TheChaosGear Big prayers go out that at least this time itll have its own song unlike last tier

@@ZurilasZone It does, it’s called White Stone Black

SCREAM

@@TheChaosGear I looked through the game files and found what I'm fairly certain is the P8S part 2 song. It's not very good unfortunately :( sort of like a reduced, grittier, more electronic style of the main motif from this song. Hoping I'm wrong, but the key and motif sound the same (I think there are even quiet vocals saying "Scream") so I'm pretty sure that's the one

I think the very first part of the song is also a remix of "without shadow".

Yeah same. it really is all the themes that Lahabread has anything to do with driven to madness on top of a dnb drum track

@@kiraleshoth I didnt pick the theme at first then my mind was blown away

@@kiraleshoth It goes from "Without Shadow", into "Thunderer", into "Shadows Withal" remixes.

Same! At first I wasn’t that big a fan, but then as soon as the Thunderer motif showed up, I fell in love.

And just like eden, the fight is over who the child in question sides with

Hard to believe this is only half of Laheebread's true power. No wonder he was so damn confident during the 8th umbral calamity.

With Ishikawa level writing! =D

Out of my sight! Let seep sorrow into your heart! I tire of this farce!

Sear flesh from bone! Behold the fruits of sacrifice! You are prey to be consumed! You will know my rage!

Fools! Braying before a god!

He learned from the best and Uematsu hired him for a reason. He had the same musical spirit.

@@brianmendenhall8972 This is the reason why both Soken and Narita are my favorite video game musicians.

@@thehooded-guru The guy from monster hunter?

​@@carlos-zy7vxNarita did some work on 1.x. He also is the main composer for Granblue Fantasy if you've heard any of it.

The drummer probably either has an applaudable passion in Drum or begging for their dear life to tone down. Either way they're -ballin'- drummin'

The bass is going hard too! Very prog rock.

It's not a live instrument, it's probably a drum machine

@@jonh4872 I dunno, if you watch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-62ezXENOuIA.html Long fall music video, the drummer goes pretty hard at at so could be a live player.

​@@Eclypsia13 This is 100 percent a drum machine. That doesnt mean the drummer isnt talented or isnt able to go this hard live. Also that video isnt live playing...

There's also the FF prelude at 1:34

@@wintermelon1795 oh awesome, nice catch. prelude into thunderer is very cool

I don't hear Thunderer at all.

@@jonh4872 Thunderer section starts at 1:48

I COULDN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE OUT WHY THE OPENING WAS FAMILIAR AND IT WAS DRIVING ME INSANE THANK YOU

Yes and it’s horrifying

Well, the Savage version is just straight up Resident Evil.

He lost all his chains, for sure

Thunder is the ascian theme though?

@@TheCarash the cutscene Ascian theme, not the battle Ascian theme

Not to mention him being responsible for teaching people how to summon Primals. Beating him with a summoner (a discipline specifically designed to counter them) is almost poetry.

Never mind the fact that we, as Azem, asked to borrow Ifrit from Lahabrea in our whole existance. Kind of poetic that it comes full circle. Can imagine the sane version of Hephaestos and Themis just looking at each other in the background going, "... Really?"

Mixing Thunderer/Maker’s Ruin with Shadows Withal and the Pandæmonium theme got me weak

Probably not even his final fight yet.

SAME oh my god

Yeah I had to listen to it a couple of times to like it. It's not really my style and I like the other raid soundtracks more but I was fangirling too when Shadows Withal kicked in. lmao.

LMAOOO MONKEY NOISES. Same!!!

Happens to me quite often in this game. At first the songs are good, but nothing too remarkable. Then after a while they grow on me and they become super omega good. I don't know why and how, but it's always worked like this for me all the way since Alexander.

Lahabreakcore, eh? Needs to go harder, first.

@Phoenix Lahabreadcrumb

@Phoenix He'll always be Lahabread in my heart.

where???

@@earlgreyrogue the dragoon

The unexpected collaboration video

@@RonoroaDSanji They're in on the joke lol.

@@uvi- My first collab! Wow! Look mom I'm finally famous!

It was also recycled for some of the Bozja skirmishes

I mean it was recycled into the Ascian boss theme, being from 1.0, but yeah.

​@@DracoSuave Thunderer isn't from 1.0 though, is it? Without Shadow definitely is, but I'm pretty sure Thunderer was composed for ARR.

@@Seshpai I stand corrected! You're right, it was WS that was repurposed and Thunderer that was an ARR original.

Don't forget Twintania of Turn 5.

I ran it with some friends in Discord, and we weren't too onboard until it hit the jazz piano and we all said "wait what is he DOING with this music?" I'd picked out Thunderer before then but like you I was focused on the fight.

so psyched they were able to get Alec Newman back for these raids in English. it’s been 6 years since HW, but he killed it here.

FROM FULGENT FLAME MY SERVANTS RISE LEAVE NAUGHT BUT ASH IN YOUR WAKE!

I am glad you are playing it too WoL ^^

hang in there fellow XIV connoisseur. Hope things get better for you 💪

if you havent done the rising event please do. wishing you blessings fellow WoL

Specifically, it uses leitmotifs from Without Shadow (Ascian theme), Thunderer (Ascian combat theme), and Shadows Withal (Akadaemia Anyder theme). Very fitting, as Lahabrea was the first Ascian the WoL faced, and so the first two tracks are most strongly associated with him. Meanwhile, he is also the head of the Akadaemia Anyder (whose theme itself is essentially a rearrangement of Without Shadow).

Thats what my thoughts were by the end, my first thought is "someone is pulling the strings here" and the implications are heavy on athena. Also my friend brought up how someone had to break out not-habrea out of his prison and it'd make sense for athena to be the one to do it. My only question now is....whats the end goal here for stirring all this up.

@@SuperHexer123 Honestly I think Not-lahabrea is going to end up the one we've known. Because he was in crystal during the shundering and Emet/Elidibus somehow found another method to survive. Like they would need all the help they can get to rejoin the world's and would be just a minor retcon to show why Lahabrea was so unhinged/weaker than the other two. I bet he, like fandaniel was playing the long game. Pandemonium was his ultimate back up plan, to achieve true resurrection for both him and his wife, just that he needs Emet and Elidibus out of the picture first because he stands no chance against either of them.

I highly doubt it's gonna be a Jenova situation. If anything I'm getting more Garland from IX with a dash of Emperor of Heaven from II vibes.

@@NeoBluereaper And given our Lahabrea's dead, someone with Hesphaistos's crystal could go into the Aitiascope and *find him*.

Thinking Emperor of Heaven as well (all the references to traps were rly excellent haha), we’ve now fought his “Hell Emperor” incarnation. it’d be delightful if we find out he’s been plotting a way to take control of the aetherial sea itself since his death in HW. what’s so endearing about Lahabrea is the man simply does not know when to give up.

was really surprising but i am happy that it is voiced!

Probably to make up for the lack of lyrics.

Just like Shiva/Ryne in E8 😆

Meanwhile I am very scared of "son of Zodiark and Hippokampus" P7S

3 hrs into savage with no prog because x player didn't wanna get serious: " This ain't so much fun anymore. "

@@willa1018 Let's be honest. The dreaded "3rd Savage" curse will strike again.

There's _still_ that mysterious "White Stone Black" theme that's exclusive to its Savage version, though...

nice catch

Akademia anyder too

@@sawyer3244 That's actually where Shadows Withal plays! Which is kinda sad when you think about. All along, the Ascians wanted the world they lost, and the theme that's related to them (Without Shadow) is basically a dark, twisted version of a song that is related to the Ancients(Shadows Withal), where they come from

Shadows Within isn't a thing - you're thinking of Without Shadow.

@@DarthSanguine I am yes. Whoops! Changing it now

@@nick_woow ohh I get it now lol

Spoilers for the end of the tier, though why anyone would be in this comment section before having finished the raid is beyond me: I'm confident that present Lahabrea has to be the one who pulled Pandaemonium into the lifestream. Who else would have the motivation to do so? Plus, present-day Lahabrea had his full sigil, rather than the half one that we saw on him this tier, implying that in the time since then and the modern day he refused with Hephaistos. Not to mention it would mirror Emperor Mateus from FFII taking control of hell after his death and ruling from his own Castle Pandaemonium.

@@Andyjoe522 This was my thought. I think Lahabrea is going to use Claudien to try and resurrect himself, and the final tier is going to be a true fight against complete, full-power Lahabrea.

definitely gonna be a door boss in savage