THE TRUTH ABOUT LUCKY SEVEN & MORE LORE DROPS - Xenoblade 3 Aionios Moments Artbook Interview 

......god dammit you're right.

That is becauzse it was always a silly fanname and people have actively been lobbying in the community to throw it out by now.(And I am keeping on it, it stays trivia in the german wiki I am still cooking up privately.)

I can't believe I hadn't at least considered it for a moment. Probably because I was too busy trying to figure out how Lucky Seven was tied to one of the Trinity Processors.

@@lpfan4491 I think it still makes sense. It avoids spoilers for those new to the series. it wasnt until 2 came out that Xenoblade was this popular. So many people just dont know who the seventh party member is. So call em "seven" to let them experience that reveal themselves later.

@@anubion42 Ignoring that we are in a 2024 world where official media itself spoils older games rotten, I'd prefer the method where I just don't talk about how many partymembers the game has, it is more spoilerfree overall. "Seven" as a name kinda has that one built in, see the issue? And it definitly has no place on a wiki imo, you are not supposed to be on a wiki if you want to avoid any and all potential spoilers forever.

**Long slow blink** OMG, you're right! 😅

That strangely fits riku character.

Me: *trying to explain to everyone why Z’s “it amuses me” line is an impactful insight on his character and the futility of using entertaining distractions to help yourself delay you from the inevitable march of time and the need to look inside yourself to move forward in life* Takahashi: “He’s just saying that kind of thing because evil like a rich CEO is evil” I bow to you, king 🙏

It's also kinda sad. Takahashi really said, "People IRL are more evil than anything I could imagine."

I get what he means, but I still think it's boring as hell. They're just not interesting, and they quickly became just a forgettable mean and formless antagonistic force that made me roll my eyes many more times than I'd like... Such a shame. They're probably why 3 is the Xenoblade game I like the least. I still absolutely love a lot about it, but, man... the moebius as villains were a terribly executed idea.

I mean.. its true.. but i think there many kind of evil in the world, those who are just evil because they only care about themselves or their family although they had a good life (or at least descent) or those who had it hard in life and are broken and then those who since they were born their brains function in a way that makes them see the world in a different and concerning perspective OR more prone to violence.

@Afbuster it is absolutely NOT a goated statement. Takahashi is an idiot for saying that and all of you are simpleton for finding insight in his feeble inbred brain. Xenoblade 3 had horrible villains and cartoonist villains DO NOT EXIST. Every single person you hate in real life has a motive and no matter how gluttonous they may be, they genuinely believe in their cause. Takahashi spent too much time copulating with his mother and drinking bleach.

As far as we know, Shulk didn't actually marry his sword. As far as we know.

@@kevinr.9733 weeeellll, they kissed so...

@@Gameboy-2007-yt plus if we look at nikol's hair, it bears a striking resemblance to fiora's (mainly in the xc2 key art), so I think it's safe to say also boned and had a child... so marriage is definitely on the table lol

@@kevinr.9733 Did you not look at the Affinity Scene in Dunban's house?

Didn't Rex literally use "brother-in-law" when talking about Dunban in Future Redeemed? And while Rex was asking a question, Shulk's reaction tells me that Rex was correct

It makes me think that there are potentially 2 Bana's running around Ionios, which to me is bloody hilarious.

@@nhodgieMeyneth help us all if the two of them ever decide to team up.

He also had his power flow through the conduits

I definitely agree if one was to mate with what are essentially the daughters of God you'd gain some kind of Godlike power.

Thinking about it, what would that make Dunban and Addam then? (And also possibly Amalthus, Mumkhar, and Egil). They couldn’t control their conduit power as much as Shulk and Rex but they still could to use their powers effectively.

@@Pine2142 That is terrible logic, if we go with that then if one were to mate with a dog one would gain dog like powers.

@@Magic_Ice All of them except Dunban, dead. And not actual candidates of the Monado (they were all rejected, Egil hijacked it, and Amalthus never truly bonded with Malos,). So it would effectively make them nothing

I don’t see how it’s debatable. They have the traits that make them the things. Are people really so scared to extrapolate information from incomplete data?

@@Gloomdrakeiirc people were hesitant to because their aging wouldn’t make sense. I always thought they were high entia and machine because… look at them, and they existed pre Aionios anyway. Plus there’s side quests that outright say Lanz has metallic skin

@Gloomdrake Trust me I didn't think there was much of a debate either but I got a lot of resistance on adding the race of XC3 characters to wiki pages. The claim being that they might not actually be said race, but instead they were just "resembling" or having characteristics that were similar. Until Future Redeemed that is and one of the side quests had a whole thing confirming that genetically characters were High Entia and able to enter the treasure room. With that and Takahashi now confirming Lanz race is in fact Machina though there is no contesting it at least.

Huh? People were actually arguing like that when the game beats you over the head with it? Just because e.g High Entia is a human race in Xenoblade 3 and no longer its own species due to "Origin soup"-reasons, that does not mean that they are not directly related and Eunie is no longer a High Entia somehow. All this statement did was tell us "btw, the races are not officially unnamed, they share their names with their original pre-Aionios counterparts because why wouldn't they?". Edit: This reminds me of "Malos' blade weapon is not a Monado!"-wars back then, when bro literally uses Monado Arts.

​@@lpfan4491 Never heard about that before but I don't put it past people, that's actually kinda funny.

I NEED redeemed Malos and Mythra’s kid hanging out saving the world and shit. Maybe even with Kos-Mos too 👀

@@jujuthehoms5482 I imagine they would make the greatest toxic chaotic good pairing of all time that sounds incredible lol

I want Rex to punch him in the face and then have a drink with him afterwards.

the terrible influence however a cool uncle​@@jujuthehoms5482

@@ndartehkewl1282 oh it would be terrible lol “I see why mom didn’t like you”

Now the real mystery is, what the hell did Noah rename his Lucky Seven to?

Noah's Gauntlet (which *is* the sheath) can also project a yellow/gold-ish energy shield, just like Blades can in xc2. You can see this when he goes to stab Isurd's Colony's flame clock and he blocks the giant laser

@@ShallBePurified when you upgrade his sword it's called 'Truthsinger', so I assume it's that.

Isn’t Jesus 2 sort of the whole point of Christianity? 🤔😂

​@unownintendo not really the point is him coming back not their being a second jesus

@@danielfazylov6960 no exactly, like Jesus 2: Jesus Returns!

Melia: Ask, and you shall receive!

Fiora:"Time to become the Monado!" Shulk:"What are you doing, Fiora? Fiora?" Fiora: *Jumps into Origin early, making it nigh impossible to restore her* Shulk:"Fiora!"

​@@lpfan4491I read that in the fiora scream voice automatically.

​@@ryanspencer9602It's not a Xenoblade joke without Shulk screaming at the end

Dunban wielding a smaller Dunban

@@GloomdrakeI feel like I've seen an edit like that somewhere, but I can't say for sure.

@@Gloomdrake Dunban wielding the Dunnado and using the art Electric Dunbuster.

@@Gloomdrake "dickson said the monado had a hidden monado, the hidden monado had a hidden dickson, the hidden dickson had a monado"

Counterpoint: The Monado REX has a portion that looks like a lifesaver.

Yes he yeet them to the sea lol. You can imagine real world meeting if all of them have memory...

The best part of that is that a huge amount of this was already found out or theorized by people within the fandom, in other words, by trusting their audience's intelligence they didn't spoon fed everything and people managed to find most of it out while also keeping the fandom talking about the game and finding different layers of the story afther the honeymoon phase something which is awfully rare nowadays where games are always very polarizing like "bad story good gameplay" or "too much story gameplay mid" and especially in times where good stories are less and less common, it's also very rare for stories to not have to throughly explain everything to the audience too, i really wish more media did that nowadays. Of course there are still things that can and may be better explained in the future (that is hinted at his evasive comments towards Origin for example which he not subtly hints at this coming back in future games) and things that could've done better, but XC3 still managed to deliver awesome characters and a story that put its themes and core message above anything else, and again, think at how many games from the last 4 years you see the fandom still discussing about it and theorizing about their story, characters and etc. As much as Xenoblade? Especially in big game series.

@@Zerorenren4761yeah it is crazy that people were right lmao

This is why I jumped ship from being a Zelda fan to a Xenoblade fan (I mean I'm still a Zelda fan, but not for the lore lol). Xenoblade lore is so gratifying when the things we theorize or realize through subtext and subtle character interactions come true.

​@@ShallBePurifiedMeanwhile Zelda can't even deliver a satisfactory standalone story anymore because the devs are way too obssessed with "freedom"

@@Zerorenren4761 Yeah, it's very sad honestly, it seems that people love this new path but actually I miss the old games when they were linear but deeper in terms of characters and story.

I could be wrong, but shouldn't all Monados be linked to at least one of the Trinity Core processors to access the conduit meaning every Monado in XC1 gets their power through Alvis. It's possible all of the Trinity Core processors could use the same arts, but due to Alvis being awake the whole universe of XC1 compared to Malos and Mythra who were not awake until Amalthus they did not learn how to use purge. Like maybe you just have to understand the feeling of how the power is manipulated to utilize purge, but once you know how it feels you can always use it. Buster is a more standard energy manipulation that is easier to learn which is why Malos could use it pretty much after awakening. Foresight is also a power the processors can learn which is why Alvis and Mythra have it, but again due to time spent learning about the power of the conduit Alvis has much better foresight. Basically every processor can have any power since they are learnable as they are just extensions of the conduit's power not an inherent part of the processor themselves. However if you have no clue how to utilize the conduit's power it will not work for you. Like Klaus could not utilize it properly which is why the world split. Alvis learned and mastered more of that power than any other person which he shares in his Monados. He might not teach every Monado user, but he leaves the pathway for that power to come out in his Monados. Meyneth being alive as long as Zanza and thus the world/Alvis could have learned how to utilize the purge power without being taught like Shulk. Mythra/Malos have not learned these powers thus any weapon they create would not have the abilities that Alvis can impart on his creations like purge. Meyneth having the purge arts is due to Alvis and her being in Fiora gave Fiora the ability to feel that power/pathway even if they never used purge themselves.

Also he literally had half of her core keeping him alive for a few months.

As an amateur mathematician, I do take slight issue with Xenosaga's use of the term "imaginary number domain", but that's mainly because I take _serious_ with actual mathematician's use of complex numbers. To put things simply "imaginary numbers" are _spinny_ numbers. They make things go spinny. They perfectly model 2D rotations around the origin. There is nothing imaginary about going spinny, and by extension there is nothing imaginary about spinny numbers in spite of the name "imaginary numbers." With the usual (non-spinny) interpretation of spinny numbers, Xenosaga's usage makes more sense. Luxin mentioned that it could also be compared to a dream world, and if you really think about it, dream worlds kind of _are simulated realities,_ just being simulated by a squishy carbon computer rather than a solid silicon one. (The funny part is that one's consciousness does _not_ by default have admin access, but it is possible to _acquire_ admin access.)

Eunie kinda looks like a pirate. I like it

I was thinking the same thing, like a cross between Tai and Izzy

​@@williamstokes4282or Jou and Taichi

It's real

Ooh, I like both of these ideas.

And he thorw all of them in to occen. Damn his GF family meeting might be gona wild...

@@anghainguyen9951 "My parents wanted to invite you over for dinner" just found a whole new meaning...

But with cat ears

Apparently that’s just a common practice and XC2’s is on there as well lmao

They pumped out all right

Hope whatever's afflicting you is resolved!

Openly insulting people who don't get one line after the final boss is good content?

Okay, you and Luxin and a bunch of other people may have understood, but that's no reason to call everyone who didn't stupid (as Luxin did in this video).

Not so Virgin Mary lmao he really showed them all a thing or three

Until Xenoblade 4 this is my headcanon now.

Ouroboros fusions are always between Agnian and Kevesi. Pyra and Mythra are from the same side so that's not possible. Not only that but in this case it would be the opposite, Pneuma is the original form, Mythra is an incomplete form born out of Addam, and Pyra a different personality that Mythra herself made, so they are technically both half-people, so their fusion just makes 1 whole.

@@youtubewanderer3347 On the point of Agnian and Kevesi, I think those rules wouldn't make sense for the Trinity Core. Agnians and Kevesi are people who formed from the original world being split however the Trinity Core were not made in either of those worlds. They predate Agnes and Keves as well as XC1 and XC2. I don't know if that excludes them from the fusion, but I do not believe they would be tied to the concept of needing to be from different worlds like the other characters. I do agree it would be weird to consider Pneuma as a fusion rather than their true body.

@@anthonynguyen1289 I think that the fusion between worlds is what allows Ouroboros to work, so a being that predates them and is not related shouldn't have access to this type of fusion. We know that the black fog and Ouroboros are related (when the fusion last too long, black fog forms, and eventually annihilation event), which leads me to believe that the power of the Ouroboros comes from the same source, the interaction between worlds, and a being that belongs solely to one of them or neither, wouldn't be able to use the power.

He doesn't even try to hide that its him, his face is right there on the building, but also I think we see a number of characters from the previous games and don't realize it because they are towering war machines, the Ferronis. Collony Mu is Electra, colony Iota is somehow Obrona wrapped in her wings and Lambda is obviously Turters.

@@williamstokes4282 Turters being Lambda is the funniest thing. Zeke would be very disapointed in Sena 😂

You might've just predicted the plot of Xenoblade 4 lmao

You might have just reiterated the plot of Xenoblade 2

Wasn't XC2's whole plot Malos coming back to end the world?

Probably: How tf can I get the Xenosaga and Xenogears copyright back WITHOUT pissing Square and Bandai Namco off...

​@@mimesforcrimes8393Bandai is probably fine square is the main issue

@@danielfazylov6960 Thing is Square has done jackshit with Xenogears, so it's possible that they'll just hand it over to him

@@mimesforcrimes8393 Nah, it is just as good of a crossover-piece for them as Saga is for Bandai, so I cannot imagine them just handing it over, even if they don't want to do mainline-stuff. Besides, they have been collecting passive income from it for years through the PS3 storefront. That is now invalid, but they can easily rerelease it again somewhen in the next few years.

But where did it vanish to? Given that we now know that the events of _both_ 1 and 2 took place in pocket dimensions, it's entirely possible that the Zohar returned from Alrest to the main reality, and that once the worlds merge properly, Pyra and Mythra will get all of their Conduit-related powers back.

tbf just cuz it's the point doesnt necessarily means it's good. Same with something making sense (e.g. XC2 ending for some). It just boils down to preference usually and seems like many do not like the emphasis on other aspects or at least got whiplash from it when playing thru. Which I dont blame them for expecting but you obviously shouldn't expect every game to follow similar structure. 1 and 2 was like that because they specifically went back to it after X and since they are parallel games.

@@baked7423 You're right that it being the point doesn't make something good in terms of storytelling. What I was more thinking of is things like that N and Noah are fundamentally the same but people will go thinking that Noah isn't like N simply because Noah is the "Good Guy"

@@baked7423 This. I personally didn't like xenoblade 2 or 3 despite understanding what they were trying to say. Hell, I even looked at content like Luxin's here to see what I was missing from those games. I completely get what they were going for... but I just personally enjoy other depictions of the themes and messages *far* better in other media. On a personal level... the characters bored me and I don't know why. Still not gonna hate on anyone who does like them, though. I recognize that there are likable things in XB 2 and 3. I just personally didn't enjoy the likable things more than the missteps the games took.

Probably the second coming