Episode I: Ardyn “The Conflict of the Sage” (Working Title) (Winter 2018) – This story portrays the struggles of Ardyn. Witness the resentment he harbored towards Lucis for over 2,000 years, and his clashes with the Astrals.

Episode Side Story: Aranea “The Beginning of the End” (Working Title) (Spring 2019) – A side-story about the Starscourge depicted from the Niflheim’s perspective. The final day of the Empire turns out to be Aranea’s worst day.

Episode II: Lunafreya “The Choice of Freedom” (Working Title) (Spring 2019) – This story’s about Luna’s fate, which not even death can free her from. Her battle to save the one she loves overturns the destiny dealt to the Lucian King.

Episode III: Noctis “The Final Strike” (Working Title) (Spring 2019) – Parting ways with the Astrals, Noctis embarks upon his final battle in order to attain the ideal future for all his people.

I FUCCCKIN HATE THIS DUNGEON! the reward not even satisfactory..except for amount of Oracle coin harvested)

and i wonder if genji glove located at shiva's pusat is coincidence or intentional

the black hood located juuuuust above the walkaway to the entrace. the bros should be able to lift up noctis to take em. im feeling stupid at myself when i realized that

The first room starts the story. Titan is holding a door shut, and Ifrit is locked in a cage. The first puzzle to progress further involves bouncing a giant ball off the cage. I think this symbolizes a meteor hitting whatever has Ifrit imprisoned.

The next puzzle lets you get in the cage after the “Meteor” hit it. This symbolizes Ifrit’s escape. Next, the player jumps on to Ifrit’s back. From this point on, you are being told the story through Ifrit’s perspective.

Hitting a switch on the wall next to Ifrit causes another “Meteor” to come down and hit Titan. I think this is saying that Ifrit found a way to summon another Meteor after studying the one that freed him from his cage. Proof that this actually happened is that the real Titan has been pinned down by the giant Meteor in Duscae. I think Titan (whose powers are of the earth) was blocking Ifrit’s way into the Underworld.

The next room has a giant spinning globe. This represents the planet Eos itself. There’s a giant hole in the globe though. You have to jump through this hole to reach the center of the globe…all while dodging fiery spikes (represents lava?). Ifrit not only used the meteor to take out Titan, but he opened a hole in the planet that leads right to the underworld. Based on the placement of the Ifrit statue in this room, I think it is also implying that he might have actually been on the meteor as it fell.

Now Ifrit is at the Gates of the Underworld. The player sees Ifrit’s statue before the 4 puzzle rooms, as if he’s contemplating how to proceed. Each room is a trial Ifrit had to face to unlock the final Gate into the Underworld.

The next room has a massive skull contraption that blocks your progress. I think this is representing Doomtrain, whose responsibilities are to bring souls into the Underworld & also acts as a guardian to the entrance to the Underworld. This puzzle is representing Ifrit having to sneak around to get past Doomtrain.

After Doomtrain’s room, you’ve moved past the Gates of the Underworld. This is the land of the dead, the point of no return. Up to this point, you could’ve turned around and walked all the way out, but once you hit the switch to enter the room, you cannot go back. Noctis even comments on this, saying, “Oh no…I have to get back..I have to get back…” Time & space have no meaning in this room. Its darkness and chaos.

Next room is the Mario-esque platforming room. I think the reason the players perspective changes at this point is to represent a long trek deeper into the Underworld, fraught with peril.

In the next room, there is a giant female statue. It’s not a statue though, it’s an Astral corpse (bears resemblance to Shiva’s Astral corpse in Gralea, doesn’t it?) Finally, Ifrit has reached his goal. This is Eos. As you walk closer to her, the whole room begins to spin. I think this represents Ifrit’s despair at finding Eos dead. He came all this way to save her, only to find her dead…It’s truly sad.

After you reach Eos's corpse, she falls back. This represents that her chains had been cut and she fell back, to be carried out by Ifrit. Something to note here is the player finds the Genji Gloves at her navel. This is key as to WHY Eos was imprisoned and sentenced to the Underworld. She was pregnant. She must’ve fallen in love with a human, and fell pregnant. A huge taboo in the eyes of the other Astrals. This is part of a bigger theory I can talk about later if anyone is interested.

You can see the cuffs on Eos neck and wrists, where she must’ve had chains binding her. The chains must’ve be been cut by Ifrit. He cut her chains and brought her corpse with him. This would explain why there are no actual chains connected to the cuffs in this room.

The final parts of the dungeon represent Ifrit’s journey back out of the Underworld. At the very end, the player finds the Black Hood accessory. Ifrit likely used this to sneak around while in the Underworld.

One other key thing to mention here is that you receive a hint about Pitioss’s location from overhearing a pack of thieves talking about a treasure while in Lestallum. But while inside Pitioss, there’s treasure throughout the dungeon, suggesting that no one else has ever been inside. Even though the location is known to thieves. Noctis is the only one who can enter here. The chocobro’s can’t even approach the door. But why go to all the trouble to script this?? I think Eos’s child was the beginning of the line of Lucis. This explains why they have powers separate from the crystal. They are half Astral. Only someone from the line of Lucis, descendants of Eos, could completely get rid of the star scourge & bring about the dawn.

Besides Pitioss being Eos’s grave, Ifrit also built it so that if anyone from the line of Lucis happened to find it, they could see proof of their true origins.