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.

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.

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

Good video! My joke answer to "how did Nia become queen?" is "Rex means king in Latin, so following THAT photo ... Nia became the "king"'s queen" ^^ The M/N-question is my personaly most pressing one. Since the interview, I have deducted that there's a strong shintoism motif, however, that still doesn't answer WHY Mio and Noah are the only ones to exist twice. Why not others? It's never answered, yet it'd be so important. As for Malos' future importance, I talk about it in my most recent video: I think he's gonna become more relevant in the expanded Xenoblade X-remasters for Switch 2 and XB3 sets that return up. Agreed with your City People-take. I'd also include the weirdness that is Shulk and Rex who, at the end of FR, act as if they'll return, too - how? Their life is already over. And where are they going when they return into Origin, anyway? There's bigger questions buried in there. One question I'd also like to see more clearly answered is WHO was Z and Moebius. There's the opinion that Z is simply the manifestation of the combined will of all the souls within Origin, but the way he's presented that's a little too simple imo.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Well to explain both Nia and Melia live span, they were both asleep for 1000 years but normally melia just ages slowly and I’m guessing Nia is also aging slowly

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.

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

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

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