Edit 06/02/2021: After the Endwalker reveal and live letter, as well as the reveal of Lunar Whale mount, Rydia, Edge and Rosa minions (All Final fantasy IV elements), the possiblity of a Zeromus boss fight (the final boss of FFIV) is VERY LIKELY. It's possible it might be one of the fights of the new raid tier "Pandemonium".
Edit 16/06/2024: Just came back to the game and surprised at Zeromus being in the game! Finally! The boss music is amazing and the red wings at the end is just
chef's kiss. It's beautiful seeing FF4 being brought to life, FF14 has done a fantastic job bringing these villians to life. I'm over the moon (literally) for the inclusion of Zeromus, Golbez & the 4 fiends. It's been a blast from the past. And I adore this game even more then before
Just a warning, post contains spoilers for FFXIV, FFIV and FFXII and potential spoilers.
OK, so it's no secret that the recent storyline has been dropping hint after hint that Zodiark is on the moon.
Well, Zeromus is also encountered in the moon's core in FFIV.
But hey, that's just a concidence right, I hear you say.
Well, the some of the developers working on FFXIV also worked on FFXII, and it's no secret. We have many references and inclusions from FFXII most notably Ivalice, as well as Judge Gabranth as the antagonist of the Bozjan southern front (he's the one striking the pose in the logo). And in FFXII they did include Zeromus but not as a boss, they had him a summon which was pretty cool.
But maybe I'm grasping at straws here.
But wait! Zeromus is an extended word of Zemus, and Zemus in Amharic means "prayer" and adding a zero to it could mean zero prayer or no prayer. Which isn't that what Zodiark will soon be getting? with all 3 of the paragons gone, who'd be left to worship him?
I don't know. But it'd be awesome of to hear a remix of Zeromus' theme.
Hell, if they do include a entire boss fight with him in his pocket dimension just like FFIV, I'd go crazy.
Here's to hoping he gets included somewhere down the line.
