So in regards to months in Alrest, Rex asks for the date at the start of chapter 2 to rig up his comapass like device, and Pyra says it's Amamothober in English but October in Japanese, so they probably have similar if not the same months as us

About seasons - it’s stated when the party is travelling to Tantal that it is currently “early fall” so Alrest definitely knows what seasons are. However, considering it’s on the equator so seasons wouldn’t have much of an effect that makes me think that it’s unlikely Alrest has any seasons based holidays.

someone should make some fanart of X characters introducing christianity to the main universe , and have then disproportionally enthusiastic about it

The amount of work needed to get the lip-syncing that perfect in the Xenosaga section is impressive! Great video, as always!

Obviously Alrestian Christmas would have to fall on the 25th of Amathatober

Considering the far weaker seasons from being on the equator, it's possible Alrest might not even use a solar calendar at all. They could however use a lunar calendar, since the phases of the moon would still be a visible cycle. It's possible that they count notice the arc the sun forms in the sky shifting in its own cycle and could define 12 or 13 months based on that (12 especially since the people making the calendars are math nerds, which let's be honest, they probably are). However since the month would be much more visible than the year, rather than stretching the length of a month to fit a full year, they might instead compress the year to fit a whole number of months. This is assuming the situation described in another comment, where some Earth humans when designing the beanstalk adding an Easter egg by making the glyphs become Christmas colors once a year, didn't happen. Otherwise they could very well end up accidentally making a solar calendar based entirely on that.

A couple thoughts on the equatorial locale of the world tree. The alrest calendar would likely be lunar since there would be very little variation of the days length. And I could be not correctly understanding, but I believe the equator doesn’t get the cyclone storms. They start small near the equator and spin out to the tropics and beyond. It is still possible that the cloud sea negates them forming at all though

i was literally just brainstorming made-up xenoblade holidays the other day xD luxin always on the same wavelength as me haha

Video suggestion: how long is the main story of every xeno/blade game in-universe?

14:00 WAIT THERE WAS A XENOSAGA ANIME??

I would argue that due to the supposed uniform weather and the arbitrary migratory nature of the Titans that the crops wouldn't even follow a yearly cycle to begin with, it'd just grow and grow year round, so farmers would acclimate to just harvesting when it's ready regardless of their neighbors or the 'calendar'. Stretch that concept and there would be no seasonal anythings for anyone to recognize and celebrate, the only exception being the full/new moon. I think the lack of a creation myth is because of the Titans as well. They are long-lived enough to bring their creating into the future (meaning man never needed to record it on anything) but old and senile enough to not bother recounting it to anyone, until they get too big to bother talking to the lessers either.

16:22 one would need to see what fruit or veg is grown on each titan and what the irl counterpart is in addition to what their local foods are like

Worth considering, the world tree was made by modern humans in modern society; I don’t think it’s that silly to assume that it is designed to turn on Christmas lights during Christmas, alrest then celebrates “the day the world tree’s lights go weird colors for some reason”.

Santa Klaus is coming to town... 🎵🎶 Edit: No, really, both having names derived from the same source, both being bearers of "Gifts", both having evil counterparts in Zanza and Krampus... and once you factor in "World Architect" vs "Saint" Nicholas taking on a role started by the "god" Odin?

Happy holidays

Would think Shulk would either be a champion fighter or a rouge pre monado, could see artificer tho

Zanza Klaus

Happy Xenomas everyone!

Zanza Klaus is coming to town.

Literally such a great video for the holidays. The thought at the end about potential food control through how unpredictable alrestian farming and crop growing can be was both insane and really thought provoking. Crazy how a discussion about alrests holidays can lead to a new potential lore discovery, god i love xenoblade 😅. Anyways merry Christmas luxin!

Merry Amalthmus? Architectmas? Klausmas?

Maybe not in Alrest, but in NLA I hear they celebrate when the first day of December has some awfully strong winds

Didn’t expect to be so early

merry xenoblade

How is Mor ardain modelled after old Gemany, thats just upper stupid. who told you that? As a german myself i never came across this idea 😂 it reminded me more of the the towns in fable 2 and 3

as a german i call it Kzenobläed 🤣

Minos... The guy who got cucked by a cow lol 😅 His wife be like "where's the beef?"

I just hope this means that a potential Xenoblade X2 is not off the table...

Is Malos' name was a pun on Destruction, they should have named him Troy, like DesTROY

If Uraya breached like that, wouldn't everybody living in the titan be tossed around inside and DIE?!?? Seems kinda farfetched that Uraya would engage in that behavior for that very reason, even despite being a whale-like titan.

i love trails in the sky

Hey I just had a thought, if Alpha could control the fog as demonstrated in Future Redeemed, doesn't that mean he summoned the Fog King? And does this mean Alvis was the one who cursed Klaus with that fog rift?

Idk maybe they can breed because both of the universes were split from one universe 🤷‍♀️

It doesn't matter if you spoiled it it's because I've already beaten the game three times.

Morag would more than likely actually be named "Emperor" since she would be the actual ruler if she had acended. Empress would more than likely imply she's the wife or consort of the emperor and their job would be to birth an heir for the emperor. Emperor would better express that she is indeed the ruler rather than a spouse. despite being a masculine term.

Thank you that brings me peace. I can not stand XBCX retaining itself into the XBC 1,2,3 series. I want it to stay as a Xenogears and Xenosaga reboot. Also I pray they uncensor the story and bring back terms like Logos Artificial Destiny Emancipator. It is the only thing holding me back from preordering it. (Long time Xenogears and Xenosaga fan. Enjoyed Xenoblade Chronicles 2 + Torna, but keep them separate).

“Low Battery”

I brought this up in conversation with some friends and realised that Xenoblade 3 has a few candidates for this trope (forgive me, I haven't played Saga yet) -Ethel is definitely a mentor-ish character everyone looks up to, but is removed from the plot very early -Riku fits the "knows everything somehow despite pretending to be just some guy" thing Citan has but is otherwise just a Nopon, unless you count the fact that he carried Lucky Seven for 1000 years and didn't use it -Noah and N fit the cool guy with a katana archetype, and technically N does betray the City while Noah's arc is about NOT doing that, but ehhh they fill a more protagonisty role and Noah doesn't know anything until he finds it out during the story -Shulk is heavily referencing Dunban in FR and DOES know everything but I feel like this is mostly an homage to Dunban specifically, paired with the fact that of course he knows everything, Rex does too. And Rex doesn't feel nearly as similar to the archetype in FR. -Ashera similarly feels like she's only referencing Dunban and also has her entire arc feel unrelated to this archetype entirely. She's not Dunban, she's her own person and only has vague similarities to him like the way she speaks being strangely eloquent for the type of person she is. I think the most accurate comparison to the archetype in 3 who makes the most sense is A, A just feels right in all aspects. Strangely good at everything, knows everything, withholds information from Matthew to let him figure things out on his own, katana wielder, utilises evasion as a mechanic (this is moreso a xenoblade thing), and is also just. really cool. I have to state that again in case it wasn't clear. A's cool as hell.

Im glad you mentioned its harder than the other xenoblade games. It helps temper the expectations and will hopefully alliviate some of the frustration now that i know, especially for early game. like, i should expect to get my ass kicked a little more in general.

Mira is the planet where the klaus experiment happened, but it passed so much time after the humanity stablished that they ended calling it earth, possibly after calling it earth 2 but with time losing the 2

a part of me hopes that they answer literally no questions and just make us ask more. like aside from the actual storytelling merits of such a thing being questionable, it would be very funny if they just said "oh, you want answers? no. you complained about the cliffhanger so we're just gonna cliffhang you harder"

0:11 heh not me I’m 17 😂

Interesting

Very interesting stuff🫶🏿!

I have a headcanon that Bionis and Mechonis existed in the upper domain through contact with the Conduit. By the end of XC1, the *new* birthed universe was going to collapse onto the world of XC2 (and saga), and by the end of future redeemed, it’s not just the planet of Lost Jerusalem that’s interlinked, but the whole universe. The heat death that causes the lower domain to perish is an extended interlink in this iteration of the world before eternal recurrence. I think Xenoblade 4 is going to explore more of what resides in the upper domain, and the possible threat is going to be some analogy to angels.

For me I would instead give him some form of energy manipulation. Maybe have him manipulate the energy in himself and the immediate surroundings. This would still allow him to do his cool icicle stuff while also explaining his massive speed

12:37 "napon" made me choke on my food 💀

Telos

Yes

You and old you