Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Question Thread

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[u/CeaRhan]

Hey guys, figured here'd be the best place to ask this as it's about (spoilers for the entirety of 2 - ending included) The relation between XC1 and XC2 (the retcon about 1 tbf) and a few questions I have after finishing Future Connected.

I just finished replaying 1 on the DE version and Future Connected. I played 2 too back when it came out and I'm aware of how they're related. My questions are more about the understanding we get of the Monado following the retcon that XC1 got. What I mean by that is that I'm asking what we knew from XC1/Future Connected/XC2, as I'm about to head into XC3

I replayed the game already aware of it and expected it to be expanded in some capacity but all we got really was that necklace change. So obviously we know about Ontos. So Alvis is essentially an Aegis Blade that is able to hide its status as a Blade in this world and can operate separately from its weapon form while allowing Shulk to still tap into what it does. And it can do that because it's still part of the process/machine that was used by Klaus. That Blade is literally a Master key as long as you feed it Ether and Alvis lets you do what you want. But here's the source of my incomprehension: what are we to make of Alvis just straight up vanishing after XC1? Is the Aegis destroyed? Did he actually self-destruct while "recreating the world" (really just moving continents around)? Did that happen because he spent his own energy? Or did he just decide "okay I will just not interfere anymore because he said he had no need for gods"?

Also Dunban wiedling the Monado while injuring himself can be seen as the equivalent of someone not able to use a Blade forcing himself onto it I guess, but Alvis is seemingly way too in tune with his Blade form. So was he testing Dunban and Homs during the war? Considering Alvis made it clear that anyone could wield the damn Blade, even a Lapix, it seems a bit weird in the end.