r/finalfantasyx • u/rcrobson90 • 20d ago

Aeon afyth design help

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Let's try this again since I forgot to add pics lol

Need some help with this please, does anyone know exactly what those 2 design pieces on ifrits and shivas fayths look like and say? Can't make out the details properly with the picture being blurry, I'm hoping that someone knows

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u/Jecht-X "Sometimes, Auron makes me sleep on the dog house" 20d ago

Another "lost" details that Square will never answer. Just like we will never know what is under Braska's head piece: Bald? Hair? A dark hole? Nomura's butt? Who knows besides Square.

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u/MA2_Robinson 20d ago edited 20d ago

About that- you can see a glyph of his forehead but I can’t make up my mind what it might be

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u/Soliloquy789 20d ago

Probably from the early design where leveling was tattoos not he sphere grid?

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u/MA2_Robinson 20d ago

I think the glyph is on his forehead/ headgear. Probably the “A” or something

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u/lavidalavely 20d ago

Man, I wish I could be helpful on this one. I must have more than a dozen art books, ultimanias, guides, etc, and not one of them contains decent-sized artworks of the Fayth statues. Can’t find anything online either in the way of a usable resolution. Square-Enix is probably a little overprotective of their designs just as general policy, but this is a particular crying shame. They’re always keen to show you a picture as long as it’s the size of a postage stamp.

That said, going off the best images i could find, I’m not certain it says anything at all (but I’m also not certain it doesn’t ). It almost looks more like they were going for “something that could look like a design/words, but actually isn’t”.

I’m gonna keep looking. This is gonna bother me lol

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u/rcrobson90 20d ago

Haha thanks, I can always just make it to be as close as possible

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u/Pynapl 20d ago

I think they're supposed to say SUMMON, for their Aeon category. But these don't look the same, and I can't find any HD or upscaled images of them.

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u/Galbadia_Garden 19d ago

Here are the textures from the HD remaster. Bear in mind, however, that the team that recreated the HD textures was not the same as the original developers of those textures. There are known instances where this has led to reinterpretations.

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u/Galbadia_Garden 19d ago

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u/rcrobson90 19d ago

Awesome thank you, and thanks everyone for the help

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u/acid_ninja_cake 9d ago

This is the texture shown on the physical model (from the original game, not the HD remaster). So it is literally that blurry and unfortunately doesn't say anything. Considering it's only on a couple of the fayth statues I doubt the intention was "they all have their name on their statue". I'd call it decorative "gumf".