So gilgamesh surviving a magical nuke at point blank clearly indicates that he's immensely powerful, powerful enough to thrash the milites empire alone if he so chose.ĭuring this attack the genbu crystal was destroyed, and gilgy forgets his focus. His l'cie powers give him the ability to summon barriers and have a thing to do with barrier magic and summoning swords and so forth, but the important thing to note here is that in the type-0 universe l'cie might as well be eidolons because they're equally powerful, if not moreso.

Now it could be said that his armor had more to do with it, that and him being a l'cie, and while the black tortoise armor is amazing, high level players can still do damage to gilgy while he's wearing it. This leads to the second clue we have that type-0 gilgy and ffv gilgy are one and the same, he tanks this thing and survives. Later on we find that the people of the militese empire have already struck lorica, destroying the genbu crystal with an ultima nuke, we even get to see the scale of the calamity, and it is nothing short of impressive in scale and scope.ĭuring the attack it was gilgamesh who was right next to the nuke, trying to defuse it before it went off, now remember, this is a magic infused NUKE or at least something so powerful that it's comparable to tzar bomba in destructive scale. so the coup takes place and is thwarted, but at the cost of enkidu, much to gilgamesh's sorrow. In genbu only the strong are permitted to rule, if gilgamesh didn't show them his power then he had no right to the throne save for right of birth, and to many in lorica that just isn't enough. Well, ffv gilgamesh is an interesting character because he's always implied to be withholding his true potential, this is one of the things linking him to type-0's gilgamesh as the entire reason the coup occured was because gilgamesh refused to show his power, having a thing against displaying his strength. So already this indicates that this gilgamesh didn't go anywhere or come from anywhere, he's not some wanderer from the rift, he didn't magically appear, kidnap a little boy and name him enkidu then proceed to conquer a nation, he was born and raised a member of the royal family. The first thing to note here is the history, in type-0 this gilgamesh and enkidu were childhood friends, they were children in genbu and grew up together.

Gilgamesh is a l'cie warrior and the current king of genbu, he HAD a right hand man in enkidu, but when a coup was attempted enkidu lost his life in the attack. Gilgamesh may not SEEM like the same guy from ffv, but If you read his bestiary carefully and pay close attention to the cutscenes involving him and the final battle with his true form, you may find that not only is he the SAME gilgamesh, but type-0 is chronologically his first appearance in the series.

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