Eyeball in the glass jar

[Nova225]

So you see it in the anime intro, and you stroll on by it multiple times when you're in the Ruins of Amnesia. Yet nobody mentions anything about it. Is it some reference to past / future Ys games that I missed?

[Louis Cyphre]

I don't know if you played the others games, but each time you fight a monster with a big eye as the core, his name will be "Galba*something*".

And if you finished this game, the story will tell you that the Eldeenians tried to do evil things with the key, and those monsters are one of them, they came from those tubes.

[Missilepom]

Adding to the above post, the only reason the one you saw is there is most likely because it couldn't get out (it doesn't have legs like its siblings lol)

In restropect, that might had been a fortunate thing for the one-eye since its escaped siblings all got sliced up by Adol over the years...

[Korzic]

Yeah, that thing is a Galbalan. The one in the tube I always considered to be an "infant" of sorts, though that's just speculation on my part.

[Korzic]

Originally posted by Louis Cyphre:

And if you finished this game, the story will tell you that the Eldeenians tried to do evil things with the key, and those monsters are one of them, they came from those tubes.

I should comment on this as well (I get the impression that TC already finished the game, so not sure spoiler tags are needed here, but just in case).

It wasn't the Eldeen that tried to abuse the power of the Ark, it was a human sect. It's implied from other games that this group (at least in part) was the Darklings/Clan of Darkness, of which Ernst and Geis are both descended from. So the Galbalans are a creation of the clan, though whether or not they were willful creations, I have no clue. At the very least, the material they're made out of - gray/ash emelas - was a failed attempt at creating white/black emelas. However, I'd be curious to know if the Galbalans were running rampant as soon as the gray emelas came to be, or if it's something the clan merely took advantage of and re-molded it somehow.

[Louis Cyphre]

Originally posted by Korzic:

Originally posted by Louis Cyphre:

And if you finished this game, the story will tell you that the Eldeenians tried to do evil things with the key, and those monsters are one of them, they came from those tubes.

I should comment on this as well (I get the impression that TC already finished the game, so not sure spoiler tags are needed here, but just in case).

It wasn't the Eldeen that tried to abuse the power of the Ark, it was a human sect. It's implied from other games that this group (at least in part) was the Darklings/Clan of Darkness, of which Ernst and Geis are both descended from. So the Galbalans are a creation of the clan, though whether or not they were willful creations, I have no clue. At the very least, the material they're made out of - gray/ash emelas - was a failed attempt at creating white/black emelas. However, I'd be curious to know if the Galbalans were running rampant as soon as the gray emelas came to be, or if it's something the clan merely took advantage of and re-molded it somehow.

Thanks for the precisions.

[YhelloWish]

From I read comments above, So it's like an embryo of pre final boss (before we fight Ernst) but the things is it's still left there... so maybe we'll get a chance to fight that eye in the future game.
But what about other empty glasses? If they're already break out the glass should be broken but they're not.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by YhelloWish:

From I read comments above, So it's like an embryo of pre final boss (before we fight Ernst) but the things is it's still left there... so maybe we'll get a chance to fight that eye in the future game.
But what about other empty glasses? If they're already break out the glass should be broken but they're not.

I hope we'll see more Galbas in the future