Headscratchers / Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

• How does Kytes start the game able to cast "Firaga" and Filo has a hoverboard, when they are 10 year old orphans? I mean, Vann and Penelo have some experience out in the world, and are nearly twice as old, and yet they only start the game being scarcely able to cast anything more than "Cure". And where did Filo get her hoverboard?
  • This is a case of unavoidable Gameplay and Story Segregation a level 99 Vaan/Penelo team would have been able to hack their way to the last boss effortlessly, which would have killed any challenge
• How exactly is Llyud's name pronounced? It is supposed to sound like 'Lloyd'? Is it supposed to rhyme with 'Mud'? I honestly have no idea.
  • If the Japanese pronunciation "ryu-do" is any indication, then the first L is silent and the name rhymes with "mute". We all know the Japanese "do" don't mean snuff, as with "to", for example "white" being pronounced "Ho-wai-to".
  • Try saying "lewd" and then stick half of a "y-as-in-you" after the l. That's as close as I can figure it, anyway.
• It might just be this troper, but a lot about the Feol Viera in Revenant Wings have been bugging me: First, why settle in a volcano, of all places? It could erupt at any moment with little or no time for escape, not to mention it doesn't support much in terms of food or clean water. Second, if they fled to the volcano, what were they being chased by? The Viera in general almost never leave the Wood, so they weren't likely to pursue them. Also, once their "pursuers" left, did they ever think to leave the volcano for a forest or some other place to live?
  • Weren't they waiting there for Feolthanos to come and bring them to Lemures?
    • But why a VOLCANO?! Also, HE was waiting for THEM. Makes me wonder why he didn't have the airship built ahead of time in case something like this happened, so that they could fly with him.
    • What if it wasn't the Viera themselves who called them outcasts, but the Green Word/the Wood? It's stated the Wood knows "all that happens beyond Her boundaries", if I got the quote right, and that the Wood is basically the Viera's own version of Mognet. If any area where Viera can hear the Green Word is either part of the Wood or at least A Wood, and considers the Feol Viera as intruders, odds are they'd be chased out by beasties like the Elder Wyrm that are one with the wood and "suffer no intruders". Adding to that, it's acknowledged that the Feol Warren does have trees growing there in a description (something about how "the dwellings built with this warped wood eagerly await death's release") so it's probably not IN the volcano but CLOSE to it, so it could be that the place is a warped Wood and possibly the only place of refuge where the Feol are able to hear the Green Word? Yes, last line was an asspull, but it would sort of make sense.
    • I highly doubt that the "Wood" would be capable of that much, since it doesn't really move or do anything to keep the Viera withing its trees. Unless the games actually show this, I'd say the "Wood" is just something the Viera made up.
    • The volcano explanation is rather easy, animals settle in and around them all the time, moreso if it's a dormant volcano, where the innards of the crater actually looks like regular land. Nothing would settle in an active volcano, and there's usually some warning before an eruption? It's highly unlikely the Feol Viera would settle in and around a boiling pot of lava.