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Yes, I also agree Zio's is a motabian version of Lashiec.
PS1- Lashiec was responsable for nero's death (alis older adoptive brother) and Alis kills lashiec for revenge
PS4- Zio was responsable for alys' death (chaz older adoptive sister) and Chaz kills zio for revenge (Zio Fortress to Nurvus part resumes PS1 feeling)
Let's compare their sentences before dying:
La-Shiec: «What?! Could it be that I die? What a disgrace. I shall live again!» (PS1, English retranslation)
Zio: «This...this can't be I’m supposed to be immortal! Oh, why... Why do you abandon me? Dark Fo...Aaaargh!» (PS4, English)
La-Shiec: «I'm melting! Once again, my body is dissolving! But, even now, I will not die! I will reincarnate over and over again. I must work for Him! As long as He exists, I will continue to bring calamity to the future of Algo!» (PS4, English)
It seems that "Nightmare" ("Sacubbus" in US) made the exactly same promise to Zio he (same/other "Nightmare") has done to Lashiec*. As we can see Lashiec seemed to knew that he could "die" BUT would "live again”, because he knew he was immortal... but for what price?
«You too will become tortured souls who can never leave my castle!» By being "immortal" (zombie/tortured soul now) he was cursed to be inside his own castle forever. Zio, in the other hand seemed at a first glance to have been "betrayed" by "Nightmare"**, or at least he didn't know very well those "immortal" conditions. Maybe, like lashiec, is immortalization could let him "die" and when the next DF reappeared he was meant to be "revived" again by him (that would make him immortal like Lashiec).
There's another thing. Palma was already destroyed when we met Air Castle (PS4) so Air Castle seems a little independent of Palma (its "immortal" as opposite to Palma), I don't remember if the air castle was destroyed after PS1 (and then reappeared again) or was still intact/abandoned, but I remember Zio's fortress was completely destroyed [they didn't have to run because they were underground, inside of nervus] and (in PS4) La-Shiec's castle was also crumbled BUT even after that he said he would return.
I think La-Shiec and his castle are connected (if one disappears the other disappears as well) but both could "die" and "live" again. The same could happen to Zio and his fortress since, like lashiec's castle, it disappeared after his dead.[/face]
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** - He must have abandoned Lashiec too when he died (if you didn't "kill" him when he appeared at the gov. mansion)
* - Wait! So there are two DF in PS1!?
Nightmare and Pro Phallus were supposed to be the same DF in PS1 - their heads were the same... so it was like
a solo DF was trying to warn them to "turn back"... but with the new design (see DF in vision of Elsydeon) PS team made clear they (at least now) are meant to be different (and even if they still are meant to be the same, where is zio's prophallus hiding?)
