Genericstickman said:
Doesn't 11 Shinryu also have a 2-A statement of merging all dimensions?
No one on this site seems to have any knowledge on XI (which makes sense since the profiles here are just copies of old OBD profiles on XI, and there aren't any updates to them here that reflect the changes over there) or Dissidia.
The feat that you're thinking about was done by the Vessel of Promathia in the Abyssean universe in XI. It was merging all of the universes in the XI multiverse. and XI's multiverse is stated to be infinite by the interdimensional-traveling Caith Sith (redundant since all Cait Sith travel through dimesnions) in Voidwalker. It was stopped by the Abyssean versions of the heroes. After it is stopped, the vessel absorbs Abyssean Selh'teus and Abyssean MC to become XI's Shinryu, which is distinct from the Shinryu that is common throughout the rest of the series. This feat scales to many characters including, but not limited to, XI's Cloud of Darkness, the Great Crystal, Prishe, Iroha, Altana, Promthia, Selh'teus, Sempurne, etc.
Secondly, Gilgamesh doesn't appear in XI. There is a character named Gilgamesh, but he is different than the one that springs up in the rest of the series. Just like Omega in XI is not connected to other Omega, and Shinryu is not connected either.
There are no contradictions between 012 and 013 and the series itself. The characters you see in 012 and 013 are not the real physical characters but manakins created from the memories of these characters. This, for instance, is how Cosmos is created. Besides the Warrior of Light, every other character that fights is created from floating memories of the characters and placed into the manakin. When the character cannot be revived by Shinryu again, or the war ends in 013, the memories go back to the original character, which is why in NT the characters remember particiapating in the original Dissidia conflicts. The 012 reports make the idea that they're summoned memories placed in mankins very clear:
"Cosmos summon memories.
Begins usinf them as her pawns.
Chaos follows suit.
...
Their memories are returned to the state of when they were first summoned.
Three damaged bodies, unable to withstand prufication, have perished."
And if you need to ask why Terra can use magic in NT, then it's the same line of thought as to why the villains are alive in NT.