3.1 Main Scenario picture

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

My toughts: this a new male lalafell character related to the Void Ark quest (just like the Miqo'te from the Crystal Tower series) - the hood he uses is part of the WHM/Healer Exploratory set and his hair is the style that won the contest.

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The screen shot is from the story preview rather than the Void Ark preview and you'll note the character has the same Aetheric goggles that the scions all wear.

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Originally Posted by Belhi

The screen shot is from the story preview rather than the Void Ark preview and you'll note the character has the same Aetheric goggles that the scions all wear.

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G'raha had too, he even had the tatoo. I still think this is not Krile or Papalymo, but a new character.

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

I'm pretty sure this is a male lalafell as the hairstyle is the one that won the contest for the males.

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Thank you for noticing this. A female Lala has far longer eye lashes plus they're "pointier".
On Reddit we've noticed this already when it was posted there.

I'm looking forward to seeing him in the main story quest, whatever his purpose will be!

Celi smells bad.

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

My toughts: this a new male lalafell character related to the Void Ark quest (just like the Miqo'te from the Crystal Tower series) - the hood he uses is part of the WHM/Healer Exploratory set and his hair is the style that won the contest.

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Like others have said, the Lalafell is shown for the Main Scenario preview, not the Void Ark preview. If anyone will be our guide through the Void Ark, I'd be guessing it's Cait Sith.

http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...pach3.1_16.png

They're being shown quite prominently with Void Ark at this point, I particularly like this artwork for Void Ark;

http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...4-667x1024.jpg

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Originally Posted by Riusvell

Thank you for noticing this. A female Lala has far longer eye lashes plus they're "pointier".

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I don't know... Looking at a larger version of the picture, I can see some fairly prominent eye lashes, on her right eye, at least.

http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...Pach3.1_02.png
Open picture in new tab for largeness...

The hair also doesn't really resemble the contest winners IMO, not sure SE can implement new hair styles that quickly anyway... I think 3.1s new hair styles, this included, were planned before the contest was even announced...

Those lips also seem far more feminine than masculine...

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

Too minimal differences and look a lot alike.

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Minimal? One's a 50-50 part, and the other is a two-thirds part, not to mention the bangs in the illustration cover the forehead and don't have those inward curls at the top. Those are two different hairstyles. They are both light brown, at least.

Slightly more radical possibility? If it's really not possible for a female Lalafell with a unique model to lack tertiary sexual characteristics, nobody ever said FFXIV's Krile was a girl. Or it's Galuf Baldesion himself.

I'm excited to see a Devout, and you can bet that's Krile. She had the Devout hood in a lot of promotional stuff for FFV. I doubt we'll get it as a job though, considering it's just a stronger version of WHM (but maybe the WHM AF3 will have a Devout design ????pls)

It looks like we will get new job for next expansion. Like... second job of Conjurer = Geomancer?

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Originally Posted by Fenral

Slightly more radical possibility? If it's really not possible for a female Lalafell with a unique model to lack tertiary sexual characteristics, nobody ever said FFXIV's Krile was a girl. Or it's Galuf Baldesion himself.

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Now that's an interesting possibility, though I think the similarities to Kriles WHM sprite would rule it out... Wonder how long Galuf would last if he does show up, though... Checking the Castrum Centri escape cutscene, a grandfather was mentioned, so Galuf certainly did exist... Whether he survived the incident at the Isle of Val is another matter though...

Pretty sure Krile will be a girl though, I seem to remember Minfilia referring to her as such, at least...

I'll grant the Hraesvelgr/Nidhogg mistake, and much appreciate the explanation.

I still remain unconvinced that this midlander is not Meteor, or a dark variant thereof. With the introduction of the Void Ark as well, I'm still standing pretty solidly behind the possibility of parallel worlds.

I wouldn't rule out parallel worlds either but I suspect the Void Ark is very much native. I don't think the Void Ark will have any direct connection to the MSQ. It seems Mhachi.

About Meteor (Derplander...), Ferne wrote :

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But that still leaves one question—was the party an actual party, or were they merely symbols meant to represent you, the players? Well, you can breathe easy knowing they are both. They all ventured into Eorzea at the same time as you did. They all did similar quests, and lived through similar adventures. They exist as your characters exist (in a virtual world-sort of existence). The fact that you haven’t come across them is probably the same reason you haven’t come across my character, Amanda Hugginkyss (or maybe you have? /wink). They’re just somewhere else. Though, maybe you’ll stumble across their party in the future. Or maybe you won’t. How’s that for committing to an answer?

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Derplander is an individual from the same dimension as we. Why would you want parallel dimensions, when there's a more convincing and realistic theory ? As far as we know, there are parallel universes (Shantotto and Lightning's event) but they have almost nothing in common with ours... Ferne was teasing for Meteor being an important character years ago, so That seems more relevant...

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Originally Posted by Shirobi

What you described is not hard and has been done in several MMOs, including FFXI.

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No, it was not.

There was a fight, were a single member of the group was copied in appearance and got the same mainhand weapon, but he got no spells/abilities/pets. 3/4 of the enemy group was always the same.

Second the fourth Spitewarden (that's what he was called, right?) didn't play a huge role like we suppose the WoD will do. If it's just a copy of you, it's hard to give him a real own past/background, etc.

And most important: If the WoD is a copy of our character... why wasn't there a copy in the Ingame-cutscene on the moon we all saw? This was no promotion/intro cutscene, it was the reality our characters live in.
You know, in intros/promotion cutscenes you can even swap the appearance of characters (like dragons) and is has no effect on the game/lore itself. If something in intro/promotion doesn't make sense (like Hraesvelgr attacking Ishgard), it has no effect on the story/lore.
But ingame it has to.
If we'd had seen an echo vision instead (ingame at the end of 2.5), with a Hraesvelgr-like-looking dragon commanding the dravanian hordes and being evil, they couldn't have make a Niddhog-like-looking dragon being the evil leader of the dravanian hordes in 3.0 without logic/continuity errors or a real, real good ingame explanation.

And with the WoD it is exactly the same.
Changing the appearance of the WoD we all did see makes as much sense as changing the appearance of Alphinaud to a female Rhoegadyn in 3.1, Elidibus to a woman or changing the moon-location to mars.

You can't answer a question like "Why did we saw the derplander speaking with Elidibus after defeating Thordan?" with "Because it was a red herring of the developers."... you have to answer it lorewise, because all we see ingame is in fact the lore of the game. Why should the WoD be in disguise?

Just imagine you go to the INN and rewatch cutscenes. First the one on the moon (WoD = derplander), second the one where you first meet the WoD (WoD = You). Sounds stupid, right?

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Originally Posted by Fevelle

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/3ff...8e2284b7_0.jpg

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/64b...1ddf34f3_1.png

Too minimal differences and look a lot alike.

And it's probably not a mixed race too, since the WHM AF2 gear doesn't show lalafell's ears outside the hood too.

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But the WHM's hood is way wider, and it has space for the Lalafell's ears inside it.
This new hood doesn't seem to be as wide as WHM AF2 D: or maybe the pic is taken from a weird angle and is tricking me...

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Originally Posted by Neophyte

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It will be interest to why we went into the darkside. Last time we see Derplander he was a dragoon >_>

I suspect the WoD can excel as well at multiple disciplines as the WoL can. It would make sense that he would be our equal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJXDegut2Yg

Oh, hey, look, he's definitely a separate character, as is the Roegadyn Paladin.

How weird that... anyone... might... think that.... before now....

http://i.imgur.com/lxN8E1p.png

Oh look, Krile is both a female and not styling the contest winners hair!

"I'm terribly, terribly sorry to have kept you all waiting."

Yeah, no shit, Krile.

Shame there is no Sky Pirate Nero in sight :(

Do wonder who the head (?) Sky Pirate is though, or perhaps more importantly, who that portrait is of... XIVs version of Fran, perhaps?

Also it would seem Diabolos isn't a boss? Wonder if that means Void Ark will be a continual story, rather than a one off thing like I'd hoped (because Void Ark (Mhach), Floating City (Nym), and Eorzean Strata (West Shroud, Amdapor) seemed so much more interesting). Also this guy is terrifying... He eats a party member, and they come out the other side... I... No...

Yup, confirmed, Derplander will be our enemy

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Shame there is no Sky Pirate Nero in sight :(

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Also, the next relics are called the Anima weapons. So much for my hopes and dreams. Time for us to take our wacky theories back into hiding until the next patch...

Looks like the Void Ark story will be Aliens: the Raid. We have needed a good, old-fashioned bug hunt story. Just hoping they don't go the obvious route with the guest characters this time...

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Originally Posted by Frederick22

Yup, confirmed, Derplander will be our enemy

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I wonder how meta they'll get with Derplander as the Warrior of Darkness... "I saved Eorzea, except I didn't because Dalamud still fell, and when I came back everyone made fun of me! All these new players replaced me! The name Derplander stuck! Arrgh!"

I'm guessing lore wise he'll be a Legacy "player", and the Warrior of Darkness plot will be somewhat similar to the whole Edda storyline; Here's how you affected other adventurers, perhaps not for the best.

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Originally Posted by Fenral

Also, the next relics are called the Anima weapons. So much for my hopes and dreams. Time for us to take our wacky theories back into hiding until the next patch...

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Well, I can still hold onto Eureka hopefully being the same delightful mix of XIV lore and III lore Crystal Tower was; Where the ultimate weapons are sealed, except it's Allag, so it's where the Ultima Weapons are sealed...

Now that you mention it though... Wasn't Anima the stuff we used to use for teleports? Probably shouldn't put too much thought into their naming, Zodiac weapons were disappointing enough... "Oh I need to slay a demon to make my weapon sentient? Awesome, last minute trial to save this questline!", "Oh never mind, you're going to craft demon blood... Well at least my weapon might end up like Final Fantasy XIs original relics, and actually have some character behind it", "Oh, it's just going to gain a glow? No brief cutscene where my weapon calls me a tool for doing this ridiculous quest? Nothing? Bah"

Hey doesnt not look like Marvel's civil war? present against past ? xD

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Anima!

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It was a teleportation currency, yerr.

That said... it's probably just a coincidence. Anima (soul/spirit) weapons do follow up on the idea of relic weapons absorbing SOULS (finish two weapons, offer one immortal soul to the nearest Satanic archetype) and gaining some form of sentience during the Zodiac questline. If there's anything that bugs me, it's that we already have [Relic] Animus in the game, and unless you're into Jungian psychology, Anima and Animus is pretty much the same thing. :p

Incidentally, did anyone else notice that a Rogue went and did a Sneak Attack on our resident pretty boy?

http://i.imgur.com/qEmnD7a.jpg

Crazy Nidhogg minion that really wants the Dragonsong War to continue?
Nobility that really hates the truth behind everyone's ancestry in Ishgard?
But arguably the most important question, will our pretty boy actually perish? :p

A rogue culinarian, no doubt

Ugh, wait a sec. "Anima"? As in, Anima?!

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120109160000

The eternally-tortured soul? Suddenly, I fear for the soul in my Zeta...

Be afraid the WoD going to own us (RIP Ravana)

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/10-25-2015/mOW3HS.gif

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Originally Posted by Remus

Be afraid the WoD going to own us (RIP Ravana)

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We canonically smashed Ravana solo as well, so that doesn't really tell us anything about his strength in comparison to ours.

If we fight in a CS, we're bound to lose the first time, however. Rules of Japanese storytelling and whatnot.

Actually, we, the WOL, never seem to fight at all in a cut scene. We ready our weapons but we never actually do anything. Either we get incapacitated or an NPC does the fighting for us; the latter is probably easier for the dev team to do since they can write the "script" for the fight and have characters move as they want them too. Since we, the player, can be anything we want, it would take a lot of work for the dev team to make fights look smooth for different jobs, not to mention we'd get a repeat of 2.5 where people cried "I was a healer! I could have saved her!"

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Originally Posted by Raminax

But arguably the most important question, will our pretty boy actually perish? :p

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I'm going to take a wild guess and say he does. Why? It's raining. Is it even possible for it to rain in Ishgard anymore? I don't think so, I think that may be a flashback of some sorts...

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Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer

We canonically smashed Ravana solo as well, so that doesn't really tell us anything about his strength in comparison to ours.

If we fight in a CS, we're bound to lose the first time, however. Rules of Japanese storytelling and whatnot.

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I know it's just there as a joke :P Yeah your right about us losing the first time even though technically we could win (maybe who knows) seen it enough times in JRPGs lol.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

2.5 where people cried "I was a healer! I could have saved her!"

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Makes you wonder if Nanamo would had became Raulbaun's equivalent to Aerith if she was y'know actually dead

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Originally Posted by Remus

Be afraid the WoD going to own us (RIP Ravana)

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/10-25-2015/mOW3HS.gif

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Is it just me or does the Derplander look like his stuff isn't dyed? yet the RoePaladin in his group (assumption) has his gallant armor dyed? Ravana event a flashback?

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Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer

We canonically smashed Ravana solo as well, so that doesn't really tell us anything about his strength in comparison to ours.

If we fight in a CS, we're bound to lose the first time, however. Rules of Japanese storytelling and whatnot.

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To be fair, the Quest Log states Ysayle softened him up for us, so we weren't fighting a full-power Ravana. He's pretty much the sole instance where his EX mode isn't a power-boosted version of his normal self but rather suggested to be Ravana at full power.

We are totes gonna get smacked around by the Warrior(s) of Darkness, though. Time to go unlock more true potential!

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Originally Posted by ExKage

Is it just me or does the Derplander look like his stuff isn't dyed? yet the RoePaladin in his group (assumption) has his gallant armor dyed? Ravana event a flashback?

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Augmented AF1?

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Originally Posted by Raminax

http://i.imgur.com/qEmnD7a.jpg

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Ser Aymeric gonna passed away?! Damn this story become more dark :(

I'll just say this: if XIV-Krile is not actually world-displaced, fell-through-the-void-after-beating-NeoExdeath-yeah-we're-retconning-V's-ending-a-bit-here FFV Krile, on some level I'm going to be disappointed. It sure seemed like they were going in that direction with not wanting to reveal her.

But yeah, that lalafell is clearly a girl, and even odds are, she's Krile.

(Of course if this means we get awesome old lala monk Galuf who beats the hell out of an Ascian by himself, I am okay with that.)

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Originally Posted by ExKage

Is it just me or does the Derplander look like his stuff isn't dyed? yet the RoePaladin in his group (assumption) has his gallant armor dyed? Ravana event a flashback?

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Both Derplander and Broegadyn appear to be wearing black-dyed AF1. If you pay close attention in the trailer. Broegadyn's is easier to notice since it's usually silver or bright white, but Derplander's armor should have red accents... which it doesn't.

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Originally Posted by Cilia

Both Derplander and Broegadyn appear to be wearing black-dyed AF1. If you pay close attention in the trailer. Broegadyn's is easier to notice since it's usually silver or bright white, but Derplander's armor should have red accents... which it doesn't.

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I may be blind. I thought I saw the red and just see the fact that the image is shadowed and dark.

I can't believe Aymeric will die !!! Come on he is the best hope of Hishgard ! And more importantly, I saw Yshtola attacked by a roehgen paladin, I'm positive he is paladin ! WHY ????? Nonetheless, I can't wait to pursue the main quest line and benefit from all the little add up stuff in the 3.1. Wayt to go SE !