Revelations from Fan Festival Around the World 2021

She is probably that figure of light in patch 5.5 trailer (maybe Venat?)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...71/unknown.png

Moon place feels very Amaurot. Maybe that's why Elidibus always hung out there.

Radz-at-Han is hurting my eyes...

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Originally Posted by Erendis

She is probably that figure of light in patch 5.5 trailer (maybe Venat?)

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Guarantee it's Venat, and it looks like she's going to have a significant amount of screentime too.

Not a bad thing at all but the Hanging Garden zone looks like Titania and her subjects moved into Azys Lla and totally redcorated.

So excited by all the reveals at this fan fest. Reapers look amazing - I'm not generally a melee dps player but I'm definitely going to give it a shot, and I may have to switch back to Miqo'te for a bit because I LOVE the hat.

All the new zones look fantastic, It's going to be a long 6 months of waiting to get my paws on them, but I'm glad they are taking their time to make sure EndWalker is polished and ready to go.

I'm super excited that male Viera will be coming, and hoping those hairstyles will also be us lady Viera - and y'all can have ours too, you know :P Also look forward to seeing concept art on the female Hrothgar in the coming live letters, since those are confirmed.

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Originally Posted by Erendis

She is probably that figure of light in patch 5.5 trailer (maybe Venat?)

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Very likely, and with the artwork zoomed in like that she appears to be holding an Amaurotine-styled mask.

So... yeah, prolly Venat.

Maybe our Voidsent Avatar might just be our sundered soul from the void?

Some of you may know of my theories and that floating city along with that giant underground dome throws some fuel on the fire for me.

I'm thinking Sharlayan is going to use the underground dome to try and outlive the End Days (Chrono Trigger style). I'm going out on a limb to say that plan fails miserably and there is a dungeon tied to it as the magicks they wield begin to go out of control.

Do you think that underground zone is where sharlayans intend to survive the end of the world?

Edit: I'm too slow on the phone...

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Originally Posted by Erendis

Do you think that underground zone is where sharlayans intend to survive the end of the world?

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Oh, very much so.

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Originally Posted by Erendis

Do you think that underground zone is where sharlayans intend to survive the end of the world?

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Originally Posted by Riastrad

Oh, very much so.

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That was my first guess.

I was honestly thinking it was on the moon since it was under ground

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Originally Posted by Riastrad

Some of you may know of my theories and that floating city along with that giant underground dome throws some fuel on the fire for me.

I'm thinking Sharlayan is going to use the underground dome to try and outlive the End Days (Chrono Trigger style). I'm going out on a limb to say that plan fails miserably and there is a dungeon tied to it as the magicks they wield begin to go out of control.

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I wouldn't be too surprised if they created a Calamity-proof structure. They were founded by an Archon who led people to safety during during the water Calamity. They could be over confident thanks to all the lost magics and history they accumulated in the past 1000 years.

Wondering if the floating city is gonna be a reference to Bhujerba at all.

I do find it a touch curious that Zenos is mixed in with all of the Scions as opposed to given a spot of prominence at the top of the artwork like they've done with the villains and other key players of the previous expansions.

I suppose it could just be because he's not a new character anymore, but I would definitely not mind an "enemy mine" scenario if Fandaniel's treachery stretches to an extent that it endangers his schemes as well.

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Originally Posted by lycropath

Maybe our Voidsent Avatar might just be our sundered soul from the void?

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I could see that being the reason for how the job is able to function in general, because all we've seen thus far is that becoming a vessel for a voidsent is universally not a good thing, with mind control being the best possible outcome and the worst being that your soul is forced out and body warped into the shape of the possessor.

Perhaps if the voidsent is the summoner's soul fragment, it instead resonates with them rather then trying to dominate them.

Shards of Dalamud on the moon?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...51/unknown.png

Moon base

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...44/unknown.png

Labyrinth

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...08/unknown.png

Reminds me of armillary sphere. So many greek looking things.

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Originally Posted by Cilia

That was my first guess.

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I mean, even if its not (it more than likely isn't), that floating island is eerily reminiscent of Zeal. It only makes sense for Square Enix to reuse existing ideas and designs to use as subtle nods and call backs to older games.

Floating land mass = Zeal

Fandaniel = Queen Zeal

Traveling to other timelines/realities = Epoch and the Chrono Cross

The possible use of Domes to avoid the holocaust caused by meteors of suspect origin = Parasitic entity the feeds on the life of a planet that shoots literal comets out of its back and destroys a world while the survivors use domes as shelter in said world. How funny.

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Originally Posted by Riastrad

Easy, Chrono Cross deals almost exclusively with alternate realities. Considering we supposedly (I almost doubt it) just altered our own timeline, and it was hand waived that the old timeline in which we died was simply cut off and set adrift, an entity like Lavos being the reason the fracture happened (which let us directly affect time) kind of fits a little too well. The best ending in Trigger leads directly into Cross. Lavos itself latched onto Schala in the Darkness beyond Time and began creating split realities to keep itself alive. Becoming the Dream/Time Devourer, a crystalline monster that had a young blonde woman in a white dress bound to it no less. Big hmm moment for me there when I saw the 3.2 patch art.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1c/ac...3a2c2770ef.jpg
https://lparchive.org/Chrono-Trigger...ngproper28.jpg

I don't trust Hydaelyn or the narrative that the Ascians are pushing. I think a parasite has literally wrapped its claws around the very weapons used to stop it. It's just a matter of time till we need to address that issue.

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...gq342jjdMIPyPc

https://i.imgur.com/SGDKT6u.jpg

Forgive me the pictures. I don't like having to add so many, but I really needed the visual aids.

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

OCEANIA DATA CENTER!

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omg omg omg OMG !!!!

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Originally Posted by lycropath

Maybe our Voidsent Avatar might just be our sundered soul from the void?

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That would be dope and would probably explain how it's safe for us to use

Magus Sisters is probably a trial boss like Anima.

So as an aside I'm honestly surprised the trailer didn't remove the clouds over Ilsabard. And now that there's only one zone left unknown, I guess we really won't be going there outside of Garlemald this expansion. I'm not exactly disappointed per se, but I'm quite surprised. I was expecting that.

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Originally Posted by Zohar_Lahar

Magus Sisters is probably a trial boss like Anima.

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The thing I find curious is that the version of them we were openly presented with bears the bright color schemes synonymous with Thravnair, but they're also sneakily present in the artwork for what's presumably the Garlemald tower though with the darker color scheme the other lunar primals have.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I'm honestly kind of doubting that the moon is the final zone if they're actually showing it off already.

They historically haven't shown us the final zone of each expansion and there's still one zone that's unaccounted for.

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I think it might be more than just one more zone. The extra time on the expansion could mean they are breaking the amount of zones that they typically release.

Regarding the floating island zone, I don't really have too much to base this off but I wonder if it's somewhere in Meracydia. They talked about Meracydia a bit in 5.5, and now Vrtra is with Estinien in the trailer.

Just curious... Does it sound to anyone else like Y'shtola's voice changed? That doesn't sound like Robyn Addison.

Also... The poster they showed at the end... Who is the girl at the top?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1Ze5LNW...jpg&name=large

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I think it might be more than just one more zone. The extra time on the expansion could mean they are breaking the amount of zones that they typically release.

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I typed that message immediately before they specifically mentioned there was multiple zones on the moon (Which incidentally is also the only one they didn't show anything of), so I'd assume that's going to be our finale.

Mare Lamentorum is probably where most of the hidden truths about the Ancients will be laid bare, while the following zone is going to be a scramble to get to Zodiark and put a stop to the Final Days in one way or another.

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Originally Posted by JeanneOrnitier

Regarding the floating island zone, I don't really have too much to base this off but I wonder if it's somewhere in Meracydia. They talked about Meracydia a bit in 5.5, and now Vrtra is with Estinien in the trailer.

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There are also floating islands in Ilsabard if the world map is to be trusted.

The whole tower problem seems too extensive to be resolved on a case by case basis, and with them acknowledging that Thravnair had only received a "temporary respite" I'm thinking the Scions will quickly realize that heading to Garlemald and cutting off the problem at its source is the best approach, so I can't imagine us taking a detour all the way over to Meracydia.

Labyrinthos is also likely to shed some light on what's happening to the world as being deep within the earth may provide a clearer picture of what kind of harm the towers are causing down below. Those creepy purple roots on the Thravnair tower further suggest they're leeching something out of the ground if not the Lifesteam itself.

Thoughts from seeing the full Endwalker's trailer:

The spiral shell "aethereytes" probably aren't normal aethereytes, considering that we've been shown a normal city style aethereyte in that unground area in Thavnair. I would wager that they are Sharlayan designed as bulwarks against those towers Fandaniel setup, using ancient knowledge that Sharlayan has due to living through multiple eras of the world with the whole truth of the calamities in tow, the whole while. Those Sharlayan nerds have been holding out on the world, hoping to be leftover to become full beings at the end of the Ascian's plans all this time!

As for why Thavnair has one, well I'm assuming that they have some sort of direct link with Sharlayan from older times, or perhaps it's some incoming new information we get tomorrow or in 5.55. Urianger speaks of a respite that was temporary, so I assume that's what the spiral-cut crystals are providing, and I'm also assuming that's why Sharlayan's capitol digs deep into the earth with its massive book pit.

Gotta have a book pit!

I really hope that the other jobs get some new animations for attacks, seeing how flashy the Reaper ones are going to be. The slices with the pale green aura are to die for, and I really think the older jobs could use some TLC upgrades. Particularly because only one or two people ever get to really switch it up in a raid group when new jobs come out, and if the new jobs are the only ones getting such delicious animations, then I feel pain.

I know I'm supposed to be like, "Yeah, get'em girl!" when Y'shtola does her sass walk in, and then slams her staff end on the Forum floor, but like... idk, the Scions coming off as know-it-all better than yous towards city leaders lost its luster long ago. While I'm not, you know, against what the Scions are for, cause obviously it is the good way to go, I can't help but feel like it falls flat for me.

Vrtra and Estinien :3c Azdaja when?! Also I'm pretty sure that's Thavnair they're defending, somewhere nearby, because the statue that gets destroyed is a dancer with chakrams, not an Ishgardian anything. At least as far as I know.

Zenos when he stands up look like they gave him a makeover. His nose is very straightened out, and his jawline is different. His face when he stands up screams HIMBO. That coupled with the character line up cover art has me suspicious that they really will pull some sort of Golbez-like plotline with him.

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Originally Posted by Lusavari

Just curious... Does it sound to anyone else like Y'shtola's voice changed? That doesn't sound like Robyn Addison.

Also... The poster they showed at the end... Who is the girl at the top?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1Ze5LNW...jpg&name=large

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We've yet to meet them so my guess is that is most likely Vanet they hold an engraved Amourotines mask in their hand so they have a connection to Amourant at the very least.

I suspect the floating island zone is where Vrjra is going to be found it looks very Churning mist crossed with Il Mheg.

I kinda hope the last zone is on the way to the centre of the star to complete the every expansion has something to do with FFVII as a reference in the last zone but they could just do it with a boss fight.

I cannot wait to see what the male Viera lore is going to be like.

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

I cannot wait to see what the male Viera lore is going to be like.

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I imagine they'll just sort of pop into existence then we pretend they were there all along like the other new races.

We already have their background lore, which is that the males are taken out of the female settlements to be raised by other males as soon as they're old enough to get on without their mothers, then they simply live as hidden guardians of the wood.

I am wondering if, based on the poster in my last post, if Zenos may at least temporarily travel with us. Maybe be like Magus in Chrono Trigger and be a Hidden Trust.

As much as I don't like Zenos I will readily accept him becoming a good guy if it means he won't be the final boss. Just please let anyone but him be the final boss.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I imagine they'll just sort of pop into existence then we pretend they were there all along like the other new races.

We already have their background lore, which is that the males are taken out of the female settlements to be raised by other males as soon as they're old enough to get on without their mothers, then they simply live as hidden guardians of the wood.

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Yeah it'd be simple to say that just like viera women there are viera men who want to leave the forest and explore the world. Nothing stopping them.

Travelling with Zenos would be pretty fun. Even more so if the clown comes along. But I'm hard pressed to think of a reason why we would join forces. Zenos and Fandaniel are perpetuating a humanitarian disaster that is wiping out the people of Garlemald and threatening to kill untold numbers of other people. For obvious reasons, the defeat of Zenos should be the Scion's top priority. The only thing I could think that would supersede that is if the very fate of the planet was at stake and Zenos was NOT the reason why the Final Days are happening (which goes counter to Zenos' and Fandaniel's desire to start the Final Days, as they explicitly said in 5.3 and 5.4), and Zodiark or the Sound was causing the problem.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I do find it a touch curious that Zenos is mixed in with all of the Scions as opposed to given a spot of prominence at the top of the artwork like they've done with the villains and other key players of the previous expansions.

I suppose it could just be because he's not a new character anymore, but I would definitely not mind an "enemy mine" scenario if Fandaniel's treachery stretches to an extent that it endangers his schemes as well.

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He’s in the same position as he was in the stormblood key art, so it’s possible it’s just consistency.

So we are probably gonna skip the whole Ilsabard lands, and get to Garlemand by that train dungeon, ala FFXV train in the second part of the story :(

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Originally Posted by myahele

Images of the Magus Sisters has been spotted in the Pandaemonium artwork, so they might be associated with that quest line?
https://i.imgur.com/OqklzWF.jpg

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Logically those must be the Lunar Magus Sisters there, which would explain the lack of technicolor-ness.

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Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage

Huh, that's artwork from 1.0 I think.

The one with what looked like Garuda looking at the WoL [...]

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I'm pretty sure that's meant to be Hydaelyn.

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Originally Posted by Cilia

The second is Mare Lamentorum; here "Mare" probably refers to an astronomical definition of the word, which is "a large, level basalt plain on the surface of the moon, appearing dark by contrast with highland areas."

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True, though also overthinking the explanation. Those basalt plains on the real moon are all named with the format "Mare [Latin word]" so the pattern is being continued here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ia_on_the_Moon

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Originally Posted by Vyrerus

Zenos when he stands up look like they gave him a makeover. His nose is very straightened out, and his jawline is different. His face when he stands up screams HIMBO. That coupled with the character line up cover art has me suspicious that they really will pull some sort of Golbez-like plotline with him.

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I haven't watched the trailer, but have we ever fully seen Zenos in CG before? I think he's only been in the Shadowbringers trailer wearing his helmet.

I wouldn't put too much focus on characters looking off-model in the trailer anyway. The CG models always look strange to me.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

We already have their background lore, which is that the males are taken out of the female settlements to be raised by other males as soon as they're old enough to get on without their mothers, then they simply live as hidden guardians of the wood.

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I forget - was that Viera or Viis lore? It all blurs together for them.

Fashionably late. There's a lot to go through here, so I apologize for picking on Iscah alone.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Logically those must be the Lunar Magus Sisters there, which would explain the lack of technicolor-ness.

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Right, and the fact they're in a tower. If I had to guess, based on the dungeon trailer...

The Magus Sisters will be the Primal of the Arkasodara, and we'll be seeing both Lunar versions and non. The tower dungeon they showed has Matanga imprisoned in the way the Amalj'aa were that summoned Lunar Ifrit.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I'm pretty sure that's meant to be Hydaelyn.

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Whether it was originally meant to be Hydaelyn or not might be debatable (I put forth that they very likely had no idea what Hydaelyn the Goddess looked like until after Yoshida took over, and she was likely not meant to be a Primal Goddess in that age, if you consider the Ascians themselves were not fleshed out in that era.) but if you look at the art it's very clearly Garuda, and I believe it has been confirmed as such, though I lack sources so feel free to disregard that. The cloven feet, four-winged head seem to heavily point in that direction—she lacks the lower wings that Garuda later has though. If this was meant to be Hydaelyn, she clearly got a redesign as both the 2.0 and 5.0 art for her look very different! We can't see her legs in the ARR CE, but her head lacks a set of wings, and the ones she has are a different shape. The Endwalker art definitely copies the 2.0 boxart design for Hydaelyn as well.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I haven't watched the trailer, but have we ever fully seen Zenos in CG before? I think he's only been in the Shadowbringers trailer wearing his helmet.

I wouldn't put too much focus on characters looking off-model in the trailer anyway. The CG models always look strange to me.

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I think it's the right call not to read too much into the CG Trailers. Though I'm sure they've learned from their mistakes, never forget Hraesvelgr appears as the antagonist in the Heavensward trailer due to human error (and was later coloured pink and multiplied so you wouldn't get confused). That said, Zenos has only appeared, to my knowledge, in the Shadowbringers trailer before this and he was fully armored with the broken mask (and arguably not Zenos but I digress...)

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Originally Posted by JeanneOrnitier

So as an aside I'm honestly surprised the trailer didn't remove the clouds over Ilsabard. And now that there's only one zone left unknown, I guess we really won't be going there outside of Garlemald this expansion. I'm not exactly disappointed per se, but I'm quite surprised. I was expecting that.

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While I'm annoyed the clouds didn't disperse over Ilsabard, I'm more annoyed the Sharlayan Forum apparently can't spring for a map with Ilsabard revealed. I'd rather they not show the map in the Forum than show us a censored one!

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I forget - was that Viera or Viis lore? It all blurs together for them.

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Viera lore, from the Wandering Dramaturge in Stormblood. But viera and viis lore are practically interchangeable.


In regards to the new information, Labyrinthos is most likely under Sharlayan based on the architecture and the fact that the aetheryte is the same as all the other aetherytes found in northern Aldenard. The architecture in the moon is distinctly Amaurotine, which confuses me since I thought the moon was created as a prison for Zodiark and that would have happened after Amaurot ceased to exist. Unless I’m remembering wrong.

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Originally Posted by Rocl

The Magus Sisters will be the Primal of the Arkasodara, and we'll be seeing both Lunar versions and non. The tower dungeon they showed has Matanga imprisoned in the way the Amalj'aa were that summoned Lunar Ifrit.

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*potential spoilers on 6.0 dungeon order*

I was picking my brain over what the heck those things in the walls were, but I guess that means the tower probably is the initial dungeon for Thravnair after all and that the region might actually have a second MSQ dungeon as one of the slides from the previous keynote showed an outdoor instance with everything ablaze.

I can only assume the tower extends deep into the earth for there to be that much architecture as there certainly isn't enough space up top to house all of that...though that makes me question whether or not all of the towers are vast, nightmarish underground prisons like that.

I also noticed the Thravnair tower is a bit different as its lights are white as opposed to red and has some strange purple root-like structures emerging from its base, though it's possible all of them will end up like that in due time.

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

Viera lore, from the Wandering Dramaturge in Stormblood. But viera and viis lore are practically interchangeable.The architecture in the moon is distinctly Amaurotine, which confuses me since I thought the moon was created as a prison for Zodiark and that would have happened after Amaurot ceased to exist. Unless I’m remembering wrong.

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There's honestly still too much we don't know about the pre-Sundering time period to have more then guesses to throw at the subject, I'd say.

It seems like that last dungeon in the preview is the one for Mare Lamentum, though, which looks to be an expansive research facility of such a scale that it makes me wonder if perhaps the moon was being considered as a potential second home for the Ancients; particularly with a section of it looking to be devoted to the research/creation of biomes.

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Originally Posted by Kheld

So we are probably gonna skip the whole Ilsabard lands, and get to Garlemand by that train dungeon, ala FFXV train in the second part of the story :(

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I have a feeling the "train" dungeon is actually the Garlean royal palace as the hallways in there are a dead ringer for how the place looked back when we ran through it as Estinien, albeit now with very unsettling spinal cord-like structures strewn about.

I assume we opt to take the sneaky route in because the obvious way is liable to have the bulk of the Telophoroi's forces guarding it.

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I also noticed the Thravnair tower is a bit different as its lights are white as opposed to red and has some strange purple root-like structures emerging from its base, though it's possible all of them will end up like that in due time.

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Could be the opposite as well, Urianger mentions that the “respite afforded this land was but fleeting, the end draws nigh.” That plus the map only having embers and not flames like in Eorzea seems to suggest it wasn’t hit hard yet. Maybe that’s the tower in it’s pre-activation stage? The roots may be its initial influence spreading.

Moon palace looks like a mix of Crystal tower and Amaurot buildings.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...64/unknown.png

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Originally Posted by Vyrerus

Zenos when he stands up look like they gave him a makeover. His nose is very straightened out, and his jawline is different. His face when he stands up screams HIMBO. That coupled with the character line up cover art has me suspicious that they really will pull some sort of Golbez-like plotline with him.

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I was getting some pretty strong Emet-Selch vibes from him. Perhaps they were just trying to stress the family resemblance for the trailer?

https://64.media.tumblr.com/ae681de7...69a49a43f3.png

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

We've only seen his face and I already hate him. Though I doubt it's more than Alisaie, who probably has more than a few words to give him.

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i find it impressive he lets his very own children risk their lives in the front lines but hes like 'nah we must survive so we will sit here'