Revelations from NA Fan Fest (July 2023)

I'm hoping we get a Cosmo Canyon facsimile in there somehow, but I expect that would require us to visit the northern Yok Tural continent. Which leads me to one possibility:
We know this isn't everything, the first fanfest of previous expansions only gave us half or less of what the expansion would cover. So what if we do get the rest of Yok Tural?
Maybe the contest for the Golden Throne is only the first half of the story, and upon reuniting the scions we journey north to discover a greater threat, a threat to all of Yok Tural.

Its all supposed to end in a "city of gold" apparently. I heard Yoshi say something about that.(EDIT: I'm rewatching the presentation and its right there in the slides. lol) So we get a search for El Dorado at some point, it seems.

It wasn't Ilsabard/Othard like I wanted but it was a welcome surprise, I didn't think they could pull it off but it looks really nice.

Now the big question is if this will come into play

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Haragin
The legends of this coastal tribe tell of a group of their ancestors who crafted a giant ship and sailed out across the endless eastern ocean. The explorers are said to have returned with tales of a terrible island covered in massive grey monoliths and inhabited by fire-breathing steel demons.

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

I love that Estinien seems to have a fanclub of (what I think is) Mamool Ja kids swarming him. XD

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He looks more of a oh crap why am I being swarmed again.

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

I love that Estinien seems to have a fanclub of (what I think is) Mamool Ja kids swarming him. XD

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Yes! It was one of the things that stood out to me in the trailer! Cute Mamool Ja kids!

It will be nice to see them as a society and not just the few mercenaries that come over to Eorzea.

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Originally Posted by Narnio

Now the big question is if [the Haragin's "island of monoliths"] will come into play

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I really dislike that quote. It feels like "making up silly things for tribes to believe in" and if it is indeed meant to describe a modern city then it locks them into some weird worldbuilding later.

If they ever do anything with it, I hope they subvert the description – make it an island dotted with standing stones and populated by a scary-looking race wearing armour.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

The New World is pretty but the lack of knowledge we have about it compared to Ilsabard or Meracydia makes it a bit difficult to speculate about anything.

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Yeah, we've already seen basically everything we know about the region and then some. Which I think is pretty positive: we can't extrapolate any further than we already have. In comparison consider something like Thavnair in Endwalker, where nothing mentioned the whole 'alchemist' thing, which at least left us a lot of room to speculate on how they'd incorporate (or ignore) that part.

The trailer attempt to hide the obvious new Job that the WoL is using for the expansion atleast gives off some hints.

1) It will be using a sword

2) the design from what we seen under that robe is corsair like.

3) I believe they mentioned it is a Scouting Armor Job

My best guess for now is that it is maybe Corsair Job using a Sword and Gun. The Gun part is much easier to hide in the Teaser version of the Expansion trailer since they can cut out any of the gun use part for the Full Trailer once they reveal the WoL's new Job for the Expansion in the Full Trailer.

However, some people are guessing Fencer and Dual Swords Job as well.

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

However, some people are guessing Fencer and Dual Swords Job as well.

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If it's a scouting melee job, dual swords seems too close to dual daggers.

It's really more the ninjutsu that defines NIN's identity as a job over its weapons (Which are used only in its basic combo abilities and Dream with a Dream) so I don't think other flavors of dual-wielding would be redundant, especially if it focuses more on the actual sword play.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

It's really more the ninjutsu that defines NIN's identity as a job over its weapons (Which are used only in its basic combo abilities and Dream with a Dream) so I don't think other flavors of dual-wielding would be redundant, especially if it focuses more on the actual sword play.

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ya more focus on actually using the weapon is something I am guessing if it does end up dual sword.

However, the Robe is not perfect in hiding another sword so it is on a lower chance for me. The sword is a bit smaller than other job's swords as we see in the trailer so it looks like the sword type this new job maybe using is a shortsword type.

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