Revelations from Patch 5.3

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Originally Posted by RicaRuin

I can't believe we meme'd hard enough to make it happen.

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Now all shall know the true terror of the hardest boss!

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

Looking at the entire artwork, Lahabrea's robe is deliberately more lighter in colour, it is lighter than Ryne's hair, Gaia who wears black is far darker than Lahabrea, also his mask is darker than his hood whereas Ascian Lahabrea had the opposite his mask was lighter.

This isn't the same Lahabrea we have dealt with previously, perhaps it is Lahabrea in his Amaurotine robes before Zodiark became a thing but that artwork really does highlight him, even if he isn't center stage.

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I wouldn't take the artwork as proof of colour. It could be deliberately faded out so it doesn't stand out at a glance or break Gaia's silhouette.

I also wouldn't judge the colour off the light part of the hood, any more than Gaia has white splotches on her sleeve. It's just catching the light to make it stand out more.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I wouldn't take the artwork as proof of colour. It could be deliberately faded out so it doesn't stand out at a glance or break Gaia's silhouette.

I also wouldn't judge the colour off the light part of the hood, any more than Gaia has white splotches on her sleeve. It's just catching the light to make it stand out more.

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I posit this question then, why is Lahabrea's mask the only bit with colour besides the two center stage Ryne and Gaia?

His mask alone would've been enough to convey it was Lahabrea so it is a stylistic choice to colour him in.

The artist deliberately added colour to him, black could very easily have been there, All other bits surrounding the girls are faded and are much more monotone in colour, the artist added colour to the parts they want you to focus on and Lahabrea is one such bit, colour was intentionally used and not using black for signature Ascian robing is something the artist wanted to convey.

Don't know about you but Lahabrea has taken more of my attention than Ryne and Gaia XD

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

So, this is more for 5.4, but...holy crap, the new Trial for the Weapon trials is Castrum Marinum. Aka CAPE WESTWIND. You know who that means is coming as the 2nd phase!

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Now I find it extra silly that the Eozean Alliance just let the Garleans sit pretty in that castrum instead of, y'know, securing or destroying it to make sure they don't use it as a potential staging point for future attacks/invasions.

They already mentioned what happened with Ruby Weapon was a design defect so even if it does activate Oversoul (Gaius did specifically mention he wanted to disable it somehow to prevent more needless deaths), nothing drastic is going to happen. I'm expecting it's just going to use Eir Tarne Storm as its phase transition move then we'll be dealing with its powered-up mode with the shoulder cores and laser spam in phase 2.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

Now I find it extra silly that the Eozean Alliance just let the Garleans sit pretty in that castrum instead of, y'know, securing or destroying it to make sure they don't use it as a potential staging point for future attacks/invasions.

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I have a feeling the Alliance already secured it but are leaving it up so the Garland Ironworks would have access to the tech inside.

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

I posit this question then, why is Lahabrea's mask the only bit with colour besides the two center stage Ryne and Gaia?

His mask alone would've been enough to convey it was Lahabrea so it is a stylistic choice to colour him in.

The artist deliberately added colour to him, black could very easily have been there, All other bits surrounding the girls are faded and are much more monotone in colour, the artist added colour to the parts they want you to focus on and Lahabrea is one such bit, colour was intentionally used and not using black for signature Ascian robing is something the artist wanted to convey.

Don't know about you but Lahabrea has taken more of my attention than Ryne and Gaia XD

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I don't see how showing colour in the mask directly ties into whether or not the "white" parts of the hood are really white or just black lit up for contrast.

Again, Gaia - very confirmably dressed in black, and with black hair, as shown in colour on the main image - is illustrated with large "white" patches on her hair and clothes. Nobody is reading those white patches as actually there - it is clear from the context that they are just intense lighting highlighting the folds and creases.

So if the white bits on Gaia are not really white, why should the white on Lahabrea's hood be proof that he's wearing white?

I think both look to have a very similar approach of stark white highlighting on a dark object.

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The 5.4 MSQ bits from the trailer are...interesting to say in the least.

The thing I'm most curious about are those strange floating structures that appear to be Mhachi architecture and are likely related to the primal/beast tribe shenanigans going on.

I'm half-expecting them to be some kind of aether condenser that's making it much easier for primal summonings to take place by ramping up the levels of ambient aether in the areas the beast tribes dwell in.

If that's the sort of stuff Fandaniel has knowledge of/access to for his "preparations", there's no telling how ugly things are going to get as we move to and through 6.x.

From what all I've seen...

It looks like there's going to be tempered in Ala Mhigo, meaning whatever is happening is possibly happening near the Ghimlyt Dark. We will be seeing what looks like an almost Bahamut creature (maybe one of the missing dragons?) we possibly have to fight, Ravana/Gilgamesh in Eden's Promise, along with a Cloud of Darkness fight, the possibility of an Ultimecia fight (take away your memories she says), the sister from Weapon trials being taken away, Zenos breaking what looks like his own sword he used, Zodiark, and much more. Things are about to get heavy, and we have no clue where we're going at this point. It's definitely leading up to the "series finale" for the Zodiark/Hydaelyn plot.