My comment was towards your primal comment, hence why I said primals lol.
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SE is all for contradicting stuff in XIV to please this community, so I'm sure he'll return like 7th UE storyline never existed.
Would be nice to see him return in ARR !
(As a Reference to the past like "The World was brought to ruin by a Sick-minded Legatus clad in white armor..etc" Is what I had in mind when I saw this)
The new villian would be the old villian, Van Gaius.
He occupied Ala Migo, to conquer Eorzea is his mission in the first place.
Van Daius only got his spotlight because SE needed an armageddon event to destroy 1.0.
The only way I can see him back in 2.0 would be in a flashback echo CS
Great design, great villain.
My guess is that in some new storyline down the road, we will find him cocooned/hibernating in large chunk of Dalamud.
Somehow, he will be revived, and immediately start looking for some great power source (likely scattered parts of Dalamud) and he will threaten to destroy Eorzea AND the Empire (he might even kill the emperor).
At which point, Van Gaius will actually recruit our help in stopping him.
And we will fight him several times - and finally he will locate/gather the power he needs and become transformed into the Ultima Weapon.
**Just speculation, but it seems rather plausible, if not likely.
EDIT: I just realized what I wrote was almost the plot for the first half of FFVI.
Nael van(deus) Darnus = Kefka
Gaius van Baelsar = General Leo
Emperor Solus zos Galvus = Emperor Gestahl
I'm honestly expecting him to return in the crystal tower. Which I also assume will be the remnant of Dalamud. That red dust at the end of the battle almost seemed to go back into Dalamud.
Not to mention that S-E was still planning on adding some storyline to explain what happened in 1.0. Hence why I expect him to reappear but in a weapon form. Either Ultima or Omega. We might get some explanation to who he was before fighting him in his new form.