The Fortuneteller

I've been getting a lot of questions about the "Valentione's Day" fortuneteller, so I'm going to list all options and say if there are any differences between languages.

Pre-Event
I sense that...no, your aura is not yet infused with the love of Valentione's Day. Only when you have given yourself fully to the festivities will a reading be possible (or so I hear...)

Not Interested
Just browsing, are we? Begone with you! I have other customers to fleece─er, read for.

Solicit Reading
Come for a true reading, have you? Unlike those amateur fortune-tellers and their petty restrictions, I can divine your future without a partner hanging from your arm. Hm hm hm...very well. Gird your heart, for I shall not dilute your fate. I am but a conduit, incapable of lies or half-truths. Silence, please, as I pierce the veil...

Valentione's Day Reading
Hmmm... You will be pestered, badgered, and bedeviled by a creature craving arcane elixirs. Steer clear of the gate of the black boar if you would avoid this troublesome fate.

Shadowbringers Readings
Ah, an enemy of most terrible aspect awaits you. White and winged, this foe will bat you to and fro like a child's toy before seeking to bring your end.
Giant, white, feathered, winged creature(s). Difficult to kill. "True Kuribu" from the trailer seems likely.

Ware! Ware you those who stand apart from the crowd. They will drag you into conflict whether you will it or no.
Japanese says this person is 特別な身の上の人, French says they have a silhouette élancée. So they're an odd sort of person/thin with a "sleek/slender" figure? And may have a personal / fated history with you? Are these idioms? I'm not sure how to read it. Guess: Zenos / Zenos!Elidibus

I see you ensnared by fate, the skein grand and tangled. A cruel destiny, from which you cannot escape. Ware the words which echo from beyond...hm hm hm.
Unbearable fate, but unavoidable. Communication from afar / the other side. The language is so deliberately in the gray between "pay attention to" these words and "be careful of" these words. Zodiark's influence was very high on our (my?) list of suspects, after all.

I see it clearly...a land of forbidden strength draws you ever nearer. Surrender to this temptation and fortune's wheel will spin out of control, dragging you through an endless procession of horrors!
A land of immense energy, we go there, our luck is turned upside down and we have horrible experience. German specifies that we go there naively because "He calls you." See Below.

I see...a world wherein the natural law has been overturned. You struggle to find your path, the road long and hard and unfamiliar...
A world without logic or comprehension; an inversion or reversal. German says we're in the "a wrong world again." Nothing is as we know it anymore. See Below.

I've been sitting around agonizing over how some of the hints sound like our world will be transformed (synergized Black Rose, Flood of Light, reuinion with Zodiark, etc.) and some of the hints sound like not just Solus but WE are going to the First. These two hints didn't help. I assume one isn't just Eureka? lol.

Let me think about these two a bit more.

Post-reading Elixir Sale
Never have I given a reading of such dire portent... Be you cursed or blessed, the gods have their eyes upon you. Yet even the divine can be beguiled. For those who would slip under fate's gaze, I have concocted a potion of potent effect─a miracle elixir, some might say. Purchase one now, whilst my stock lasts! At the low, low price of nine hundred and ninety-nine gil, they are simply flying off the proverbial shelves! A special for my first fourteen customers only!

Extra Thought
Notice that the elixir sales-pitch seems to echo the New Year's Poem in a way. Fate is decided, but you can seize history with your own two hands and take a different path.

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

Ware! Ware you those who stand apart from the crowd. They will drag you into conflict whether you will it or no.
Japanese says this person is 特別な身の上の人, French says they have a silhouette élancée. So they're an odd sort of person/thin with a "sleek/slender" figure? And may have a personal / fated history with you? Are these idioms? I'm not sure how to read it. Guess: Zenos / Zenos!Elidibus

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A "silhouette élancée"? A "slender shadow", perhaps? Something with very little/no shadow? And one who stands apart from the crowd... maybe we might call that person a Paragon?

If it weren't obvious, my read here is that the line refers to Ascians, and that no matter how hard we try to avoid things coming to war, they're going to draw us into it.

I'm half expecting the first and fourth to ultimately be Square messing with us and being about Hydatos, specifically Absolute Virtue and the magia board(the "fortune's wheel" mentioned).

Do you think there would be any chance of a future 'Easter egg' if we buy an extra elixir and keep it for later? I'm tempted to, although it would almost certainly be just a waste of an inventory slot.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Do you think there would be any chance of a future 'Easter egg' if we buy an extra elixir and keep it for later? I'm tempted to, although it would almost certainly be just a waste of an inventory slot.

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Given what they did to old seasonal event items (ie changed them to "stale" versions), I suspect either the elixir-seller will be around in the nest seasonal event, or the elixir will be considered "stale" as well.

Which makes sense, since the devs appear to want players to play the game without worrying about missing out on stuff because they didn't have the foresight to save an item or other. Sometimes this doesn't apply (Youkai Watch events come to mind), but those appear to be the devs not having the time to fix the items, and just flipping the event switch back on.

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Originally Posted by YianKutku

Given what they did to old seasonal event items (ie changed them to "stale" versions), I suspect either the elixir-seller will be around in the nest seasonal event, or the elixir will be considered "stale" as well.

Which makes sense, since the devs appear to want players to play the game without worrying about missing out on stuff because they didn't have the foresight to save an item or other. Sometimes this doesn't apply (Youkai Watch events come to mind), but those appear to be the devs not having the time to fix the items, and just flipping the event switch back on.

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That's what I expected. Still tempting though.