FFXIV: Shadowbringers Teaser - A Question

Please let me know if this question was answered already, or if there was a thread made for this topic.

Who was the narrator of the teaser? I don't recognize the voice, is it the WoD from before? Or is it someone we haven't met? I'm starting to think we're hearing Elidibus' voice.

Thoughts?

It's unclear, but my belief is the first narrator is Zenos (or rather, his Elidibus-possesed version), with the second 'Derplander' himself - it's the context of the dialogue that suggests it. But nothing is know for certain, as the trailer is deliberately ambigious.

I did a quick comparison and it seemed to be the same voice as the Warrior of Darkness, Albert.

Ah, okay, thanks. I should've done that.

It looked like there was some sort of time skip so I assumed it was an older Alphinaud narrating it.

There are a few different theories going on.

As covered in this thread already: Elidibus, Arbert, and (if we're headed for a timeskip) adult Alphinaud.

Another possibility is Zenos - the real one. As seen at the end of 4.3, his soul is in another body now, so we wouldn't be able to recognise his voice at this point.

My own additional guesses (again reliant on a timeskip plot) are G'raha Tia from the Crystal Tower questline, and Unukalhai from the Warring Triad questline.


Another question is whether the "mystery voice" from the dark vision in 4.4 is the same person as the trailer voiceover.

The first narrator is Zenos, as the Warrior of Light remembers; dialogue and then a battle.
It's shown that it's a memory when the camera pans out and the Warrior of Light is staggering through wastes, being chided by an imp.
Thancred is shown escorting a shorter being through a building when they're attacked.

I think once the other two Fanfests complete, we will have a FULL trailer. At the moment, I think with what we are given, it's fairly straight forward. Balance between light and dark is tipped to much and we're on the precipice of another Astral era. Main plot will be fighting Garlemald, over-arching plot will be finishing the Ascians. Thancred has swapped over to be more offensive and is touting a gunblade, while the Warrior of Light is going to have to work for the darkness for a bit! I don't think that it was Arbert, I think that's us!

I'm hopeful that they wouldn't introduce time-skips, temporal anomalies, or any other timeline changing to the story.

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Originally Posted by Merceus

The first narrator is Zenos, as the Warrior of Light remembers; dialogue and then a battle.

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The narration is played over footage of battling Zenos (presumably actually Elidibus) but that doesn't guarantee it's actually him - especially in an incomplete trailer designed to be confusing at this point.

He's not shown speaking the words then. The only 'live' speaking in the trailer is Thancred's part - the main narration voiceover is disconnected from what is actually happening.

We will presumably get to experience that fight in 4.5, as the MSQ dungeon revealed at Fan Fest is clearly the battlefield shown in that part of the trailer.

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Originally Posted by Merceus

I'm hopeful that they wouldn't introduce time-skips, temporal anomalies, or any other timeline changing to the story.

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I expect they already have.
The main characters getting knocked out is eerily sinilar to Laguna dreams in VIII, plus the talk of rewriting history is a little on the nose.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

I expect they already have.
The main characters getting knocked out is eerily sinilar to Laguna dreams in VIII, plus the talk of rewriting history is a little on the nose.

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I would imagine we dont actually see any time travel, we instead receive a vision or something from the future, and we have to make sure events take place in a certain way.

On one hand I'm hoping it's time-work, but on the other, I hope it's something a lot more. Time-work was covered in WoW, and in the end it wasn't all that spectacular, plus it left me with more questions than answers. The more I listen to the second voice, the more I believe it really is an older Alphinaud.

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Thancred is shown escorting a shorter being through a building when they're attacked.

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If it is him. As of know he's AFK... though if that is him he would have obtained a new eye! (One has been covered since HW I'm pretty sure)

But if that is him, then maybe whatever knocked out allies so far is resolved either in 4.5 or quickly entering 5.0? It seems like he most certainly has a bearing on the situation he's in so that would imply that he wakes from his condition and has spent at least a notable amount of time in where ever that is to have that kind of apparent awareness of the situation and whoever he's escorting...

But then again, it's a trailer. I doubt the story relevance and the trailer won't be 1:1 but even still; I would like there to be at least some time before the allies recover so that the feeling of lost and hopeless isn't short-lived that Alisaie is feeling...

Also having done Stormblood beast tribes, the snake tribe in particular; one of the quests for reputation makes me feel that hope for our kobolt friend isn't for naught...

Researching the trailer. More support in the leaning towards Thanced is that the ears of the model in the trailer are that of a Hyur, not am Elezen

and Thancred's voice and witty way of speaking. it's thancred all right. I also thought the "Disaster must be undone" voice may have been future alphianaud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QHx...ature=youtu.be

Here we have the full breakdown!