Krile’s ancestry in Dawntrail.

In the launch trailer, the Lalafellan pair was her parents. My guess is that Krile’s parents are not from the Source. My guess is that the portal was once connected to the 12th Shard that fell to the Lightning Calamity, and the machinery around the portal has lightning aether leaking out from it. Heritage Found consists of people from the 12th who maybe civilians that are poorer and have to work to supply energy for Solution Nine as slaves, as the richer people from the 12th live in Solution Nine.

Not knowing what became of her parents, that’s why Krile’s grandfather has a connection to Tural because he made a promise to them for Krile.

It seems far fetched but that’s what I think.

12th shard or survivors of the Second Era! The lightning motif is too pointed, it's even all over the trailer...

Either way yeah, seemed like a male and female lalafell and with the filter of an Echo vision. Krile has the Echo. Seems likely.

The lalafell in that scene being Krile's biological parents is a very plausable theory I admit, but I don't really agree they're from another Shard (we know cross-shard travel is almost impossible, the Ascians certainly believed so - just to get to the First we had to use the core of an alien dimension-hopping warmachina and the components of a dead time-travelling Primal to turn the Crystal Tower into the Crystal TARDIS, and travel to the Thirteenth is also tricky due to the instability of Voidgates), and if the people of the Twelfth did happen to find a way to travel to the Source, the Ascians would have found out about it and would have used it for their own ends, but they never did). So, I doubt very much Solution 9 is an extradimensional society that found a way to the Source, as it would contradict everything we've already learned.

I'm more leaning to either an Allagan-survivor offshoot that is no longer really 'Allag' but their own society after several thousand years (hence allowing Yoshi plausible deniability when he said it "isn't Allag"), or some other earlier society set up by the Ascians and then forgotten about, hence their also apparently beligirent nature, possessing miltary forces. But, as they say, we'll find out in a few weeks.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

I'm more leaning to either an Allagan-survivor offshoot that is no longer really 'Allag'

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I've been on a roller coaster with this theory. My very first impression was to look at the square glyphs S9 uses on 50% of their stuff and think, "Reminds me of Labyrinth of the Ancients." But I abandoned that logic almost immediately because the color palette was wrong (closer to Mhach, even), there were no hexagons, the construction materials weren't even close. There seemed to be nothing to say, "there's a line, here".

Except now we have proto-language as something that descended from Ancient times and there's an interruption post-Allag that explains how we get to modern Eorzean. And in the most recent trailer we saw 3 examples of hexagonal motifs and Allagan-like construction materials in a couple places. Especially the portal itself.

Now I'm sitting here thinking about how we've been joking about The Return of the Space Allagans since 2014 and thinking... "Could it be...? Nah. ... But could it?"

As for extra-dimensional parents, we know that’s not true because Krile would have the less dense aether of a shard-person and Y’shtola would’ve noticed that a long time ago.

As for Allagans, what gives me a bit of pause is that the Allagans were particularly racist against Miqo’te and G’raha’s people fled to the edge of the empire before getting absorbed by it again later and Solution Nine seems to have Miqo faces in advertisements. Also, while we know the Allagan alphabet differed slightly to the modern Eorzean one, I think it would be closer to our alphabet than the Ancient one 8,000 years before it. If the proto-alphabet is indeed Allagan, then the WoL and Scions would know IMMEDIATELY because of their familiarity with and the ubiquity of Allagan coins.

Plus I’m far more tired of Allagans than I am Ascians and I’d rather a lost Ascian be responsible than lost Allagans since that at least ties up one old plot thread.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

The lalafell in that scene being Krile's biological parents is a very plausable theory I admit, but I don't really agree they're from another Shard (we know cross-shard travel is almost impossible, the Ascians certainly believed so - just to get to the First we had to use the core of an alien dimension-hopping warmachina and the components of a dead time-travelling Primal to turn the Crystal Tower into the Crystal TARDIS, and travel to the Thirteenth is also tricky due to the instability of Voidgates), and if the people of the Twelfth did happen to find a way to travel to the Source, the Ascians would have found out about it and would have used it for their own ends, but they never did). So, I doubt very much Solution 9 is an extradimensional society that found a way to the Source, as it would contradict everything we've already learned.

I'm more leaning to either an Allagan-survivor offshoot that is no longer really 'Allag' but their own society after several thousand years (hence allowing Yoshi plausible deniability when he said it "isn't Allag"), or some other earlier society set up by the Ascians and then forgotten about, hence their also apparently beligirent nature, possessing miltary forces. But, as they say, we'll find out in a few weeks.

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What if the Enigmatic Maiden is an Ascian and she helped ferry people over to the Source from the 12th?

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As for extra-dimensional parents, we know that’s not true because Krile would have the less dense aether of a shard-person and Y’shtola would’ve noticed that a long time ago.

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Only if she were conceived on another shard. If her parents came to the source THEN conceived her, her soul would have come from the Source's Aetherial Sea/Lifestream, and would be the normal 8/14.

I have to wonder, with the FF6 music in the most recent trailer, Krile playing an FF6 origin job, and her parents (theoretical) outside a portal that when compared against FF6 feels similar to the portal to the world of the Espers--which was tragically sealed.

I'm assuming that her parents have been trapped on the other side this entire time. And to take it one step further, opening said portal to rescue them will most likely open up the Source to something horrible.

Finally, if I can speculate just a bit more, I have to wonder with Thancred and Urianger seemingly taking another side in the coming conflict, if they will be against rescuing her parents. As in not rescuing them is safest option for the world and putting them in direct conflict WOL and present company.

But this is just my theory. Probably wrong.

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I have to wonder with Thancred and Urianger seemingly taking another side in the coming conflict, if they will be against rescuing her parents. As in not rescuing them is safest option for the world and putting them in direct conflict WOL and present company.

But this is just my theory. Probably wrong.

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The Scions being opposed to each other will probably be wrapped up by level 93, just a guess.

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The Scions being opposed to each other will probably be wrapped up by level 93, just a guess.

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I hope not. I just think the story telling will benefit from an extended philosophical divide among the scions who can only come together at the very end of the narrative. But then again I like narratives with a little more heavy character development and little less playing it safe.

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I hope not. I just think the story telling will benefit from an extended philosophical divide among the scions who can only come together at the very end of the narrative. But then again I like narratives with a little more heavy character development and little less playing it safe.

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I prefer such narratives as well, but unless they're really dedicated to shaking things up (which is possible!) I have to agree that the rivalry will probably be in the ground within the first half. I have no opinion on whether or not the main cast being divided philosophically would benefit the story, but I will say there isn't a strong amount of evidence that there's any deeply held philosophical disagreements at all since nobody we know is taking the 'wrong' (ie. conquering Eorzea) side and it seems from initial impressions that Koana is an equally valid claimant who just happened to hire Thancred and Urianger.

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I hope not. I just think the story telling will benefit from an extended philosophical divide among the scions who can only come together at the very end of the narrative. But then again I like narratives with a little more heavy character development and little less playing it safe.

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The thing is, there isn’t really a philosophical divide

Koana hired Urianger and Thancred, Wuk Lamat hired us, Krile, and the Twins

That’s as deep as the divide goes.

Hell we’ll probably end up allying with the other teams at some point because it seems like Wuk is there less to win, and more to ensure that the warmonger contestant loses. From what we saw of the media tour dungeon footage, Thancred and Urianger are treating their opposition to you as a fun sports rivalry than actual opposition