Is Meteion Dead?

I apologize in advance for the possible spoiler in the title.

But, the question has been on my mind since I played through Endwalker. Is she dead or is she alive at the edge of the Universe singing a new song along with her surviving sisters?

I am hoping Meteion is alive, flying from solar system to solar system as the Blue Bird of Happiness because I'd like to meet her again in a future patch or expansion.

She's alright! She went off to explore Etheirys. I think the Meteion that accompanied us during the Elpis zone is the last of her kind, though, since the rest merged into the Endsinger and then we killed her. The only one who came out of there alive, that we saw on-screen, is a singular Meteion, most likely the one we've been talking to since the beginning.

I choose to believe that it was her we saw flying around Revenant's Toll, in her bird-form, shortly after the Scions 'disband' at the conclusion of 6.0. Questionable if we'll ever see her again although I, personally, would love it if she did reappear.

This one's really weird to me. Because I feel like it's meant to be ambiguous, it's definitely framed as if it is, but it's just... not. There just isn't a potential reading that says that Meteion's dead. I don't think she's relevant, I think she's just off looking at stuff and exploring the world, with the intention to bring it back to... honestly, I don't know, probably nobody.

There is sort of a question of if the Meteion we met in Elpis specifically is dead, but I personally don't think that's an especially relevant question. The Meteia are some level of collective consciousness; there isn't a meaningful difference between one and another, they're all Meteion. They're all going to ask if we can be friends.

I wouldn't hate seeing her again, but that's maybe because I'm thinking of the circumstances being literally just that. Seeing her, and that's it. Just a few seconds of 'hey, it's that bird'. I think bringing her back as a fuller character would feel... I dunno, desperate? She feels like she's done as a character, to the point where bringing her back would feel like fanservice more than a meaningful continuation.

In the same boat; I think we're supposed to assume she's flying around out there somewhere, but imho that functions better as an ending to her story than as a set-up to her appearance in another story. It's hard for me to imagine a way to utilize her again that adds more than it takes away, barring the occasional, "...Wait, was that her?" bird appearance. The sole exception I can think of might be a "Rhapsodies of Eorzea" situation where there are lots of callbacks as we overcome whatever the final, final MSQ threat is. (...Ultima Prime...?) I'd probably shed a tear or two if she randomly dove into the final battlefield and harnessed dynamis to become an anti-Endsinger hopeful rallying cry or something, lol.

Still disappointed Midgardsormr missed Endwalker. Throw him in there, too. We can say Ultima Prime was the thing that was temporarily imprisoned in Silvertear Lake; it'll work out. /half-s

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

Still disappointed Midgardsormr missed Endwalker. Throw him in there, too. We can say Ultima Prime was the thing that was temporarily imprisoned in Silvertear Lake; it'll work out. /half-s

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I do think it would've been really nice for him to turn up for the Dragonstar parts of Ultima Thule, but I've realized he's a very awkward character to write into situations. Not only is it difficult to bring him up in scenes organically (you'd have a SERIOUS 'where were you during X scene' problem), but also because his best scene partners are in wildly different locations. Like, I'd really want some dragon-centric storytelling to involve one of the First Brood, but they're extremely hard to write into a location outside of their respective homes.

I recall her saying "Before I fall forever silent."

Most likely similar to Alpha and Omega, touring Etherys and learning about the world.
Her sisters however I don't think we will ever get to see.

I hope we will get a blue quest / side story from time to time meeting Meteion and seeing Bird-daughter grow and leanr things.....

But I doubt the current writers and devs would do that and they would rather just forget about her to rush into new stuff...
Since DT was so bad at "remembering" stuff we as players already knew (cure to tempering, solving the eternals / sphenes issues etc etc).

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Originally Posted by thegreatonemal

I recall her saying "Before I fall forever silent."

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I think that only means that she won't sing any songs anymore that might mess up the universe.

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

In the same boat; I think we're supposed to assume she's flying around out there somewhere, but imho that functions better as an ending to her story than as a set-up to her appearance in another story. It's hard for me to imagine a way to utilize her again that adds more than it takes away, barring the occasional, "...Wait, was that her?" bird appearance.

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I like this. Keep it ambiguous. Like seeing her briefly with a candied apple on a stick doing one of the holidays.

I love the idea of her randomly showing up in the background, there for those who care to observe and find her. It's a nice, non-intrusive way of showing what she's up to!

She shouldn't be dead.
At least one of them was shown to be alive on Etheirys.
She just doesn't serve a purpose in the story anymore, or at least she isn't needed in the story right now.

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Originally Posted by Shistar

I love the idea of her randomly showing up in the background, there for those who care to observe and find her. It's a nice, non-intrusive way of showing what she's up to!

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This!

I don't honestly think she has a role to play in the MSQ at this point, but it would be great to see her (perhaps in bird form) pop up at, say, the Moonfire Faire or the Starlight Stalls observing the celebrations.

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Originally Posted by Carin-Eri

[...] but it would be great to see her (perhaps in bird form) pop up at, say, the Moonfire Faire or the Starlight Stalls observing the celebrations.

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Just imagining her singing along with other birds or for a group of children warms my heart T ^ T so cute.

Her hanging out side-by-side with the shoebill would be a nice easter egg, or sitting on the shoulder of the Lalafel always hiding in bushes in the Hildebrand quests. ^^

I thought Meteion helping us with the Cosmic Exploration would have been a good opportunity to make use of her character again.
Too bad it looks like it isn't going to happen.

I can think of a couple situations where it could make sense for her to pop up again, but not anytime soon. I mean really it depends on where the goes, and I don't think we can really say at this point. I don't think she'd show up unless it made sense for her to, I suspect the reason she's not showing up in the world is in case they want to make it so that she's up to something in the background later on if they decide to take the story in a direction where it would make sense for that to happen. They only write one expansion at a time though so that's a big if.

Like maybe she's going back and trying to figure out what happened to Ostrokon Hena and is uncovering stuff that has to do with Auracite and Ultima. I have no idea if they're going in that direction with the story but there's some evidence that that's where things might be heading.

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Originally Posted by Shistar

Just imagining her singing along with other birds or for a group of children warms my heart T ^ T so cute.

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That would be perfect. Picture this: During Starlight, you are approached by an individual who is enthused about a new Starlight song she heard a group of children singing. After some investigation, you locate the children and they tell you it was taught to them by their secret friend. Wanting to meet this secret friend, you find nothing but a single blue feather. Later, as you listen to the children again, a starbird can be seen. It winks at you and flies off into the sky as snow begins to fall.

Genuinely I thought the idea was the many Starbird minions were Meteion and her many sisters.

She literally and unambiguously shows up on the Ragnarok and speaks with the Scions while we were brawling with Zenos. Alisaie mentions her by name. She wasn't in the cutscene of us being near death, but she WAS there at some point between her flying away and us waking up injured post-duel.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

That would be perfect. Picture this: During Starlight, you are approached by an individual who is enthused about a new Starlight song she heard a group of children singing. After some investigation, you locate the children and they tell you it was taught to them by their secret friend. Wanting to meet this secret friend, you find nothing but a single blue feather. Later, as you listen to the children again, a starbird can be seen. It winks at you and flies off into the sky as snow begins to fall.

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Love this!