The new expansion is called Evercold

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The new expansion coming out is called Evercold.

Storyline called Godless Realms Saga

Coming January 2027 release

Visiting the Fourth reflection, fallen into ruin, encroaching ice covering the land

Giant creatures will be roaming the land

There will be a cat race

That's cool

/10characters

Gives me chills

I just hope that it's not too much like Shadowbringers, Ruined world and Ice = Bad would be nearly the same as Ruined world Light=Bad, would be kinda boring.
Otherwise It looks cool.

Cool title.

Forgot about that stream, I was busy scratching my head at the preliminary notes.

Well, DerpLander will main RPR

RIP Alisaie ?

Edit for a bit more than just a meme
got a kinda Xenoblade Chronicle 2 thing with the giant beasts+organic cities (my other guess about the giant beast before the raid was announced was "it kinda look like an EVA angel", so IDK)

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Originally Posted by SyferU

I just hope that it's not too much like Shadowbringers, Ruined world and Ice = Bad would be nearly the same as Ruined world Light=Bad, would be kinda boring.
Otherwise It looks cool.

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Ruined world and lightning = bad was already this last expansion too...

But I have a feeling that this will work the opposite way where instead of trying to hold off a rejoining, the trailer implies we will be now trying to accelerate rejoinings of the various shards

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Originally Posted by wereotter

But I have a feeling that this will work the opposite way where instead of trying to hold off a rejoining, the trailer implies we will be now trying to accelerate rejoinings of the various shards

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Or the phrasing could be a red herring. (The Warrior of Darkness says hi.)

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Originally Posted by wereotter

But I have a feeling that this will work the opposite way where instead of trying to hold off a rejoining, the trailer implies we will be now trying to accelerate rejoinings of the various shards

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Whilst this was my initial reaction as well, upon reflection, it doesn't make sense. We already know what happens when the shards join with the source, and it isn't good.

Rather, with the key and Azem's crystal, I would point it more towards breaking down the walls between shards to allow travel between them more freely and thus 'unite' them in that way.

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Originally Posted by Krokov

SPOILERS!The new expansion coming out is called Evercold.

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It's called Evercold because unfortunately the name Neverwinter is already taken.

It could be too soon to say for sure... But the premise of this new saga is making Endwalker look even worse than it already was in my eyes when it was the latest...

That aside I'm actually excited for the expansion.

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Originally Posted by Kranel_San

It's called Evercold because unfortunately the name Neverwinter is already taken.

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Indeed friend

Seems like another HW jebait expanion that is supposedly a winter expanion, but only have 1 wintery zone. which was adressed by Yoshi P, about where all the ice is, but yeah I am exicted. looks good. Love the theme so far

I'm so hyped, this expansion is going to be so interesting

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Originally Posted by Kranel_San

It's called Evercold because unfortunately the name Neverwinter is already taken.

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Seriously though, my gut feeling is that "Everfrost" would have been better than Evercold -- it lines up with the "Age of Eternal Frost" term given to the previous ice calamity.

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Originally Posted by Mikey_R

Whilst this was my initial reaction as well, upon reflection, it doesn't make sense. We already know what happens when the shards join with the source, and it isn't good.

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Well yes, but it seems like part of the Ninth was merged without issue, in a way the Ascians did not seem aware of.

Despite that we are apparently joining the shards together, the expansion does not give me the impression that we are doing this, because it seems the focus is entirely on the Fourth. This may be why they called it a "Saga". We may be doing it gradually over multiple expansions and patches.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

Well yes, but it seems like part of the Ninth was merged without issue, in a way the Ascians did not seem aware of.

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That didn't go too pleasantly for the inhabitants of the pre-existing Source region, and it's hardly fair to drop one civilisation on top of another deliberately.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

Well yes, but it seems like part of the Ninth was merged without issue, in a way the Ascians did not seem aware of.

Despite that we are apparently joining the shards together, the expansion does not give me the impression that we are doing this, because it seems the focus is entirely on the Fourth. This may be why they called it a "Saga". We may be doing it gradually over multiple expansions and patches.

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My theory is that all the remaining reflections have been primed for a calamity, the Ascians were just getting things ready before we stopped them, and with the key and our magic friend summoning rock we could technically bring the civilizations to our world with them (this shard's zone all seems to be mostly floating in the air so you could plop them anywhere I guess) and then find a non-kill everybody way to rejoin the aether or just send it through the rift. I'm still thinking of some work arounds on some things but it could be a good starting point.

Well good thing we killed a bunch of ancients who wanted to rejoin the shards so that after we dealt with Hermes and his abomination the rejoining would be happening anyway.

I think this expansion will at least bring a lot of players back to the game.

The trailer gives me the impression that they are now backpedaling back to what seemed to work so well for them in the past storyline-wise: the "source shards."

I hope that Dawntrail serves as a lesson for the creative teams, reminding them not to underestimate the significance of players' feelings towards their characters and their role in the game world..

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Originally Posted by Mikey_R

Whilst this was my initial reaction as well, upon reflection, it doesn't make sense. We already know what happens when the shards join with the source, and it isn't good.

Rather, with the key and Azem's crystal, I would point it more towards breaking down the walls between shards to allow travel between them more freely and thus 'unite' them in that way.

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I would say yes and no here... we saw a partial rejoining of the ninth without an accompanying calamity. Alexandria now exists on the source, and while the time bubble and the unique climate within the bubble weren't good for the people who existed in the area when Alexandria plopped itself onto the source, the damage was pretty minimal compared to the rejoinings we've seen in the past.

I can absolutely see the warrior of light being persuaded by the argument that life on these other shards has become incredibly poorly due to the imbalance of the aether created by the ascians, and that a controlled rejoining is preferable to a violent one like we had seen before. Also worth mentioning just becuase the ascians did rejoinings the way they did, doesn't mean that's the only way to do it, as we saw with how the ascians taught primal summoning to include tempering, when that wasn't actually something you had to have to summon up those old gods.

Similarly it could be possible to do a rejoining without destroying both planets in the process, and the ascians just preferred the more destructive route

Fimbulwinter! Called it. X3

I think we're going to go the way of grafting the World Trees together, like the original World Tree, so a rejoining of worlds but not in a violently overlapping with other shards kinda way.

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Originally Posted by RagAndBoneLady

Fimbulwinter! Called it. X3

I think we're going to go the way of grafting the World Trees together, like the original World Tree, so a rejoining of worlds but not in a violently overlapping with other shards kinda way.

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calling it now... the world tree on the fourth is actually Exdeath

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Originally Posted by wereotter

calling it now... the world tree on the fourth is actually Exdeath

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I'm sure there'll be a glacier of FFV references if the ultimate goal is merging every remaining shard, though it makes OC's theming confusing because of all the material they could have used for this arc.

I think it has the potential... But it's either going to be one of those things which is a massive hit, or something that just completely falls flat... They are making the right conversations, but it comes to something like what they have highlighted... Are they following the letter of the feedback or the spirit of that feedback... I hope it's the spirit of it, and I do hope they nail it, but we'll see...

The discussion of going from daily to weekly-based, just seems like sheer semantics, as ultimately the game as is now, is weekly-driven

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

Well yes, but it seems like part of the Ninth was merged without issue, in a way the Ascians did not seem aware of.

Despite that we are apparently joining the shards together, the expansion does not give me the impression that we are doing this, because it seems the focus is entirely on the Fourth. This may be why they called it a "Saga". We may be doing it gradually over multiple expansions and patches.

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Echoing what others have said, I wouldn't say it merged without issues. But yes, being able to create freer access to more shards for more people is going to be a multi expansion story. If we imagine for a second that we found a way to freely go to a shard, what do you think would happen if you just threw wide the gates? Would the shard see it as in invasion? What if the shard is much more hostile and sees it as an opportunity to invade somewhere else, what if differences in culture clash too much? We already saw a snippet of that last point with the Ninth and they way they treated souls. This isn't to say that the next set of expansions is going to be going to each remaining shard to 'unite' them, that would get old quick.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

I would say yes and no here... we saw a partial rejoining of the ninth without an accompanying calamity. Alexandria now exists on the source, and while the time bubble and the unique climate within the bubble weren't good for the people who existed in the area when Alexandria plopped itself onto the source, the damage was pretty minimal compared to the rejoinings we've seen in the past.

I can absolutely see the warrior of light being persuaded by the argument that life on these other shards has become incredibly poorly due to the imbalance of the aether created by the ascians, and that a controlled rejoining is preferable to a violent one like we had seen before. Also worth mentioning just becuase the ascians did rejoinings the way they did, doesn't mean that's the only way to do it, as we saw with how the ascians taught primal summoning to include tempering, when that wasn't actually something you had to have to summon up those old gods.

Similarly it could be possible to do a rejoining without destroying both planets in the process, and the ascians just preferred the more destructive route

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Partial is the key word here, it not being a full re-joining means it would necessarily have less of an impact, but it did still have an impact. I would say the Scions would want to achieve the goal of 'uniting' the world with the least amount of impact to the source and shard, with a partial re-joining only happening if it is the only option.

And lets us not forget, it cannot be a full re-joining. With a full re-joining, the souls of every individual are going to merge back together, you would necessarily kill off the people of the shard (I doubt the inhabitants of the source would be the ones to join as they are the 'original'. Not to mention the mass amount of Aether that is going to join with the source. The only way that could theoretically be possible is if it was done slowly, but, if it is a matter of the worlds joining on their own, you can't necessarily slow this process down.

In my opinion, there is no way to carry out a full re-joining without mass, devastating consequences.

There is a lot going on in that cinematic and the pics on the website include some other interesting tidbits.

I suppose everything we see in the game footage photos could theoretically all be on the 4ths now inhabited and terraformed moon. Hence no snow. And the freezing of the shard could have happened after the exodus to the moon so anyone on the moon was spared death from the calamity. I have a feeling we won't be heading down to the 4th from the 4th moon quickly and probably only sparingly if at all. Two of the instance/trial pics depict quite a lot of fire/lava. It is possible we or another group could be trying to restart the Fire aspect of the 4th to negate the overwhelming Ice aspect.

It is also possible we find we can use the Port key and the Stone of Azem to safely combine the physical remains of fallen shards with the Source opening up new landmass on Eitherys. Altho unlikely.

The Trailer looks promising. Reaper as Main and no Wuk Lamat at this point. Hope Thancred and Urianger will join us or better Gaius and Nero. Or even some new Characters.

The site for the expansion is up, https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/evercold/

Not going to be ready in jan 2027. Far too much was wrong in dawntrail and i don't want to see a single thing of it in evercold. And doesn't the ninth kind ofneed us right now too? There is also mercydia and a proper 13th expansion.

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And doesn't the ninth kind ofneed us right now too? There is also mercydia and a proper 13th expansion.

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In so far as we know, the 9th is a barren wasteland with nobody left alive except the small population in Treno. What's more, while completely wrecked by lightning aether things seem stable there for the moment. My guess is whatever is happening in the 4th is a pressing matter. As for Meracydia, we have NO idea what's going on there so it's a bit difficult to say we are needed there currently and Yoshi has already stated he knows exactly when and how he wants us to go there. The 13th though, while I agree we should be heading there to help Zero and Golbez my assumption is they are saving it for now. The 13th is nightmarish and difficult to navigate. It's likely they are giving those two "time" to work on their own and make some progress before we join them.

In my opinion, this already looks way better than Dawntrail. The only thing I liked about the DT reveal was Solution 9.
I'm just not a big fan of jungle settings. EC looks very fantasy. I like it a lot. ^w^

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Originally Posted by Selsix

In so far as we know, the 9th is a barren wasteland with nobody left alive except the small population in Treno. What's more, while completely wrecked by lightning aether things seem stable there for the moment. My guess is whatever is happening in the 4th is a pressing matter. As for Meracydia, we have NO idea what's going on there so it's a bit difficult to say we are needed there currently and Yoshi has already stated he knows exactly when and how he wants us to go there. The 13th though, while I agree we should be heading there to help Zero and Golbez my assumption is they are saving it for now. The 13th is nightmarish and difficult to navigate. It's likely they are giving those two "time" to work on their own and make some progress before we join them.

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Well there could be others alive but i would not call it stable. The monsters will keep attacking and there could be other weapons of war to put down. Though my theory, its electrope is somehow driving the endless lightning. We do know the mercydians are extremely hostile to outsiders. I am curious about what the state its in granted it isn't pressing. But its a land of dragons and i could see tiamat looking in to it. We heard the allagans wrecked it and i'm curious to what extent and plus its hw part two. Now the 13th is an entire different realm than what we have dealt with so far. Yes travel would be difficult and voidsent will keep respawning ( i also kid of think we should use that key to put piece of the first there). But that is exactly the point. I want to see a world envloped by darkness like the first with light. Evercold better look a lot like western coerthas environment wise.

To be honest i don't think golbez is going find anyone else to help on the 13th. Someone is going to break the crystal w/e it was holding zeromus and our reflection. The dragon eyes will probably open a portal to the source and with it a proper voidsent invasion. Time is running out.

Am I the only one who got a bit of Chrono Trigger from the trailer? Floating verdant islands in the sky with a frozen wasteland surface just screams 12,000 B.C., and the bit with the robed man standing behind a robed woman gave me Magus and Schala vibes.

Hello

I've waited here for you

Evercold.

In Short We Get Game of Thrones after the series... now following Jon Snow in the cold cold North....