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[Orophin]

Bumping this REALLY old thread (because I didn't want to start a new one) in case people missed this from Reinheart's recent Famitsu translation:

F: Will FFXIV ARR cover and reveal story that wasn’t really talked over enough in previous FFXIV?

Y: Things that aren’t inside the current FFXIV are the parts I chose to drop, so in general we won’t go deeper regarding these later on. Although, I think we should go over the story surround F'lhaminn and the scenario surrounding Niellefresne. But even if we officially chose to do so, it’ll be further out in future to release this.

So good news, maybe we'll find out who killed whom. Bad news, many loose ends are going to stay just that.

[Anonymoose]

Bad news, many loose ends are going to stay just that.

The bad news is more or less that some strong story arcs will be abandoned for progress and convenience, which is not to say progress and convenience are not good reasons to do so. Trimming the fat doesn't always mean only trimming the things you don't like. However, I hate loose ends and plot holes that do not serve the purpose of meaningful ambiguity. Though the bestiary project has thoroughly monopolized my attention as of late, I continue to rebuild Version 1.0s questlines and transcripts in summary form. Many answers are there to be found upon close examination.

What of those that aren't? If SE addresses it in the game, awesome, we'll add the answers to the summaries as if we knew all along and close the book. If they don't, we'll keep discussing the open ends here. Hopefully, if we ring that bell long enough, a bored dev will one day say either "So, I looked into it, and though we won't be addressing it, what was going on was X." or even "That event is no longer canon, sorry about that."

Make no mistake, though, I will take those story elements out of the trash and complete them myself if I have to. We'll just use gigantoad DNA to fill in the holes in the code, what could go wrong?

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