Some revelations about the Ascians (Patch 2.5 MAJOR SPOILERS)

[Anonymoose]

Lahabrea and Elidibus were noted to "being of this world" unlike the rest of the Ascians.

I caught that, too. I don't really know what to make of it quite yet. Even Lahabrea spoke of this world's true form. Could Nabriales be so much older? Or perhaps from another?

Could it mean that he's actually Travanchet?

Though the lore team has been tight lipped about most things Ascian, we we able to get confirmation at Fan Fest that Travanchet was an underling, similar to the black-masked hyuran mages such as the one you kill in your city introduction. He was an Elezen whose name was Travanchet, whose body was "dark crystalled." It's possible that the specific mention of the horn and tablet may have been a nod to 1.0 players that remember the Limsa Lominsa story but don't read lore forum posts and interviews. It's also possible that it foreshadows the appearance of other like-fashioned relics...

Elidibus actually wants Minfilia alive/unharmed

This is an another interesting claim by Nabriales. I'm not quite sure what it entails, but if you take what the game has told you at face value, you can make a guess that the Ascians just don't like when people go off-script. They clearly have their own individual beliefs and preferences, and they clearly don't all like and/or trust one another implicitly, but they do tend to work together and report to one another. Even when Elidibus went AWOL to speak with Minfilia and the Warrior of Light out of (what he claimed to be) sheer curiosity, the others got on his case about it.

A couple more things I noticed

• Like Lahabrea, a read glyph appears over Nabirales face when he attacks. Also like Lahabrea, the glyph is a small part of the larger sigil associated with the Esper tied to the Scion of Light that bore the Ascian's name in Final Fantasy XII, Cúchulainn, the Impure.

• We visit Ascian Hall, aka the Chrysalis. After the fight is over, if you move the camera just right to look over the edge, you can see a swirling mass of light and clouds that looks a bit like a galaxy. Call me crazy if you will, but I'm wondering if perhaps this be the opposite side of the Starshower seen in Hydaelyn's visions that was seen in Eorzea in 1562...