So, let's speculate about future Story developments (SPOILERS!!!)

[Nalien]

- Speaking of which, with The Crystal Tower essentially being "Final Fantasy III: The Raid", I'm wondering what the next nostalgia-inspired raid might be.

We already know, Alexander. It's basically Final Fantasy IVs Giant of Babil in raid form. If we don't get the four fiends as bosses I'll be damned surprised.

Also the chances of Nanamo dying are slim at best. She is involved in the Culinarian questline, if she dies in the main scenario before someone does the Culinarian quest, what happens when they finally do the quest? This is the same reason Yugiri wasn't involved with Ninja (though if you'd done 2.2 she is mentioned) and a character like Cid wont be involved with Machinist.

I'm hoping Ilberd isn't a walking cliché, "Character we introduced almost solely to deal with a traitor is himself a traitor!", it would honestly be more of a twist if Ilberd was loyal... I'd hope he is simply abusing his position to further non-evil goals, like taking the weapons and giving them to Ala Mhigan Rebels, or maybe he is leveling his Desynthesis skills. It certainly wouldn't make him good, but it's a whole lot better than "Hahaha! I'm actually working for Teledji!", would be a nice way to introduce Ala Mhigo as well, considering we've had concept art for the place as long as we have Ishgard, I do kind of wonder if it will also be opened up in 3.0 or if that's something for 4.0...