Crystal Tower: idle speculation on the future

[LystAP]

So yea, Ghost Noah is a Dude in a woman's body. Talk about an accidental Gender Bender.

A potential means for comedy, if the storyline is extended. I wonder where Koh's consciousness is. I would wonder is Noah overriding her body, or is he only a 'soulmate' that occasionally has dominance. Is he remotely controlling her from the orb, or was the orb a means of imprinting his own consciousness into Koh's mind?

One alternative is for the story to take place implicitly in the background for those that haven't chosen to do the Crystal Tower quest line, if they choose to go to Eureka. They don't need to re-open the tower; it could be stated that the tower was powering the wards keeping Eureka in place and when it went back to sleep, it didn't take Eureka with it this time. Then again, G'raha probably wouldn't play a role again, if we go that route. As for Nero, again it could be implied that the storyline took place without the player, only with Nero having a more active role in the background with other adventurers.

They could have a storyline for those that have done the Crystal Tower, and another for those who have not. Kind of what they did with the legacy and new players when they moved from 1.0 to 2.0 ARR.

[Fenral]

I described a scenario like that in one of my earlier walls of text, but let's take a look at how you see it:

They don't need to re-open the tower; it could be stated that the tower was powering the wards keeping Eureka in place and when it went back to sleep, it didn't take Eureka with it this time.

That particular scenario would, of course, require the CT quest to be completed, as the tower has technically been "awake" for the five years since its return to the surface.

Reread what you posted, and yes, they could have two different variants, but I can't imagine one that wouldn't cause issues when the questline is done in parallel with the CT storyline. Unless they put it somewhere else entirely but call it Eureka just for the hell of it, in which case, "what did Nero's scanner pick up?" is left as an unresolved question.

Putting aside discussions on how they decide to pull this off in continuity, I think if the "opportunity" Nero is pursuing is related to his declaration that he will be the one to surpass Allag, if you consider the current seal on the tower to be a "test" to see if Allag has been surpassed, it could be him opening the tower to start the Eureka storyline. There's a weird sort of one-sided rivalry he feels towards G'raha at the end of the WoD scenes that I'd like to see expanded on in some form.