Revelations from Patch 2.55 [SPOILERS]

[Zelas]

I...didn't read all of the thread, so I'm not sure if this was asked before but...
I just finished the story cutscenes, and I have one important question.

...Where were the Sultansworn during the goddamn banquet? >.>

[dragonflie]

I...didn't read all of the thread, so I'm not sure if this was asked before but...
I just finished the story cutscenes, and I have one important question.

...Where were the Sultansworn during the goddamn banquet? >.>

Put on the sidelines, even in the Uldah intro quest, they were only prominent towards the end, then you never had any quest related to them again.

[Belhi]

I...didn't read all of the thread, so I'm not sure if this was asked before but...
I just finished the story cutscenes, and I have one important question.

...Where were the Sultansworn during the goddamn banquet? >.>

The Paladin Job quests make it pretty clear that the Monetarists have been undermining the Sultansworn for some time and assassinating figures they deem a threat. The reason they weren't present could either be due to corrupt agents within the Sultansworn or the Monetarists doing something to distract them. Frankly they had already failed in there duty since it was to protect the Sultana and even if they were are the banquet, nothing the Monetarists were doing there was illegal, at least on the surface. We may have been framed but they had set things up to lawfully put us in custody and Raubahn's actions were very illegal. If anything they would have been bound by the law to attempt to detain us.

[rainichan]

I don't normally post in the lore subforum, but while browsing reddit, someone linked to the old 1.0 lore forums and I started going back through things. And then I found something from this thread, straight from the Moose:

Dunesfolk
A feisty little bunch, with a long history of life in the desert. From an early age, they are made to drink a traditional herbal concoction to raise their resilience to poison, as nearly all the plants and animals in their native lands are venomous. There is what appears to be a thin layer covering the pupil.That too is an evolutionary response to the environment─their bodies' way of protecting the eye from the harsh rays of the sun and errant grains of sand. Unfortunately, it limits detailed ocular research to Dunesfolk cadavers.

(emphasis mine)

Nanamo is a Dunesfolk on top of being royalty; I would imagine that sort of tradition would be there even in present day Eorzea, wouldn't it? So unless it was some one-off poison that the monetarists knew she wouldn't have some resilience to -- if that's common knowledge at all, or it's somnus as some are theorizing -- I would imagine what Jenlyns tells the PC might be true: that Nanamo is indeed just "ill" and "resting." None of the images I'm pulling up of Teledji are telling enough to me that he's Dunesfolk or Plainsfolk (and I'm not currently on a character that can access those cutscenes) and I'm not sure if Plainsfolk would know about Dunesfolk practices and vice versa (that and I don't think we know what Lolorito is...) and it's not fully said that it's JUST from the flora and fauna around their native land. Since they came to Eorzea proper, wouldn't that extend to whatever else might be there as well, and buffed up further for the Royal line?

I could be completely wrong in this (and I likely am) but if it does come out that "HEY NO I'M REALLY ALIVE HI! " using this would make a heck of a lot more sense than just a silly Disney Death and Nanamo being alive from Other Factors.