New Heavensward Short Stories!

[PArcher]

Here's the big question:

Who is going to have the last story?

I'm honestly thinking it won't be Lucia or Hilda now, with the Rising also beginning next Thursday, and this being the final story in this set, it has to be someone really important. And its probably going to be another curveball (seriously, who thought it was going to be the twins last year?).

Unless its Aymeric (again), I'm out of ideas for the "good guys". What if we're getting a perspective from a Dravanian...or one of the Heavens Ward...

[Ayuhra]

Last story could be Zephirin.

My guess is Hilda.

Wait....

.....Wait a thought occurs to me regarding this Francel thing...

Lord Francel is usually stationed at Skyfire Locks isn't he? That would put him right next to Haurchefant's trade route into Revenant's Toll. It would be insanely easy for him to enter Mor Dhona and Mor Dhona is easily the biggest aetheric hotzone in the game so far. Giant crystals into the sky...Aether creates a weather effect there too. Since it's where Midgardsormr fell the place is teeming with it. If the Ascians lured him there....or told him to go there....

Ohhhh noooo

[Dalvy]

Here's the big question:

Who is going to have the last story?

I'm honestly thinking it won't be Lucia or Hilda now, with the Rising also beginning next Thursday, and this being the final story in this set, it has to be someone really important. And its probably going to be another curveball (seriously, who thought it was going to be the twins last year?).

Unless its Aymeric (again), I'm out of ideas for the "good guys". What if we're getting a perspective from a Dravanian...or one of the Heavens Ward...

Combination of Sigurdu, Stephanivien and Jannequinard having a party?

No, serious answer: Tiamat.

[Belhi]

To be honest I'd love to see a Lucia and Aymeric short story. I want to see the story of how Lucia came loyal to Ishgard in more detail.

They stories are from the Dragonsong War so its going to be either Ishgardians or Dravanians I suspect.

I doubt Francel is going to go bad. Further I suspect that while there are Aether all over Mor Dhona its not concentrated or pure enough to be good for summoning. The beasttribes used very purified crystals for summoning as we seen from the pre-quests for the Crystal Tower. If they were that easily available I doubt they would have sent us all over Eorzea to collect them. There is also the fact that Revenant's Toll does import crystals as shown by the heretic raids on supply trains to Revenant's Toll in 2.4.

[CyrilLucifer]

If we're going for totally unexpected guesses, I'm going to go out on a wing and say I'd like an Igeyorhm. She basically exists only to be Lahabrea's henchwoman, so some background would be nice. She barely had any personality at all. Nabriales, who existed basically to further the particular white auracite plot, had more of a personality.


I'd also like a Tiamat.

[Ayuhra]

My only question regarding this story (and others like it) is how is Francel 22 and Haurche 28 when that's how old they look? Elezen are supposed to age more slowly right? Hence why the kids are actually older teenagers? Am I thinking too much about that? Is this how you end up in another dimension?

Anyway, regarding the shorts I doubt it will be Igeyorhm or Tiamat. Of course I was wrong last time.

A Tiamat short would be amazing, though. Prior to the 3.0 MSQ I used to swing by Dragonhead constantly and hang out with Haurchefant. Now I swing by Azys Lla and hang out with Tiamat. She just seems so lonely. I'd really love to learn more about her story. I'm sure the MSQ will bring her up again somehow...or at least I hope it does.

[Fenral]

My only question regarding this story (and others like it) is how is Francel 22 and Haurche 28 when that's how old they look? Elezen are supposed to age more slowly right? Hence why the kids are actually older teenagers? Am I thinking too much about that? Is this how you end up in another dimension?

I don't have any sources, but I'm sure they "age more slowly" in the same way that makes a some 50 year-old women still look 30. So while body maturation happens at roughly the same rate for all the spoken races (they are all still technically "human"), they can go for a lot longer than, say, Hyur before they start visibly showing their age. Alphinaud, though we've journeyed with him for close to two full years, is still only sixteen. I'd guess Thordan VII, who's so old his ears are starting to droop, is close to one hundred.

A Tiamat short would be amazing, though. Prior to the 3.0 MSQ I used to swing by Dragonhead constantly and hang out with Haurchefant. Now I swing by Azys Lla and hang out with Tiamat. She just seems so lonely. I'd really love to learn more about her story. I'm sure the MSQ will bring her up again somehow...or at least I hope it does.

If what Yoshi has said in past interviews can ever be taken at face value, the story of Bahamut's summoning will be told in a side story at some point during Heavensward, which I think implicitly means not as part of the main scenario. Plans can change, though. We will be seeing more of her either way for sure.

[Ayuhra]

I don't have any sources, but I'm sure they "age more slowly" in the same way that makes a some 50 year-old women still look 30. So while body maturation happens at roughly the same rate for all the spoken races (they are all still technically "human"), they can go for a lot longer than, say, Hyur before they start visibly showing their age. Alphinaud, though we've journeyed with him for close to two full years, is still only sixteen. I'd guess Thordan VII, who's so old his ears are starting to droop, is close to one hundred.

But apparently there is a mostly young looking Elezen in the Astro quest who is called "old man" sometimes. Alphinaud maybe sixteen or seventeen but he looks twelve, as does his twin. The children in Gridania have been children since before the Calamity (which was actually used in some Q&A somewhere as an example of this aging thing) but like I said maybe I am overthinking this.

If what Yoshi has said in past interviews can ever be taken at face value, the story of Bahamut's summoning will be told in a side story at some point during Heavensward, which I think implicitly means not as part of the main scenario. Plans can change, though. We will be seeing more of her either way for sure.

Maybe it will tie into the Warring Triad or something somehow. I got the impression the Triad will be like this expansion's Bahamut-a profound threat that most of the world doesn't know about. Not being MSQ would be a pity but I'll take any Tiamat story over none. Whatever happened there looks like a story worth telling.

[Fenral]

But apparently there is a mostly young looking Elezen in the Astro quest who is called "old man" sometimes. Alphinaud maybe sixteen or seventeen but he looks twelve, as does his twin. The children in Gridania have been children since before the Calamity (which was actually used in some Q&A somewhere as an example of this aging thing) but like I said maybe I am overthinking this.

You don't have to be a twelve-year-old to play one on TV. Some people just look younger than they actually are. Hell, W'fharl Tia (pictured at left ) can look anywhere from 15 to 25 depending on the mood he was in when last he called on Jandelaine.
(The slightly more mundane answer is, as always, "inconsistent lore" but-- hey, put those pitchforks away!)

Maybe it will tie into the Warring Triad or something somehow. I got the impression the Triad will be like this expansion's Bahamut-a profound threat that most of the world doesn't know about. Not being MSQ would be a pity but I'll take any Tiamat story over none. Whatever happened there looks like a story worth telling.

I would certainty like to believe that having an Emperor, an VIth Legion Legatus, and a Warring Triad walking into a bargetting together on an ancient floating continent amounts to too big a dangling thread from the MSQ to be wrapped up quietly in a corner. My track record on guesses like this is pretty dreadful, though.

[Ayuhra]

You don't have to be a twelve-year-old to play one on TV. Some people just look younger than they actually are. Hell, W'fharl Tia (pictured at left ) can look anywhere from 15 to 25 depending on the mood he was in when last he called on Jandelaine.
(The slightly more mundane answer is, as always, "inconsistent lore" but-- hey, put those pitchforks away!)

Thordan VII is apparently the direct descendant of Thordan I which means 7 generations of kings have passed assuming each one names a Thordan. That's shockingly few. I'd compare to real life monarchs but the comparison falls apart when you realize lack of a Dragonsong War means constant political squabbles. Some reigns only last a couple years. Some only a few months. That's not the case with Ishgard which obsessively locks down its power to only a few families.

Inconsistent Lore is probably it. I'll just think of them as 22 and 28 in Elezen years so my brain doesn't collapse into a black hole.

I would certainty like to believe that having an Emperor, an VIth Legion Legatus, and a Warring Triad walking into a bargetting together on an ancient floating continent amounts to too big a dangling thread from the MSQ to be wrapped up quietly in a corner. My track record on guesses like this is pretty dreadful, though.

Oh the Garlemald presence will surely be a thing but that's a conversation for the Path to 4.0 thread.