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[Belhi]

I wouldn't rule out parallel worlds either but I suspect the Void Ark is very much native. I don't think the Void Ark will have any direct connection to the MSQ. It seems Mhachi.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

About Meteor (Derplander...), Ferne wrote :

But that still leaves one question—was the party an actual party, or were they merely symbols meant to represent you, the players? Well, you can breathe easy knowing they are both. They all ventured into Eorzea at the same time as you did. They all did similar quests, and lived through similar adventures. They exist as your characters exist (in a virtual world-sort of existence). The fact that you haven’t come across them is probably the same reason you haven’t come across my character, Amanda Hugginkyss (or maybe you have? /wink). They’re just somewhere else. Though, maybe you’ll stumble across their party in the future. Or maybe you won’t. How’s that for committing to an answer?

Derplander is an individual from the same dimension as we. Why would you want parallel dimensions, when there's a more convincing and realistic theory ? As far as we know, there are parallel universes (Shantotto and Lightning's event) but they have almost nothing in common with ours... Ferne was teasing for Meteor being an important character years ago, so That seems more relevant...

[Neophyte]

What you described is not hard and has been done in several MMOs, including FFXI.

No, it was not.

There was a fight, were a single member of the group was copied in appearance and got the same mainhand weapon, but he got no spells/abilities/pets. 3/4 of the enemy group was always the same.

Second the fourth Spitewarden (that's what he was called, right?) didn't play a huge role like we suppose the WoD will do. If it's just a copy of you, it's hard to give him a real own past/background, etc.

And most important: If the WoD is a copy of our character... why wasn't there a copy in the Ingame-cutscene on the moon we all saw? This was no promotion/intro cutscene, it was the reality our characters live in.
You know, in intros/promotion cutscenes you can even swap the appearance of characters (like dragons) and is has no effect on the game/lore itself. If something in intro/promotion doesn't make sense (like Hraesvelgr attacking Ishgard), it has no effect on the story/lore.
But ingame it has to.
If we'd had seen an echo vision instead (ingame at the end of 2.5), with a Hraesvelgr-like-looking dragon commanding the dravanian hordes and being evil, they couldn't have make a Niddhog-like-looking dragon being the evil leader of the dravanian hordes in 3.0 without logic/continuity errors or a real, real good ingame explanation.

And with the WoD it is exactly the same.
Changing the appearance of the WoD we all did see makes as much sense as changing the appearance of Alphinaud to a female Rhoegadyn in 3.1, Elidibus to a woman or changing the moon-location to mars.

You can't answer a question like "Why did we saw the derplander speaking with Elidibus after defeating Thordan?" with "Because it was a red herring of the developers."... you have to answer it lorewise, because all we see ingame is in fact the lore of the game. Why should the WoD be in disguise?

Just imagine you go to the INN and rewatch cutscenes. First the one on the moon (WoD = derplander), second the one where you first meet the WoD (WoD = You). Sounds stupid, right?

[ChocoFeru]

Too minimal differences and look a lot alike.

And it's probably not a mixed race too, since the WHM AF2 gear doesn't show lalafell's ears outside the hood too.

But the WHM's hood is way wider, and it has space for the Lalafell's ears inside it.
This new hood doesn't seem to be as wide as WHM AF2 D: or maybe the pic is taken from a weird angle and is tricking me...

[Frederick22]

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It will be interest to why we went into the darkside. Last time we see Derplander he was a dragoon >_>

[Belhi]

I suspect the WoD can excel as well at multiple disciplines as the WoL can. It would make sense that he would be our equal.

[Davy_M_Jones]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJXDegut2Yg

Oh, hey, look, he's definitely a separate character, as is the Roegadyn Paladin.

How weird that... anyone... might... think that.... before now....

[Nalien]

Oh look, Krile is both a female and not styling the contest winners hair!

[Fenral]

"I'm terribly, terribly sorry to have kept you all waiting."

Yeah, no shit, Krile.

[Nalien]

Shame there is no Sky Pirate Nero in sight

Do wonder who the head (?) Sky Pirate is though, or perhaps more importantly, who that portrait is of... XIVs version of Fran, perhaps?

Also it would seem Diabolos isn't a boss? Wonder if that means Void Ark will be a continual story, rather than a one off thing like I'd hoped (because Void Ark (Mhach), Floating City (Nym), and Eorzean Strata (West Shroud, Amdapor) seemed so much more interesting). Also this guy is terrifying... He eats a party member, and they come out the other side... I... No...