[SPOILERS] Revelations from Patch 3.3

[Cilia]

Unfortunately not. I believe someone mentioned reading it in an interview but I can't be sure. My personal preference would for certain be Sharlayan in any case, though I know it's a highly unlikely scenario at this point.

Until there is an official source saying we are going beyond Eorzea (esp. for 4.0), I am not wont to believe so due to the fact that while Hydaelyn may be a larger planet, XIV thus far has focused entirely on the happenings of Eorzea.

If we go beyond it, it'll be after fully exploring Eorzea. Well, that's what my money's on, at least.

[Bebekurenai]

I personally find it very sad that everyone involved in MSQ is ignoring Yda and Papalymo completely. We as players get a hint in maybe two patches about where they might be right now but that's it. Y'Shtola isn't curious about them, Thancred not interested, Alphy too worried about his internal conflicts to even bother...
For me Yda and Papalymo are the best characters, and it's very dissapointing to see it's only me (amongst all the main characters) that want's to rescue them like we did for Y'Shtola, Thancred and Minfilia. I know thanks to the CS they probably don't need rescuing, but since nobody even mentions them, I'd like a whole patch dedicated to these two superstars this time.

[PArcher]

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Except we're not ignoring them, we just haven't heard of *any* news about their locations. The last thing we know about them was the remains of their linkshells were found in Ul'dah. After that they were untraceable.

That's not that no one isn't looking, or no one cares, we have no leads, no ideas, nothing to go on. Basically, there are more important things we need to be doing than worrying about them for now, or searching aimlessly around Eorzea.

When something is found, you can be sure that lead will be followed with the same zeal as the other Scions.

[Anonymoose]

For what it's worth, while Riol (who has been coordinating the search from the Rising Stones) hasn't heard anything since their linkshells were found, Yda and Papalymo have made zero effort to make themselves findable in the first place. They've been holed up with the Ala Mhigan Resistance (a suspiciously well-funded and official-looking faction of it, at that), and Yda is emotionally invested in that pursuit to the point that Papalymo feels he has to remind her that there's a bigger picture.

Papalymo
We cannot stay here forever, Yda. We have other responsibilities.

Yda
I know full well what my responsibilities are─and I mean to fulfill them, every one!

I assume they'll be part of the portal between the Ishgard and Ala Mhigo story arcs.

[Dualblade]

Every other character has had some sort of lead for us to find them. As well now that the Dragonsong War is over we can start diverting resources to find them. Course given the last little stinger we had it might be more probably we'll start going towards their location before even knowing they are there because of other threats that also need our attention, but it works out in the end.

[Draginhikari]

That seems like a likely scenario. Even though we know little of what they are actually doing, we know their with the Ala Mhigo Resistance and that there's a guy with a mask, that's about it.

[Anonymoose]

we know their with the Ala Mhigo Resistance and that there's a guy with a mask, that's about it.

Speaking of...

Certainly not to derail all of the "It's Ilberd!" - "No, it's Gaius!" - "No, it's Theodred!" debate, but I suspect that it's a lot of guys (and gals) in masks. Yda is excited for the Imperials not to know what hit them when the Masks launch their attack. They sound like a unit, to me. Though, that's not to say that someone familiar isn't behind any of the Masks...

[Nalien]

Speaking of...

Certainly not to derail all of the "It's Ilberd!" - "No, it's Gaius!" - "No, it's Theodred!" debate, but I suspect that it's a lot of guys (and gals) in masks. Yda is excited for the Imperials not to know what hit them when the Masks launch their attack. They sound like a unit, to me. Though, that's not to say that someone familiar isn't behind any of the Masks...

Eh, in the cutscene where Yda mentioned the Masks, they're hanging around a group that are exclusively wearing masks as it is, apparently they mean to go into combat wearing a Lv20 crafting gear... The mask we see in a later cutscene is clearly special in some way, either their leader or some artifact... My guess is a symbol of royalty, meaning their leader is "Theodred"...

We might well have a Spartacus situation with the mask later, but for now I think the Masks will attack, their leader will gain notoriety and we'll be drawn into the conflict somehow... Hopefully it's Ilberd, so we have plenty of reason to despise him, would also give Y&P a reason to come out of hiding; They wanted to make certain someone is who they say they are, turns out they're not and it's Ilberd, and we go into Ala Mhigo to stop him. Ilberd leading a rebellion is in nobodies best interest, if he loses he brings Garlemald down on Ala Mhigo and right on our doorstep, not to mention getting a bunch of people killed, if he wins...Well, somehow I think Ala Mhigo would go back to its old ways and we'd see a repeat of the Autumn War... That's before we even consider any super weapons that might get involved... Not necessarily Omega, but we know where Gaius found Ultima, so lets just hope that's all that was there...

[Kallera]

You really don't need the superweapon speculation.

If Illberd pull off a rebellion and lost, it would instigate a larger conflict between Garlemeld and Eorzea.

If he rebelled and wins, it would be a victory earn mostly in spite of Eorzean interference, unless Illberd has some politician or leader in the wings to take over, such a victory would be short lived, as Garlemeld and Eorzea would plot to remove him and take the territory themselves.

Not to mention, a victorious rebellion without us is unlikely to begin with...

[Enkidoh]

Not to mention not only Ilberd but also Laurentius and Yuyuhase are all wanted criminals now for their part in the Crystal Braves conspiracy so at the moment at least, if they really are hiding out in the Ala Mhigan Resistance it gives them every incentive to keep their noses down and act incognito for the foreseeable future. Especially with Yda and Papalymo around, who if they discovered them there, the three traitorious members of the Fourth Brigade would have some very interesting questions to answer...

Okay, I admit, I just want to finally bring those three to justice - beating them up in Halatali while rescuing Raubahn during the Heavensward main story only to have them all run away seemed very unsatisfying.