Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

[Anonymoose]

I'm still mulling over a lot of the new information, though I'm still not feeling all that confident in the future-prediction game this patch cycle. Time itself seems to play into the reflected worlds a bit more than it seemed like at first. Perhaps its entwined with the possibility that the Warriors of Darkness are from one of the other reflections (perhaps the one that was but recently destroyed in the Seventh Umbral Calamity). Though it doesn't seem like the worlds can be too similar; Unukalhai's world seemed to be on a different track entirely ... unless he's very old and we no longer have records of when our world diverged from a similar path. Still, I get the sense that some of these hints about time aren't just nods to us currently dealing with Alexander.

The name of the patch is ominous as well. Soul Surrender...

Don't tell me we've already forgotten...

Come, mortals! Render up your souls, that Lord Zodiark might be reborn!

Hmmm...

It'd be lame to all-out carbon-copy Promathia, right? So what's on the table...

This in particular fans my theory that the planet/Hydaelyn is just a really big Primal...

How literally and specifically do you mean "primal"? Many living things are aetherial and crystalline within. Sprites have crystals at their cores. People and animals can develop internal crystals if their aether gets funky (and then they get a snurble probiscis in the spine). The world could have a crystalline core without being the manifestation of belief or the resurrected shade of a former being. Granted, one of the main reasons I hold out hope for Hydaelyn is that faith in Altana was rewarded; it feels wrong to give up on Her. But one game is not another.