Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

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Looking like Ilberd isn't a bad guess for who was approaching that Masks uniform suspiciously. He could be planning to hijack the movement. Though, while that may be the popular theory, it could just as easily be a reformation of the Ala Mhigan Kingsguard (aka Corpse Brigade). If I recall correctly, the second-in-command looks quite similar. Either way, the Masks seem suspiciously well-funded / official, so I'm looking forward to that.

And for translations, we have Soul Surrender, Soul Inheritors, Soul Guardians, and Soul Legacy...

XELPHATOL

Something seems off about that blurb. I have 550 years ago as when the Ixal settled the Black Shroud from the newspaper release in 2012.

Some 550 years in the past, the Ixal chose the forest of Tinolqa* as their homeland. The stories say they built their nests in its trees, and, spreading their wings to the wind, were able to soar among the branches. Even in this ancient time, the Ixal, feeling kinship with the creatures of the sky, revered Garuda as the Empress of Birds. During this age of prosperity the feathered beastmen flourished and multiplied, overflowing the borders of their territory. Their unchecked growth, however, angered the elementals, and the Ixal were cast out of the forest. The exiled birdmen, in search of a new place to roost, migrated en masse to the great canyon known as Xelphatol.

Did they settle, overpopulate, and get expelled from the Twelveswood all in one generation...? I'd assume 1.0 has the error, that they lived in the Shroud until 550 years ago. It gives them time for Natalan to warp their physiology, and it'd time their expulsion with roughly the first contact between Gelmorra and the Elementals, which you'd have to imagine would really annoy the Ixal; Gridania emerges just as they exit? That's bound to create some bad blood.

Looks like the Warrior of Darkness will be in on this, as well, considering we keep meeting at primals.