Revelations from Patch 3.4

[Nalien]

Well, finally got the MSQ done...

The Thirteenth shard lost to Darkness and is the Void, you say? This particular revelation has me giddy all over... The implications! Wonder if the Mhach story will touch on this at all... Heck, way back when, I speculated that the Rejoining has something to do with the Void, given how rampant Voidsent got around the Calamity, and it does! The Void is just another world to be Rejoined! Albeit one that's kinda gone wrong... But no, I don't care about that, I care about my favorite subject! Well...One of my favorite subjects... Ivalice Espers! So long has it bothered me that Belias was a Primal, and Cúchulainn is a Voidsent... Belias-Egi being a nice shade of purple always had me going "Void?!", and now that possibility seems somewhat more likely... If the Void is just another world, where the Darkness won, it stands to reason that world had Primals, right? Cúchulainn and Belias can be related! I don't have to bash my skull in at that irksome inconsistency! Far from confirmation, but you'll damn well let me have this for now!

As for my other favorite subject... One line in particular might have some interesting implications; "Light, Dark, it doesn't matter. What matters is how you choose to use them.", long have people told me "Why would we want to do that? It's bad!", can I now slap ya'll in the face with a Flood of Light shaped bass? One suspects we'll have to start balancing out our wins eventually...

Titans fight was disappointing, and unintentionally funny... Changing what he says in the old hard mode fight is artistic? If you say so Yoshida... Felt for certain that Gu Ba had become Titan in some way... Instead he just summoned a version with his emotions... A shame, didn't 1.0s cut Titan cutscene involve him sacrificing himself to resurrect some fallen Kobold? Could have actually had a happy ending there, but thank god we didn't... Too many of those recently...

Given that ending, I really hope Estinien ends up joining the Scions at some point in the future... Nidhoggs Eyes are still out there, there is still work to be done! Oh, and Nero?! NERO AND OMEGA!? Hmm... Should I be happy about more Nero, or mad that his character development from Crystal Tower has apparently never happened? Whatever... Go for it Nero... Reactivating old Allagan Weapons worked so well for you last time... Really hoping we have a sort of reverse situation to Ysayle with the Griffin... I saw some speculation that he might be Gaius, but... No, unless surviving Praetorium gave him brain damage, why would he get involved with the Amalj'aa or Ascians? It's still Ilberd... Even if it's not, don't have us team up with him... I do wonder what he'll do with the Eyes though... Hopefully Nidhogg is gone for good, but... Do I even need to say it? Really? OK fine... #LahabreaLives!

Oh, and we got Tupsimati back... Do we even need it though? Alisaie seemed capable of summoning her own Blade of Light, granted we needed to charge it up... Get her teaching that to all the Scions and we can just start smiting Ascians left and right though, although we probably don't want to after Derplanders little tale... Perhaps it was just a hint towards Red Mage... If so, they missed a chance with that bland sword design and lack of new animations... Make that a rapier (like the one on the cover of the first art book that you cruelly tease me with...) and I'd have completely lost my sh*t... On Tupsimati, I can't tell if Papalymo is smart or not... Why is he best suited to keeping Tupsimati safe? I mean, we're only ever one drink away from being easily knocked out by complete throw-away characters, but still...

Totally not related to lore, but we seriously need the option to redo these solo instances... Heavensward has really improved them IMO, I've enjoyed all of them so far, it's such a shame that we can't easily go back to them...