There Is No Dancer (yet)

[Krazymagic]

I feel pretty confident that was dancer we witnessed in the trailer. Its a teaser trailer, and it clearly put a lot of emphasis on the lady in red twirling around and dancing, and did so right as she was introduced in the video. Very very intentional there, and clearly set up to illicit excitement and cheers from the crowd. As the trailer draws near that iconic end with the two face to face in the air, we see them fly back and stand opposite one another. The monk winds back and does a stomp as he postures, the lady in red however twirls on one foot before jumping. Everything about her was more elegent in style. Dancer is often depicted with these flowing garments (and almost always red) that they wirl around, just as she does in the trailer. If it ISNT a dancer then why is over half the trailer spent on them? Why a woman? why the attire? Why the dancing? I think its all very clear what she is, and why she is so prominent in the trailer. The trailer gives us a glimpse into the culture we will be entering into with regards to ala mhigo, and I think Dancer fits that culture better than any other class. Dancer and monk will likely be very central to the the story in this new land. Both share martial styles and hand 2 hand combat, and both will share in this culture. It is a fitting job addition given the theme and culture.

So who do I think we are actually looking at here? I think it is Yda's younger sister, a dancer.

[Kiyashi]

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They spent over half the trailer on her b/c she's the central NPC character for the expansion. The Amano artwork features her. Even the logo features her front and center. It's been rumored that it's either Yda or her sister. I'd be betting it's her sister though. As to her being a dancer, no just no. Dancers don't have flaming stance modes which clearly she was using in the trailer and that stance is a martial arts stance the chinese use in kun fu and such. They already confirmed that Monk will be the main job for the new expansion. There's no reason they'd reveal a new job in that first trailer of the expansion. She's a monk plain and simple. The only glimmer of hope that I would give the theory that she's a Dancer is that her right hand has a small gauntlet housing a dagger that comes out. You can see it in the Amano artwork and in the logo. But by all means the trailer was showing two monks sparring. The derplander as a monk, and whoever the new girl is. Also Dancers are a healer support dps job, they don't go super saiyan and use shoulder tackle which is clearly what they were using in the trailer.

[Crysten]

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Going to echo this here - I'm willing to bet that this NPC is related to Yda in some way, a sibling wouldn't be too far of a stretch.

What people are quick to not pay attention to is the lore of Ala Mihgo centres mainly around the Fist of Rhalgr - the order of Monks that were wiped out by the last King of Ala Mihgo (Theodoric) before the Garleans took it over. I'd say that she's likely a surviving member of the Order, if not a member of the royal family, anyway.