Revelations from Fan Festival 2016 Tokyo

[Cilia]

The Crystal Tower was also billed as having ties to the MSQ. Even if Nero didn't turn over a new leaf after CT, his new lack of character development could end up just as non-canonical as his last appearance, so don't worry about it too much.

I'm not worried, just disappointed. I never liked him in the MSQ but after that final CT cutscene it gave me hope Nero would turn his life around and become the first good, non-expatriate (or at least not an expatriate by choice) Garlean and find another path outside of trying to outshine Cid. Nope, still working on giant death mechas! And another time-warping giant mecha so soon after Alexander seems... repetitive.

(I mean, I understand the love of giant mechas... I got the Masterpiece versions of all four Gearhulks I can use in my Magic EDH deck... but in case you didn't learn from the past, messing with Allagan shit is bad news bears.)

Unless they specifically said that we are returning to Ivalice, the reasonable first interpretations is that it's the the Ascians who are doing the returning. Connections between the Ascians, Ivalician elements and the void (their names, Cu Chulainn's entry in the lorebook etc) are too consistent and pervasive to avoid that.

The only curiosity is that this sort of thing demands to be in the MSQ.

Context. Is. EVERYTHING!

It's been stressed time and again that there is no connection between the Ivalice everyone knows and Eorzea / Hydaelyn outside of fanservice names. Until we get information stating this is not the case, best not to jump the gun and start going "There's a direct relation between Hydaelyn and Ivalice! I knew it!" We have no context on what Ivalice means in the world of XIV yet, so.