Revelations from Patch 4.3

[YianKutku]

Ten character filler to let me edit in my post.

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Asahi goaded her into incarnating as Tsukuyomi as predicted (I figured out what was in the crates well before then)

I found it amusing that he also had the crates set out in the open in Castrum Fluminis during their first meeting this patch, where he revealed his parents. That didn't trigger Yotsuyu yet, though, so he took the crates back.

I'm imagining an alternate what-if scenario where Yotsuyu refused to give into her despair, so Asahi keeps following her everywhere and needling her, except he keeps getting interrupted by the big Garlean magitek transport also following them around carrying all these crates of crystals just in case.

I figured there must have been a reason they focused on the white mask in the closing scene, and given no Ascian is known to use a white mask there must have been something special about it.

Technically Unukalhai.

Of course, Unukalhai's mask looks nothing like the usual Ascian mask, so your point stands.

I did find it odd that Shadowhunter keeps Gaius's mask on his belt, next to the Ascian masks he keeps as trophies. To what purpose? (Speaking from a Watsonian point of view, I mean. I know the Doylist reason is to let us viewers know that This Is Gaius.)

That said, given that Gaius was the one who was running the place, I don't think it's too far fetched to suppose he knew of other ways to get out of there. As far as opportunities to fake your death go, it's a really good one to take advantage of. It's not like people are going to look for you if they know you're dead.

I'm rather curious why Gaius felt the need to fake his death even from his own legion. (Or did he? It's not like we talked to many XIVth legionnaires after the destruction of the Ultima Weapon.)

The remnants of the XIVth legion are obviously still around, and based on the RDM questline they're still nominally in charge of Castrum Meridianum, so Gaius would have had to escape from there without the knowledge of his own troops, if he wanted to fake his death. Presumably the chaos of the Praetorium's destruction would help, but said destruction happened right on top of Gaius, so that might cancel the advantage.

I'm also curious why Gaius chose here and now to show himself as Shadowhunter. He must have had some way of obtaining information (especially since his spymaster Nero is now working with us), since he was obviously waiting in the middle of the Burn (a huge desolate region with nothing of interest and much danger) at exactly the same time and place as the airship with Alphinaud to get shot down and attacked by the Royal Guard. This was obviously planned, but how is the question.