"Time Skip" for 4.5 or 5.0?

[Nezerius]

No he doesn't say that. (But you're the second person to misquote it in a couple of days.)

He first reappears already wearing the eyepatch, and from Dreams of the Lost, where you've just reunited with him (and are probably thinking "what happened to your eye?"):



The game plays with deliberately not remarking on it a couple of times (eg. Tataru greets him with "Thank the Twelve you've returned to us! But what happened to your old outfit?").

And then later when he infiltrates Castrum Meridianum with Krile (the scene you are thinking of), he's not wearing the eyepatch, and you can see that his left eye has changed colour. (It looks blue to me, though his NPC data indicates that it's white. Either way, clearly very different to his original hazel.)

And that's 'it'. No further explanation or comment.

I assume we're getting one at some point.

And if you talk to him right after completing that quest, he will also tell you that he almost lost his left eye. As in, he didn't lose his left eye, it got injured.

I also wasn't directly quoting anything when it comes to the "impressing the ladies" part, but I'd have to dig some more to find the exact quote.

[Iscah]

And if you talk to him right after completing that quest, he will also tell you that he almost lost his left eye. As in, he didn't lose his left eye, it got injured.

I also wasn't directly quoting anything when it comes to the "impressing the ladies" part, but I'd have to dig some more to find the exact quote.

Can you find that quote about almost losing his left eye? Because I can't, even though I vaguely remember it from my first time through the game - although from memory I think it was one of the "teases" I'm thinking of where he alluded to it but didn't explain it. And are you sure he said that, and about his left eye specifically? Not something like "I could have lost an eye back there"? Which of course could be a matter of fact statement or could (and I did) take it as ironic and with a "but I'm still not explaining the eyepatch" subtext.

I'm sure I've talked to him at every opportunity, and now I've looked through those first few quest scripts, and can't see that line anywhere. Unless it's further in - past the grand melee which was the last quest I completed - I don't know where he would have mentioned it.

In any case, he still entered the battle already wearing the eyepatch. Whatever the reason is for wearing it, it didn't happen then.

That said... I thought to check the screenshot where he's apparently just emerged from the Lifestream - and both his eyes are normal then. Also he seems to have his new hairstyle. All a bit odd, possibly an oversight, or possibly not. Again, awaiting further explanation, which I assume we'll get at some point.


(Hmm, another random thing I noticed while looking through different versions of the NPC for dialogue... as well as the major changes to his appearance with his 3.X model, his iris size changed from large to small. Probably an art thing rather than an in-character physical change, but still interesting.)

[Nezerius]

Can you find that quote about almost losing his left eye? Because I can't, even though I vaguely remember it from my first time through the game - although from memory I think it was one of the "teases" I'm thinking of where he alluded to it but didn't explain it. And are you sure he said that, and about his left eye specifically? Not something like "I could have lost an eye back there"? Which of course could be a matter of fact statement or could (and I did) take it as ironic and with a "but I'm still not explaining the eyepatch" subtext.

I'm sure I've talked to him at every opportunity, and now I've looked through those first few quest scripts, and can't see that line anywhere. Unless it's further in - past the grand melee which was the last quest I completed - I don't know where he would have mentioned it.

There's a screenshot of the quote in this post: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3623756
While the screenshot is in german, the poster also provides the translation for it ("Es war ein beschwerlicher Weg, und eine Unachtsamkeit hätte mich fast mein linkes Auge gekostet." -> "It was an arduous journey and my carelessness almost cost me my left eye.")