Its so bizarre the way everyone has been reading this trailer and the new slides. Its clear to me that the Garleans aren't going to lose horribly but instead are going to preform a massive counter attack that rolls up the Eorezean alliance all the way back to the shroud. That Varis will be removed from power and eldibus will deploy the black rose on the domans and ala mhigans, retaking all the ground they lost.

The garleans will, in one patch, undo everything we have accomplished over the course of the entirety of Stormblood and that will set the stakes.