Revelations from Keynote II

[Ceridwenae]

My bet is that it would be something like this...relevant they'll probably stop and summarize it anyway because for a lot of people that was ages ago.

It can be a bit... clunky but there's a lot of simple ways to integrate it into the MSQ without demanding a detour from a chunk of the players.

Yes, this is what I meant (sort of) when I said 'we can even "revisit" it in terms of people who have been before and "visit" it for first timers, with appropriate dialogue changes. It's one way to circle that square of storytelling.' And yeah, it's clunky. Which is why, even if it's possible, I don't like it. I'm just putting it in my cons column against the theory because it just seems a bit much for someone who yes, had some importance, but was not important enough to be in our MSQ - if you see what I mean. If G'raha is a Chekhov's Gun and is our mysterious voiceover of recent patches, he should've been in the MSQ in some way already to bear absolute relevance to those selfsame MSQ lines. And if he hasn't (afaik, he's raid only), then there's some groundwork to be laid hard, otherwise the story in terms of his presence risks incredulity. He can, of course, be mentioned by characters such as Cid or Nero if they comes back into MSQ plots proper, but then we're potentially wasting time on exposition, or alternately, not giving enough weight to G'raha's role. It's messy, clunky, and there's simply got to be better candidates.

They've done it before with the Coils and Alisaie, CT and Nero, etc. It wouldn't be anything new.

Yes, but this is that in reverse. Is there precedent for it?

(and this is why I like these lore threads! I love this sort of discussion, and I'm really happy to be able to take part in it, even if my lore is subpar in comparison to the rest of you!)