Revelations from Keynote III (2019)

[Heliantheae]

I've been thinking about Eden. And this might be because I'm playing through Lightning Returns right now. When I saw Eulmore it reminded me of Yusnaan. And I noticed the other parallels of Norvrandt and Nova Chrysalia. Both are worlds teetering on the edge of being swallowed by the Light/Chaos. The story will probably have Gaia taking on a roll similar to Lightning and leading souls to Eden.

[MrThinker]

I've been thinking about Eden. And this might be because I'm playing through Lightning Returns right now. When I saw Eulmore it reminded me of Yusnaan. And I noticed the other parallels of Norvrandt and Nova Chrysalia. Both are worlds teetering on the edge of being swallowed by the Light/Chaos. The story will probably have Gaia taking on a roll similar to Lightning and leading souls to Eden.

Hmm, that's a very interesting idea you have there in terms of story. As for what Eden is though....

Tbh, 'Eden' in FFXIII is just a living building (fal'cie) you don't actually fight. So when i hear 'Eden' i dont think of the Fal'cie but rather that 'garden' looking god that turns the entire planet into a weapon to blast the target into the centre of another galaxy and causing it to explode. Also the keyart for the raid evokes, for me at least, a sense of 'The Promised Meadow', that area from the beginning and ending CG's of FFVIII that is now an arena in Dissidia NT.

Ofc, it could go the Alexander route, where you explore 'Eden' (FFXIII-inspired area) before you need to fight 'Eden' (FFVIII-inspired Final Boss).

The major concern I have for this raid is that it would repeat the mistakes of Omega and basically just wholesale put in other FF bosses for no good reason.

[zuzu-bq]

The following panel confirmed for the Narrator/Mysterios Voice's Voice Actor in japan to be Uchida Yuuma. He hasn't previously worked in Final Fantasy XIV and going from how japanese VA contracts go, I doubt its a character we already have voiced lines for at this point. Most likely debunking most we've had speculated so far besides G'raha since he have never had voiced lines

On top of that, they've asked us to do Crystal Tower questline for extra stuff in MSQ!

So that's some neat minor info for the theorists out there.

[Daralii]

I've been thinking about Eden. And this might be because I'm playing through Lightning Returns right now. When I saw Eulmore it reminded me of Yusnaan. And I noticed the other parallels of Norvrandt and Nova Chrysalia. Both are worlds teetering on the edge of being swallowed by the Light/Chaos. The story will probably have Gaia taking on a roll similar to Lightning and leading souls to Eden.

There are definitely similarities to LR. The wealthy have decided to sequester themselves and live out the end of times in self-indulgence(Snow...), the rest of the populace has given up and are just living out their daily lives, and the world's prophecized savior pulled from another time and place. Hopefully it's actually a matter of saving the First and not just saving souls to be reborn because the world's a lost cause.