The ending to Stormblood...

[Sassychan]

My theory on the guy in the Ala Mhigan soldier gear:

He's the real Zenos and the Zenos you faced since the beginning of the expansion was fake.

[Kuroka]

My theory on the guy in the Ala Mhigan soldier gear:

He's the real Zenos and the Zenos you faced since the beginning of the expansion was fake.

This cant be as he mentions when we see him for the first time, how he remembers being beaten by us and ending his life, but waking up in this body. Elezenos is the Zenos we killed.

[Sesera]

My theory on the guy in the Ala Mhigan soldier gear:

He's the real Zenos and the Zenos you faced since the beginning of the expansion was fake.

The Zenos in Ala Mhigan gear is the real Zenos we fought until the MSQ quest Stormblood. Then Elidibus took his place as he was supposed to be dead but in the end Zenos survived and left his grave. There is a quest about people wandering near Zenos grave and when you investigate its empty.

At least that's how I see it.

[Iscah]

The Zenos in Ala Mhigan gear is the real Zenos we fought until the MSQ quest Stormblood. Then Elidibus took his place as he was supposed to be dead but in the end Zenos survived and left his grave. There is a quest about people wandering near Zenos grave and when you investigate its empty.

At least that's how I see it.

Almost, but not quite.

The 'real' Zenos died - he killed himself at the end of Stormblood - and yet since then we have had "two Zenoses":

1. ELIDIBUS, who possessed Zenos's corpse and has been posing as him since he was shown to have "miraculously survived" in the patch stories.

2. The KATANA-WIELDING SOLDIER, the real Zenos's soul who - rather than doing whatever souls are supposed to do after the body's death - has somehow survived and transferred into the body of the Elezen soldier. It's likely related to Zenos's artificial Echo, which in the recent patch was confirmed to have transferred to his new body (indicated by the briefly glowing red eyes), but I've also see it suggested that it's something to do with the Ame-no-Habakiri katana which was suggested to have some kind of significance, but hasn't been elaborated on.