story predictions for shadowbringers

[Iscah]

I was thinking about the scene from the trailer with the WoL stumbling alone in the wasteland... and I'm going to predict that this is the Lv78 trial.

Something happens in the Lv77 dungeon (because LvX7 dungeons tend to end badly for certain comrades) and we're isolated from the other Scions. Maybe they're trapped or apparently killed and/or their souls finally snap back into their bodies on the Source. Anyway.

So stuff happens, we're on our own now with a taunting gremlin, and Innocence (probably a recurring appearance before this point) attacks. Cue the theoretically-solo trial fight.

[Mansion]

I was thinking about the scene from the trailer with the WoL stumbling alone in the wasteland... and I'm going to predict that this is the Lv78 trial.

Something happens in the Lv77 dungeon (because LvX7 dungeons tend to end badly for certain comrades) and we're isolated from the other Scions. Maybe they're trapped or apparently killed and/or their souls finally snap back into their bodies on the Source. Anyway.

So stuff happens, we're on our own now with a taunting gremlin, and Innocence (probably a recurring appearance before this point) attacks. Cue the theoretically-solo trial fight.

I came to think that the generic trailer in the wasteland would not be in the gameplay. It made more sense for me to read it as a symbolical scene rather than an actual excerpt from the MSQ.
And it "solves" the problem we had on the "history must be unwritten" ; for me it's a generic illustration of the Flood of Light that has been caused by everything we did so far; hence the canon jobs switching (plus it shows us actually defeating Zenos/Elidibus which did not happen in game). It shows a possible future (the win or lose, the path leads only to oblivion) that is not actually happening, but our switching to WoD is the solution to avoid it.
I really think the trailer was careful designed to lure us on a track, while it was just a cinematic setting to hint at big themes of the expansion.

My new food for thought is the "flashbacks" of the Scions in the General Trailer, and the mention of convoluted time and space, Urianger seeing the future in the Launch Trailer. For now I just thought that Time passes at different paces, and when we finally get on the First perhaps our Scions have been there for months (or years). That explains why we see Rak Tikka burning in a trailer but it is already burnt in game.

[JeanneOrnitier]

My new food for thought is the "flashbacks" of the Scions in the General Trailer, and the mention of convoluted time and space, Urianger seeing the future in the Launch Trailer. For now I just thought that Time passes at different paces, and when we finally get on the First perhaps our Scions have been there for months (or years). That explains why we see Rak Tikka burning in a trailer but it is already burnt in game.

I'm pretty certain of this too. In the trailer it sounds like Alphinaud is the one who says "we've been fighting the Sin Eaters for nigh on a hundred years."

[EdwinLi]

I was thinking about the scene from the trailer with the WoL stumbling alone in the wasteland... and I'm going to predict that this is the Lv78 trial.

Something happens in the Lv77 dungeon (because LvX7 dungeons tend to end badly for certain comrades) and we're isolated from the other Scions. Maybe they're trapped or apparently killed and/or their souls finally snap back into their bodies on the Source. Anyway.

So stuff happens, we're on our own now with a taunting gremlin, and Innocence (probably a recurring appearance before this point) attacks. Cue the theoretically-solo trial fight.

I suspect the wasteland is actually Eden or the beginning of its creation. They shown us a clip of what Eden will be like before we begin the 8 member raid storyline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ZimOkMVnk

We know that at some point Eden will be created from the trailer due to the symbol of Eden covering the First but that is still late into the storyline. Still, notice there is a very large dead Sin Eater in the background of the sample video they shown us. I suspect that maybe the boss you speak about.

[Daralii]

I suspect the wasteland is actually Eden or the beginning of its creation. They shown us a clip of what Eden will be like before we begin the 8 member raid storyline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ZimOkMVnk

We know that at some point Eden will be created from the trailer due to the symbol of Eden covering the First but that is still late into the storyline. Still, notice there is a very large dead Sin Eater in the background of the sample video they shown us. I suspect that maybe the boss you speak about.

That thing is Eden.



Her summon animation, complete with the same glyph and clock seen in the launch trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Nqt0B3MHQ