Predictions for 5.3?

[VictorTheed]

Hey I think I recognize you, you're Fantasygirl14 from YouTube, I been watching your stuff for about a year n half now, recently enjoyed your vid on what could be elidibus's plans in 5.3, keep up the good work I enjoy your vids.

[VictorTheed]

Plus if you're still taking suggestions for future speculation vids then I'd love to see a vid on the southern continent of mericydia, like what u think might me going on down there, past present and future.

[ClaireFaye]

Ahhh, that's an interesting idea. I have been thinking about doing some lore videos about the geography of some of these places. Well, I'll look into that. Thanks for the idea!

[ClaireFaye]

Oh, and thank you so much! It always makes me smile to hear that someone else likes my videos!

[KageTokage]

This here is an idea I just had...

if I were a seemingly powerful ancient being who's chosen mission is to destroy life as everyone knew it and return it to the way it once was... seemingly no end of tools and supplies at my disposal but almost on my own...? Well, the first thing that I would do is recruit more like-minded individuals. Not everyone is the shattered soul of an Ascian after all, but having the echo is supposed to be a clear sign.

So, maybe he had the Echo awakened in people so that he can see which souls he should be paying attention too and then focus on them. I mean, if you think about it, if that is what he's doing, he's not lying about 'saving the world' and all that because in his mind he is saving this world. Not only that, but apart from Lahabrea and Emet-Selch, the other Ascians were all 'incomplete' and therefore the rest of their sundered souls are still out there, right? Sure they won't be the same people we've fought before, but I can see them coming back.

If there's one thing they've remained kind of foggy about, it's exactly how the Ascian overlords go about bolstering their ranks by creating new Ascians. They've been mentioned as having preference for seeking out the fragments of the original Convocation members, but what they do after that is a mystery. We also don't know if they can only make Ascians of individuals who were already tempered by Zodiark before the Sundering, if any Echo user will do, or if being an Echo user is even a requirement.

For all we know, Elidibus could be intending to sucker some of the WoL wannabes into becoming Ascians; perhaps by misleading them into thinking they could receive Hydaelyn's blessing to become "true" WoLs like us when it's really Zodiark they're going to be getting "blessed" by (Which seems all the more possible with them suggesting the Elidibus we've been seeing and the Elidibus who became Zodiark are one and the same).

I'm hoping that's something that gets revealed in the near future, in any case.

[Sabrenn]

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I don't trust Hydaelyn or the narrative that the Ascians are pushing. I think a parasite has literally wrapped its claws around the very weapons used to stop it. It's just a matter of time till we need to address that issue.

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I've been playing FFXII recently, and considering how much is going to be inspired from it in the new exploration area and has been generally (nu mou, viera, 24mans from last tier etc)

I think you're on to something because of the crystalbugs from FFXII, bugs who take over save crystals until you kill them then the actual crystal comes back in its place, which could be what Lahabrea was trying to tell us:

The growing imbalance afflicting the planet must be redressed. If it is permitted to worsen, the very laws of existence--both aetheric and physical--will be warped beyond all recognition.

Know you the root of this corruption? Hydaelyn!

Like a parasite, She must be burned out if the planet is to recover. And naught but the return of the one true god will ensure Her complete excision. Yet to pave the way for the master's return, a chaotic confluence of untold proportions must needs be brought about. And that will necessitate the presence of the primals.

Crystalbug's description from FFXII:

Being a fiend that, unable to move and hunt for food on its own, mimics the form of a crystal, thereby tempting its prey to come to it. The deception is nearly perfect and thus almost impossible to detect. Should an ill-starred traveler mistake such a creature for a crystal, and reach out his hand, he will be treated to a maelstrom of the strongest magicks, before having his life juices summarily drained.

Which would explain what has happened to Minfillia. And why it keeps tempting everyone with "hear, feel, think".

These crystalbugs keep spamming self-heals so I've had to use mist abilities to get them down (limit breaks/summons in that game), so I can see why they are so desperate to try and get rid of the parasite. If the end of the world happened because of the imbalance caused by the parasite feeding on the mother crystal, then it makes sense that with their summoning powers they would try to destroy it with a summon that could kill it before it regenerates (Zodiark) while people mislead by the influence of the parasite would try to go against them. (Venat & co)

There's also the technick Revive in that game that forces the user to die in order to resurrect their target, which could explain why they're fine with a mass sacrifice in order to resurrect the summon, waiting for them to resurrect them back (as you normally do in ffxii: example, the healer is dead, the tank uses Revive sacrificing themselves to get the healer up that then resurrects them back).

I may be completely off but I was just thinking of this thread playing through FFXII and it would be interesting for the crystalbug theory to be actually true.

[Voidedge_Ragna]

We have not killed of anyone in a while sooo my prediction is.

Zenos beheads the Crystal Exarch, high 5s the wol to celebrate. This then leads to a trial, which we win but somehow because SE doesnt wanna kill off Zenos ends in a draw and will be postponed till 6.0
We then return to the source, board up the Crystal tower and seal the gate.

then we continue the story in the source.

[KageTokage]

I recalled that the Eden storyline suggested that the weirdness surrounding Gaia may have been a result of the Zodiark fragment on the First somehow being awakened by the Flood of Light...which makes me wonder if Elidibus also intends to take advantage of that somehow.

[Morningstar1337]

Weird showerthought, I think we've been approaching the fate of the Aumarotines as a Cosmic Horror Story of sorts, and it certainly is akin to that, what with the whole eldritch horror angle, but the thing is that those horrors came form within the Aumrotines and manifested via their magics. As such I wonder if the Ascians' backstory, the original umbral calamity, is instead of a more traditional archetype, and one already used with Allag. A tale of a grand civilization felled by its own hubris. what if there was some drawback (like the idea of draining the planet from its aether in massive amounts as I alluded to before) that made their creation magics dangerous even on this scale.

[EdwinLi]

I know there is a chance it will never happen but I fear they may choose to kill off Y'shtola with her final moments being performing her Sorceress LB "Aetherial Wind" to defeat a enemy using the last of her life energy or just have a instance in 5.3 where we play as her and use her LB at the end to show the full potential of her powers now she is unleashing everything learned as a Sorceress trained by Master Matoya.

Y'shtola's Sorceress Job LB called "Aetherial Wind" is this as first revealed in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct8MBG_LEAk