Predictions for 5.3?

[HamiltonCalder]

So in the trailer...

we see Elidibert open a bunch of the same summoning portals that G'raha used to call the "heroes from beyond the rift" that fought Hades with us. I bet he's calling a bunch of Hydaelyn's chosen from other shards (or even through time!?) to fight the so-called Warrior of Darkness, presenting himself as a champion of light.

[RyuDragnier]

So in the trailer...

we see Elidibert open a bunch of the same summoning portals that G'raha used to call the "heroes from beyond the rift" that fought Hades with us. I bet he's calling a bunch of Hydaelyn's chosen from other shards (or even through time!?) to fight the so-called Warrior of Darkness, presenting himself as a champion of light.

Here comes the question then...

How are we going to defeat that many? Will it be a normal trial, it ends, he summons more, and then we end up using the power from our Ascian self to defeat them? Will it just end? Or will some unknown event happen?

[HamiltonCalder]

Here comes the question then...

How are we going to defeat that many? Will it be a normal trial, it ends, he summons more, and then we end up using the power from our Ascian self to defeat them? Will it just end? Or will some unknown event happen?

At the beginning of the trailer...

... we see the Derplander fighting some maybe-WoL-spirits in Il Mheg with some Fuath. That's presumably from the new dungeon, the Heroes' Gauntlet (oho, the Heroes' Gauntlet!) If the trash pulls in the dungeon are the summons, and the bosses (the lady from the Patch Site and the Beserker from the PLL) are extra-strong heroes of Light summoned from other shards, then the trial could be pretty much anything that fits that vein. Maybe he summons a WoL from the fallen void, like bringing the Shadowkeeper back into her power, or calling Unukalhai back from the Source as his estranged mentor? Maybe he summons the remaining unjoined fragments of our own soul for a WoL-on-WoL mirror match that leaves us fully Rejoined at the end? Maybe he called HILDIBRAND HELIODOR MANDERVILLE himself? There's lots of ways it could go if this proves right.

[Alleo]

So in the trailer...

we see Elidibert open a bunch of the same summoning portals that G'raha used to call the "heroes from beyond the rift" that fought Hades with us. I bet he's calling a bunch of Hydaelyn's chosen from other shards (or even through time!?) to fight the so-called Warrior of Darkness, presenting himself as a champion of light.

About that

Seems to be the case but I wonder what he said to them that they believe him..also he show his Ascian glyphe..shouldnt that maybe show them that he is not nice?

About the death flags

I will probably be wrong but would SE really show the exarch death in a trailer? Last time something big like that was shown, was with Ysthola and it turned out to be a red herring. So I go against many of the posts and say that he will survive.