Predictions for 5.3?

[Enkidoh]

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Remember, the Source WoL (player) is 9 times rejoined; 9 times as much aether as WoLs from the other shards. @1:29, I can count 9 WoLs. If there are 9, the Source WoL may be evenly matched (if that is how we are calculating powerlevels). If there are up to 13 hostile WoLs, then Source WoL is outmatched 13 to 9, which aren't too bad odds. Plus, the WoL is being backed up by G'raha Tia. Then again, it looks like the Source WoL is also fighting against Elidibus at the same time, who is a whole 14/14. So... Source Wol 9/14 and G'raha Tia vs up to 13 1/14s + a 14/14 Elidibus. Oof. Looks like a big challenge.

It's eight times rejoined, there's been seven calamities plus Ardbert rejoining his soul at the end of Amaurot so that makes 8 (it's 9 if you include the Source too, but that's not counted as Rejoinings are only the Shards, the Source is what was left of the original world after the Sundering and so is the 'base'. So we're 'eight' times rejoined.

As for facing down an Unsundered Ascian, well, we've already done that twice already and both have fallen - although Lahabrea was only killed by Thordan consuming his soul as aether, and we only killed Emet by dumping all that corrupted Light aether we had absorbed as an Axe of Light to punch a hole in him (with Ardbert's help). But they both still ended up deader than dead despite their 'Unsundered' status.

So being unsundered does not directly correllate to strength and resilience, if anything it makes them more prone to arrogance and thus makes their downfall all the more likely.

Pride comes before the fall after all...

And the trailer only shows just how

prideful Elidibus is becoming - no longer the 'emmisary', he's falling into smug arrogant megalomania like all the other Ascians, even trying again the same trick he already tried once before that failed miserably (trying to manipulate other worlds' WoLs into fighting us). Eli, don't you know those who fail to learn from their past mistakes are doomed to forever repeat them?

Incidentally I don't believe Exarch! G'raha actually dies when speared by Elidibert's dark magic - past trailers after all supposedly showing main story characters dying, turn out to be completely fine, or just a minor injury (remember Y'shtola apparently shown to be gutted like a fish by Zenos in the trailer for Stormblood, yet, despite being sidelined for much of SB's story, ended up getting better?). Yet characters who really do die, their death scene isn't shown in a trailer. Context is everything.

So yeah, I expect our crystallizing Sharalyan friend to be fine, and not end up pulling an Aeris to an Ascian wearing an Ardbert-suit.

[RyuDragnier]

And the trailer only shows just how

prideful Elidibus is becoming - no longer the 'emmisary', he's falling into smug arrogant megalomania like all the other Ascians, even trying again the same trick he already tried once before that failed miserably (trying to manipulate other worlds' WoLs into fighting us). Eli, don't you know those who fail to learn from their past mistakes are doomed to forever repeat them?

Incidentally I don't believe Exarch! G'raha actually dies when speared by Elidibert's dark magic - past trailers after all supposedly showing main story characters dying, turn out to be completely fine, or just a minor injury (remember Y'shtola apparently shown to be gutted like a fish by Zenos in the trailer for Stormblood, yet, despite being sidelined for much of SB's story, ended up getting better?). Yet characters who really do die, their death scene isn't shown in a trailer. Context is everything.

So yeah, I expect our crystallizing Sharalyan friend to be fine, and not end up pulling an Aeris to an Ascian wearing an Ardbert-suit.

I have a feeling that

what he did was basically "hack into" the Crystal Tower using the Exarch as the connection tool with that stab. The Exarch may either end up dead by our hands in order to end the WoL summonings and save our friends, or we're going to permanently sever the Exarch's connection to the Crystal Tower without killing him, which would halt all current summonings and prevent more from occurring, with only us left as being able to cross to the First due to our power.