5.3 Trailer (Spoilers, Obviously)

[jazo]

I don't know about that. Seems like memories of over 100 years would be one heck of a lot for a relatively young, sleeping and unprepared G'raha to try to absorb. He might want his younger self awoken earlier than planned so he'll get his dream of going on adventures with the WoL but I can't see him wanting to bog young G'raha down with his memories of things that no longer will happen. He'll be satisfied that the WoL knew he once existed and will remember him (shades of Emet and the Amaurotines there?).

If the favor is something other than just waking his younger self, I could see him possibly providing some sort of data storage device for the WoL to give to Cid to help out the Ironworks. There's plenty of technology in the Tower the Ironworks would find helpful that shouldn't necessarily require breaking back into the Crystal Tower to obtain.

A smaller folder of soul memory then, or a zipped one, with all the soul mumbo jumbo they are pulling off, all is possible to save much of the trope of "getting to know you again again"

[Ilenya]

The Exarch wants to wake up our G'raha Tia to give us more Trust options later.

[Alleluia]

I am looking forward to see how it all ends and what the trial will be.

There is a high chance that the exarch will die but at the same time, would they really show it like that in a trailer? In the past any of those huge "deaths" like Ystohla were nothing but red herrings. So I still doubt that he will die.

Otherwise I hope that we can wipe Elidibus smirk from his face and hopefully him out of Ardberts body..

I hope a certain person from the Role Quests can be involved in the bolded bit. lol

The favor would be for us to take some "soul memory backup" that Exarch makes from all his memories since he waked up in the future and us to wake up his past (our present) self, kinda like migrating your save files to another computer.

I would be ok with this outcome, though I don't know if G'raha would actually ask us to do that. Seems more like something that might be a side effect of whatever he has to do to infuse the crystal and carry the scions' souls. Or something.

[RyuDragnier]

I hope a certain person from the Role Quests can be involved in the bolded bit. lol

I'm hoping the entire team from the Role Quests gets to help in some manner. Would make it feel like a last hurrah for our adventures on the First.

[Alleluia]

I'm hoping the entire team from the Role Quests gets to help in some manner. Would make it feel like a last hurrah for our adventures on the First.

I'm actually working on the role quests right now to make sure I have all options available if they go this way. Also, to see what I missed from last patch conversation-wise. I'm at 3/4.

[EdwinLi]

I'm hoping the entire team from the Role Quests gets to help in some manner. Would make it feel like a last hurrah for our adventures on the First.

If things play out like it did with 5.2 MSQ, I am guessing the choices of who appears and All appears maybe once again based on which and how many you completed.

[Sylvain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmALV5kDVw


So, bad news: the Exarch appears to be dying.

Good news: We get a gundam.

Thoughts?



(Seriously, how is there not already a thread for this here? Get hype, people!)

Tbh I don't think he'll die... that's too much to put in a trailer.

[StriderShinryu]

Tbh I don't think he'll die... that's too much to put in a trailer.

I kind of agree with this. It's been so obvious that he's going to die for so long, and then with this trailer, it feels like a fake out. Not that I would be against him dying, per se, it's more that it feels so obvious that I'm expecting something else to happen.

[Theodric]

The Crystal Exarch dying is likely a very minor thing in the grand scheme of the patch itself. Think back to the trailer for Shadowbringers - the revelation that Zodiark and Hydaelyn were Primals was put forward, which is a pretty major plot revelation. It got people talking, though it also ended up being overshadowed by much bigger plot revelations. I think we're reaching a point where the story is going to get intense again.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

My thoughts:

Source G'raha Tia (aka past-self G'raha) is going to play a part in getting the Scions back to the Source. How? Not sure, but I think we will have to awaken/interact with him (perhaps that's why the Crystal Tower raid is a requirement to go through 5.3 and going forward for new players). Perhaps we have to return to the Crystal Tower on the Source and somehow interact with Source G'raha Tia to successfully return the Scion's souls to their bodies.

I do think First G'raha (aka future G'raha that transported the Crystal Tower to the First) will eventually disappear in some fashion due to the timeline change. Once the Scions return to the Source, that version of G'raha Tia won't need to exist anymore; he won't need to go back into the past to stop the Rejoining. He's fulfilled his mission by saving the two worlds and getting the Scions back home. Once this is complete, I think that's then he's going to disappear in some way or another.

Essentially, we won't really loose him. Just that version of him. We still have Source G'raha Tia. They are one in the same person. The First G'raha is the future self of Source G'raha. They aren't like the WoL and Ardbert; they aren't a soul split due to the sundering.

Just my 2 cents.