Predictions for 5.3?

[Vyrerus]

I don't remember her stabbing us with a spear of dark energy. More of a general "immobilsation" technique. What she wanted at the time was the key to Azys Lla more than our body.

It was the same exact sort of beam, skewering us at the midriff, before levitating us into the air. It just wound up being immobilization because we'd regained 2/3rds of our Blessing.

[Anonymoose]

exact

Elidibus: Palm-up, spear-shaped, bright purple with magenta highlights, cloud around the caster's wrist, no aura

Igeyorhm: Hand-out, tether-shaped, bright purple with dark purple wrapping, cloud around the target, smoky aura

[Vyrerus]

Elidibus: Palm-up, spear-shaped, bright purple with magenta highlights, cloud around the caster's wrist, no aura

Igeyorhm: Hand-out, tether-shaped, bright purple with dark purple wrapping, cloud around the target, smoky aura

And when he does it to Minfilia it's slightly different there too. /shrug If you rewind that scene a few frames, before the smoke clouds around your character, the beam can be seen penetrating into your midriff.

[Vyrerus]

https://youtu.be/qw-xupzvlf4?t=2385

Timestamped, keep it paused and move the playback with , and . you will see that this beam is also tether like and dissipates slowly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_cIqEf_RXU&t=815s

Go through the same process here.

Their two beams are the same. The outlier so far is the trailer

[Vyrerus]

Though the blast in the trailer does look pretty much the same as when Nabriales fatally wounds Moenbryda.

https://youtu.be/fctCmTco4IA?t=2250

[MrThinker]

https://youtu.be/qw-xupzvlf4?t=2385

Timestamped, keep it paused and move the playback with , and . you will see that this beam is also tether like and dissipates slowly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_cIqEf_RXU&t=815s

Go through the same process here.

There two beams are the same. The outlier so far is the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmALV5kDVw&t=122 At the very end of that scene, just before it ticks over to the next second, the animation of the beam looks very similar as when he does it to Minfilia in your video, complete with the glowy darkness particles, which are not in Igeyorhm's beam. Any difference in the effect can be ascribed to, at best, a different perspective, and at worst, an updated animation of the same technique.

Though the blast in the trailer does look pretty much the same as when Nabriales fatally wounds Moenbryda.

https://youtu.be/fctCmTco4IA?t=2250

That is a full on laser blast compared to the 'stab' Elidibus does. Also doesn't have the suspended glowy particles.

[Vyrerus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmALV5kDVw&t=122 At the very end of that scene, just before it ticks over to the next second, the animation of the beam looks very similar as when he does it to Minfilia in your video, complete with the glowy darkness particles, which are not in Igeyorhm's beam. Any difference in the effect can be ascribed to, at best, a different perspective, and at worst, an updated animation of the same technique.

When he does it to Minfilia, it lingers on her like a tether, and only dissipates when he pulls his hand back.

[MrThinker]

When he does it to Minfilia, it lingers on her like a tether, and only dissipates when he pulls his hand back.

To be fair, we dont see the rest of his scene with G'raha, and it is entirely possible it lingers there as well.

[Vyrerus]

Well obviously this is all speculative, because I mean, the Ascian beams pretty much do what the scriptwriter wants them to do. That, and sometimes the language differences are just regional flavor and not a whole lot more.

The possibility though is intriguiing, has me invested, certainly.

[Archwizard]

What I find curious is that while the song for the first half of the trailer is a variation on the Gangos theme, presumably as overworld music for the Bozjan Southern Front area...

... the back half is a variation on Mortal Instants, the Amaurot theme. And it's very much a battle remix, with a whisper of Shadowbringers' theme at the end of the trailer.

Possibly music for 5.3's secret Trial, and a hint to the boss' identity? One of the shades from Amaurot, perhaps? Or perhaps Zenos' new companion...?