Revelations from Patch 5.3

[Alleo]

I just finished 3.0 again, and decided to watch the cutscene following our victory over Thoradin. Might want to watch it again. Before his body dissoves int aether, he reverts back into the Archbishop. He looks up at you while wondering how even with the power of Nidhogg's Right Eye and a millennium of prayer behind him, you still defeated him. He looked at you, and your form darkened.....shadowed in the same manner as the ascians whenever they are shown in post-story cutscenes back then. To which he exclaims the following :

"Who....what are you?"

He recognized us as an Ascian. I want to say this was clever foreshadowing by the writers.

Thoughts?

Well first we are not an Ascian (Ascians are only those tempered by Zodiark), we are an Ancient. I just doubt that this was the case. I always just saw it as an old man that fully and truly believed that with 1000 years of prayers he would be unstoppable. And there we are a mere mortal putting an end to him. In his last moments, maybe where he is not even able to see us correctly anymore he ask this question.