6.0 Predictions: Will it be Garlemald, Sharlayan, or Meracydia?

[Kesey]

Now that we've had the first live letter for 5.4 and the new dungeon is called "Matoya's Relict", evidence is pointing to a Sharlayan expansion.

"Relict" implies that an item or the location will be "old" and/or from the "past".

Matoya could either reference the old lady or our favorite cat girl. Either way, both are associated with Sharlayan.

[MikkoAkure]

Now that we've had the first live letter for 5.4 and the new dungeon is called "Matoya's Relict", evidence is pointing to a Sharlayan expansion.

"Relict" implies that an item or the location will be "old" and/or from the "past".

Matoya could either reference the old lady or our favorite cat girl. Either way, both are associated with Sharlayan.

Or it could not. I'd just sit back and enjoy the show rather than worry about where the next expansion will be instead of getting your hopes up for something that might not happen. Theorycrafting is fun, but remember that 4.4's patch had The Burn as the new dungeon, followed up by 4.5's Ghimlyt Dark and neither of those had anything at all to do with the location that 5.0 went to.

[FrightfulNight]

Now that we've had the first live letter for 5.4 and the new dungeon is called "Matoya's Relict", evidence is pointing to a Sharlayan expansion.

"Relict" implies that an item or the location will be "old" and/or from the "past".

Matoya could either reference the old lady or our favorite cat girl. Either way, both are associated with Sharlayan.

Or it could be a possible tool to permanently slay Zenos or deal with Zodiark, i still feel that the main hub city will be Sharlyan but the rest of the zones will Finally be in Islabard, we have waited long enough, the clouds give it a perfect endgame zone, that does not mean Sharlyan will be relegated on the back burner as i imagine it will be as significant as Ishagard in HW, i imagine we will be going back there a lot to figure out how to deal with Zodiark while the team research's meanwhile we head to Islabard to deal with Zenos and Fan, first five zones are Islabard then when he is defeated at a similar timefrime as Vauthry we go back to Sharlyan and then the Moon for the final fight against Zodiark, this wraps up most of the season 1 plot points then the next expansion can be new territory. Maybe a globetrotting expansion to go to areas in Orthard and Islabard that we have not been to yet fully like Hingashi propper.

[Rosenstrauch]

Now that we've had the first live letter for 5.4 and the new dungeon is called "Matoya's Relict", evidence is pointing to a Sharlayan expansion.

"Relict" implies that an item or the location will be "old" and/or from the "past".

Matoya could either reference the old lady or our favorite cat girl. Either way, both are associated with Sharlayan.

Reading that name, the first thing that came to mind was the crystal ball Matoya uses. From what I recall, it's said to be a crystal of light from an earlier era. It's also said to be much more powerful than the one our WoL carries.

[KageTokage]

I'm expecting that the Garleans have set their eyes on Azys Lla again for one reason or another and from prior experience the Vanu chieftain decided it was probably a good idea to tell Ishgard about it.

Now that we've had the first live letter for 5.4 and the new dungeon is called "Matoya's Relict", evidence is pointing to a Sharlayan expansion.

"Relict" implies that an item or the location will be "old" and/or from the "past".

Matoya could either reference the old lady or our favorite cat girl. Either way, both are associated with Sharlayan.

That's...a kind of big stretch in logic when we have zero context whatsoever.

We've already gone gallivanting through locales of Sharlayan make previously for one reason or another.

I'd reckon this dungeon is where Matoya keeps forbidden knowledge locked away and as per usual circumstances dictate that we need something from there to address whatever new problem is rearing its head.

[Kesey]

I'm expecting that the Garleans have set their eyes on Azys Lla again for one reason or another and from prior experience the Vanu chieftain decided it was probably a good idea to tell Ishgard about it.



That's...a kind of big stretch in logic when we have zero context whatsoever.

We've already gone gallivanting through locales of Sharlayan make previously for one reason or another.

I'd reckon this dungeon is where Matoya keeps forbidden knowledge locked away and as per usual circumstances dictate that we need something from there to address whatever new problem is rearing its head.

Is it forbidden knowledge to solve a problem, or forbidden knowledge from or about the Ancients? I'm assuming the latter.