Revelations from Patch 5.4

[Erendis]

Someone noticed interesting thing about Werlyt https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...erncliff_look/

[Vyrerus]

Those little rascals

[KageTokage]

Someone noticed interesting thing about Werlyt https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...erncliff_look/

I thought it was just some cute ambience they added to Terncliff to make it feel a bit more lively, but now I'm even more depressed by the whole storyline.

Hopefully the two remaining kids win this little game of hide and seek.

[YianKutku]

I thought it was just some cute ambience they added to Terncliff to make it feel a bit more lively, but now I'm even more depressed by the whole storyline.

Hopefully the two remaining kids win this little game of hide and seek.

Yeah, I was wondering about the kids (because Au Ra child NPCs are kind of rare), and thus noticed their colour-coding as well. Also the kids seemed unusually cheerful compared to the adults moping around.

I was deeply hoping I was merely overthinking it and it was just ambience, because omg my heart.

[MrThinker]

So with the tempering cure we found in 5.4, I have a prediction for Save the Queen in 5.45:

We will save some of the Blades from their fate with the use of the crystal foci as a macguffin to essentially make them forget they are tempered.

Apologies if someone has already said this in the thread already, I didnt read through it all.

[KageTokage]

So with the tempering cure we found in 5.4, I have a prediction for Save the Queen in 5.45:

We will save some of the Blades from their fate with the use of the crystal foci as a macguffin to essentially make them forget they are tempered.

Apologies if someone has already said this in the thread already, I didnt read through it all.

On the subject of Bozja...

It wouldn't surprise me if they started shipping the tempering cure overseas to Eorzea's allies sooner then later, since while the crystal foci can repair/alter memories, it can't address the soul-altering component of tempering.

I feel like the whole Bozja primal issue is going to be resolved in 5.45 as both the quest names and the instance description Delubrum Reginae imply such, plus Misija and Gunnhildr in her true form as the Queen of Blades appear to be one of the Delubrum Reginae bosses in the preview trailer.

I assume we'll deal with Gabranth himself in the 5.5 finale to the storyline.

[RyuDragnier]

On the subject of Bozja...

It wouldn't surprise me if they started shipping the tempering cure overseas to Eorzea's allies sooner then later, since while the crystal foci can repair/alter memories, it can't address the soul-altering component of tempering.

I feel like the whole Bozja primal issue is going to be resolved in 5.45 as both the quest names and the instance description Delubrum Reginae imply such, plus Misija and Gunnhildr in her true form as the Queen of Blades appear to be one of the Delubrum Reginae bosses in the preview trailer.

I assume we'll deal with Gabranth himself in the 5.5 finale to the storyline.

On that subject of 5.5...

Considering how much Matsuda related work is in Bozja and related to the Empire (Landis, Lea Monde, Dalmasca, etc), I'm not entirely sure we'll deal with Gabranth this expansion. Depending on how things go in 5.45's Bozjan story, Gabranth may be off the table in terms of fighting, with Menenius instead being the final boss of the Bozjan arc (since the Gunnhildr thing was his idea). While that would be pretty anti-climactic that we don't fight the Legatus himself, it could also position him to be a recurring villain that we start going up against more and more before he takes the reins of main antagonist of the story. No telling whether that'll happen or not, we'll have to wait until 5.45 to find out where the story takes us.

[Fenral]

Leaving this here for later, but what if 6.0 has us finish off the Zodi-arc on the moon, and 7.0 ends up as our "coming home from Mordor" arc where we have to step in and sort out Garlemald?

[Mansion]

Leaving this here for later, but what if 6.0 has us finish off the Zodi-arc on the moon, and 7.0 ends up as our "coming home from Mordor" arc where we have to step in and sort out Garlemald?

At this point, the moon-thing has become so close to a joke that I can see it become something accessible in game (like an end-game zone, or a max level smallish hub like Doma or Gangos). I don't see a lot remaining on the Zodiark ark, while Garlemald is an urging issue currently.

I've posted on the forums back before 5.0 or just after the release about how we don't need to go to Garlemald without a proper reason. The focus of 1.0 MSQ through now has been resisting the Empire invasions, and liberating occupied nations. But no real need for us to go there, we don't have to become the invader. And I remember thinking that the only reason we would go there would be if some cretin villain would bait us in, which is exactly what the end of 5.4 was. We are dealing with Warlyt and Bozja currentlu which is once again peripheral consequences because they have an impact on other people, rather than a direct strike to the Empire. But the whole Fandaniel scheme kind of called that we will need to go there and face Zenos, again.

My take on Lunar Bahamut and the towers: this is the perfect setting for a FFX Black Aeons-themed storyline, although I would not be crazy about yet another version of primals we already know. Fandaniel could summon "d4rk" versions of primals and wreak havoc on most Beast Tribes. And while I think it isn't fit for a whole expansion, it could be great as some last patch event where we would have to kick some dark aeons summoned here and there in Eorzea and Othard, waiting for the expansion...

[KageTokage]

I'm kind of wondering if Nerva is going to end up being a secondary antagonist we'll have to deal with before Fandaniel and Zenos, akin to Vauthry in Shadowbringers.

I feel like Fandaniel is backing his war effort specifically to bring the civil war to a close sooner then later so that Garlemald will be able to put up a stronger opposition against the Eorzean Alliance once they likely end up deciding to make a move on the capital.

More fighting would just mean more death and more aether for whatever primal is at play to feed on, after all, and if recent tech like the synthetic auracite and Resonant treatments have become mainstream there'd be a very ugly conflict up ahead indeed.