Revelations from the Announcement Showcase

[myahele]

People have guessed Namingways as tribes living on the moon. But I wonder if there are some Moogles living there as well?

Based on the the Good King Moogle Mog story, Moogles lived on the moon and served the gods. When the gods warred among themselves the Moogle king created a rope so the Moogles can descend to the Earth. I wonder if the war they mentioned could have been between Hydaelyn and Zodiark's group or something we don't know of yet?

My memory is hazy, but FF9 had Pandaemonion which had souls of the ancients in stasis and FF4 Zemus was tasked keeping watch over the Lunarians that were also in hibernation.

[WhiteArchmage]

From the LL rather than the announcement, but the new Dungeon will be Paglth'an, and I spent like half an hour trying to remember where it was. I knew it was tied to the Amalja, and then I checked the map of the Three Great Continents. It's Northeast of Ul'Dah. So whatever 5.5 has for us, it'll involve the Amalja.

[RyuDragnier]

For some reason that shape on the other side of the moon reminds me of a Zeromus artwork with that shape and horn-like line at the top. Probably just my wild imagination, but thought it's interesting enough to share.

*loads MCH gun* Moon's haunted.

[Mahoukenshi]

I don't care about raids and alliance raids (blergh!), so no comment. While it's sad to see Ryne not with us in Trusts anymore, I'm looking forward to tsun-tsun Estinien .
I'm no healer main, nor a passable healer, but I may as well try it out with Trusts.

[MrThinker]

From the LL rather than the announcement, but the new Dungeon will be Paglth'an, and I spent like half an hour trying to remember where it was. I knew it was tied to the Amalja, and then I checked the map of the Three Great Continents. It's Northeast of Ul'Dah. So whatever 5.5 has for us, it'll involve the Amalja.

Pagl'than is the homeland of the Amal'jaa, much the same Xelphatol is for the Ixal. In 1.0, the Bowl of Embers was located there, not sure if they retconned that in 2.0

[Iscah]

People have guessed Namingways as tribes living on the moon. But I wonder if there are some Moogles living there as well?

Based on the the Good King Moogle Mog story, Moogles lived on the moon and served the gods. When the gods warred among themselves the Moogle king created a rope so the Moogles can descend to the Earth. I wonder if the war they mentioned could have been between Hydaelyn and Zodiark's group or something we don't know of yet?

It was the sky, not the moon - they thought the myth might have originated from something that drove moogles from Moghome to travel to the surface.

[KageTokage]

I assume we're going to Pagl'than to investigate the disappearance of both Amal'jaa and the Ul'dahn scouting teams...which is likely to end with us going up against a mess of tower-tempering victims.

[Erendis]

I saw people speculate that Zenos will swap to the new melee job and the more I think about it the more feasible it seems. He did say he is going to find a new weapon. Also, does that look like a scythe to you?

[Anonymoose]

There were two shirts in a row that seemed to invoke a Grim Reaper vibe, but dev. team commentary has never sounded like "Necromancer" fit their conceptualization of the game's lore or themes. And Koji did seem to be hamming Necromancer up rather than avoiding it, which seems like a hint that it's not the right tree to bark up. (Or I'm wrong about all of the above.)

Throw my gil down on "a scythe-wielding class called 'reaper' or 'death [insert combat profession noun here]'."

[KageTokage]

I'm honestly thinking it might just be Assassin since it's already an established job in the Tactics universe, though with their typical weapons of daggers and katanas already being utilized, an alternative like scythes or katars would have to be on the table.

The notion of the WoL taking up a job so closely associated with death/killing sounded a little dicey to me initially, but then I remembered other jobs like SAM and DRK already had us going around targeting evildoers and bringing them to justice, so if it's for the right reasons, it would work.