The odd cutscene with Y'shtola and Runar in 5.3

[Cybylt]

5.3 was the first remote recording through pandemic patch and likely simply an audio bug related to that in the way people found Lyse and Cid's first lines off-sounding.

[Kesey]

5.3 was the first remote recording through pandemic patch and likely simply an audio bug related to that in the way people found Lyse and Cid's first lines off-sounding.

5.3 was recorded pre-pandemic. It was 5.4 that was recorded from home.

[Cybylt]

In that case I guess it was more a matter of people scrutinizing more than usual since it was the delayed patch? I recall it going around that people thought voice actors had changed where they hadn't.

[Rosenstrauch]

In that case I guess it was more a matter of people scrutinizing more than usual since it was the delayed patch? I recall it going around that people thought voice actors had changed where they hadn't.

You might have misunderstood what this thread is about. Nobody is talking about voice acting performances or low quality audio. They're referring to this specific scene, and its implication for future story content: https://youtu.be/vCNiYDRQgDI?t=231

[Cybylt]

You might have misunderstood what this thread is about. Nobody is talking about voice acting performances or low quality audio. They're referring to this specific scene, and its implication for future story content: https://youtu.be/vCNiYDRQgDI?t=231

"We hear an odd, tinny sound when Y'shtola talks about there being a day when they might not be able to tackle their problems alone"

Yeah I got caught up on the description without first revisiting the scene itself. With the scene uh, seen, that sound doesn't seem to have any particular meaning in itself and feels like it was an overemphasized pause for effect. Like a drumroll.

[MoofiaBossVal]

We hear an odd, tinny sound when Y'shtola talks

My thought was that it was actually the Sound coming back and that the Scions were more sensitive to hearing it than everyone else because of the loose connection between their body and soul, but given how we haven't heard the Sound since 5.3 I'm guessing it might not have actually been it after all.

My understanding is that the Sound is coming back right now.

In 4.5, you had Matoya's magics shorting out. A few people I've talked to have attributed that to the Light aether from the First, but light aspected aether shorting out magic is not an effect demonstrated in the story. What is? The Sound. at the end of 5.0 we learned that the Sound warped the magics the Ancients used.

Then, in 5.2, Urianger heard a sound which ruined his water walking spell. In 5.3, Alisae and Y'shtola hear the Sound as well. These incidents are distinct from Thancred becoming tired due to his soul being divorced from his body.

As for Y'shtola retiring with Runar on the First: that'd be nice, but I don't see how it could possibly happen. The story has been very clear that moving your body between shards is pretty much impossible. The Scions, Unukalhai, and Clyva were only able to go to the First as ghosts (and FFXIV has been inconsistent on that: the Scions were fading away as ghosts, but Ardbert, Unukalhai, and Clyva weren't. I guess maybe they have the echo and that allows them to stick around as long?). Not even the Ascians are capable of bringing their bodies on the Source to the First; Emet had to possess some random sob and reconfigure his physique, and Elidibus possessed Ardbert's body. There are only two characters in FFXIV who were able to bring their bodies over to the First: the Crystal Exarch (by riding the Crystal Tower, using a huge amount of aether to do it), and the WoL (due to really wonky writing that makes the WoL the one exception). Unless the Ironworks are able to recreate the time travel/dimensional transporter and install it in the Crystal Tower and allow Y'shtola to use that to go to the First, there is no way she is able to get there.

And besides, Y'shtola's is said to have been burning up her life force by using her eyes to see aether. Or at least, that was a line dropped when she started using her eyes to do so and it hasn't been brought up since, so it kinda feels like a cheap excuse that didn't mean anything in the end. I'd sorta like for that plot point to be cashed in and for her to fall ill or pass away after 6.0.

[Cybylt]

And besides, Y'shtola's is said to have been burning up her life force by using her eyes to see aether. Or at least, that was a line dropped when she started using her eyes to do so and it hasn't been brought up since, so it kinda feels like a cheap excuse that didn't mean anything in the end. I'd sorta like for that plot point to be cashed in and for her to fall ill or pass away after 6.0.

Worth noting that any mention of life force was english-only and all other versions say it's just vaguely dangerous to be doing. Also that all magics that use personal aether draw from your life-force in a sense. The actual effect probably simply amounts to putting a lower cap on the amount of personal aether she can safely expend before resting.

[LunaJoy]

5.3 was the first remote recording through pandemic patch and likely simply an audio bug related to that in the way people found Lyse and Cid's first lines off-sounding.

Um...what?