6.0 Story Speculations

[Lauront]

It WOULD be interesting. We've seen what the effects of such deep tempering are: Captain Madison and the Drowned, for starters. But the most notable are, of course, SIN EATERS. I'm not saying Fandaniel knows about the cure for Tempering, but it WOULD be on-brand for what we know of him to deliberately set to temper people so hard as to warp their bodies beyond saving. With the chaos that Sin Eaters caused on the First, having a continous source of sorta-Sin Eaters but Astrally-aligned would create a LOT of Chaos.

Plus, Fandaniel's towers have the capacity to temper and not everyone following along has the Echo or its counterfeit version. There's ways and means of resisting tempering (being tempered by a more powerful being or having the Resonance "installed", for example), but none without risks besides the Echo.

With regard to Sin Eaters, Voidsent are indeed their mirror since they're both corporeally corrupted by aether (light and dark respectively), and we saw Tadric replicate the process of creating them in the tank side quest. I'm certain we'll see some of this kind of thing as Fandaniel re-creates the Final Days (those towers already seem to be emitting something like a sound signal...), since the modern denizens of the Source lack the capacity for creation magicks, so he'll have to be creative in how he replicates the monstrosities. There is some precedent for this kind of thing in the DNC quests, but nothing on the order of the Final Days, hence all the preparation he is making.

I hard agree with this one. Although I overall enjoy the story of FFXIV and think that unnecessarily killing characters for the sake of it is bad, setting the stakes of the literal END of days is very necessary. The previous apocalypse
-Destroyed the Laws of reality to the point where they needed to be rewritten
-Devastated the star to the point that Zodiark needed to restore the planets capacity to house life
-Split the convocation up with Azem's rejection of both summonings
-Hydaelyn's summoning and the subsequent battle that sundered the world
-The beginning of the Ascians self proclaimed "Great work"
I could go all day >:^)

These are massive events brought by the Final days of Amaurot so if we get off scot-free I don't know how I would feel. If Zenos or Fandaniel rolled up on the scions and just executed one of the members that would really light a fire under me to get going. ATM with Zenos i'm just excited to put him in the dirt. He's a cool antagonist/reflection of the WoL IMO but I don't have any real personal stake in him other than "TIME FOR ROUND 8!!! Scythe vs Scythe edition" you feel me?

I also believe Emet-Selch was holding back a bit with regard to the MC's companions, because he was allowing for the possibility that the WoL would pass his test (hence the contingencies he set up via Hythlodaeus, etc.) Zenos and Fandaniel really have zero reasons to hold back in that way.