Revelations from Fan Festival Around the World 2021

[myahele]

Some of you may know of my theories and that floating city along with that giant underground dome throws some fuel on the fire for me.

I'm thinking Sharlayan is going to use the underground dome to try and outlive the End Days (Chrono Trigger style). I'm going out on a limb to say that plan fails miserably and there is a dungeon tied to it as the magicks they wield begin to go out of control.

I wouldn't be too surprised if they created a Calamity-proof structure. They were founded by an Archon who led people to safety during during the water Calamity. They could be over confident thanks to all the lost magics and history they accumulated in the past 1000 years.

[lycropath]

Wondering if the floating city is gonna be a reference to Bhujerba at all.

[KageTokage]

I do find it a touch curious that Zenos is mixed in with all of the Scions as opposed to given a spot of prominence at the top of the artwork like they've done with the villains and other key players of the previous expansions.

I suppose it could just be because he's not a new character anymore, but I would definitely not mind an "enemy mine" scenario if Fandaniel's treachery stretches to an extent that it endangers his schemes as well.

Maybe our Voidsent Avatar might just be our sundered soul from the void?

I could see that being the reason for how the job is able to function in general, because all we've seen thus far is that becoming a vessel for a voidsent is universally not a good thing, with mind control being the best possible outcome and the worst being that your soul is forced out and body warped into the shape of the possessor.

Perhaps if the voidsent is the summoner's soul fragment, it instead resonates with them rather then trying to dominate them.

[Erendis]

Shards of Dalamud on the moon?



Moon base



Labyrinth



Reminds me of armillary sphere. So many greek looking things.

[Riastrad]

That was my first guess.

I mean, even if its not (it more than likely isn't), that floating island is eerily reminiscent of Zeal. It only makes sense for Square Enix to reuse existing ideas and designs to use as subtle nods and call backs to older games.

Floating land mass = Zeal

Fandaniel = Queen Zeal

Traveling to other timelines/realities = Epoch and the Chrono Cross

The possible use of Domes to avoid the holocaust caused by meteors of suspect origin = Parasitic entity the feeds on the life of a planet that shoots literal comets out of its back and destroys a world while the survivors use domes as shelter in said world. How funny.

Easy, Chrono Cross deals almost exclusively with alternate realities. Considering we supposedly (I almost doubt it) just altered our own timeline, and it was hand waived that the old timeline in which we died was simply cut off and set adrift, an entity like Lavos being the reason the fracture happened (which let us directly affect time) kind of fits a little too well. The best ending in Trigger leads directly into Cross. Lavos itself latched onto Schala in the Darkness beyond Time and began creating split realities to keep itself alive. Becoming the Dream/Time Devourer, a crystalline monster that had a young blonde woman in a white dress bound to it no less. Big hmm moment for me there when I saw the 3.2 patch art.



I don't trust Hydaelyn or the narrative that the Ascians are pushing. I think a parasite has literally wrapped its claws around the very weapons used to stop it. It's just a matter of time till we need to address that issue.





Forgive me the pictures. I don't like having to add so many, but I really needed the visual aids.

[XiXiQ]

OCEANIA DATA CENTER!

omg omg omg OMG !!!!

[JeanneOrnitier]

Maybe our Voidsent Avatar might just be our sundered soul from the void?

That would be dope and would probably explain how it's safe for us to use

[Zohar_Lahar]

Magus Sisters is probably a trial boss like Anima.

[JeanneOrnitier]

So as an aside I'm honestly surprised the trailer didn't remove the clouds over Ilsabard. And now that there's only one zone left unknown, I guess we really won't be going there outside of Garlemald this expansion. I'm not exactly disappointed per se, but I'm quite surprised. I was expecting that.

[KageTokage]

Magus Sisters is probably a trial boss like Anima.

The thing I find curious is that the version of them we were openly presented with bears the bright color schemes synonymous with Thravnair, but they're also sneakily present in the artwork for what's presumably the Garlemald tower though with the darker color scheme the other lunar primals have.