[5.55 Bozja spoilers] Additional post-ending Bozja story hidden in the field record

[RyuDragnier]

Now... what troubles me in terms of the field notes is Lyon's entry saying he spent six months in the gaol before 'assassinating' Gabranth before the 4th Legion was ultimately defeated and then showed up an additional three months later to hand over Scinicius. It certainly seems a weirdly long stretch of time to throw into the epilogue since ya know, the End Days are coming and all that so it seems very weird to me that the 4th Legion took that long to fall. But I guess time will tell when it comes to just how all this shakes out with Endwalker.

That's actually brilliant if you think about it. How long does it take us to travel from Limsa to Kugane by ship? 3-4 months. Where will we be likely traveling from ship in Endwalker? To Sharlayan, and Thauvnair, which combined may take 3-4 months (since we're covering half the distance towards both destinations). Assuming there's a time skip of some kind at the end of 6.0, this basically lets them write the IVth Legion out of the story for when we come back, with Tataru or somebody else explaining to us what has happened in our absence.

We've done time skips before but a total of nine months being written about in these field notes as a 'this is what happens' is a long time. Not least of all because of Endwalker where we're given to believe the whole world is suffering from the End Days so the 4th Legion and Gabranth just ya know... chilling with it and still fighting Dalmasca during is just so out of place with the rest of the narrative.

Are they chilling? Or are they fighting the Terminus nearby while also fighting the Resistance the reason why this faked death happens? If they lost far too much manpower and supplies against the Terminus, it could be the only way out that Noah sees. Plus our minds will be elsewhere, we won't give a damn about the IVth Legion, we're literally dealing with an End of the World scenario, they play second fiddle to this.

[Ronald_Bloodwings]

That's actually brilliant if you think about it. How long does it take us to travel from Limsa to Kugane by ship? 3-4 months. Where will we be likely traveling from ship in Endwalker? To Sharlayan, and Thauvnair, which combined may take 3-4 months (since we're covering half the distance towards both destinations). Assuming there's a time skip of some kind at the end of 6.0, this basically lets them write the IVth Legion out of the story for when we come back, with Tataru or somebody else explaining to us what has happened in our absence.


Are they chilling? Or are they fighting the Terminus nearby while also fighting the Resistance the reason why this faked death happens? If they lost far too much manpower and supplies against the Terminus, it could be the only way out that Noah sees. Plus our minds will be elsewhere, we won't give a damn about the IVth Legion, we're literally dealing with an End of the World scenario, they play second fiddle to this.

When you put it that way... I can see it working it just feels weird to 'know' already what happens so far in advance... like really weird... Maybe I'm thinking too much.

And I worded that wrong, it feels weird that Dalmasca would devote resources to fighting the 4th Legion when their own survival is no doubt also threatened by the End Days.

[swiss_Momo]

An enormous chunk of the playerbase would sooner cancel their FF14 subscription and slit their wrists than ever set foot in Bozja, after how Diadem and Eureka went.
I'd find it a baffling decision on SE's part to continue the Bozja story at all, let alone make it *required* for anything in the future. Including just understanding the MSQ.
If anything at all eventually comes of this storyline, I'd expect it to be summarized for us in-game; I'm personally expecting us to never hear about the IVth or Dalmasca again.

and don't forget that Bozja itself is locked behind the return to Ivalice raids, which still take quite some time to queue for. Locking anything mayor behind doing both would only get the SE HQ firebombed.
At most there'll be a cutscene flag like back in, uhhh, 3.4 with Alisaie and coils

That's actually brilliant if you think about it. How long does it take us to travel from Limsa to Kugane by ship? 3-4 months. Where will we be likely traveling from ship in Endwalker? To Sharlayan, and Thauvnair, which combined may take 3-4 months (since we're covering half the distance towards both destinations). Assuming there's a time skip of some kind at the end of 6.0, this basically lets them write the IVth Legion out of the story for when we come back, with Tataru or somebody else explaining to us what has happened in our absence.

Ehh, the off screen leisure cruise time skip won't be that long. Going by the 1st lore book a boat trip from Old Sharlayan to Limsa takes at least 2 weeks. And From Limsa to Doma would be 2 months. Also I recall reading somewhere that Limsa to Tavnair was 3 weeks