Reposting this from the comment I made on your vid. It was an excellent listen while I was in the tub this morning.


I am of the mind that the ark story with Nyunkrepft's Ark is only partially true, maybe even an outright lie. I think that the Sharlayans have knowledge of and ties to Amaurot's sister city from ancient times (and likely Hydaelyn's faction due to this). I think it's entirely possible that Sharlayan has technology beyond Allag, having had access and knowledge of all that Allag had for millennia. The shining example is the Sage's Noulith weapon. I think that in the depths of Old Sharlayan, in the bowels of that new area, Labyrinthos, they have a fairly dark secret. I'm torn between that secret being having direct access to Hydaelyn who they mistreat with big tech OR they knew/know what Rejoinings are and do, and are entirely prepared to entomb their society there to await fully rejoined status and then dominate the world to usher in utopia.

Basically I think they with hold from helping even now, because they are ultimately one step down from neutral. A neutral evil, so to speak. I think we will have a dungeon there around the level 87 portion of the MSQ, and they will serve as one faction of antagonists in the latter half of Endwalker. At first they will be what they claim to be now, but when we dig up their secrets and start airing them out... well, well, well.

As for how did Urianger miss out on the vital secrets? Well, you think those dastardly secret seekers would just let any ole Archon peruse the actual truth? He had an abridged edition.

(Also are there anythings in lore related to Nine Claws? Cause I mean, a guy named Nineclaw Nineclaw builds an ark... only thing I could find on the term Nine Claw was Nine Fingered which is a synonym for a thief in some old culture where they cut off a thief's finger to mark them as one)