The clones of Emet.

[kaynide]

None of you address how your band of misfit survive intact enough to come to your rescue and who was sustaining Hythlodaues's shade, whom somehow knows Emet's last word to you (To remember them). In my opinion. The only thing they could have done is to add this line to the end credit "Emet Selch will return in Endwalker" like so many Bond movies to advertise the fact. Emet has dominated the story from the moment he shows up and he's arguably the best Antagonist in FFXIV so far. He'll have a major (maybe not so direct) role to play in Endwalker.

That's all a big stretch. We could just as easily say Hythodauses was lying to us all along and is another Ascian in disguise. Or Hythodauses is actually a copy of Emet-Selch's own memories, and not some friend. There's a lot of maybe-kinda-sorta, but there is nothing certain.

I mean "Hythodauses" means "Dispenser of Nonsense" in Greek, and much of Shadowbringers nomenclature is lifted directly from Thomas More's book, Utopia. That said, there's no reason to dig too deep into it as SE is known for lifting names without accompanying meaning or associated mythology.

Yes, anything is possible, but more likely than not, you've just got to trust the game isn't lying to you, unless it is an elaborate plot twist, in which case there would be a LOT of evidence.

A more realistic thing is they just rehired the voice actor they like to do more work on other characters.