6.0 Story Speculations

[Mansion]

Is it even confirmed we have two Moon zones ?

As far as I know we have
Sharlayan (City hub)
Radz-at-Han (Endgame hub)

Then:
Thavnair
Garlemald
Labyrinthos
Mare Lamentorum (moon)
"The floating continent we have a glimpe in the job trailer and official artwork but no name"
??? (if we go by 6 zones per expansion as usual).

[RicaRuin]

I'm very torn about that crystalline area from the Launch Trailer. At first I wanted to say it's a dungeon with the Scions following you, but with that new NPC follow feature, it could also be part of our potential 6th zone.

[Seraphor]

Is it even confirmed we have two Moon zones ?

As far as I know we have
Sharlayan (City hub)
Radz-at-Han (Endgame hub)

Then:
Thavnair
Garlemald
Labyrinthos
Mare Lamentorum (moon)
"The floating continent we have a glimpe in the job trailer and official artwork but no name"
??? (if we go by 6 zones per expansion as usual).

The reveal of Mare Lamentorum during fanfest came with the comment "this is one of the locations on the moon" with emphasis.

[kaynide]

You are missing Labyrinthos, though.

As I said, ”I also guess this to be the interior of Hydaelyn itself, possibly going into a Hollow Earth kinda thing.”, if it is indeed under Sharlayan.

I'm very torn about that crystalline area from the Launch Trailer. At first I wanted to say it's a dungeon with the Scions following you, but with that new NPC follow feature, it could also be part of our potential 6th zone.

I would lean more moon interior dungeon, as it is vaguely similar to the decent into the moon via the Crystal palace of FFIV.

[KageTokage]

I'm really dying to know where the nightmarish hellscape of a dungeon falls in the scheme of things, because it could be something inconsequential like a fabrication produced by Fandaniel or an Ancient record (Showing the aftermath of the first coming of the Final Days), or more interestingly an actual plane of reality where the source of the sound lurks (Which is possibly being suggested by the minstrel's song mentioning our journey ending in the rift between worlds).

[Wiz33]

This was the core villain plot of Shadowbringers: Emet's plot was to have you become a lightwarden and rejoin The First to The Source or have you accept you are an Ancient, remember old Amaurot, and switch sides. In his mind he had plotted the perfect outcome because either one was bound to come to pass (in his opinion) and he wins either way. After you defeat Hades, Emet's shock comes when your WOL flashes as an Ancient for a brief moment and he recognizes you as Azem. Since Azem and Emet were friends and he knows that Azem would have sided with the 'lesser races" anyway, he realizes that his plan wasn't full proof, that the WOL was always going to seek a 3rd solution to his plot. And now he was beat at his own game, or his strength, which was plotting and planning.

So to answer your question, he shows you everything in Amaurot so you would take the option to remember your Ancient past. Remember either outcome was a win (in his opinion), plus he was immortal and has all the time in the world to rejoin The First if the WOL would have changed sides.

Except he recognized you're Azem a long time ago. He even mentioned that you don't remember. If Hythlodaues's shade can recognize who you're, Emet certainly did despite his show of surprise. That's why the crystal trail was laid out for you.

[Mansion]

The reveal of Mare Lamentorum during fanfest came with the comment "this is one of the locations on the moon" with emphasis.

Ah thanks!
Well, I'm okay with a bit more "focused zones". So far, the 4 zones we know of are a bit all over the place, which makes me fear a "Stormblood narrative" that would feel too patched altogether.
But we can still hope they learned their lessons from Stormblood too!

[KageTokage]

The zones might be scattered around, but they're still united by a singular narrative of trying to stop the threat of the Final Days, which seems to largely be trying to figure out what the heck we're dealing with so we can actually do something about it.

Stormblood's plot felt extremely disjointed because they opted to make the liberation of an entirely different nation a mere step towards the Ala Mhigan liberation when it could've just as easily been a story unto itself.

[Theodric]

There's likely going to be a lot of 'jumping' between zones, potentially using the mechanic introduced during the solo duty at the end of the latest story patch. That one where specific NPC's are shown as similar to chess pieces on a map and we 'jump' between controlling them to see through their eyes.

[Lyth]

I'm really dying to know where the nightmarish hellscape of a dungeon falls in the scheme of things, because it could be something inconsequential like a fabrication produced by Fandaniel or an Ancient record (Showing the aftermath of the first coming of the Final Days), or more interestingly an actual plane of reality where the source of the sound lurks (Which is possibly being suggested by the minstrel's song mentioning our journey ending in the rift between worlds).

I think that it's the area outside of Pandaemonium, given the preview that we got of the spooky castle zone with the aetherically charged sky in the live letter. The main part of the castle will probably house the 6.0 showdown, and we'll probably dive into its depths across the raid tier to take out the original threat that started it all in 6.4.

Bonus points if the end of the 6.2 raid tier comes with a final twinkling save point outside of a sealed door.