Quote Originally Posted by Bright-Flower View Post
The Elidibus stuff will probably be in the Pandaemonium raid. The npc we see in the stinger cutscene for it has his voice, and Elidibus remembered seeing us in Elpis despite not showing up for the msq. On top of that, Elidibus was not introduced in 5.2. We've seen glimpses from him all throughout the game, he first showed in what, 2.1 I think? He didn't just suddenly show up in SHB's patches. And there is still room to explore him further via the Pandaemonium quests in which it's likely he'll be one of the main NPCs involved.

I doubt that the other ascians will be killed off in the pandaemonium raid. It takes place in Elpis in the past, them even getting there wouldn't make sense let alone all being killed off.

How they developed Zodiark feels like a question we don't really need more answers on. They used creation magic and half the population's souls to make him, going into some details of how they did that off with magical technobable wouldn't really add anything. We know why they did it, we know the lengths they went to do it. I don't feel like there was much more to get out of his summoning.
I mean we know the raids will feature lahabrea somehow, so there’s clearly something more going on than just the past of Elpis. Especially considering how similar Lahabrea’s glyph is to the murals of both hydaelyn and zodiark. How they developed him would be kind of important considering that’s literally what this entire arc has revolved around? If we have to be fed info on the scions histories etc i don’t think being fed info on the deities that this entire arc has revolved around is any more far fetched. Yes we’ve seen glimpses of Elidibus but he wasn’t given actual main screentime until really 5.3. Beyond that it was mainly background scenes. As for the ascians being in pandaemonium, it depends on the story they go with, but things have never made sense with 14’s story recently.