Quote Originally Posted by Powercow View Post
See that's something that bugs me. It's obvious Themis is Elidibus. Really obvious. TOO obvious.

Like, every other time this expansion there was a "twist" that was super-duper obvious they just call it out right away. Loporrits with a mysterious group they're in contact with? Yeah, it's the Forum, we know. A mysterious dragon ally of some dude who rules Thavnair with some weird red-eyed kid with a weirdly large amount of authority? Yeah pull down the curtain and show yourself, Vrtra. But then there's Themis and... nobody's calling it out. Maybe the WoL is just kinda dumb, one too many hits to the head. Y'shtola and Estinien were the ones to call out the ones above. I dunno. I think they might do some weird double-fakeout.
The WoL has a history of not bothering to call out obvious "twists". Remember way back in the first Hildebrand quests, when we're told to look out for a hulking man in garish red clothes minutes before Gilgamesh shows up, and nobody questions it? Or how the Ishgardian church were the bad guys? Or any number of occasions where the big reveal is that the Empire or the Ascians were behind it? We could probably debate whether the WoL is really just that oblivious or apathetic, or whether the writers left it to the player to decide how they should react, but there is a precedent for it.