What are your crazy theories after Endwalker

[Iscah]

I -The cold death of the universe mentioned by the Ea in Ultima Thule will be an important part of the overarching plot in "Season 2"

The heat death of the universe is a real scientific concept that will play out over billions of years. It is quite outside of our realm to prevent, but also won't be happening any time remotely within the scope of the story.

It only concerns the Ea because they made themselves immortal and they'll be around to see it happen.

[Kesey]

The Allagans still exist and live on another planet.

Their history is something like we discovered space travel before the calamity and made an Ark rocket to leave the star and find another one with small part of the population before the calamity destroyed their civilization. Then they've been living on an aether rich planet not suffering calamities for thousands of years building their technology and magic waiting for a time to return when Zodiark and Ascians can't stop them from taking their "destiny" which is to conquer the star.

The villain for 7.0 will be apart of the advanced scouting party and this will only be revealed to us at the end. Our ability to stop this villain will also send the message back to the Allagans that the WOL is ready to defend the star and this will mobilize their armies--in other words use our defend the weak morality to be the cause of up coming galactic war.

In 8.0 Zenos is rescued by them and treated like a long lost citizen because of his power and resonant. Furthermore he will fit in with the Allagans and get a new perspective on life. Zenos will lead the vanguard invasion force and will instead deny us any fight with him because he now has grander ideas of domination.

9.0 will visit another shard to stop the Allagan invasion there, as it becomes apparent they have the means to travel to shards easily. What would be interesting if the villain was a shard of Azem who has become disillusioned adventuring and wants more instead.

10.0 will have us go to the Allagan planet which has become a city planet like Coruscant from Star Wars. We'll win over their civilization and reveal the true evil that has been puppeting those events from the shadows, setting things into motion because they knew Hydaelyn and Zodiark were destined to fall. This evil will be the thing Azem was trying to solve during the original Final Days.

11.0 will be the thirteen to face down this evil that has been hiding their this whole time and also save the remaining souls. The WOL will save existence but be cast into a time vortex and spit out into an unknown future.

12.0 will retrofit of the entire game, changing the world into present and past tense. Maybe something like world of ruin (previous expansion would be the world of balance). And they start a new adventure for the WOL heading to stop an unknown threat.

You said crazy right?

[Alleluia]

-Eric becomes our Lahabrea

I'd bet money on this.

-Zenos somehow comes back (again)

I'd bet (a small amount of) money on this.

-Zenos returns…and finds new meaning in life as an understudy of Hildebrand…is renamed “Jeff”.

"Ned", or no deal. (And now I'm picturing Zenos Manderville posing. Good Lord. XD)

-Emet and Hythlo are either gone for good or at least a really long time, or they'll speed-reincarnate (possibly with the aid of the aforementioned time skip) and join the main cast in 7.0

"with new parts for all to play", "I hope we meet again in a joyous reunion", etc. I think this is a solid idea. I dunno HOW, unless they're gonna be kids. I can't see us timeskipping 15-20 years. Although, nothing says they have to reincarnate on the Source, I suppose. Could reincarnate on a shard and be older due to time shenanigans, like between the Source and the First.