Lol the Eric talk reminds me of my static back in Heavensward elongating Thordan's name to ThorDaniel during Thordan Extreme.

Hmm, crazy theories hmm...

The dev team writers are going to use the Sundered Ascians still left on the table, perhaps with some of the souls freed via Zodiark to have us fight an Ascian Possessed Dragon. So like, Azdaja but amped up by having conscious Ascians fused into her? Maybe this will give us a Negative version of Estinien, an antagonist with a similar power draw? And it'll kill Tiamat, maybe.

We'll get Gaia to come to the Source to come be a mainline protagonist, maybe also Ryne after Y'shtola finds out how to go get to riding Runar.

We're never going to Corvos, because Labyrinthos is said to be modelled off of it. But be prepared to hear about Corvos at least 52 more times.