Speculation - 6.X trial series

[Enkidoh]

Two, really: Tiamat and Kraken. I was thinking about whether that would be an option and could even be directly tied into the Tiamat we already know. But that would still probably require finding some justification for bringing back Kraken from Sastasha/Hullbreaker.

I guess it's doable, but it would require a lot of writing gymnastics. But if done well I guess I wouldn't mind.

EDIT: Actually, now that I think of it, this may be one of the more likely options. When I look at what we have already gotten for extra trials and raid content, I see:

FFI:
FFII: Pandaemonium
FFIII: Crystal Tower
FFIV:
FFV: Omega
FFVI: Warring Triad
FFVII: Weapons
FFVIII: Eden
FFIX: Alexander
FFX:
FFXI: Eureka
FFXII: Dalmasca

So my best guess would be anything from FF I, IV, X, or XIII. And since EW already heavily features IV and X, I is almost the obvious choice by process of elimination (unless we are looking at forging into new territory with XIII/XV). It would also make for a pretty fitting capstone to the 10 year arc.

Also, looking at this list I would imagine we might eventually get some sort of Lunar Subterrane and/or Sin set of trials/raids.



I guess loosely, but I also kind of discount everything in ARR since the patch cycle formula really wasn't clearly defined at the time. And it feels weird trying to classify two Gilgamesh battles and an Ultros/Typhon battle as fitting the same mold as the expansions, which each dealt with sets of different high-level bosses from a specific title.

The Omega raids also tied into FFVI (Phantom Train, Jidoor Mansion, Kefka's Tower) and FFI (Temple of Chaos) as well, so they've already been accommodated raid-wise. And the Four Lords in SB were specifically based on their appearences as HNMs in FFXI, right down to including the references to Tenzen (who was a major character in FFXI's Chains of Promathia story). The next raid series is already accounted for anyway and is going to be FFXIV-lore specific (the Myths of the Realm, about the murky origins, history and reality of The Twelve), so that all but rules out a new FF fanservice raid in the near future at least I'm sorry to say.

And given part of the point of EW's 'winding up' of the original storyline was because Yoshi himself was tired of the whole Primal/trial thing (why else were the 'Primal' trial battles in EW not 'Primals' in the normal sense, but instead fighting

Zodiark and Hydaelyn

, with the actual "beast-tribe/people summoned-style' Primals just boss fights in dungeons?), I don't see any more special trial battle arcs being added, at least not right now anyway.

Plus we already have got plenty of FFIV references in EW with the Tower of Zot/the Magus Sisters, the region name for part of Garlemald being Eblan, Lugae and Barnabas's appearence as bosses in the Tower of Babil, the Moon and Namingways lorporrits, FFIV-themed tomestone gear etc etc, so I don't think we'll see anything really further beyond that.

But the future direction of the story now is a big question mark so anything is really possible having said that!