Quote Originally Posted by EdwinLi View Post
I don't know why but I feel the Last Job Role Quest is actually a multi-update part storyline that may cover finishing off the remainin Ascian and their lackies. We see in the trailer that the 6.1 Job role quest is going to focus on finishing the Garlean Side of MSQ involving the Tower of Babil.

People will complain such a important lore event is a "optional side content" and locked behind Role Quests but the developers probably done this to prevent a 2.X bloated MSQ event again since they have focused a lot on making certain things that could have been part of MSQ in past expansions to be optional MSQ contents. This will also fall into their promise of having Season 2 MSQ no longer focus on the Ascians anymore as well thus why such a important lore involving finishing off the last of Ascians so they are no longer a threat forever is a Optional MSQ content.
I doubt the Ascians have anything to do with the tower business and think it's more addressing the loose threads that we never encountered the "lead" blasphemy in Garlemald, nor did we really learn about the deeper workings of the tower and why it's still radiating that unpleasant glow still.

The circumstances of Anima's summoning don't really align with what we know of previous primals, either, as while there was an excess of faith you also need a concentrated source of aether to serve as a catalyst as well; whether it be crystals or something like Nidhogg's eyes so I expect the latter point is also going to be addressed.