I Just Noticed Shadowbringers Invalidates Endwalker's Plot Armour

[Pintsized]

I just re-played 5.3 on a new character for the first time since finishing Endwalker on my 'main' and was stunned to see Endwalker's main plot armour .. what I call the "orange crystal of emotional investment killing" .. IS INVALID!

Why?

Because if you watch the post-Seat of Sacrifice cutscene, at the point where Elidibus is kneeling on the ground in white 'Amourtine' form the player drops the 13 crystals they'd collected in the quest "Etched in the Stars" and the orange Azem's Crystal is one of them; unsurprising really given I doubt SE had come up with the "and with one bound they were free" part of Endwalker's climax.

When Elidibus' body evaporates into a cloud of aether so do the crystals INCLUDING AZEM'S.

So Endwalker's end story has the player use an item THEY CAN'T HAVE!

LOL, SE need a story continuity expert methinks.

/sigh

[Deveryn]

I just re-played 5.3 on a new character for the first time since finishing Endwalker on my 'main' and was stunned to see Endwalker's main plot armour .. what I call the "orange crystal of emotional investment killing" .. IS INVALID!

Why?

Because if you watch the post-Seat of Sacrifice cutscene, at the point where Elidibus is kneeling on the ground in white 'Amourtine' form the player drops the 13 crystals they'd collected in the quest "Etched in the Stars" and the orange Azem's Crystal is one of them; unsurprising really given I doubt SE had come up with the "and with one bound they were free" part of Endwalker's climax.

When Elidibus' body evaporates into a cloud of aether so do the crystals INCLUDING AZEM'S.

So Endwalker's end story has the player use an item THEY CAN'T HAVE!

LOL, how to destroy whatever story telling credibility hadn't already been lost in the deployment of this plot armour device in the first place.

/sigh

You might want to double check that because WoL still has that crystal in one of the subsequent scenes. The convocation was 14 seats.

[Saraide]

You might want to rewatch the cutscene where we bring graha's soul vessel to the crystal tower to merge him with his former self.
Specifically Cutscene #3 in the Reflections in Crystal quest.

[DiaDeem]

Literally 20 mins after SoS:

[Syrri]

Should've gone to specsavers

[Silvarer]

Wonder if OP will come back to the thread and actually acknowledge they were wrong?

[MilkieTea]

Wonder if OP will come back to the thread and actually acknowledge they were wrong?

No. You can't do that on the internet!

[SylvAlternate]

Wonder if OP will come back to the thread and actually acknowledge they were wrong?

I think it'd be funnier if they didn't and we just kept this thread alive to remind them of it whenever they check the site

[SannaR]

It would be funnier if they did and tried to double down by showing the picture of the 13 memory stones having one that they think would have the sol symbol. There are some of colors that are close to the Azem stone.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Why.. am I not surprised..

This isn't their first similarly made thread.