Revelations from Patch 6.3: Gods Revel, Lands Tremble

[Alleo]

One thing I will say I enjoy about the 'Realms' Alliance Raids is the way the story presents itself.

No apocalyptic threat. No threat of calamity. No ulterior motive or evil plan. Just some benevolent deities who seem to want to have some fun with their 'children'. It's pretty refreshing in my opinion.

100% this. Before this raid I was really fearing that we would just find their place, kill them and be done with it. Its nice that SE instead went this route eventhough I am not really sure what the end goal even is. Hopefully it does not end with them moving on.

With Deryk being already sad about the goodbye in the future and him probably being one of the gods I really fear that this sadness is more than just not being able to interact with us anymore but that the gods plan to die after we fulfill whatever plan they have.

[RyuDragnier]

With Deryk being already sad about the goodbye in the future and him probably being one of the gods I really fear that this sadness is more than just not being able to interact with us anymore but that the gods plan to die after we fulfill whatever plan they have.

Sadly not a surprise, since no more calamities means no more reason for them to watch over mortals. Their purpose is at its end, and it's likely we'll be sending them off in the end back to the Lifestream.

[Cleretic]

Sadly not a surprise, since no more calamities means no more reason for them to watch over mortals. Their purpose is at its end, and it's likely we'll be sending them off in the end back to the Lifestream.

Except that as far as we can tell from their monument, that isn't their goal at all. (In fact they very specifically didn't help stop a Calamity when called on for exactly that.) Their purposes were basically to make sure the world held together and mankind reached their potential.

They probably didn't like when Calamities happened, but it wasn't their job to prevent them. Glaciers still exist, Halone's duty to rule over them isn't over.

[YianKutku]

Except that as far as we can tell from their monument, that isn't their goal at all. (In fact they very specifically didn't help stop a Calamity when called on for exactly that.) Their purposes were basically to make sure the world held together and mankind reached their potential.

They probably didn't like when Calamities happened, but it wasn't their job to prevent them. Glaciers still exist, Halone's duty to rule over them isn't over.

I'm guessing wildly and based on nothing more than gut feelings, but I have the vague impression that the goal of the Twelve, while not exactly known now, has something to do with how we (as in the current expedition into the Phantom Realm) are acting with regards to finding information.

They seem quite happy when they see that Krile wants to figure things out on her own, without relying entirely on guidance from the gods. There seems to be a trend towards "let us rest when we are certain our duty is done", but the "duty is done" part seems contingent on mortals being willing to put in the extra effort to really understand stuff. Doing things because we personally want to and understand why we want to, rather than because we're told to.

Which doesn't seem to have much to do with "regulating natural processes" that the monument in the Phantom Realm claimed. But there's always the third part of the Alliance Raid series to tell us what it's really about, so I'm kind of withholding serious speculation for now. Maybe the Twelve are making sure that mortals are now wise enough to take off the training wheels when it comes to natural disasters?