6.4 patch speculation

[Alleluia]

Isolated image for closer examination if anyone needed it:

https://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/promo/h/r/j7-rKYDlCbSUqW9XN63K3Fg8C8.jpg

And some thoughts:

Is that blue line supposed to be a leash or tether coming from Azdaja's mouth? It seems to go down over Golbez' shoulder and possibly be gripped by his left hand on his knee/in his lap, behind the letters.

And does the backing of that throne remind anyone else of a paladin's blade in their new lvl 90 attacks? The one where swords come out of the ground or w/e.

EDIT: Sorry, the forum wasn't showing me that I got ninja'd to posting the clean image till just now. But mine's technically a different link, and imgur gives my browser fits for some reason, so I'm still leaving it here just in case.

[RyuDragnier]

Is that blue line supposed to be a leash or tether coming from Azdaja's mouth? It seems to go down over Golbez' shoulder and possibly be gripped by his left hand on his knee/in his lap, behind the letters.

And does the backing of that throne remind anyone else of a paladin's blade in their new lvl 90 attacks? The one where swords come out of the ground or w/e.

Now that you mention it...it does.

I wonder, is this hinting that Golbez is in fact half of Zero? Zero's original job as seen in the past was a PLD after all, plus we don't know what effects occurred when Zero was put under Zenos's control. And since time flows differently between shards...if Golbez IS Zero's other self, that would explain why she's missing emotions. Considering of course, that Voidsent tend to show a lot of emotions and instinct and Zero seems devoid of them.

[Cleretic]

Now that you mention it...it does.

I wonder, is this hinting that Golbez is in fact half of Zero? Zero's original job as seen in the past was a PLD after all, plus we don't know what effects occurred when Zero was put under Zenos's control. And since time flows differently between shards...if Golbez IS Zero's other self, that would explain why she's missing emotions. Considering of course, that Voidsent tend to show a lot of emotions and instinct and Zero seems devoid of them.

This is a baseline misread of the character.

She's not 'missing emotions', she's been stuck in a horrible hellhole for ten thousand years and is, to be light, poorly socialized. There has never been a moment where she appears to completely lack emotions, she just lacks expression of those emotions and a lack of experience with and understanding of things we generally associate with those emotions. She has a full range of emotions, she's just been deadened to a lot of the negative through overexposure and is unused to the positive due to underexposure, so she's coming from a fundamentally different road.

While she's not autistic (and I caution to never treat her as if she is), it's a similar situation you see with people on that spectrum; it's not that she doesn't have emotions, it's that she's not expressing it in the ways you're typically used to seeing.

And god damn I hope Golbez isn't some fragment of another person in any way. Let him be his own person! God knows that of any FF reference character, it's Golbez that deserves that respect.

I'd also caution: there is absolutely no way that Golbez is directly related to the Pandaemonium story, because that's just not how they write these things. Side stories fork off of the main story or just run completely in parallel, and only come back in if it's REALLY important (see: Crystal Tower, and to a lesser degree Alexander). This is mostly because it'd really suck for the people who aren't doing side content for whatever reason to just be left out of understanding the story.

[Alleluia]

Now that you mention it...it does.

I wonder, is this hinting that Golbez is in fact half of Zero? Zero's original job as seen in the past was a PLD after all, plus we don't know what effects occurred when Zero was put under Zenos's control. And since time flows differently between shards...if Golbez IS Zero's other self, that would explain why she's missing emotions. Considering of course, that Voidsent tend to show a lot of emotions and instinct and Zero seems devoid of them.

So I got a better view of Golbez left hand and that blue thing above it might actually be a blue memoria crystal. Which is interesting to say the least.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...8/tempsnip.png

Might have something to do with Golbez being part of Zero. Or perhaps that crystal is just saying he's a memoriate. Or maybe its what he did to the amaurotine we saw him confronting in that flashback, like we sealed Nabriales except more effective.