Is Meracydia going to be a a inspired retelling of FFIX?

[Powercow]

I know, right?

There's very little time for a meaningful build up, which leads me to speculate that is either one of the following:

a) Something secondary triggered as a side-effect, from .5 (part1) to .55 (part2), of the void arc resolution, which will lead into the next story.

b) Something really simple, like for example, Krile asking you to acompany her to wherever that missive she got leads to, but in this case there's very little cliffhanger value on its own (as in, without the teaser we'll get this week).

There was some off-handed mention before we went to confront Golbez about Thancred and... someone else, I forget who, getting some opportunity from a benefactor, and that would wait until the whole "voidsent apocalypse" thing was over. Very blink-and-you-miss-it.

(Also there's still that line about Thancred scouting the far east from 6.1 that's never been addressed. Dude hears we're on a quest to go unlock the secrets of dimension-hopping and he can meet his surrogate daughter again, and whatever was happening in Hingashi was apparently more important. I thought it might have been Mount Rokkon, but apparently not.)

I figure I'll find out on friday, but I still maintain the next expansion is going to be FFXIV: Chains of Promathia. Well, not called that, but take a lot of elements from that. Just a hunch I've had.