If ever you shut the game down!!! Last fight suggestion

[Godzillaxpowerrangers]

Godbert family battle royal.

[Fyrebrand]

We gotta go up against the big man himself, Godbert Manderville! We may need to call on Cid and Nero to lend us their latest Ultima Weapon-style gundam for this one.

benevolent-dictator Alphinaud

Wow. I have to say, if they did that kind of storyline in the right way it could be really epic. It's kind of unthinkable with the current state of things, but with enough time and a desperate enough situation, maybe it could be done convincingly if handled right. After all we've been through with Alphy up to this point, having to face him as an enemy would hit hard. It would make a hell of an ending to the game, though.

How about this: we suffer another calamity, similar to the Final Days, where people are turning to monsters. We discover it's due to our efforts to rebalance the elements in the various shards -- it's having a side-effect on the Source, changing people's aether. Except, not all people. Only some are affected, maybe one in ten people, but we have a method to detect exactly who is susceptible. Alphinaud funds the construction of a great, shielded dome to protect these people from the aether corruption, where they can shelter until a cure or some other solution is found. Days turn to weeks, to months, and no solution is in sight. Some people want to leave, but Alphinaud's militia won't let them, for their own protection and that of the outside world. Long story short, no cure ever comes and Alphinaud's dome of protection becomes a prison city. He's not wrong though, by this point anyone who leaves will turn into a monster. Here and there, a few people manage to escape but are transformed the instant they pass the city walls.

Flash forward to the future, and the prison city has developed into an independent nation and had a change of image. It's now called the Crystarium, with Alphinaud as its benevolent ruler, the "Crystal Exarch." He even calls his personal army the Crystal Braves.

Not sure how Alisaie would side in this. I think it would be more interesting for the story if she opposes Alphinaud and they become enemies. The other Scions may be split as well, with some opting to stay and serve Alphinaud while others left.

It may be discovered, long after it's too late, that the methods of detecting who would turn were imperfect, resulting in many false positives. If that news gets out, it could cause riots. People would start to try to escape again, and Alphinaud wants that information suppressed. I dunno, the particulars of this whole story can probably all be changed to something different but this is the general arc that popped into my head.

[RitsukoSonoda]

End with a collaboration...

Where we try to stop the "nothing"... >.>

[KayRadley]

Better still

Godbert Manderville (Savage)

[Avoidy]

Snip

Dude that's badass, I love it

[Hyperia]

After the big final fight, the final scene before we log out, our character wakes up in the chocobo carriage from the opening scene. It was all a dream… queue FFXIV logo, fade to black.

[EZGIL]

[Mostly_Raxus]

only if she does a flex and beefs up to a male roegadyn model, in fact all the swol scions

[Carin-Eri]

Ah yes - the furious Red Chicken. You have my full support - particularly if, when we defeat the awful creature, we get to take it's carcass to Vtra to be BBQ'ed and fed to the dragons.

[Hanayumi]

UCOB already exist

I mean... they never actual did fullsized bahamut...