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[Cassar]

5. Elidibus' words
This one is super weird and it is 100% nothing but for some reason it really bothers me (in fact it's the whole motivation for me to write this thread, believe it or not). When Elidibus gets absorbed by the tower in the end of 5.3, he says the words "Reconciliation. Elidibus. I was needed". Why did he say his own name? I know it's not actually his name but his title, but still, why say it? Is he implying that "Elidibus" is the title given to the one who will lead the Ancients when they need for guidance? Or does the name Elidibus have another meaning for them, something that connects with "Reconciliation", perhaps?. Like I said, it's a nitpick, but there it is.

6. Future Sight
I've posted this in a thread before, but I'll briefly mention it again. In the Ivalice questline we're introduced to someone who has the ability to see the future using the Echo. As far as I know Mikoto is the only character who naturally has this ability, of course she was captured and now this ability was imbued into other Bozjan personel. Regardless, I think that being able to accurately predict the near future is an incredible skill that is never mentioned outside of that questline, and I personally think it should.

7. XIth Legion and Nagxia
The XIth legion is one of the few who has almost never been talked about. In fact, as far as I know, it is only very briefly mentioned in one of Bozja's field notes, pointing out that they brutally slaughtered an entire village in the Nagxia region. The only reason why I'm mentioning this one is because I think this plot line was supposed to be further explored in 6.0 back when it was still planned to be an Ilsabard expansion (I'm not even sure if Nagxia counts as Ilsabard or Othard, but still) and also Corvos, of course.

8. Zenos' dream
Ahhhh, this one makes me lose sleep at night. Zenos had dreams of the Final days. Dreams that were mentioned ever since patch 5.2, and were mentioned in 6.0 as well. What bothers me is Fandaniel's comment when Zenos explains to him his dream: "Could Emet-Selch have found a way...? Precious few possess memories of the Final Days." Could he have found a way to what? PLEASE tell me. I think Yoshida later said that it was due to Zenos being a descendant of Emet's and getting some of his memories because of it, but that seems like they just abandoned this plot line, because Fandaniel implies differently. Maybe this was scrapped when they changed 6.0 to not be the Ilsabard expansion?

[Cassar]

9. The Heart of Sabik
I know, I know. Wouldn't be a list without mention of Heart of Sabik, eh? I know everyone is sick and tired of this one, but even though we got an explanation as to where it came from, we were left with more questions than answers. It has been around since the unsudered days, and was found by Athena? What higher power exists out there and why did it leave the auracite in Etheyris. Was it Ultima? I mean, the real Ultima, not the one we defeated in Ivalice questline? Because if so, then that peaks my interest a lot - Who really is Ultima?

10. Thordan's vision
I'm adding this one after my initial post because I completely forgot about it. But at the every end of 3.0, after we defeat Thordan, he looks at us and says "Who... What are you?" while making the player character look dark and creepy and with an omnious sound effect in the background. When I first saw this, it made me feel like there was some other truth behind the true identity of the WoL that we didn't know about, and that it would be expanded further in the next expansion, but it was not. Of course, we later know about Azem, but I don't think that was it. What did Thordan see when he looked at us?

If you made it this far, thank you very much for your time. I would love to hear what you think on any of these topics! See you in Dawntrail!

[MikkoAkure]

7. XIth Legion and Nagxia
The XIth legion is one of the few who has almost never been talked about. In fact, as far as I know, it is only very briefly mentioned in one of Bozja's field notes, pointing out that they brutally slaughtered an entire village in the Nagxia region. The only reason why I'm mentioning this one is because I think this plot line was supposed to be further explored in 6.0 back when it was still planned to be an Ilsabard expansion (I'm not even sure if Nagxia counts as Ilsabard or Othard, but still) and also Corvos, of course.

IIRC the XIth legion was rotated out and likely dissolved following war crimes in Nagxia. Pretty sure it's supposed to be a parallel to the Vietnam War since Nagxia is itself fantasy Vietnam. The XIth Legion was not on the list of legions that the Xth legion were trying to wrangle together before they failed and turned to Eorzea to help, so that's the likely case here. Considering that the XIIth legion held two completely separate major fronts of the war at the same time, while the VIth legion just got sent to Azys Lla, all legions are not necessarily equal and the XIth could have been on the smaller side anyway if they were just deployed to Nagxia, which doesn't even have large cities the best that we can tell.

It was never meant to be followed up on, it is in Othard, not Ilsabard, and there was never a "planned" Ilsabard expansion from what I got from that one dev interview. They just said they had time to finish the story in one or two expansions, settled on one, and mentioned what it would've been like if there were two instead and most if not all of the story beats were covered in Endwalker.