Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
Official word is that Venat used up the last of her soul to fight us, so she's deader than dead. Her story is over.

If anyone wants to argue about whether or not that's a good thing, please, go find the Endwalker story thread, don't derail this one for it. We've been having that argument for two and a half years already.
I'm just putting forward the theories on where the story is going. quit with the passive aggressiveness.
The fact remains that we still go to another reflection which only exists because of Hydaelyn, and get an artifact with some connection to one member of the convocation. I'm not just pulling this out of nowhere.
Sequels build on the world building and story from the previous story. This shouldn't be a surprise.
I don't even want Hydaelyn to come back. I just think it would be a neat way to springboard off of the first arc to have a new character with her own new story who happens to be a reincarnation of Venat. Similar to how Ryne was her own character with her own arc despite being Minfilia's reincarnation.