Where do you think the msq is headed? Spoilers a thoerycrafting

[Kes13a]

no.... more... Zenos...

his time is done. get over it.

[Khryseis_Astra]

no.... more... Zenos...

his time is done. get over it.

Only way I want Zenos back would be a Shinryu summon! lol

[CNitsah]

In the pampa lvl 100 dungeon quest, there is a line about a legend that say "the great snake will wake up when the world is about to get bigger" (or something like that). My theory is that one way or the other, we're gonna open the free travel between shards, and it will lead to conflict because those shard had been tempered with by the ascian and the effect of that did not stop with the disparition of Zordiark. In that theory, Venat told Azem about your voyage, and what he was working on is a way to help the people of every shards if the final days ended being averted.

[honest_psycho]

I don't care where we're going as long as it isnt with the current writers.

All people responsible for this garbage story need to be fired.

[sindriiisgaming]

*nods* it definitely reacts to us, but that doesn’t necessarily mean our Ancient self made it. Also, Azem is an office of the convocation… so while the symbol of Azem was last associated with our former self, it was also associated with Venat before us. Could be she had a hand in it, especially knowing what she was planning to do… at any rate, I really hope they will explore a bit of the key’s mystery: who made it and why, exactly what it’s full capabilities are, how the Lalas ended up with it (which could take us to the South Sea Isles, just a hop away from Meracydia in time for 8.0! Please! lol). Instead of just ignore it and now we have a shiny new key (plot device) to travel between shards.

As for the mask… I remember seeing a lot of speculation before release about the Arcadion symbol looking like Altima, while Sphene’s mask and some details on her dress looked more like Pashtarot… suggesting that maybe the original Sphene was a sundered Ancient from the convocation. At any rate the Sphene we knew wasn’t the original, but Ascian or not, it’s possible that Preservation as an organization or even Living Memory itself could’ve been part of an Ascian scheme… whether to prep shards for rejoining or just an experiment to find another way of restoring their lost loved ones.

At any rate, I don’t think Sphene’s mask is related to Azem… they have no problem sticking that symbol on the key, on our crystal, even on the throne in the Crystal Tower! (Which I still don’t think I’ve ever seen an explanation for, though I have theories!) I think if Sphene was connected to Azem, we would have seen the symbol on her somewhere, rather than patterns that seem to point to another Ascian.

i recommend reading the entries to the "Tales from the " series. newest one mentions azem created the device

I don't care where we're going as long as it isnt with the current writers.

All people responsible for this garbage story need to be fired.

current writer has been writing since 3.0. he wrote the msq patch where emet was first introduced

[knaveofcups]

Just some rambling thoughts…I feel like Azem made the relic in secret before they were sundered, because they knew what Venat was planning and wanted the future people of the source + shards to be able to find each other again, and to explore worlds beyond their own, if they chose. Then the relic was discovered by the group that would become Preservation, and modified for their purposes. Electrope may have been a “gift” from an Ascian who recognized the power of the relic, but realized that only someone bearing the soul signature or whatever of Azem could open it, so they introduced a method of faking that signature with electrope and forcing it to work. Or maybe the shaman who led the Milala into the 9th was a previous incarnation of our soul, and Preservation modified it later so they could achieve what she did. Regardless of how the relic works and who made it, the first order of business is hopefully to answer these questions. Hopefully this adventure gives us some more background about the 9th’s history and current state, outside of Living Memory.

The msq then, after establishing what the relic is, might turn instead to what the relic means. Knowing what we do, should we make people on other shards aware of this technology by using it to meet them? Is it ethical to open a bridge between the source and the shards, knowing that a shard of some ancient soul could come into contact with its other fragments and merge, on purpose or by accident? Would the difference in soul density between shard-dwellers and source-dwellers be of significance if they met? There are a lot of questions you can ask

[Malen]

Just some rambling thoughts…I feel like Azem made the relic in secret before they were sundered, because they knew what Venat was planning and wanted the future people of the source + shards to be able to find each other again, and to explore worlds beyond their own, if they chose. Then the relic was discovered by the group that would become Preservation, and modified for their purposes. Electrope may have been a “gift” from an Ascian who recognized the power of the relic, but realized that only someone bearing the soul signature or whatever of Azem could open it, so they introduced a method of faking that signature with electrope and forcing it to work. Or maybe the shaman who led the Milala into the 9th was a previous incarnation of our soul, and Preservation modified it later so they could achieve what she did. Regardless of how the relic works and who made it, the first order of business is hopefully to answer these questions. Hopefully this adventure gives us some more background about the 9th’s history and current state, outside of Living Memory.

The msq then, after establishing what the relic is, might turn instead to what the relic means. Knowing what we do, should we make people on other shards aware of this technology by using it to meet them? Is it ethical to open a bridge between the source and the shards, knowing that a shard of some ancient soul could come into contact with its other fragments and merge, on purpose or by accident? Would the difference in soul density between shard-dwellers and source-dwellers be of significance if they met? There are a lot of questions you can ask

I think this might be a possibility. But, personally, I can't shake the feeling that the key was made by ANOTHER Azem shard. Basically, we may end up fighting ourselves.

[MisterNublet]

Hopefully the Azem key can take us out of Tural for good.

[Eraden]

Mao pretty sure MSQs gonna be just carbon copys of MSQs from previous expansions buts with differents coat of paints. Is always same number of dungeons, same number and type of trials, same linear path. Story may be good. Story may be bad. Actual gameplay never varies though. Only tiny differences like maybe new fight mechanics. Mao startings get bored.

[Khryseis_Astra]

i recommend reading the entries to the "Tales from the " series. newest one mentions azem created the device.

Oh I hadn’t realized they had started those for Dawntrail yet, and I’m not finding it anywhere. Can you link it?