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

[SillyCrow]

With Eden in the picture, the new fusion key... we're just kinda trailing after Azem and it seems like we'll probably try to merge shards into the source at one point without the calamities and massive loss of life.

[Jojoya]

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

They had been released at the end of last year.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...from_the_dawn/

At the time, the crystal mentioned in the final story didn't seem to have any special significance outside of a reason for Hythlodaeus to be looking for Azem. There's always the chance that it's not the same crystal we've seen in Dawntrail (though it probably is). The story mentions that it was part of a set of 14 travel related concepts that Azem created.

Now that we've been through the 7.0 MSQ, the crystal (and potentially the other concepts mentioned) seem to have an important purpose.

[mallleable]

I can see main arc involving creating bridges between the remaining shards -- to rejoin them if you will, but without the mass murder, and destruction.

[Higashikata]

I think it's going to be more Wuk Lamat

[CuteBucket]

I think we're jumping to conclusions to say that Azem made the key. It reacted to Azem's summoning magic, that's all we know. Azem or one of the previous Azem shards having made the key is certainly a viable possibility, but it could also be made by someone or something else entirely. All we know is that its related to Azem in some way.

[hydralus]

I can see main arc involving creating bridges between the remaining shards -- to rejoin them if you will, but without the mass murder, and destruction.

Plot twist: it'll be with even more mass murder and destruction.

[Zelda206]

I'll be happier to return to the MSQ if it can involve a lot less Wuk Lamat. Everyone else seems to stop intervening or making decent decisions or interactions whenever she's there, soaking up the spotlight. Just don't make her a Scion and/or keep her on Tural so we can give a proper crocodile's farewell and head on out of there.

[Hypnotic13371337]

I love how Emet Selch was like "HaVe YoU rEaLlY eXpLoReD aLl Of ThE sTaR?" And so we proceed to heed his advice and go east since we went west before.....

ONLY TO FIND THE KEY TO EXPLORING OTHER SHARDS SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO IGNORE ETHERYS MORE LOL (Potentially)

[Gaddes]

We have a key to dimension-hopping and are primed for some true adventuring exploration. I hope we wouldn't necessarily do it alone for once, though... it's probably just wishful thinking, but Estinien (both in Dawntrail and often in other expansions) is quite the wanderer himself and likes to explore a whole lot more than the other Scions. Could that be foreshadowing that he's the perfect travelling companion for an Azem Adventurer? It'd be amazing if he took us up on an invitation to REALLY do some exploration with us in different reflections. A buddy (dimensional) road trip type storyline would be awesome.

[sindriiisgaming]

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 actually think electope is black auracite. think about it. its destroyed eutropes body, it causes the 9th to be destoryed by levin energy and it uses eather to convert the users ambition to power (refer to m4 savage)