How Would You Retcon Dawntrail Out of the Story (Purely for Fun)

[Rannie]

A drunken nightmare after almost dying at the edge of the universe to a bored psychopath.

[Garruss]

I'd just say no to joining Wuk Lamat back in Sharylan

[Gwenkatsu]

I swear there was something in that first Taco Wuk Lamat handed me, just when I was about to tell her to GTFO and leave the job to someone better suited... the rest is a hazy dream of kids in ponchos and giants, cowboys and spaceships, a futuristic city plunging out of nowhere, and a young girl in a fancy dress that desperately wanted to talk to me about agriculture after she admited being responsible for alien robots attacking my people.

Man, I'm so glad that nightmare's over. No more Tacos for me!

[Nero-Voidstails]

that it was a nightmare removing the reason to wipe the world and become the new villain x)

[Veritas-Ancora]

I swear there was something in that first Taco Wuk Lamat handed me, just when I was about to tell her to GTFO and leave the job to someone better suited... the rest is a hazy dream of kids in ponchos and giants, cowboys and spaceships, a futuristic city plunging out of nowhere, and a young girl in a fancy dress that desperately wanted to talk to me about agriculture after she admited being responsible for alien robots attacking my people.

Man, I'm so glad that nightmare's over. No more Tacos for me!

HAHAHAHA I'm dying.

Tacos laced with Ecstasy and LSD.

NOW the story makes sense.

[Rin_Sato]

WoL wakes up and it was all a dream, still on the boat preparing for the real adventure.

[Hallarem]

Tataru slaps you, and tells you to go dig more trenches in HER private island you're a serf in. It was all a dream, and she took you in after you escaped Ul'dah, now you're in debt slavery.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Tataru slaps you, and tells you to go dig more trenches in HER private island you're a serf in. It was all a dream, and she took you in after you escaped Ul'dah, now you're in debt slavery.

The worst timeline!

[ForteNightshade]

I wouldn't. Dawntrail set up hooks for the future, so I'd just do what comic books do when there's a bad art; salvage what I can and move forward from there. Retconning it out of existence would be petty,

While I agree with your conclusion. I do have to ask. What hooks? Outside the hourglass macguffin at the end, Dawntrail left almost nothing to build from in future expansions. Everything from Tuliyollal tied up with a pretty bow and Solution Nine is more of an isolated problem. We won't know for certain until 7.5 rolls around, but I'm just not seeing these big hooks.

[MicahZerrshia]

There is blackness but I hear someone screaming in the distance. I can feel someone lifting my head and placing it into their lap followed by a familair warmth. More screaming, something wet touches my face, I am able to breath. Then slowly I open my eyes and the world comes into focus. Alisae is holding my head as Alphinaud, Urianger and Y'shotla's faces are pinched in concentration. I can feel my body mend, the hunger and pain that has plagued me for what feels like a millenia, slowly fades. Then I am able to open my eyes, I can see the blues and purples of a clear sky. Graha is standing with Thancred, looking down at me, they both turn around and wipe their eyes as Alphinaud falls exhausted to the side and Urianger and Y'shota, sweat on their faces, finally open thier eyes.

Slowly, carefully Estinian lifts me from the ground, he places something on my chest and presses it. The world spins and I fall into darkness. I later wake in a room with white marble walls, there is a girl sitting beside me. She stands and runs from the room screaming for assistance. Ameliance comes in, sees me awake and tells the girl to gather the scions. She helps me drink some water and tells me my friends are on the way. Slowly they all gather, there are tears and laughter as they explain what happened. That they thought I was lost when my teleporter returned to the ship without me. They couldn't, no...they refused to just leave me. And when they made their way back to the place we battled the Endsinger, they feared the worst, for they found Zenos's corpse first. It took time to find me, it seems in a delirium I had wandered, but they found me.

As a doctor checks me, I tell them of a dream or hallucination I had, about a golden city and a strange princess, but the memory was already fading.

Weeks later I am mostly healed and having a cup of tea with Tataru. Who, after what could only be called too many scones, tells me a story she heard in a tavern, a story of Alzadaal III...