Gaius and the two Ascian. Dawntrail/8.0 Spoiler

[Cleretic]

Would be cool if we got an Garlean Expansion. We still don't know what happen to the other legion, so if they will use them with ascians. It could help clear out some stuff that we're missing.

I actually think an Ilsabard expansion (I don't think it would rightly be a Garlean expansion, those guys fell apart and are no longer the major power they were) is the exact situation where we should find out he definitely did kill those Ascians. I'm picturing a big part of the expansion being finding out what those Ascians were actually doing, what their plan was, and what people are doing with the remains; seeing opportunists pick over the corpse of an Ascian apocalypse plan and trying to use it to their advantage. I'd findthat far more interesting than the two should-be-deads turning up and going 'now, where were we?'


All this said, I have been reminded of an idea that I've realized would be the genuine most interesting way to take the 7.3 reveal: what if it's Travanchet? It being the only black-masked Ascian worth a name would actually be a properly new and interesting idea, while still being a 'congratulations for remembering things'-level pull--and one that would have a weird connection to the Ninth, given he was involved in the Alexander story. And instead of descending into the same speculation about the same Ascians as always, with the same background and previous plan, we'd instead be forced to think about what the largely faceless black-maskers like Travanchet would've wanted or been promised out of that whole deal, and what they might want for themselves now that the doomsday cult has collapsed.

EDIT: Plus, if the thing people want is more new Ascian content, bringing in the black-maskers is an endless new supply! We're here arguing on if there are two, four or five red-maskers left, but we have no idea how many black-maskers there were!