1.23b/c Speculation

[Ryans]

People keep calling "To Kill a Raven" the final fight, but I think they are all wrong. If you take into account the line from Cid about Louisoix and the 2.0 trailer, it is glaringly obvious that something bigger than defeating Darnus is going to happen before 2.0 lands.

"Yet the bravest among us were spared, sent beyond the reach of time" is a very revealing line from the trailer that makes me think that we are going to succeed in preventing Eorzea from being completely destroyed but fail in preventing a major catastrophe (thus the world being reshaped). Our character is going to some how be spared by some kind of aetheryte magic that freezes us in time, a sort of stasis if you will, and we emerge a few years later in the reborn world.

As for Darnus, many people have speculated that he will become Odin. That seems even more likely after To Kill a Raven because his essence was absorbed into Dalamud. We know Odin is coming and the resemblance is striking, I'd wager that he turns into him and is released during the upcoming apocalypse.

Baelsar is definitely going to take advantage of the situation, possibly even make an attempt at the throne considering how ill Solus zos Galvus is said to be, but I'm not sure if he is pro-unification of all the nations or if he wants to end the attack on Eorzea.

[Arkine]

Who knows maybe they are giving the items out at the end of the game as a sort of "Promethia ring" reward. Nothing is set in stone.

I wonder... our usual fights come with 7 weapons as rewards, but for this one we only get 1 earring.

It would be weird to have his battle be just about the earring, but it would be even weirder to have 7 white raven weapons.

[Alerith]

I wonder... our usual fights come with 7 weapons as rewards, but for this one we only get 1 earring.

It would be weird to have his battle be just about the earring, but it would be even weirder to have 7 white raven weapons.

The earring has stats on it for just about everyone. It isn't out of the question for it to be a single drop, perhaps a chest that awards it to everyone in the party upon victory.

[Andrien]

I speculate that you're all wrong.

and the funny thing is I'm most likely right. lmao

[Churchill]

Or you know, 7th Legion/FF7, 14th Legion/FF14

[Munba]

In the lettered patches i think we are going to see some of the first world changes like this,



and this,




..and maybe we'll have a final cutscene before the end of this world. Curious to see the Twelve content as well.. they are going to protect Eorzea in some forms?

[Jinrya-Geki]

World of ruin here we come.

[Valmonte]

You kinda missed the point.

I'm talking about Nael Van Darnus being involved beyond the "To Kill a Raven" fights, regular or hard. I'm speculating that we'll see him again before this 7th Umbral Event comes to it's conclusion, and I mean we'll see him in a storyline capacity, not just a Hard mode fight.

yep its that cut scene where the players finds his Gun halberd stuck in a tree in grid and has to return it to him.....in a very personal way .

[Munba]

World of ruin here we come.

With a music theme appropriate,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1mkBwMmcaY

[Arkine]

The earring has stats on it for just about everyone. It isn't out of the question for it to be a single drop, perhaps a chest that awards it to everyone in the party upon victory.

The reason primal battles lasted so long is because most people are after the full set, if we're going to fight the guy just for 1 item then the window to complete the battle and actually obtain the earring would be very small.

I'm guessing they'll make it a shared chest.

Though, I would rather it just be a reward for completing the 7th era quests.