May we have quick clarification regarding the White Ravens (earrings)?

[Shougun]

I don't know why Nael would be in ARR; it's assumed he's dead once the story fight ended, unless something else is going on. Rivenroad (Hard) was designed for a greater challenge and to exclusively reward the players capable of winning the fight with the earrings.

Really, any content that's permanently disappearing in ARR shouldn't have remnants of it popping back up after the fact. It's assumed either Castrum Novum or some other Imperial Base will be in existence since those items will still be there.

He goes into a spirit death, everybody knows if a boss spirit dies he can come back SE boss rules 101. He was alluded to sephiroth more then once, everybody knows Sephiroth laughs at death.

He talks about forming himself with Dalamud - Dalamud crashes into the ground (meteor), now he is a superpowered meteor fragment (sound anything like FF7? ^_^).

The more I think about it the more you could easily do a fully SE typical story plot from it.

While I cant say it WILL happen I can say its not impossible he comes back.

Also all this happening would allow Nael to remove himself from the Garlean allegiance(like Sephiroth was with Shinra but then was too badass to care and left).

Seriously sounds like a FF7 is breeding in FFXIV.

[Orophin]

He goes into a spirit death, everybody knows if a boss spirit dies he can come back SE boss rules 101. He was alluded to sephiroth more then once, everybody knows Sephiroth laughs at death.

He talks about forming himself with Dalamud - Dalamud crashes into the ground (meteor), now he is a superpowered meteor fragment (sound anything like FF7? ^_^).

Maybe all that will come to pass, but I don't see Nael coming back in the incarnation he was represented in the story/hard mode fights, so should he really have the same item as a different being? It seemed to me this fight was designed to be accomplished before 1.0 ended and the earrings are the reward for being able to overcome it. But to quote Camate:

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[Shougun]

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Now that I look at that longer I think ive been misreading it.. Thats a guy with arms in the air right...?

I've been looking at it as Dalamud crashing into the ground lol (ツ) = rock, and the two sides are parted ground....