Merlwyb, Kan-E, Raubahn, Cid: Dead or Alive?

[Ruisu]

Yoshi has stated in recent interviews that the original storyline has been scrapped, and only the core themes remain.

They mentioned that they're keeping the main story, regardless. It was confirmed to be on hold, however.

[Cedri]

Cid MUST survive because of the inconsistency it would cause in the Final Fantasy series.

[Inaaca]

They mentioned that they're keeping the main story, regardless. It was confirmed to be on hold, however.

I see you're gonna make me dig the interview up...

old 1.0 story got scrapped, however the essence is still there.

Source: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post900910
There's also more in the interview about what the story in ARR will actually entail.

There's no official translation, of course, but this is evidence enough, and more recent than the old statement you're referring to.

[Genjuro]

THEY'RE DEAD! EVERYONE IS DYING!

Scary Movie 3 moment

lol!

[Jinrya-Geki]

I could care less if any of the 3 leader survived. They did NOTHING to earn my liking. I would gladly trade their lives for a moogle, and I hate moogles.

Where as Cid not only is a genius, but he doesn't afraid of anything. I hope he lives.

[Loggos]

I think they are alive as Yoshi said in a degeki interview for ARR that the Limsan admiral is female (it was something about music) and I just hope that he refers to our current female admiral.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post912662

On the other hand those leaders had really nice concepts and I think they were quite some characters (plus they were sort of famous) so why replacing promising character concepts whose potentials could live up greatly in ARR?
I think those chars have potential to be really good NPCs (and as an exception I'm not only talking about Merlwyb but about all of them. Yes, I like the others, too, indeed. =P )

(Aaaand...I possibly did get something like a hint at a game convention that if we had a favourite character they might most likely be in ARR. No idea if that counts for Loui though...... :/ Maybe Loui's spirit will guide us or something. That would be pretty cool if he'd appear in our dreams or visions to lead us towards our heroic fate.)

[Loggos]

She is the Chuck Norris of FFXIV 8D

Except that I claim she's got more intellect... (Hey, at least her speech is quite high fashioned...)

[Thebard]

If Admiral Fishwife lives she needs a patch on one eye a hook hand and a peg-leg.

[kazaran]

You we actually see many familiar NPC's along with some new.

[Kallera]

I say make it interesting and kill em off...except for Kan-E-Sama....