All this talk of Hildibrand has made me remember something that used to occasionally occur in the later stages of Version 1:

Login 'events'

Occasionally, after you had passed a certain milestone in the main storyline or sidequests when you logged in again after loggin out at an inn room you would have a chance of having an 'event' occur when you logged in.

This could be the unpleasant dream of Nael Van Darnus slaughtering all the good guy NPCs then killing you or it could be waking up to the Gentleman Inspector's shining smile.

These were impressive because they were so unexpected. There was no mention of them in patch notes, no ingame notification that you had unlocked anything. You would just be logging in as normal, ready to farm Garuda some more then bam! Dream Sequence out of the blue.

I think it was a really nice touch and would like to see them come back.