Quote Originally Posted by silentwindfr View Post
the disappearing student was explained already
Well, yes. But it wasn't simply destroyed. It was vanished, as far as I remember. Could definitely warrant some research on figuring out where it went (void or something else) and to see if we can bring something of it back (physically or just some of the knowledge from it). I mean, research into that very thing the Ascians seem to want to do? And they get attacked/killed/kidnapped for it? Seems totally worth finding out more about. Who knows, maybe they were starting to figure out ways to stop the Ascians? =)
(And yes, I'm trying to write stuff fairly ambiguously, so as to not spoil people too much who haven't finished those particular storylines. If that makes what I'm saying unclear or confusing, it's... kind of the point. But sorry anyway.)

Of course, it could very well be that both the lost island and Ala Mhigan resistance are part of 4.x, especially since the former would (theoretically) make for a very short expansion story on its own. And having both in an expansion would mean retaining our focus on both Ascians and Empire, something they seem to like us to do ^_~

To return to the actual topic of this thread, having both as part of 4.x would mean one raid could be focusing on one side of it (whether the 8-man or 24-man, assuming they're going with the same pattern), and the other could focus on the other side.