Post-Palace Questions (SPOILERS)

[myahele]

I'd rather it not be Ascien involvement, but it does seem likely since we don't have a big list of robed figures offering up power to individuals with the express purpose of destruction and/or killing us. There's always lambs of Dalamud cultists due to their association of reviving the dead, dealing with Voidsent and Gelmorran/Amdapori ruins. They also wear robes.

That being said, Asciens (Lahabreas underlings?) did manipulate Lady Amandine into doing the things she did to preserve her beauty ... and turning into a Succubus in the end. Maybe was more of a success?

I don't think she's a primal though. We see her ghost (not sure if we can after beating this) in town. Perhaps a "shade" living off the aether of adventurers trapped there? One thing to keep in mind though is that there are other dead NPCs we've met that we kill throughout the dungeon, so she just might simply be the most powerful of them all?

It does seem that there's a bigger bad out there that's responsible for creating PotD.