Thread: Revelations from Patch 3.5

Main Scenario

First impressions before I get to the real digging later. No surprise, the trailer was edited to misdirect so we didn't predict too much correctly, throwing a lot of our houses of cards about the progression of events directly into the dirt. I think most of us were ready for that, lol. But we got a lot of the context right! That said, I feel like we we've only experienced a fraction of the trailer's hype, and we've two months to wait now. The wistful frustration outweighs the excitement for today at least. ANYROAD.

SCHEMES: I liked the Griffin's false flag operation. A good execution of a tried and true trope.

GRIFFIN: I'm sure we were all shocked to see that the Griffin was somehow Ilberd all along (/s), which makes me more suspicious that something else is above him in this plot. Plus he's dead, that helps the assumption.

SACRIFICE: I always figured the city-state envoys had pretty thick plot armor to keep the plot balanced, but as was the case with Dalamud, Gridania does have one to spare in a sense. Perhaps all our crying foul over Nanamo encouraged them to commit to a bigger leap... but we'll see. Our old friend has a knack for survival.

THE SPELL: The sealing spell might require a bit of lampshading in the future (kudos to the team for the subtle lampshade of the eyes-over-the-bridge thing. "EVERYONE knows NO ONE has EVER survived a trip to the abyss! Damn the already-dead and their loopholes!"). I assume it looked like the Twelve-sealing of Dalamud because spells have intentions and will in mind. You can't call an egi unless you've seen the primal, perhaps what you've seen affects the spell.