Stormblood page updated with new lore.

[Khalithar]

The Doman viceroy being female makes me think she's that woman with the cigarette holder on the Stormblood poster. Who looks decidedly unGarlean given her dark hair so I'm curious.

A beautiful evil female with a cigarette holder. So cliche, she's probably going to spend her days sitting on a silk bed or cushions or something. But I have a feeling she could be the Viceroy, maybe a Garlean collaborator? Like the

various NPC's in the nin storyline such as their former master that was put in charge of a covert assault/espionage unit.

If she is a collaborator that betrayed her people, and the spoiler is any precedent, there is a good chance she got a high rank.

If we do get a recreation of the 'Doma' situation from FF6 I suspect it won't follow the exact same vein as Kefka's attack. Or at least I hope so.

I don't know, right in the same sentence with the Doma castle they mention the place called The One River where Doma has been built. I'm getting serious FF6 Kefka style attack vibes from that. I'm basically convinced at this point it's going to happen.

[YianKutku]

I don't know, right in the same sentence with the Doma castle they mention the place called The One River where Doma has been built. I'm getting serious FF6 Kefka style attack vibes from that. I'm basically convinced at this point it's going to happen.

To what end, though? Doma is already occupied by the Empire, so there's no need to break a siege. Any contamination of the river is going to affect the imperial troops just as much as the Domans.

Mind you, I'm almost as convinced as you that the One River's going to be poisoned at some stage; as you mentioned, the similarities are too striking. I'm just curious about the justification for the act.

(Maybe the Doman resistance needs to weaken the imperial presence in the city, and asks the WoL to plant casks of sleeping potion here and here...)

[Khalithar]

To what end, though? Doma is already occupied by the Empire, so there's no need to break a siege. Any contamination of the river is going to affect the imperial troops just as much as the Domans.

The evil Viceroy is defeated but rather than die, she barely survives and runs off deeper in to the castle, already a merciless heartless ruler, she decides that if she'll die she'll take everyone out from the rebels that were responsible for her fatal wounds AND the Garleans that treated her as little more than a self important barbarian. Thus she decides to give everyone a last middle finger since if she's going down she's going to take everyone with her and so with her dying breath she pours a mighty poison in to the water.

Galvus hears that his Viceroy has been defeated by the upstart Domans and decides that he's going to make every last one of the rebels suffer. He warns his men ahead of time who gather up as much rations as possible and then dumps poison in to the river, maybe some toxic magitek waste? Or an actual poison? If what we've heard about him is true, he'd have no issue inflicting, for lack of a better term, casual brutality on anything and anyone that dares even remotely defy him.

The resistance forces the Viceroy back and she realizes her fate is sealed, rather than give them the pleasure of killing her, she poisons the river entirely and then falls on her sword, giving herself a painless death and one last middle finger to the rebels and the Garleans.

That's just off the top of my head, I could probably come up with more.

[Mimilu]

It's nice to hear the Red Mage's lore but my question is where are they coming from now?
Is it going to be reconnected that Red Mage's have always been around? Are they a hidden sect? Is someone starting them back up? Is some interested historian/scholar/fanboy going to teach us like the SCH story? I WANT THE DETS. >:v

[Iromi]

Nice updates! I want to see the rest of the AF sets ^^

[Enur]

So pseudo confirmation for my theory about Ala Mhigo being founded by the survivors of Mhach? Ill take it.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Omega

I thought we'd fight it after it had been awakened but the fact it's called "Bend of Time" leads me to believe that we'll get some sort of storyline where we go back in the past and fight it or it has some sort of dimensional bending ability. I really hope it's not time travel related, we already got that with Alexander.

Correction here: The 8-man raid's title is Interdimensional Rift - Omega.

"Bend of Time" used on the Fanfest slide was likely a description of the section of the Interdimensional Rift that Omega was originally encountered in in FFV. It was a series of fragmented locations based on places the party had previously traveled through.

[Rongway]

In re: Susano, the part where it says

From the myriad of deities housed within the three sacred treasures of the Kojin, Susano stepped forth to answer their pleas for deliverance.

is an interesting statement. I wonder what other gods live in the sacred treasures, and why the summoning evokes Susano.

[Cilia]

Ala Mhigans descendants of Mhachi confirmed? Statues that line "Shadow of Mhach" raids confirmed to be Rhalgr?

Samurai sounds more like Ronin in practice. Ehh... now I'm not sure if I want to bother leveling that or doing 4.0 during Early Access.

In re: Susano, the part where it says

[...]

is an interesting statement. I wonder what other gods live in the sacred treasures, and why the summoning evokes Susano.

Probably Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi. In Japanese mythology they're Susano'o's siblings.

As for why Susano'o... well, he's typically portrayed in media as the "bad sibling" of the trio, since his domain is storms and he's kind of a jackass. Got kicked out of Heaven for it.

[Dualgunner]

Ala Mhigans descendants of Mhachi confirmed? Statues that line "Shadow of Mhach" raids confirmed to be Rhalgr?

Samurai sounds more like Ronin in practice. Ehh... now I'm not sure if I want to bother leveling that or doing 4.0 during Early Access

As I understand it we'd be Ronin anyway, unless the questline involved us serving a lord specifically.