[4.4 Discussion] "The Reunion"

**SannaR** · 09-02-2018 09:48 PM

With Y'shtola with us we will be able to hopefully find out just how much the burn is devoid of aether. Do we know for how long it's been like that? Since depending on how long it's been like that it would have potential to have seen a few calamities and yet still be that dead. Which would bring up a few questions into why or how it hasn't seemed to recover.

**KageTokage** · 09-02-2018 09:49 PM

I think it's a given that our path into Ilsabard/Garlemald is going to be made fairly clear by the end of 4.5, and that would include meeting some of allies we'll have within the territory. I'd assume the Shadowhunter and Maxima are a given, seeing as their interests very much align with ours (Getting rid of the Ascian corruption and making peace with the Empire respectively).

I think I'm mostly wondering if our inevitable journey is going to be a small-scale covert affair or if the aggression towards the Populares is going to erupt into a full-on civil war with them potentially having a part of the Garlean legions on their side. I'm leaning more towards the latter, since it would be pretty difficult for the WoL to avoid drawing undue attention to themselves.

**Alleo** · 09-02-2018 09:51 PM

Does Ysthola only take the Aether from herself or does she also use the aether around her to see? Because if its the latter, she might have a harder time in the burn.

Anyway I really hope that we do have some kind of reaction to Gaius if we meet him. (We do go into this as a rescue mission but its probably not 100% sure if we can save them or even meet them.)

I am also a bit fearful since Yoshida stated (right after the Alphinaud video) that the ending of it made him tear up...dont you dare to do something to my precious Alphi! (Or maybe those were tears of laugther because they are going to troll the fanbase and let Gaius die right in front of us? °L° *is hit by a big book* ..ouch)

**Anonymoose** · 09-03-2018 05:20 AM

As far as I can recall off the top of my head, I don't think the whole Y'shtola thing has really been explored beyond Matoya warning her that to "see" by reaching out and sensing vibrating waves in the aether around you is extraordinarily taxing on the body and spiritual wellspring. We don't even know for sure yet that it's doing permanent damage rather than just imposing on her new burdens and limitations, people just keep acting as though that's true. It might be; it might not be.

It's definitely a brick that's still up in the air, however.

**Iscah** · 09-03-2018 01:03 PM

I also wonder what the Burn would do to Y'stola's aether-sight. Perhaps it would be harder to see her surroundings, but a person in the distance (or hiding over a hill) might be like a beacon.

Alternately if the land is so aether-starved, can it be absorbing what little energy people give off, and make it even harder for her to see?

**YianKutku** · 09-03-2018 03:44 PM

Notably, Y'shtola's current outfit still has her aether-detecting Sharlayan goggles in a holster on her sleeve. It would be an easy handwave to have a line of dialogue or something about how she had it modified to work in places like the Burn, to assist her own aether-sight.

**radhaz** · 09-03-2018 04:12 PM

Speaking of Gaius:
https://flic.kr/p/fsQ5r5

Whats this about?

**ObsidianFire** · 09-03-2018 04:42 PM

You really need to have watched the 1.0 cutscenes (they are on YouTube) to get what's going on between Cid and Giaus (and Nael). The answer is long and complicated and starts all the way back in Garlemald.

(Very) Long story short... Cid is really tired of people telling him what he should be working on. Mostly because he doesn't want to be designing weapons and that's what Garlemald wanted him to design. So he left Garlemald. Various people have wanted him back working for Garlemald ever since.

**SannaR** · 09-03-2018 08:52 PM

There has to be some aether for things to be surviving there as the 4.4 page says there are ferocious beasts that live there. Anyone not Garlean would understand why Cid left after how his father died.

**Lambdafish** · 09-03-2018 09:59 PM

Well I'd say the reunion at hand may bring joy, it may bring fear, but let us embrace whatever it brings.

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