Thread: Patch 4.4 (Prelude in Violet) Speculation Thread! (Possible spoilers [NO LEAKS])

Arbert fits both thematically and with the actual voice. I can see that. My initial reaction was Elidibus given the weird vocal effect might be a return of the "Ancient" language, but it's likely the words I can't make out are also just conveniently cut off.

Reasonably surprised in some of the Eureka scenes--is Ejika wielding Zantetsuken there or just a like model? Is the Eikon ... Odin ... ? Gods, that'd be very FFXI. The bad guy was Odin this whole time!

Let's steal from Moose and do this in order:

The spire of Light in the opening I originally thought the Burn, but if I pause it reminds me more of Coerthas? Could it be an in-game render of Midgardsormr's downfall? (Gods, teasing verdant Mor Dhona!) There's a giant moon/planet in the background later in the video though which ... seems to indicate we might be on a facsimile of Midgardsormr's world/the Dragon Star?

The obvious voidsent gargoyles in omega-created Chaos' arena really bug me. Why would Omega add those?

Ala Mhigo and Doma formally joining the Eorzean Alliance--with Doma in the fold they might want to reconsider the name.

Interesting how word of Doma summoning a Primal got back to the capital. I had thought the plan was for Asahi's team to relay the information, but they're all dead or shipwrecked... then again, I doubt something like eyewitness accounts and proof would stall Elidibus' plans.

I guess Alisaie inherits Gosetsu's yol and Y'shtola gets Lyse's? If that's the Burn gear on the party it looks oddly Allagan, which makes sense, I guess.

The area Shadowhunter and Alphinaud are in looks more like Yanxia than anywhere else, but it's ... weird ... definitely feels new. Where's Maxima?

If the dungeons are St. Mocianne's Arboretum (Hard) and The Burn-- what in the Seven Hells is this 4-man Allagan-themed area? More of The Burn? I'm guessing so since it's the same party...weird. That makes weird dragon, crystal scorpion and Allagan roader for the Burn bosses? That's a goddamned Allagan juggernaut... are we going to learn the Allagans are responsible for the Burn's aether problems and not even a real Primal?

Ejika protecting Eureka Mask with a summoned sword that looks awfully like Zantetsuken. Yipes. Didn't expect him to become an antagonist tbh. The shot of Ejika/Mask is in some kind of library but if you look behind Krile you're in some kind of weird cave with doors. What the hell, Sharlayans? You just build libraries in caves randomly?

Disappointed Suzaku doesn't get a foot with a bird head and just stands on the phoenix like a surfboard. She seems to have already succumbed to some madness. Does she mistake the WoL for Tenzen due to the presence of the Echo?

I'm bored to tears of the Steppe and Magnai and Sadu. House of the Crooked Coin tho? Sign me up. Give me answers. The video gets some weird effect after Suzaku for non-Omega shots.

Gold-plated Midgardsormr definitely makes it easy to see how Domans could mistake Shinryu for him, right!?

The weird occurrence at the meeting could very well be Arbert patching himself in the conference call with help from Minfilia. A warning, perhaps, but "throw wide the gates that we may pass" is very ... confusing. Is he asking for a way back to the Source? Is it possible we Echo into Elidibus deceiving them and showing them how to Shardhop? Murky words and voices.

Given we see a lot of the Omega fight, he's gonna be third and we have a mystery 4th? Alpha seems to sacrifice himself for some reason too, his feathers rain down from the sky, Cid cradles it on his hand before it poofs...and what is Cid so afraid of? He's shown shaking at his desk...? Like there's something he's nervous about it. End of the world, maybe. Nero being forlorn and saddened feels like an obvious "sad my chocoboy died." Weird we see Nero but not Biggs and Wedge. Guess Omega gave them much more grievous wounds than whatever he did to Cid. (or Nero is just disobeying a chirugeon's orders of bedrest)

Some of the crystals in the Omega arenas are now reddish-orange which I guess means they get overaspected/corrupted at some point.

The two guards with unique headgear in the Elidibus walking away from Varis shot--could they be something to look out for? Didn't we have a big bad evil Empire with two recurring enemies like that before? Maybe I'm reaching but the red and blue remind me of Zorn and Thorn? Though I never played IX.

Weird trailer. Weird patch.