Ask Lore Questions for the "Between Two Fernes" Panel at Fan Fest 2018 in Las Vegas!

[Phafi]

How can Y'shtola see in the Burn?

[Chewy2nd]

Will we ever see Unukalhai in the MSQ?

[Iscah]

Reading through the Ishgardian guildleve descriptions, there are a lot of references to unspecified members of the High Houses - so I'm wondering, how widely are people referred to as being "of the House"? They're definitely not all referring to people we've met in the story.


(Then again, some of them definitely are. Commendations to whoever wrote the description for "The Goggles, They Do Naught" and the very irritated requests for AST weapons. Gave me a good laugh.)

[Rokke]

The Xeala creation myth says that eventually Raen and Xaela lived in harmony but the Raen of Sui-no-Sato say that their ancestors were driven out their homelands.

When/why did the Raen leave the steppe?

[Phafi]

If Midgardsormr is the father of all dragons and the eggs he brought from his home world to Hydaelyn are the first brood, what is the ancient dragon in Alphascape 2? Midgardsormr even says"come forth, my child!"

[Stormfur]

It's clear we have established some trade with the New World, but where on the map of Eorzea is this place? Is it a small island or its own continent? Why do we not explore it?

[Mordoni]

So Hydaelens "Chosen" have the Echo, the Ascians have something similar (if not the Echo itself), and Garlemald has the "Resonance"

My question is, due to the Light/Dark symbolism:

Is the Echo closer to a "Reflection," (Caused by light), while the Ascians have a "Shadow" (caused by Darkness)?

If so, does this make the Garleans ability "Neutral?"

I know Ascian means "Without Shadow," but I'm ignoring that on purpose.

[Iscah]

What happened at the end of the ARR Dragoon quest arc? In the final battle of the Lv50 quest, we see Estinien possessed by Nidhogg, and then our character somehow manifests as the legendary dragoon Haldrath. At the end of the fight, Estinien is never shown to return to his senses, but as the in-game journal describes it, "the being of darkness vanishes from sight, taking the fallen dragoon with it".

If you talk to Alberic afterwards, it seems that Estinien has vanished entirely and nobody knows where he's gone. But then he turns up again in his first MSQ-appearance like nothing has happened.

So...

1. What actually happened to Estinien at that point? (I spent a lot of Heavensward being unnecessarily suspicious of him and his intentions because of this, when a non-dragoon player would have no reason to.) (EDIT to clarify: by "that point" I mean after he's snatched away by Nidhogg at the end of the battle.)

2. What was happening when we transformed into Haldrath? (And in light of later revelations, was it the spirit of the real Haldrath or the legendary one?) Did we somehow spontaneously summon him, in the vein of Ysayle summoning Shiva, or is something else going on?


It all seemed very strange at the time, and two expansions later, there still hasn't been any elaboration about what went on at that point.

[Iscah]

Rammbroes at St Coinach's Find is equipped with a very similar wand to the "geomancer's wand" that Kyokuho uses in the AST quests. Is this intentional and significant, or just a case of reusing an old item model in two different places?

[Iscah]

The lorebook entry for the Hyperstellar Downconverter at Azys Lla says that it was used to "facilitate communication over the massive distances between stars".

What were the Allagans doing that required that kind of technology?