'This town certainly has changed, and not at all for the better'

[MetalSnakeXI1]

Although the appearance of the lion from Lost City of Amdapor kinda makes me doubt it,it does look very similar to Halatalli

[ScootPatoot]

Going to repeat what I've said on another thread and suggest we might be thinking inside the box.

I think "this town" is a place similar to Hydaelyn's Ul'dah, but not quite the same: an equivalent that evolved separately but similarly. This could be another world's version of Ul'dah!

[Chewy2nd]

You are not incorrect per se. But the two locations are right next to eachother on the map. So it's within the realm of possibility that it's an area of Amdapor closer to Thanalan, that we havent been too.

Why the bosses could be more stylistic than literal, why choose those specific bosses, if they didnt mean anything. Plus Kuribu are stated to be Gelmorran (spelling). Gelmorra was a subterranean city in the Shroud. I would think the underground of any location would look similar, and Halitali is predominantly underground.

Plus on the assumption that the "child" he is with is Minfilia, a location in the Shroud makes more sense. Minfilia is Ala Mhigan, and to get to Thanalan from Ala Mhigo, you have to pass through the Shroud. Not saying it's what is happening since everything is speculation at this point, but it is worth mentioning.

The only real thing that knocks it being Gelmorra is, the walls seem to be sandstone, rather than grey stone.

[Rocl]

It could very well be the interior of this place:

This was my initial thought, actually.

Re:// The Amdapor thing (and feel free to quote me in other threads that bring it up), Lore Book 2 mysteriously mentions that the Amdapori based Kuribu on "transcendent beings from yet another plane." There might not be a direct connection to specifically Amdapor at all.

Aaand this is another thing that immediately jumped out at me, too.

[ObsidianFire]

It also might be a case of artistic license and allegory. As in, the last time we saw the Scions, including Thancred, they had been Called away from their bodies and we did not know if they would ever be back. Seeing Thancred in the trailer confirms that he (and probably the rest of the Scions Called) will be back, probably in their bodies by 5.0 and that in the time they've been gone, the realm has worsened. It's just that saying doesn't sound anywhere near as good (or in character) as what Thancred says.

[Eloah]

One thing no one seems to be pointing out is Thancred's look. He looks like his old self, old hair, and his eyes are both visible. Remember he has his eye covered to hide his "shortcoming". What's to say this is a "preview" for the expansion, and not an echo vision of a time in the past. Thancred was always the "slreper" agent of the Scions. He might have been undercover as a Garlean agent before.

[Cybylt]

Because of the decorative chains - note that there's never anything at the ends of them, they don't hold anything up, they are purely decoration - and similarity of stonework to places like Rabanastre and Ridorana, I think it's older fashion Garlean structures. It's a town he's returning to in Ilsabard.

On Thancred's look, he has his post-Flow silver eyes. I'd argue his looking younger is entirely due to the shave, haircut, and losing the eyepatch since his face under all that didn't much change at all.

[zuzu-bq]

What Moose said makes me wonder how the Elemental Plane works with all the multi-shard thing. Is its own shard or a layer of existance over every shard?

As for Thancred, wasn't he supposed to have odd-eyes, one silver/green and one brown nehind the eyepatch.

[Iscah]

As for Thancred, wasn't he supposed to have odd-eyes, one silver/green and one brown behind the eyepatch.

Yes, but the other way around - brown right eye (his original eye colour) and silver left eye hidden under the eyepatch.

[Chewy2nd]

Maybe Thancred's eye is just the new 'White Nidhogg'