Thread: 5.0 Speculation !

Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty

If we're going to be WoD, then I would like to see a Warrior of Light primal.

I think something along these lines is probably. Not exactly the warrior of light as a primal, but things that would skew more toward light and holy entities. We saw hints of how they could do this with Thordan and Lakshmi. So we might see things such as Ultima, the High Seraph as shown in FFXII as opposed to her more FFT appearance in the Ivalice raid (imagine a beast tribe that maintained the concept of Ultima, so she appears in a different form than she did in the raid) You also have espers from earlier titles that specialized in more holy magics like Kirin (FFVI) or Asura (FFIV).

I also wouldn't be surprised to see more Amdapori influence in the design in general with the Kiribu and such like we've seen in that dungeon.

Lastly I'm starting to suspect that Garlemald might not be the destination, or at least not the sole destination, in the expansion. Given many plot points in Dalmasca left unresolved, and the fact that we're seeing representatives from that nation in Hien's court in the MSQ and that Hein wants the support of that nation (once stabilized) and Naxgia for his Eastern Alliance, it wouldn't surprise me to see either or both of those nations represented in some of the new zones. Not only would that give more to the story of those areas, but it would give the developers more geography to work with considering Dalmasca is largely desert and Naxgia is largely dense jungle contrasted with what we know of Garlemald being largely tundra.

Originally Posted by wereotter

I think something along these lines is probably. Not exactly the warrior of light as a primal, but things that would skew more toward light and holy entities. We saw hints of how they could do this with Thordan and Lakshmi. So we might see things such as Ultima, the High Seraph as shown in FFXII as opposed to her more FFT appearance in the Ivalice raid (imagine a beast tribe that maintained the concept of Ultima, so she appears in a different form than she did in the raid) You also have espers from earlier titles that specialized in more holy magics like Kirin (FFVI) or Asura (FFIV).

I also wouldn't be surprised to see more Amdapori influence in the design in general with the Kiribu and such like we've seen in that dungeon.

Lastly I'm starting to suspect that Garlemald might not be the destination, or at least not the sole destination, in the expansion. Given many plot points in Dalmasca left unresolved, and the fact that we're seeing representatives from that nation in Hien's court in the MSQ and that Hein wants the support of that nation (once stabilized) and Naxgia for his Eastern Alliance, it wouldn't surprise me to see either or both of those nations represented in some of the new zones. Not only would that give more to the story of those areas, but it would give the developers more geography to work with considering Dalmasca is largely desert and Naxgia is largely dense jungle contrasted with what we know of Garlemald being largely tundra.

I was thinking something more along the lines of desperate Eorzeans who only know the stories of the WoL's exploits summoning their idea of a Warrior of Light as a primal and then us having to go out and slay it. I just think it would be interesting to have a situation where our own legend comes back to bite us, and a symbolic slaying of the Warrior of Light would be an interesting way to show that maybe they shouldn't rely on us so much.