Revelations from Keynote II

[Iscah]

I'm also surprised my wild guess caught on the way it did, to be fair, and originally only threw it out there so someone could point out some obvious feature I missed that ruled it out entirely.

I don't think it's that wild a guess. I'd already suggested during the 4.4 theorising that the mysterious voice could be G'raha - based off that apparent leak which may or may not be accurate in the end.

So once you'd pointed out that the hooded character looks like him, it all adds up pretty clearly to me.


...aha! Went back through the forum and found our previous discussion where I suggested that it might be him.

Partly, people like the G'raha Tia Theory because there was a very vague lague hinting at something with Crystal Tower, not going into detail here. But afaik that leak had been proven fake.

That would be this alleged leak that inspired my guess that it was G'raha.

We thought it had been proven fake because it's way off the mark about Blue Mage.

But now... it did correctly predict Minfilia's return - on the (special edition) box art and everything - so who knows. Maybe it's still fake and they just threw out some educated guesses about things that are likely to happen at some point.

True leak or not, the Crystal Tower is likely to come back into play eventually, because at the end of that story we had the scene where Nero throws away his magitek compass and it detects something down below the tower.

Unpopular opinion, but I think the stuff covering the neck and face looks more grey-ish and not really crystalline. At least for the part covering the face, I would claim it looks more like a nasty scar than crystals.

The grey colour makes it look like it can't just be a scar, even if the shape of it would suggest that.

The colour also could be affected by the orange-tinged lighting in that scene, which would mute the usual blue of crystals.

It's me or his right arm is thinner than his left ?

I think it might be that his right arm isn't down at his side like his left, but lifted up so we're only seeing the lower part of his forearm and the top of his hand.