Quote Originally Posted by RicaRuin View Post
On the topic of the cloaked figure in the Artwork - I don't really think it's G'raha Tia. They try their best not to intertwine Raid Story with the MSQ, and then again, wouldn't they have told players to complete the Crytal Tower Raids by now...?
That wouldn't prevent them from bringing in a character if they felt it would work (and who knows, maybe tapping into the darkness in the void somehow with the help of G'raha to offset the surge of light coming is part of how Shadowbringers all goes down), as you could both be in the midst of the Heavensward story, working your way toward meeting Hraesvelgr for the first time with Estinien coming along...while also preparing to deal with him losing control to the Eye in and around the 40s Dragoon quests.

If they decide to bring him back, they'd just treat the CT as if it existed in a time bubble (like many other things they've done this with).

Honestly, the last time I can remember them actually requiring that you clear side-content for the sake of future MSQ was clearing out the three Hard Mode primals, and that had more to do with a specific set of MSQ NPCs that handed out those quests being moved as part of the MSQ. Since CT is a side story, it can easily exist in the same kind of time bubble that the job quests often do.