Trailer Theory

[TarynH]

Your theory of Vessel seems pretty odd to me. I mean, If it's the Ascien that do it for getting us out of the way, why didn't they do that from the beginning ?

Rak'tika Great wood seems to have a Viera village in it, So Ivalice/Dalmasca will be our next destination ?

Maybe not so much a vessel, but somehow transported into another body. Maybe even swapped. The Ascians could possibly do it, yes, but it defeats their end goal with the Source world. There might be another entity that is capable of doing it to the WoL. Perhaps the voice we're hearing before the Scions pass out. It may already be at work transporting the Scions where they need to be; to set the stage.

You mentioned new zones. While Rak'tika does seem to be part of Dalmasca, it could very well be another place. They hinted that a beast tribe lived up in the canopy, but didn't specify which beast tribe. So it could go either way. The other new zone (name eludes me), the Fairy's home, looks very peculiar with streams of light shining through the clouds. The same streams of light in the trailer when light-based monsters are shown. Perhaps this is the First world, bathed in light, as it would be.

The story could very well be split between both worlds. Perhaps that's what they were experimenting with when they let us play as Alphinaud.