Minfilia Warde

[Elkanah]

My BIGGEST observation about Minfilia in the trailer being a child, is that we're going into the past through New Game +. Kind of like what FFXI used to do with Wings of the Goddess. Wings of the Goddess allowed you to access some of the new classes such as DANCER, SCHOLAR. To obtain, you had to basically take a Cavernous Maw into the past (I don't think we'll be doing this as a system for FFXIV), and obtain it in the war or during the war prior events. This would make GunBreaker a prior class before the Calamity fall of 1.0 or during 1.0. Essentially, making Thancred the GunBreaker class in prior engagements before Bahamut and the war with the alliance had taken place. Like... JUST before it happens. Maybe months prior. So we'd be able to obtain GunBreaker in PAST Gridania. It also means that this will be prior engagements to the Goobbue that goes wild during the festival in Uldah, where she originally was (as a child during that event), and Thancreds past comes up about protecting her and her father in that time line. Means 1.0 tie in could be possible as well.

This COULD make sense in seeing that we'll be getting a NEW GAME + mode for FFXIV. And since you'll be your CURRENT version of you at the level you're at (60 or 70 requirement), it wouldn't be game breaking to think this could be potentially possible.

[InkstainedGwyn]

They already said new game+ has no effect on your current game, you can go back at any time, and it doesn't change anything. It's just a full replay, not actually something that changes and grows.

[Elkanah]

They already said new game+ has no effect on your current game, you can go back at any time, and it doesn't change anything. It's just a full replay, not actually something that changes and grows.

I mustve missed that then. Gunbreaker and mifilia makes no sense then in lore lol. there's nothing gun related in gridania whatsoever

[Daralii]

I mustve missed that then. Gunbreaker and mifilia makes no sense then in lore lol. there's nothing gun related in gridania whatsoever

You could say the same about samurai and red mages in Ul'dah, and yet that's where they were placed. Nothing we can do but wait and see. As for Minifilia, it could be just about anything - she seemingly traveled from the First back to the Source, something that should be impossible, and is still the Voice of the Mother.

[Celef]

What if she is the incarnation of Zodiark ?

We know from FF12 that he was so powerfull he scared the gods and they kept him a child. Considering we had various FF12 content added recently, maybe they kept on this idea from 12 ?