Minfilia Warde

[Hakuro89]

Light forbid they fork over the 35,357gil for the Aetheryte that's commercially available at any marketboard to remain neutral.

Congratulations, you've successfully blurred the line between the game's story and quality of life additions to player housing that have nothing to do with each other.

You are comparing the housing feature to the main plot of the game.

Some design choices are made for the immersion and others for gameplay purposes. The lack of an aetheryte to get directly to the Waking Sands is from the first category...
... Which is why they added a boat to travel directly to that place from Limsa Lominsa, in order to fill in the need of a gameplay alternative.

But for some reason people tend to forget that boat exists.

I think it's because some peoples' hatred for Minfilia, or for her purpose rather, is so strong that it's started to bleed into things in nearby proximity to her that actually have very little if anything to do with her. Almost as if it's because of Minfilia that there's no Aetheryte there.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Congratulations, you've successfully blurred the line between the game's story and quality of life additions to player housing that have nothing to do with each other.




I think it's because some people's' hatred for Minfilia, or for her purpose rather, is so strong that it's started to bleed into things in nearby proximity to her that actually have very little if anything to do with her. Almost as if it's because of Minfilia that there's no Aetheryte there.

No, is more simple than that.
Bad level design and inflationary time sinks to fake the increased value of the player experience. Though in this case particularly, backfired spectacularly and many people thanks to all the negatives related to the act of going there learned to "dislike her". `

Sorry, but not even critically acclaimed games are perfect, and some decisions are just nonsensical when they translate from design choices into player's experience. It not only doesn't make sense that port got no aetherite from a world building perspective by now. It is what damaged Minfilia's image the most after some, but this is less objective, not so tight writing.

Honestly i liked her and was never bothered too much for the travel, even if i never used the boat so many talk about. But yeah, in a game where Airships are basically used once or twice, and connectivity is kinda important as the whole game plays like an instance... Yeah, i can see people getting pissed at having to take that trip, specially when Minfilia kinda does cut away the WoL from important actions and events like a lot... Honestly, her calls basically destroys game flow for many.

This "immersion" is not needed. There are many ways to get across the points of the aetherytes being "expensive" or to limit their use. Other ways to get world building right without affecting player's experience.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

I wish she had stayed gone. She annoyed me to be honest.

For awhile there, I had started nicknaming her "Princess Peach".

[Nedkel]

Her stare freaks me out.

Her maniac face shows her true intention of burying us alive with infinite amount of go there and come back quests through the all next expansion.

[Alacran]

I think she's basically in a trance and will be for awhile.


In time, with much help, she may return to us stronger and more capable. For now however, she will need protection, something showcased on the box art. A dark Knight protecting a child is at this point, a staple of the job in the series.

Cecil & Rydia


Sidurgu Orl, Rielle De Caulignont


Not a new trend

[Shibi]

We speak now with one Voice. One Will. One Word. Unto thee we bequeath the most precious of gifts: A new linkpearl so we can beckon you to bring us hot cups of tea in the Waking Sands

[ksuyen]

Beautiful posters @alacran.

All these theories are very interesting. I personally believe she would be 'reincarnate' from the light as a new child person with no prior knowledge of her past but retain her echo or connection to the light. Furthermore, the devs would probably make her the key person in upcoming 'msq', someone that need to be protected from 'whatever' chasing and trying to destroy her. I don't believe she would be quest giver, if anything she would be the quest itself.

[Daralii]

Beautiful posters @alacran.

All these theories are very interesting. I personally believe she would be 'reincarnate' from the light as a new child person with no prior knowledge of her past but retain her echo or connection to the light. Furthermore, the devs would probably make her the key person in upcoming 'msq', someone that need to be protected from 'whatever' chasing and trying to destroy her. I don't believe she would be quest giver, if anything she would be the quest itself.

The smile she gives Thancred seems too... knowing for me to think it isn't just a form she needed to take to return to the Source. It makes it seem like she knows he isn't going anywhere, because she knows him.

[Aeloria]

I am so excited!! I love her character!

[Alexandre_Noireau]

The smile she gives Thancred seems too... knowing for me to think it isn't just a form she needed to take to return to the Source. It makes it seem like she knows he isn't going anywhere, because she knows him.

Or that she is totally going to murder us all and Thancred switches sides when as Warriors of Darkness we are now in fact, challenging the Hydaelyn. Just, we are not quite "ascians" neither, we gotta do this, without messing with Zodiark.
Unless Zodiark is totally trapped and being actually the victim here and Hydaelyn has just being toying with us all this time...

There is the theory of duality too: Light and Darkness have both good and bad sides (having a bit of darkness and light inside like in a ying-yang also relates both to an equilibrium of "alligment"). If this is the case we could perfectly say there 4 teams:

Astral goddies! - Us, the mother crystal, our allies "in general".
Umbral gooddies! - WoD/Arbert troupe, some voidsents?, us in our future as WoD.
Astral baddies! - The "lightspawns/angels (seven hevens)", maybe Hydaelyn herself is here?, maybe there is a variety of "Ascians" (no, not the scions) trying to tip other reflections towards the light too.
Astral baddies! - The voidsents, other demons (seven hells), ascians are clearly here and so is zodiark if what we know so far about the source is true: That bringing back absolute balance will end all life in the uni/meta/multiverse.

And there is honestly many more. We are not even sure if WE are time traveling anyway.