Crystal Tower theories

[Jaywalker]

"No ears on the hood"
There aren't any ears on Y'stoya/Matola's hood either.

'Hood ears' aren't canon.

I know there are exceptions! For me at least I was just kidding around. :P

[Fenral]

For archival purposes, I made a few posts about this last month, starting a few hours after the keynote, with a few more reference shots. Iscah's still kind of wins, though.

[ReiMakoto]

Heres the clip from the trailer of the crystal tower. I don't remember it from any other trailer so it looks new.

[myahele]

Heres the clip from the trailer of the crystal tower. I don't remember it from any other trailer so it looks new.

Its nearly identical to the CT in the ARR: A new beginning trailer


But they added that 2nd floating crystal shard. I wonder what it could be? Everything else was a flashback to the Calamity, Dragonsong War and all the other cgi trailers, but everything else was kept the same as far as I'm aware. So why did they do that to the CT?

[fay2]

But they added that 2nd floating crystal shard. I wonder what it could be?

It moves differently to the Crystal Tower like after image like when you move a the camera through an exit.

Over lapped memory or similar object somewhere else?

[ReiMakoto]

Its nearly identical to the CT in the ARR: A new beginning trailer


But they added that 2nd floating crystal shard. I wonder what it could be?

Wild Speculation, what if every shard has a crystal tower and thats how you travel between shards, and the second crystal in the image is like a mirror showing the first shards crystal tower.

[Fenral]

I think the duplicate is just a picture-in-picture effect, not directly foreshadowing anything. You get that kind of arrangement in manga panels sometimes, with a distant shot and a closeup composed into the same panel.

[Iscah]

The plot thickens...

But have a look through the rest of the trailer(s) and see if there's anything else that matches that shape, perhaps? It could just be two overlapping shots of different things as it "flickers" through different memories.

[Seraph522]

Yeah, the clips flash onscreen for a very short time during this portion of the trailer, making it difficult to tell if it's a new shot of the tower or one from the same trailer but from a different angle. I think it's fine to presume that G'raha is the one in the Shadowbringers poster and that he'll play a bigger role in the MSQ next expansion (though I'm still hedging my bets, as it could be an entirely new character under that hood), but using the Crystal Tower's presence in the trailer as evidence is questionable.

[myahele]

It looks like it really is CT, but seen from Coerthas. I guess they decided to combine the two in one shot