Revelations from Keynote III (2019)

[Anonymoose]

Just getting everything set up so we can all freak out together...

• I picked up a few hints in the trailer lyrics. People who usually agonize over transcribing and interpreting in the lyrics thread: I encourage you to do your thang!
• We're going to THE FIRST to restore Darkness, night, and weather itself.
• Geographical Region: Norvrandt
• The worlds aren't as different as we might have been led to believe, but really don't have much in common, either. (Probably to assist in retooling existing assets.)
  • An easy "revelation" to swallow considering we dodged the bullet of time travel / alternate timeline / alternate universe nonsense. (...FOR NOW...)
• Another Crystal Tower exists there, in a region called Lakeland, but there is still a city around it
  • It's taken much inspiration from the RAPTURE tech demo and the 1.0 opening so I am SCREAMING.
  • (I've been openly lamenting the loss of the Rapture / 1.0 CG aesthetic for years.)
    
• There is a city much like Limsa Lominsa called Eulmore, where the affluent have gathered to live out the apocalypse in comfortable opulence.
• Dancer is coming, it's a ranged DPS, it uses throwing weapons such as chakram.
• There are going to be monsters not unlike "light voidsent" called Sin Eaters. (So even if the world is blank perfection in the end, these things can still exist on the downfall.)
• The other races have other names on The First. The Dwarf "beast tribe" is actually the Lalafells.
• The 8-man raid is EDEN with special guest designer TETSUYA NOMURA
• ABANDON HOPE YE ASPIRING BUNNYBOIZ, the Hrothgar/Ronso are confirmed.

[Kuroka]

Christal Tower confirmed <3

[Fenral]

Still no face, but considering his theme song is Eternal Wind, which plays in the trailer, I think it's safe to say that G'raha has been confirmed. And he's the mysterious voice narrating the trailer.


Or, wait. Apparently it's the Crystal Tower of the First Shard? SUCH CONFUSION.


Apparently, everything we've been saying about Shards not being parallel worlds is true, so the existence of the Crystal Tower in both worlds is a mystery to be solved.

[dalta]

the biggest Revelation of all


FAT poeple EXIST IN FF14!

[Fenral]

Hello, Hrothgar (and Ronso), and yeah, okay, there's our next Calamity, right on schedule. Exactly as disgusting and sexist as I predicted, but that's how it goes, I guess. Sounds like about a tenth of the crowd was pleased, so somebody wants them, I guess.

[Fenral]

Lalafell confirmed beast tribe. XD

[guardin]

and dancer is range dps not healer! insta sub! SE knows how to steal our hearts.

[MrThinker]

Lalafells are Dwarves. I feel so conflicted xP.

Opposite of Voidsent are Sineaters

[Cilia]

Well, depending on how far back the dimensional fracture occurred time-wise, there shouldn't be too much of a geological difference. That takes millions of years or cataclysmic events (i.e. meteor strikes)... if it was only ~10,000 years ago, there wouldn't be too much of a difference. (Wasn't the first Calamity 10,000 years ago? I don't remember where I heard that or if I just made it up whole cloth...)

A-anyway, I was leaning toward dimensional travel anyway... with all the light stuff and barren wasteland from the trailer, and time was already a critical element of the Alexander story and I didn't see them reusing that again quite so soon. Still, now I have to chomp at the bits for a week before knowing how we get there... and all the other questions can stay up in the air. I'm patient enough to wait for Shadowbringers proper.

[MrThinker]

they said that the sundering was actually 12000 years ago no?