Revelations from Keynote III (2019)

[PotatoTree]

If Lalafell are a beast tribe in the first world, how did Lamimi end up in team darkness?

[Heliantheae]

If Lalafell are a beast tribe in the first world, how did Lamimi end up in team darkness?

She was the Vath Deftarm of the first.

[Zohar_Lahar]

I noticed in the trailer that foresty place with "Matoya" and Urianger seems to be experiencing a starshower, like in 1.0 videos and an early 2.0 cutscene.

[ObsidianFire]

Koji definietly said Hydaelyn imprisoned Zodiark in the Moon (and created the Shards) 12,000 years ago.

I don't know what to feel about this. I tend to care a lot more about characters rather then places, and so far the 1st Shard is more of a place. I think what feels weird about it is that where we were going (and who we would be interacting with) in 3.0 and 4.0 was hinted at as "early" as the .4 patches. So we had time to get attached to those people and characters even before their expansions started. Here, there's no emotional connection to just about anything in the 1st Shard.

All I know is that the .56 patch had better do a really, really good job giving a reason for us going to the 1st Shard. Otherwise... this might be the most "meh" I've felt about FFXIV's story in a long time. The most interesting part about all this is the cosmology of it.

Right now though? It feels like the Warrior of Light and the key Scions are being Put On A Bus for an expansion so that the Garlean story over in the Source can develop without them. Mainly so that the devs don't have to go into a lot of nitty-gritty details about how that conflict develops. And then at the end of 5.0 they can just stick us back in the Source and have the Garlean conflict be in whatever state they want it to be in.

I don't know... right now I feel like the state of the story is in free fall and I don't know if it will stick the landing. I will know by Tuesday though.

[RicaRuin]

Alright, it's 5am over here, but I have to get something out. Re-watched the Trailer, and - how could I have been missing the not even subtle use of 'Eternal Wind' from FF III in it?

Also, here's to hoping we meet Arbert and gang. They seemed to be written off so suddenly, like a wasted plot opportunity, so maybe they'll re-appear now...? Let me hope.

[Anonymoose]

Also, here's to hoping we meet Arbert and gang. They seemed to be written off so suddenly, like a wasted plot opportunity, so maybe they'll re-appear now...? Let me hope.

I could have sworn they were implying that as pseudo-Ascian entities with spent Crystals of Light, they were going to die again and wanted to do so in their own world. But if it's not explicitly stated, it can change. (And sometimes even then it can be subject to NEW REVELATONS, lol.)

[RicaRuin]

I could have sworn they were implying that as pseudo-Ascian entities with spent Crystals of Light, they were going to die again and wanted to do so in their own world. But if it's not explicitly stated, it can change. (And sometimes even then it can be subject to NEW REVELATONS, lol.)

Maybe the Crystals of Light could be re-charged with the overflowing light of the First? Not really probable, I know, would've just been cool to see more of the (other) WoDs.

Also, I didn't catch it in the Trailer, but the official site (german at least) lists Innocence as one of the Primals.

[ObsidianFire]

For better or worse, "Primals" seems to have been turned into the catch all phrase for 8-man content that isn't the Raid. So who knows what it really is.

[Grayve]

So, we have our first confirmed beast tribe Warrior of Light/Darkness, correct? Now that we know lalafels are dwarves, which are a beast tribe, and there was a Lalafel white mage in the WoD's party. Or was there another previous WoL from a beast tribe?

[briarth0rn]

It troubles me that it seems like the entire expansion is going to be set in a world other than our own. I'm sure there's some reason the fate of the First Shard is important to the Source, but I feel a considerable level of disappointment that we're likely not going to pull back any more of the cloud cover on the map of the Three Great Continents. It feels like filler.

There's a lot of salt surrounding the genderlocking of the new races, as well, but I'm particularly concerned that they exist in Norvrandt as well as Hydaelyn and, despite both cultures being isolated from one another for 12,000 years post-Sundering, the male Viera/Viis are still conveniently kept out of sight in both worlds, and the Hrothgar are literally called 'Ronso', who didn't seem to segregate their sexes in FF10 either.