Gamerescape E3 Interview

[Iscah]

I was originally of the mind it was the same merchant from 2.0's opening and 2.55's ending, and that he was more important than initially assumed

I thought you got rescued in 2.55 by whichever merchant you met at the beginning of the game, though the script on Garland Tools only has dialogue for Bremondt (the Gridsnian merchant). Maybe it works differently within the game, but I can't check now.

Maybe Urianger is calling Y'shtola "Master Matoya" by that name in the OP because it's not actually her, but her double...

Possible, though I saw some character profile slides the other day (from the live letter?) and it does seem to be "our" Y'shtola in the black outfit.

I certainly hope there's a more interesting explanation for it that "just an alias that we deliberately showed to confuse you all when it's barely even a plot point".

[MrThinker]

I thought you got rescued in 2.55 by whichever merchant you met at the beginning of the game, though the script on Garland Tools only has dialogue for Bremondt (the Gridsnian merchant). Maybe it works differently within the game, but I can't check now.





Possible, though I saw some character profile slides the other day (from the live letter?) and it does seem to be "our" Y'shtola in the black outfit.

I certainly hope there's a more interesting explanation for it that "just an alias that we deliberately showed to confuse you all when it's barely even a plot point".

As someone who started in Ul'dah, I can confirm the brother that comes to your rescue varies on your starting city state. The only time you ever see the 3 together themselves is at the end of 2.0 in the Waking Sands before accepting the quest rewards for 'The Ultimate Weapon'

[LineageRazor]

I certainly hope there's a more interesting explanation for it that "just an alias that we deliberately showed to confuse you all when it's barely even a plot point".

We're using assumed names to conceal our identities! On a completely different world where no one knows who we are anyway!

Then again they all still speak the same language with the same accent despite ~12,000 years of divergent history making that nigh-impossible, so I guess it's not too surprising...[/size]

Couldn't that be chalked up to the WoL's Echo ability to comprehend languages? (As for the other Scions, they're a bright lot and might have picked up the lingo swiftly.)