Thread: The Patch 5.2 Discussion Thread! (Spoilers)

Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

According to the lorebook, Bozja is indeed in Othard. Surprised me too since this whole time I thought it was in Ilsabard.

Oh interesting. Maybe that Archades-looking city in the trailer really is Bozja then? I saw people claiming it was but couldn't find a source.

As for how that meshes with the Hrothgar being from Ilsabard, I suppose the ones living in Bozja just moved there.

Originally Posted by MrThinker

I think Moose would be able to give a more coherent and factual answer regarding this, but in 1.0 the Starshower appeared over Silvertear Lake when people began to manifest the Echo. This would be passively retconned in 2.0 into a starshower seen in a vision when the Echo awakens in us, and while I'm not sure about Krile, I believe Arenvald early on in the ARR story recounts having a dream of falling stars before he encountered the Scions.

It was also a part of the very first cutscene our characters are in, in 1.0. We see the star shower, and then suddenly are propelled 10 years into the past.

In Limsa, we interacted with Y’shtola and Sthalmann before he became Rostensthal. In Ul’dah we saw Thancred, F’lhaminn, and 12yo Minfilia and watched her dad die. In Gridania, we interact with Papylmo and the original Yda and fought a treant after their crashing airship broke the forest's barrier.

Zenos in that Dissidia gear tho *bites fist*

Bozja should be destroyed, yes, but there's what very much looks a lunar transmitter shown in the trailer, so I do believe we'll be in Bozja, perhaps even seeing it from an Echo vision. Additionally, in some of the scenes where we're fighting with Cid and traversing the Imperial city time is wonky—enemies are stopped, imperial juggernauts are flying sideways, etc. I expect Gabranth to have unleashed Tartarus and somehow mucked things up.

EDIT: I feel compelled to state that I think it'll be both Rabanastre and Bozja fwiw. There's what appears to be very obviously Rabanastran architecture and the city as we know it, but it seems weird that we'd be shown Dalamud, lunar transmitter, and Hrothgar without any connection to Bozja.

Very curious about what we've combined Garuda with in the new raid series. Ramuh is obviously Ixion + Ramuh. Ifrit looks like Ifrit + Diabolos and maybe a little Ferdiad. Garuda, I'm stumped on, just looks like revamped regular Garuda. Extra set of 4 wings, slimmer build. Her eyes are Cloud of Darkness-y. She doesn't match any of the Mhachi raid bosses as closely as Ifrit's redesign does though.