Thread: Predictions for 5.3?

Well I just concocted a theory hat has nothing to go off of other than a line in the trailer.

The Glowing Army Elidibus summons, those were....

• the Warriors of Light from the rejoined shards, whose aether was merged with his (being the Heart of Zodiarc)
• summoned using his Creation magics, but branded as a result and thus bound to his will
• A gambit that heavily taxes his aether and is thus saved as a last resort. Also the reason Y'stola makes mention of a cacophony of voices, as overuse would either chnage Elidibus' personality or materializing this army comes at great risk of bring branded himself and thus being Zodiark.
• Also would include the First's WoL as a timey-wimey technicality (as there is a Timeline where that shard was rejoined and intersects with this one via the Exarch and Tower)

In other words, the army are comprises of Warriors of Light, fallen, yet reborn as thralls of Zodiark. And Elidibus had this power all along.

Prolly a crackpot theory

Originally Posted by Morningstar1337

So...Sin Eaters?.

Also can we make out any familiar faces or silhouettes among the glowy folk?

10 words of da law

I wouldn't say sin eaters but close to it, like how Captain Maddison was exposed twice to Leviathan, the 1st tempering his mind, the 2nd caused a physical transformation. I think these light warriors are what happens if exposed too much to Hydelyan's influence, she is always trying to reach out to any that can hear her but what would happen if you continously hear her forcibly, that is what I think the light warriors are, and does not take much for Elidibus to convince those under such dire straits to attack us, especially if it meant preventing further disfigurement, which it would because Elidibus would have no need for the starshowers to continue with our deaths afterall (basically not telling whole truth a staple Ascian mo).

I think I get it now.

The trailer DOES start from the ending.
The glimmers of light and crystal falling from the sky are actually the Exarch's remains (you can see the same effects when he's in pain and crystalizing).
You can also see at the ending of the trailer a beacon of light piercing the sky, which is quite possibly the Exarch doing what we did to return the night/day, and it would also explain why Lyna looks at the sky distressed. We will see him sacrifice himself to save the First.

With the Gamespot interview from yesterday where Yoshi tells us that they will be "going against player expectations" for where we are going next, and that the players will be "surprised but pleasantly"; along with "It would be a good idea to brush up on Heavensward" what if we end up going to Meracydia?

That would be a HUGE chunk of content.

Originally Posted by BasicBlake

With the Gamespot interview from yesterday where Yoshi tells us that they will be "going against player expectations" for where we are going next, and that the players will be "surprised but pleasantly"; along with "It would be a good idea to brush up on Heavensward" what if we end up going to Meracydia?

That would be a HUGE chunk of content.

That would be nice. I'm honestly not expecting Garlemald and only that, I'm just not sure what they will pair it with. Anywhere that isn't the New World seems relatively feasible to tie in to the story currently with minimal fuss in terms of places we've heard of.

Originally Posted by BasicBlake

With the Gamespot interview from yesterday where Yoshi tells us that they will be "going against player expectations" for where we are going next, and that the players will be "surprised but pleasantly"; along with "It would be a good idea to brush up on Heavensward" what if we end up going to Meracydia?

That would be a HUGE chunk of content.

I'm all for Mercydia expansions and I want to make that distinction. Mercydia is apparantly as big as Othard+Illsbard+Aldenard combined I think it would be huge disservice to reduce it to 1 expansion only, heck you could turn Mercydia into season 2 of the story.

I have a feeling Yoshi is actually refencing Sharlayan and its Exodus. Just my hunch. Sharlayan could also have kept hidden knowledge about the ancients structures and their history. Demi-Ozma is experiment to sharlayans, so clearly something shady is going on behind their closed doors.

With Garlemald/Sharlayan/Thavnir as the major places we haven't gone to that we know about, yes the rest of Hingashi has yet to explored but they seem more stubborn than Ishgard about letting outsiders in.

HW dealt with Ishgard, Dravanian, Sharlayan, Mercydia, Ala Mhigo and Ul'Dah.

4 of those have been explored in sufficient depth to not been explored again (though i wish Ala Mhigo got more, it did still have half an expansion's focus).

It really just leaves us with 2 options and I just find it is too soon for Mercydia.