Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
And the trailer only shows just how
prideful Elidibus is becoming - no longer the 'emmisary', he's falling into smug arrogant megalomania like all the other Ascians, even trying again the same trick he already tried once before that failed miserably (trying to manipulate other worlds' WoLs into fighting us). Eli, don't you know those who fail to learn from their past mistakes are doomed to forever repeat them?

Incidentally I don't believe Exarch! G'raha actually dies when speared by Elidibert's dark magic - past trailers after all supposedly showing main story characters dying, turn out to be completely fine, or just a minor injury (remember Y'shtola apparently shown to be gutted like a fish by Zenos in the trailer for Stormblood, yet, despite being sidelined for much of SB's story, ended up getting better?). Yet characters who really do die, their death scene isn't shown in a trailer. Context is everything.

So yeah, I expect our crystallizing Sharalyan friend to be fine, and not end up pulling an Aeris to an Ascian wearing an Ardbert-suit.
I have a feeling that
what he did was basically "hack into" the Crystal Tower using the Exarch as the connection tool with that stab. The Exarch may either end up dead by our hands in order to end the WoL summonings and save our friends, or we're going to permanently sever the Exarch's connection to the Crystal Tower without killing him, which would halt all current summonings and prevent more from occurring, with only us left as being able to cross to the First due to our power.