I keep thinking of that mystery man hanging around with Zenos...(who seems to at least be Asahi, or one with his body/appearance and voice). He seems to know an awful lot about the goings on of the Ascians and Zodiark/Hydaelyn. Yet, unless we've been conveniently misinformed, Elidibus is the last unsundered servant of Zodiark. Not that we've seen mysterious Asahi white cloak dude use Ascian-like powers, that I recall. Though I can't help but wonder if he's this defector that keeps getting mentioned.

I know there's already an established theory that the defector is the player character before their soul was sundered. That said, the defector supported neither the convocation, nor venat and the hydaelyn rebellion shall we call it. It feels odd to me that us with our imperatively defining Blessing of Light, would be associated with someone aligned with neither. Granted, there may have been more choice in the matter before the sundering, but...I dunno. Despite everything we've learned about Hydaelyn, we've yet to see anything but good come of her blessing, that I recall. And with allies like Ryne, it feels....wrong to call Hydaelyn someone we don't side with. Maybe she'll be a tragic deity who manufactures her own demise at our hands when she's no longer needed or something (I know a lot of people like the "both gods must die" theory), but trying back to the idea of us being the defector...I don't quite subscribe