Thread: Revelations from Patch 5.3

Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty

For what it's worth, I don't think Elidibus was out of character here at all.

I mean yeah Elidibus is DIFFERENT here than he was before, but I would argue the change is justified. Consider this: For thousands upon thousands of years, you have been able to control who and when new heroes rise up to challenge your friends, and you have done so in service to a specific duty related to maintaining balance between light and dark. One day, you feel that dark is too powerful again, so you approach a random adventurer who gave one of your friends some trouble and test them in order to determine their fitness as a new hero.

From then on, that random adventurer goes on to become a full-fledged Warrior of Light and accomplish many great deeds, but you're always confident in your ability to control the situation if needed. That is, until they are whisked away from certain doom and transported to the site where the next rejoining is in progress. From there, they go on to stop the plan and even murder your only remaining unsundered comrade-in-arms.

Now, suddenly there is something very different about this random adventurer. Suddenly, they've demonstrated abilities faaaarrrrrr beyond anything you've ever expected. Suddenly, you're not in control anymore - You may not even be able to defeat them if you tried. Now you're desperate, scared, trying to find something - Anything - That will let you gain control back over the situation. That's definitely going to make you drop the "hur hur I'm a big bad brilliant schemer who knows all" act and very rapidly too.

Don't forget the part that Elidibus never intended for our character to defeat Lahabrea and Emet-Selch.

Since the beginning of 2.0 as revealed in 5.3 now, Elidibus was the one who set our character on the path to become the Warrior of Light all this time and the lesser rank Ascian we defeated in our starting city state was there for the purpose of making us into the Warrior of Light. Heck, Elidibus fully expected us to have lost the final battles of 2.0, 3.0, and 5.0 because he was the one who pulled the strings of our adventure from behind the scenes this entire time yet some how our character always wins.

This mentally destroyed him and leaving him feel responsible for the downfall of all their past plans and the death of both Lahabrea and Emet Selch because he never intended for our character to become such a threat to their plans as the plan was to make our character into the Warrior of Light to maintain the balance and lose to them by the end of 2.0, 3.0, and 5.0 so the calamity can properly happen without any overload on the specific element.

From the beginning we were puppets being pulled on a string like countless other warriors of light with expectations that every victory and defeat being exactly as planned by the Ascians but at some point in some place something made our character different from the other Warriors of Light that gave us the power to defeat the Ascians in actual defeat rather than a planned defeat they setup.