Thread: Patch 5.4 Trailer, Predictions, and Hints

Originally Posted by OdrN

Considering these towers looks very Mhachi, there might be a hint. We'll see if there is more towers close to other old city-states.

There's a lot void in this trailer: Potentially these tower, the dragon looks very voidsentish, we're fighting again the Cloud of Darkness in the raid, the new role quest may involve Unukalhai who's from the Thirteen...

What if the Mhachi had an ultimate plan to surge the void in our realm that were never used due to calamity? So, in order to prevent this, we'll had to use the technology of the only other civilisation that mastered the void: Allag?[/HB]

I don't feel like the void has anything to do with the MSQ shenanigans considering that the dragon was referred to as a primal in the German version of the trailer.

The towers look to me as though they're siphoning aether down from somewhere up above...and the moon happens to be the closest celestial body available. Seeing as black magic fundamentally draws aether out of the environment as opposed to the caster, I'd think the Mhachi likely would've experimented with finding ways to give them access to more aether for their spells.

My guess is Fandaniel intends to use what bits of Zodiark's aether he can draw out without breaking the seal to create a weaker, but still horrifyingly powerful incarnation of the primal. Considering that Bahamut didn't even need to come into close contact with Cid's father to temper him, it's possible something similar is going to happen here and simply drawing Zodiark's aether down to Hydaelyn could potentially temper enough thralls (Unassuming beast tribes likely being the prime targets) to allow a physical form to manifest and start going on a rampage.

Originally Posted by KageTokage

I don't feel like the void has anything to do with the MSQ shenanigans considering that the dragon was referred to as a primal in the German version of the trailer.

The towers look to me as though they're siphoning aether down from somewhere up above...and the moon happens to be the closest celestial body available. Seeing as black magic fundamentally draws aether out of the environment as opposed to the caster, I'd think the Mhachi likely would've experimented with finding ways to give them access to more aether for their spells.

My guess is Fandaniel intends to use what bits of Zodiark's aether he can draw out without breaking the seal to create a weaker, but still horrifyingly powerful incarnation of the primal. Considering that Bahamut didn't even need to come into close contact with Cid's father to temper him, it's possible something similar is going to happen here and simply drawing Zodiark's aether down to Hydaelyn could potentially temper enough thralls (Unassuming beast tribes likely being the prime targets) to allow a physical form to manifest and start going on a rampage.

I don't think they're pulling anything inward as you see aether being pushed away from the towers. So if anything they're pulling something from the ground. As you tend to not indicate things going inward with an outward pulsing.

So on Eden....

We've finished restoring the elements, what plot threads are still hanging?
Gaia's memories.
Gaia's "faerie".

How could Eden be involved in that?
Eden was used to create primals by reading WoL's memories and giving them form.
Gaia's faerie wants her to remember something she's forgotten.

I think that makes it pretty obvious that CoD and this Scylla/Cerberus/Warg thing have been created from Gaia's suppressed memories that somehow involve the 13th/Void and somehow 'unleashed' upon the world.
The scene with the various crystals surrounding them with images of the current Eden primals could be someway of manifesting memories that goes wrong, or gets hijacked by her faerie.

Originally Posted by RicaRuin

Garlemald/Garleans were never the true antagonists or supposed to be that, if you think about it. Only puppets/tools for the real antagonists.

True and yet they are in every expansion. I have more sympathy for the Ascians at this point. lol