Prepare to have your mind blown

[Zantetsuken]

Actually, there's a 4th option:

Screw the story, let's just blow up the world so Version 1 ends, and Version 2.0 starts fresh as if nothing ever happened, like a new game, but where you get a head start with quests done and levels and whatnot if you've played Version 1.

Personally, I think it's going to be #4, even though that'd be the most disapointing, storywise

However, if the devs were going to take that route, they wouldn't have put in half the effort we've seen in the 7th Umbral/Dalamud Story.

No, we have story and explanation for everything. The designs for the 2.0 world are deliberately based on this event and may well be a focal point in the 2.0 storyline. There's gonna be an explanation for the existence of a rebuilt world, I'm sure of it.

Another tough question for you guys...
Ten years ago, the paragons taught the beast tribes how to summon Primals...

Who are the Paragons???

Perhaps they are like the Occuria... They could even *gasp* be the bosses of old FF games redesigned as 'fallen gods' for FFXIV (like the FFXII zodiac espers were).

Paragons... it does fit.

So...are we using the Echo from 2.0 to go back in time and try to avert the fall of Dalamud? Beating Ifrit, stopping the Moogles, everything we've done to this point...was it all just us reliving the events through the eyes of the Twelve?

Were you ever REALLY in the Bowl of Embers?

My 4 stacks of lvl 5 Dark Matter says I was there. You want to argue with that? ('Echo loot' ftw)