Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post

I never considered G-Warrior as a hint for Sage... and I still think it's a pretty tenuous link tbf, Sage isn't a magitek job, it uses magic and aether, the Nouliths aren't actual guns.
It's not "magitek" as we've come to expect from Garlemald or the Ironworks, but its still crystalline technology that uses aether and the "hint" doesn't need to be as overt as a character going "I'm THIS job now!". G-Warrior was as close you could get to a Gundam pastiche without actually causing a lawsuit (they even had the Newtype Flash) and the reveal of the Sage with "Nouliths" were even joked about during the reveal that they are a "wholly original idea and in no way similar to Gundam funnels".

So people latched on to the idea of job "hint" that was in fact the opposite of that and could never work and now in hindsight we have a pretty 1-to-1 of what was in 5.3 and the revealed job and you still refuse to see it as the actual hint.