Thread: 6.0 Story Speculations

Originally Posted by Tensaihime

“Strange“ and “interesting” are definitely two words for it. How scared are they of the WoL, I wonder? How wary are the two sides going to be of each other? Will there be hiccups at first, or will the teamwork come easy? And then when the fighting is over... I guess that Maxima guy will try to play some role in the two sides not hating each other?

I know I’m probably overthinking this. One of y’all please tell me that my worries over being stabbed in the back are not coming true.

I think the remaining sane Garleans are probably desperate enough to readily accept any help that comes their way in light of the crazy circumstances they've been thrust into.

Considering how quickly the beast tribes did a turn around despite being at odds with the locals for even longer then the Garleans have, I think they'd rather swallow their pride and side with the "savages" then lose what little they have left, especially with the suggestion that Fandaniel was intending to exploit the local populace to fuel his "gate of the gods". They're likely fighting just to survive, not to try to retake the capital.

Originally Posted by Theodric

I'm not sure how I feel about Garlemald having access to highly advanced cars, though. It fits nicely with the apocalyptic vibe with abandoned vehicles sitting around but it feels very 'tacked on' when Cid already questioned Noctis about their existence. It also feels a little cheap, since one of the plot devices established was that Garlemald could not transport supplies to the defiant provinces to keep a hold over them. If roads had been established between them, though...

I guess 'rule of cool' is the intention for the story moving forward on many fronts.

It has also been...if we ignore the time bubble, 8-9 years since Cid left Garlemald? Remember how fast technology advanced in the real world in that time frame? We went from 32MB floppy disks in the mid to late 90s to 1-2 GB flash drives in the mid 00s. Technology moves fast, and depending on how smart the people who were moving it, seeing cars is very possible. Plus they WERE reverse engineering Allagan tech (who had spaceships), and created the Weapons, cloning tech, etc. Garlemald's tech has been quickly upgrading over the years, it's no surprise to me that they have actual cars.

Originally Posted by JeanneOrnitier

Also Garlemald's capital having cars does not necessitate that functional roads for them exist between their cities. Keeping all the cool stuff for the purebloods in the capital would be very Garlean.

The streets of Garlean Capital also looked like streets made to be use by cars as well when we first saw them during 5.0/5.X

If it was more on a normal day in the Garlean Captial, the street may have been filled with cars, along with traffic, like a city in our world.

however, with probably 95% of the Garlean Captial now destroyed, we can't really understand how life may have looked liked in the Garlean Empire before it was destroyed. Maybe get a small picture of it as we explore what remains but never really the true scope of a Garlean Civilian life.

Originally Posted by EdwinLi

The streets of Garlean Capital also looked like streets made to be use by cars as well when we first saw them during 5.0/5.X

If it was more on a normal day in the Garlean Captial, the street may have been filled with cars, along with traffic, like a city in our world.

however, with probably 95% of the Garlean Captial now destroyed, we can't really understand how life may have looked liked in the Garlean Empire before it was destroyed. Maybe get a small picture of it as we explore what remains but never really the true scope of a Garlean Civilian life.

Hopefully it is something they can show in the Show that they said was in the works, also we can have a Fine ill do it my self moment and just use the FF XV car mount. I would still like to see what the capitol looked like before it was destroyed one day to get a better idea of what it looks like in all the cutscenes there.

Can't remember who and in what thread right now, but someone said that Labyrinthos is a full blown zone and will have Fates.

For some reason that didn't click for me, but the more I think about it, the more it gnaws on my thought matter.


If that's true then I wonder...

Perhaps Endwalker won't follow the formula laid down by Heavensward. Perhaps instead of secondary antagonist build up we're going to kick down Endwalker's door starting with that.

Imagine if you will... Krile gets us into Sharlayan. G'raha Tia currently asserts that it's an impossible task, but he knows Krile will find a way. We see Y'shtola in the friggin' trailer saunters into the Forum of 99 and verbally witch slaps them. What if by starting the expansion in Sharlayan we actually spend the first few dungeons in Sharlayan bringing them to heel? What if they're having problems with end-times creatures or worse still, we catch wind that the Forum is going to wall off Labyrinthos to the Sharlayan commoners (it probably already is but...). What if we spend levels 81 to 83 beating the ever loving 7 Hells out of the Forum's military/secret services in Labyrinthos? And then some Forum members themselves? I'm sure they've no shortage of accomplished mage warriors however pacifistic they claim to be.

What do you think?