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[Lauront]

Narrating the trailer. :`) If we have to put up with cardboard Zenos until the End of Days, I am sure we can make some room for Emet too.

[Enla]

Better than however many protags have popped up now from being dead randomly :^)

I mean they don't even need to bring him 'back' technically. Dude is for all intents and purposes chilling in the Lifestream since no one knows what actually happened to him after 5.3. And before that according to the White Day short stories from last year he can still be 'reached' since Hyth's shade managed to send all the presents his way. Really just have the WoL pull one of their usual shenanigans that would permanently maim any other character, plop us down there, and a one off conversation is more than likely.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I mean they don't even need to bring him 'back' technically. Dude is for all intents and purposes chilling in the Lifestream since no one knows what actually happened to him after 5.3. And before that according to the White Day short stories from last year he can still be 'reached' since Hyth's shade managed to send all the presents his way. Really just have the WoL pull one of their usual shenanigans that would permanently maim any other character, plop us down there, and a one off conversation is more than likely.

With him narrating the trailer i find just a one off conversation to be incredibly unlikely but maybe... I do agree though, he ain’t even necessarily dead as he wasn’t even trapped in auracite.

[Shougun]

I mean they don't even need to bring him 'back' technically. Dude is for all intents and purposes chilling in the Lifestream since no one knows what actually happened to him after 5.3. And before that according to the White Day short stories from last year he can still be 'reached' since Hyth's shade managed to send all the presents his way. Really just have the WoL pull one of their usual shenanigans that would permanently maim any other character, plop us down there, and a one off conversation is more than likely.

He also has a mass load of leftover creation magic one might say is stained 'him' (like Bahamut aether for Summoner) and a fractured(ish) WoL that could develop mind troubles, could bring him back while not actually bringing 'him' back. If they wanted to state him dead. Something happens to finally tip the WoL's seams too far and their natural barrier to the outside breaks (like an immune system against magic), returning to Amaurot the entirety of Amaurot enters the WoL. Cloud fallen into the Mako stream sequences, Emet's energy and his history in your mind with your fragile unity creating a tangible entity of him (born by you). Him, fragments of him at least, helping you return to a normal state (while ensuring he and his city are intertwined). Antagonist in some ways (still wants to protect and preserve his people), protagonist in others, like ensuring the crack in your immune system (magical barrier to outside entities) is functioning such you don't have a 13th shard invasion to your soul lol, notably this Emet is not entirely tempered (being part of his left over Amaurot energy and part WoL). Some opportunity to have an internal world space (like you uncover / develop sections of Amaurot, as it's now part of you- at all times). I really like that last city so having more of it, giving it some more Chrono Trigger end of time vibes (End of Time was a NPC / time teleport hub area, etc) could be neat.

[Lauront]

He also has a mass load of leftover creation magic one might say is stained 'him' (like Bahamut aether for Summoner) and a fractured(ish) WoL that could develop mind troubles, could bring him back while not actually bringing 'him' back. If they wanted to state him dead. Something happens to finally tip the WoL's seams too far and their natural barrier to the outside breaks (like an immune system against magic), returning to Amaurot the entirety of Amaurot enters the WoL. Cloud fallen into the Mako stream sequences, Emet's energy and his history in your mind with your fragile unity creating a tangible entity of him (born by you). Him, fragments of him at least, helping you return to a normal state (while ensuring he and his city are intertwined). Antagonist in some ways (still wants to protect and preserve his people), protagonist in others, like ensuring the crack in your immune system (magical barrier to outside entities) is functioning such you don't have a 13th shard invasion to your soul lol, notably this Emet is not entirely tempered (being part of his left over Amaurot energy and part WoL). Some opportunity to have an internal world space (like you uncover / develop sections of Amaurot, as it's now part of you- at all times). I really like that last city so having more of it, giving it some more Chrono Trigger end of time vibes (End of Time was a NPC / time teleport hub area, etc) could be neat.

Very much like the sound of all that!

[Iscah]

Narrating the trailer. :`)

Was there anything in there confirming it was him narrating the trailer, and not just someone who sounds somewhat like him?

As I recall, some people were dead certain that the mystery voice narrating the Shadowbringers trailer had to be Ardbert.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Was there anything in there confirming it was him narrating the trailer, and not just someone who sounds somewhat like him?

As I recall, some people were dead certain that the mystery voice narrating the Shadowbringers trailer had to be Ardbert.

A lot of those people were tone-deaf, and Graha’s voice hadn’t been heard before. Emet’s voice is known and they literally use the same exact lines as the ones he utters in Amaurot...it’s him lol.

[Lauront]

Was there anything in there confirming it was him narrating the trailer, and not just someone who sounds somewhat like him?

As I recall, some people were dead certain that the mystery voice narrating the Shadowbringers trailer had to be Ardbert.

With G'raha there was the difficulty that he wasn't voiced until SHB.

Anyway, it's consistent across language versions and he's using lines from the dungeon itself. You can compare them (e.g this) to this.

[Iscah]

A lot of those people were tone-deaf, and Graha’s voice hadn’t been heard before. Emet’s voice is known and they literally use the same exact lines as the ones he utters in Amaurot...it’s him lol.

I only saw the Japanese trailer - not sure how I ended up on that one rather than English; I think I just followed a link someone had posted. So I don't know what they were saying, but I like minimal spoilers so that suits me anyway.

[Alleo]

Narrating the trailer. :`) If we have to put up with cardboard Zenos until the End of Days, I am sure we can make some room for Emet too.

Isnt that just the stuff that he said in Amaurot? I doubt that it means that he somehow will be back, at least not in flesh. (Also arent people annoyed with characters cheating death *looking at Ysthola and Gosetsu*. Or is that just the case because they are the good guys who survive?)