Please, no more Hydaelyn

[Elissar]

Hello everyone

Thank you for your time and participation!
And everyone is right.

I made some mistakes during my first comment, honestly, Final fantasy XIV is my first FF game where i spent a lot of time and still have so much to learn.
I made a hollow comparison between the twelves and the valars, they are not exactly the same but as a player i felt like they could be something similar.
The way that some NPCs talked about them made me think like they are more than primals and think about them as something higher...like a demigod.
During our fest today, master Yoshi P announced they will finally explore the twelves and it's so nice to see how they answered many different feedbacks (male Viera and oceania data center).

For all the talk about Hydaelyn, you actually don't interact directly after ARR. You spend much more time talking to a reborn dragon. The Ascians are eternally ticked off, sure, but SE has definitely said that that particular plotline will resolve in 6.0.

I don't know, i felt like ARR was the longest part of the story, more than Heavensward but maybe it's just a wrong feeling. After awhile i felt like ARR was rushed compared to SHB when we found Y'shtola. The story in SHB was better paced and we see many different point of view about this duality (Zodiark - Hydaelyn).
This plotline feels like "Hey, Hydaelyn is this entity that do X and Y...and now you have a civil war at ul'dah and you need to leave" i mean..it's like they concluded "we need to push it to the side for a while and focus on new stories that will introduce new characters and they will play a important role when we finally figure out what we want to do at the end"

There is a good chance the 12 gods are just the 14 Ascians, especially given Nad’Thal is technically two entities.

As “Dalamud” was a corrupted version of “Bahamut”, we should expect the names to be janky, and even their roles/genders or relationships to be somewhat wrong.

It would not surprise me if:
(Spoiler for Eden)

Gaia were Nophica and Athena were Halone. Halone’s description (shield weilder) is similar enough to Greek myth, it would just mean they were rivals/lovers rather than bitter rivals. Since ascians change bodies, it’s possible the name Athena means he was actually female at some point..but who knows.

All details to the side, this is exactly what i'm talking about. I wish they explored the twelve the same as they do with many different stories present in our game (job quest, side quest).

All the best

Elissar