So, about Zenos... (SPOILERS)

[Soge01]

Is he dead again? Because after the ending of Endwalker, I personally don't think his dead. Just body? Sure! But the guy doesn't need his body to still be alive. Ge's practically an Ascian with his Resonant. So, unless he completely burnt all his aether, including the bit that sustains his life force in are final fight, I'm doubting he's dead and I have a feeling he'll return in an expansion or two through dynamism since he was left in that weird plane of it.

Thoughts?

[GrizzlyTank]

His story is done.

He ded.

[Conundrum]

His story is done.

He ded.

He didn't turn into a puff of aether, he not ded.

[TheMightyMollusk]

He didn't turn into a puff of aether, he not ded.

Plenty of people have died for good and not puffed into aether. That only happens when it's more dramatic. (Or to excuse bodies despawning in combat.)

I mean, even primals, beings literally made of aether, still leave body parts behind that can be looted for crafting, so it's not like it was ever consistent.

[weebtext]

His story is done.

He ded.

You know who else's story is done?

Thancred.

[Conundrum]

You know who else's story is done?

Thancred.

And

The Exarch (name omitted for spoiler reasons)

Both should have died when they "died" in ShB.

[Maltothoris]

And

The Exarch (name omitted for spoiler reasons)

Both should have died when they "died" in ShB.

I recall someone pointing the reason that Thancred didn't die was because the Trust System was in the game and there wouldn't of been an npc tank to make sense if Thancred did die. So ya, as long as the trust system exists, you know anyone in it is not going to die. It's why I didn't have too much of a reaction towards the Ultima Thule area when the party was getting picked off one by one.

[MsQi]

He'll appear in the next Hildibrand story. Nashu won't be able to take him seriously.

[Enkidoh]

He's dead and gone - he outright tells you before the battle he was fully intending on burning through his entire aether, life and soul to go head on with the WoL (the WoL does pretty much the same thing). He consumed it all, and by the end, had nothing left (when the WoL finally knocks him down).

Only the WoL is saved by a deus ex machina, leaving Zenos dead, reviled and unmourned on the edge of the universe. Good riddance to the crazy stalker and his stupid prettyboy hair.

[Soge01]

He's dead and gone - he outright tells you before the battle he was fully intending on burning through his entire aether, life and soul to go head on with the WoL (the WoL does pretty much the same thing). He consumed it all, and by the end, had nothing left (when the WoL finally knocks him down).

Only the WoL is saved by a deus ex machina, leaving Zenos dead, reviled and unmourned on the edge of the universe. Good riddance to the crazy stalker and his stupid prettyboy hair.

Okay. If he's really dead this time then we should have got his cool scythe as a reward at least. I would never take it off my back for as long as I live.

But what about dynamis though? Even if he is truly dead, since he died in a place easily manipulated by emotion (dynamis), I still wonder if some part of himself will still survive and come back to the Source.