Revelations from Patch 6.1

[Mieck]

Ten Newfound Characters


MSQ

Seriously, if you've clicked this and not already completed..


Whatever my expectations were, Zenos's voidsent Avatar returning to the Thirteenth, which appears to be at least partially ruled by Golbez and the Four Fiends - a shard unto which Vrtra's lost sibling Azdaja disappeared five thousand years ago - was not really it. And the craziest thing is that this is probably just one thread - Thancred is off to the Far East for something, we still have the twins in Garlemald to follow up on. The Meracydia hints keep getting thrown out there. And something we haven't really thought about will probably come along and blidside us regardless. Although, after today's MSQ, that "something" might have to go some way...

Pretty wild by .1 standards, I think.

So much good stuff in here, especially the fusion of Thavnair / Uncharted / and Treasure of Aht Urghan that was Alzadaal's Legcay. Simply seeing the words "Arrapago Remnants" and "Zhayolm Remnants" on the screen was a nostalgia rush for me.
Also, the tie-ins from content like the Warring Triad and Void quests was very cool. I thought we might be getting to tackle the Void stuff from the side of the First, since we'd sent Unukalhai off there to hang out with Cyella/Cylva, but for Y'shtola to casually name drop in the MSQ was eye opening.

On the Avatar front, I don't know what I think about it completely. I'm at least 90% confident they haven't mislead us in those interviews and that Zenos is gone and done. More interesting to me is the identity of the Avatar's soul. I did wonder if it was Azdaja, but I suspect Varshan might have noticed something familiar about the aether when Zenos walks up to the top of Sharlayan in 6.0, so I'm wondering if this particular voidsent sought out Zenos because it would bring the avatar into contact with the WoL, on the assumption that this voidsent might be our shard from the Thirteenth.

The Golbez figure, since he had a familial connection in FF4, could well be Azdaja. That's my working crazytown theory for the time being.