Spoiler!! So the new msq

[Espon]

The void by FF lore connects the entire FF franchise, this does open the door to basically everything. One of FF's "easter eggs" is that most of the Gilgameshs you encounter in any FF game ist the one that fell into the void in FF5.

"Unlike other recurring characters, like Cid and Biggs and Wedge, it is heavily implied that the different characters named Gilgamesh encountered in different Final Fantasy games are the same person, using the power of the Rift to travel to different worlds. While this is plausible for some incarnations, there is no clear continuity to which incarnations of Gilgamesh are the same and how they relate to the others, as some Final Fantasy games give Gilgamesh a detailed backstory that may be at odds with his other appearances. In spin-off games, Gilgamesh is almost always representing Final Fantasy V unlike other recurring characters, whose different incarnations usually represent their own respective games."

This means if SE wants to abuse the rift travel, we could end up in almost any FF game, and while that sounds kind of neat this could be really weird ... i don't want to be a side character while cloud fights sephirot ... i want a story i did not see before.

There's also a problem with Golbez hes is not an antagonist but a mind controlled puppet in FF4, i suspect this will be explained later on however. The 4 lords may be our 3 extra non msq trials, because ... SE loves to stick to what they always did. Have one be a dungeon boss like Genbu and the rest be full scale trials.

Or they will be the MSQ trials/Dungeons bosses for a while. Considering its technically 5 bosses, i think the Golbez story line is here to stay for a while, unless they throw them under the bus and kill them all off real fast in solo duties.

That's only true for Gilgamesh, though. Other characters we've seen from other games are not the same, they're only inspired by. Even though we've seen characters like Xande, Cloud of Darkness, Omega, Krile, Galuf, FF7 weapons, the warring triad, etc., they did not step out of their universes and into FF14's. They're simply based on previous FF characters, and Golbez is likely to fall into the same category.

[KageTokage]

...Yeah, the mandela effect kicked in hard there for some reason and now I feel stupid.

Anyhow, I find it a little odd that the only significant difference between the avatar's "new" appearance and its original one with Zenos is that you can actually see its eyes now.

I still get the vibe that its circumstances were somehow different from that of a typical reaper avatar.