Thread: Predictions from the Patch 6.2 Trailer & Patch Website

Originally Posted by Cilia

Let me just preface this by saying I agree that's a plausible if not probable conclusion given foreshadowing is rarely subtle in this game and I have a tendency to overthink. That said...



The "dream" at the beginning of 6.1 is, as far as we can tell, just a "Meanwhile, in the Void..." scene like we get repeatedly during Shadowbringers (and occasionally during Endwalker).

Our contact with Ardbert (who was nothing more than a soul at that point; Reaper Lady still has a body, just twisted by excess Astral / Dark aether) was the beginning of a rejoining, more like than not; he only does so again when going through with it, so I don't know where the idea that coming into contact with Voidsent Reaper Lady will rebalance her soul and mend her mangled body comes from (porxies can plausibly fix the former, the latter has yet to be remedied at any point through any method).

Zenos was able to steal our body due to our soul having been ripped out and stuffed into a random Garlean soldier by way of Aulus' technology and Zenos' mastery of the Echo allowing him to use the same powers as the Ascians to body surf. It only works for a limited time because Aulus' tech doesn't last forever, but.

Nobody attempted to possess Ardbert's corpse before Elidibus did so; presumably any of the Ancients could have done so before he rejoined with the PC, but there was never reason to. And given he was physically dead for a century his body should have been in a state of significant decay, but that's neither here nor there.

Rest is jumping to conclusions...

I'm not so sure about that. I think Raiya may actually be onto something here. Why else would we get the "Meanwhile...." cutscene after we doze off for seemingly no reason during Tataru's words? Seems like enough to build a speculation on to me.

Also, unless I'm mistaken we don't actually GET a "Meanwhile" subtitle for that particular scene which breaks the previously established mold already.

Originally Posted by RicaRuin

I would be very salty if we restore the Void in the MSQ, because that's what Cylva and Unukalhai want to do and since they're locked behind both a Trial line plus Extremes and all of the Shadowbringers Role Quests, they'll never be added to MSQ.

Same. I really don't want them to magically fix the Void in the patch content. That'd be a total waste of a good potential plotline. If they can make an expansion out of the The First (which had arguably LESS landmass to include) then can we not get one of The Thirteenth as well? Please and thank you, Yoshida and Square?

Originally Posted by SentioftheHoukai

I'm not so sure about that. I think Raiya may actually be onto something here. Why else would we get the "Meanwhile...." cutscene after we doze off for seemingly no reason during Tataru's words? Seems like enough to build a speculation on to me.

Also, unless I'm mistaken we don't actually GET a "Meanwhile" subtitle for that particular scene which breaks the previously established mold already.

The PC implicitly falls asleep because they're just waiting for Tataru to finish the Wayfarer's set she's making for them.

We don't get a "Meanwhile..." scene here because it's meant to portray the passage of time. The scene could be interpreted as a dream, but it's replayed and extended later in 6.1, this time without either the "Meanwhile..." framing or the plausible explanation that it's a dream. It just happens, no context.

I'm not saying this isn't an in-universe dream (it might be), but either way taking it as evidence Voidsent Reaper Woman is an inheritor of an "Azem" soul fragment is jumping to a conclusion. The foreshadowing is rarely subtle in this game and I have a tendency to overthink, but it's natural to try and draw connections even when they aren't necessarily there - there was rampant speculation Unukalhai was the Azem fragment from the Thirteenth, though aside from an optional scene that plays if you've completed the Warring Triad quests he's been forgotten by the narrative, just as an example.

Originally Posted by Zero-ELEC

So we're definitely getting Barbariccia as the trial this patch, given Esteinien says "You're not the only one who can ride the wind." like Kain does in FFIV.

Went over the trailer again and it might be a red herring - I'm pretty confident he says 'You're not the only ones that can ride the wind!'. The reference is there without question, but the plural throws me off.

I'm feeling like Lahabrea is probably going to be the final boss of Abyssos due to having temporarily fallen victim to the same shenanigans the other warders did, judging from how some of the later trailer quotes would be fit for him and the setting.

An easy route for the savage only phase would be to just have him use his transformative magicks since he's powerful enough to put up a fight without it unlike Eric.