Thread: Predictions from the Patch 6.2 Trailer & Patch Website

Originally Posted by KageTokage

Someone mentioned that in the JP trailer some of the lines are rather distinctly spoken by Lahabrea's VA (Which has remained unchanged since ARR on their end), and given that the only voice acting is either in the MSQ or trials/raids I feel pretty convinced he is going to be helping us initially, but temporarily succumbs to whatever is influencing the other warders in Pandemonium.

He's definitely gonna be involved in the raids this step for exactly that reason, but I suspect he's gonna be on our side, comparable to Gaia in E8 (and of course, to have him on deck to use as an antagonist somewhere in P9-12; there's no way we aren't fighting Boss Lahabrea sometime, I just don't think it's now). Given that, his lines being things like 'rest eternal' might be along the expected train of 'an attempt to revive Athena went real bad, and he has to help us put it down'. Or maybe that we're gonna fight some sort of incomplete monstrous Shadow Lahabrea and we're gonna go Persona 4 on this thing.

As an aside, learning from this that Lahabrea's voiced by Shuichi Ikeda threw me for a loop. Wow, was that a critical misuse of Char Aznable; hopefully we've got better material for him this time around!

My money's still on her being Halmarut - Specialist in fungal and plant life - she does appear to give off that poisonous plant type of vibe.
She'll be a solo instanced duty in her regular form and then will transform into her Tree form which conveniently enough is Exodus (if you played the original FFTA, the overall shape appears to be very similar).

That leaves space for 2 more battles, one being Transformed Lahabrea with Savage being even more transformed. It's also reasonable for them to throw a curveball and either make crazy lahabrea be a separate fight or it being an entirely new character as the final savage bosses have a hidden form in savage it's not unlikely though for Lahabrea to be the final one cause it fits the importance

Originally Posted by Cleretic

He's definitely gonna be involved in the raids this step for exactly that reason, but I suspect he's gonna be on our side, comparable to Gaia in E8 (and of course, to have him on deck to use as an antagonist somewhere in P9-12; there's no way we aren't fighting Boss Lahabrea sometime, I just don't think it's now). Given that, his lines being things like 'rest eternal' might be along the expected train of 'an attempt to revive Athena went real bad, and he has to help us put it down'. Or maybe that we're gonna fight some sort of incomplete monstrous Shadow Lahabrea and we're gonna go Persona 4 on this thing.

I am not sure on that. I dont know if every male voice line at the end of the trailer is Lahabrea but if he is, he does not sound nice in German.

"Mein Wunsch wird schon bald in Erfüllung gehen." My wish will soon come true -> This one could still be neutral but may hint at him wanting his wife back?
"Erstickt an eurer Verzweiflung." Choke on / Drown in your desperation -> Does not sound friendly at all.
"Dieser Kerker wird euer Grab sein." This dungeon will be your grave." With "euer" as a form of more than one person.

So if that is all Lahabrea he either wishes that on our enemies (doubtful) or he is talking about us, wanting us death. And the tone he is using there sounds kinda evil too.
But who knows maybe its misleading again.

Originally Posted by Vyrerus

As far as the MSQ goes, I think y'all have the right of it. Though I will say that the scythe the reaper lady is wielding is not the default reaper scythe. It's more slender with less spikes. Elegant, even. I'm confident that she's Zenos's avatar.

Kind of thought I heard Zenos's VA in the trailer. You don't suppose that Zenos's shard is Golbez, and the avatar was actually tasked with bringing his soul to him? Perhaps our villain is getting a soul shard this time around? And with it being a source shard that's several times rejoined... that could up the ante appropriately.

I came here to say she's very likely to be Zenos's avatar.

I have replayed the trailer today and noticed how her and Zenos's avatar scythes are very identical, so it stands to reason they might be the same.
Someone also commented on how she looks identical to the default female hyur from 1.0, so we might be in for Ardbert 2.0

What about the New World or Meracydia precludes either to have High Fantasy? And if the storyline set in the New World was to use the Americas as the framework for inspiration, then either the Aztec or Incan Empire is almost too similar a replacement for the Garleans, being very large militaristic imperialistic empires founded only a few generations ago, with massive capital cities and a large population of conquered neighborhoods and subjugated nations eager to oust their overlords. There's even large deposits of cerulean. A High Fantasy Tenochtitlan with canals and floating gardens and massive stone buildings - and some deadly politics? The fun with Incan mummies and an enhanced fantasy version - that dying kings did not transfer property down to the living rulers but were still accounted as the legal owners and touted around in yearly ceremonies, as if that doesn't scream for the central theme of learning from but also moving away from the control of past generations that shows up in HW through ShB and EW.