Thread: Predictions from the Patch 6.2 Trailer & Patch Website

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.

Originally Posted by Cilia

While I don't believe the Void will be restored at any point, the fact the characters are leaning heavily into riftwalking suggests 7.0 might spirit us away to another reflection. Just why I couldn't say, and given Yoshi-P said the lead-in to 7.0 won't come until 6.5 I doubt we'll have an answer any time soon.

Or maybe it will be Meracydia or the New World. Leaning toward the former due to its connection to dragons and Vrtra's apparent prominence in the 6.x story.

Yeah, it could easily be "Hey you did all you can do for the void for now. But while you were gone, "expansion area" went from bad to worse."

Furthermore, I believe we shouldn't expect what we are doing now and what we will be presented to be 7.0 to feel connected. If they are connected, even loosely, that will only manifest well into the 7.0 storyline.

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.

Though I may very well have missed something, I'm surprised we haven't least invited Cylva and Unukalhai to join us or even made them aware that we're visiting their 'home' shard.

I can't see them fixing the Void here for several reasons:
-That feels like it'd be a main expansion goal if it ever does happen, not a patch. Especially not a x.2 patch, when big climaxes are usually x.3 and x.5.
-It would remove Voidsent as easy antagonists to use for future storylines.
-As Rica said, that's what the Unukalhai and Cylva questline set up at the end of ShB is about, so doing it here would just leave them dry.

I wouldn't expect any sort of resolution to the Void story now. That's the long term goal for this story arc. But you can't simply introduce the Void into the story at the eleventh hour without explaining how it works or why we should care about it. We've seen a few interesting points already from the trailer itself. We've suspected that the Voidsent are afflicted with the curse of the Black Pearl, in a manner of speaking, but this seems to confirm that they can't return to the lifestream. I also note that Scarm cannibalizes his fallen ally for aether, much like Diabolos does to Scathach in Dun Scaithe. It makes me wonder if the Voidal Hierarchy is a function of how much aether you've accrued by defeating other Voidsent, much like an endless PvP tournament.

While restoring the Thirteenth is an admirable goal, I don't think that they can resolve this in a way that restores all the Voidsent to their previous forms. After all, we have at least one job already that relies on Voidsent and the Void as a central mechanic. It'll be interesting to see how this gets resolved. I doubt we'll see anything conclusive around this for a few expansions, much like Ardbert and the plight of the First was introduced a couple of expansions before that storyline actually became front and center. I'd expect conflict to break out in Corvos in a few patches with a shift to the Garleans leading into next expansion.

Originally Posted by Lyth

I'd expect conflict to break out in Corvos in a few patches with a shift to the Garleans leading into next expansion.

I feel like something that would "completely change the story" would be wholly unrelated to the void, and the rogue Garlean legions doing something that calls for immediate action like utilizing some kind of superweapon that poses a threat to the whole of the Three Great Continents would be an easy one.