Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
It's hard to tell at this stage how the Void stuff is connecting to what could come ahead, and I think some of the disagreements on where it could go come from us not knowing why exactly it's coming now. I'm seeing two potential reasons, and I feel like a lot of people have grabbed immediately onto one without thinking about the other:

A: That the Void is somehow related to the upcoming story, and so will naturally follow in while acting to ease us from one story to another through familiar faces and features.
Or B: That the Void actually isn't meaningfully related to any story coming up, but if we don't do it now, we never will.

Personally I think I'm leaning towards B, but that's largely because I haven't thought of or heard a particularly compelling way that it could lead into the next expansion yet.
I think B as well, but it all depends on whether Golbez and the three fiends will be a trial series or part of the MSQ.

But I suspect this
- Scythe Lady is Zenos' voidsent and is the main character of the void/Golbez trial series.
- In the trailer we are seen riding a dragon that is not Vrtra. It might be Azdaja, and if it is, I suspect we successfully rescue her. Azdaja's return will probably be a hook to Meracydia eventually. But if it's just some random dragon, this won't obviously happen.
- The successful trip to the thirteenth will be enough for Y'shtola to close the focus on her for a while, because she has her lead on traveling to different shards which is all she needed.
- 6.3-6.5 will most likely include the Thancred and Krile focus that I think Yoshi was alluding to at the start of the year. I doubt their stuff is related to void in any way whatsoever, so I'm confident that our void trip will be just a trip, and the focus on it will fizzle out after 6.2 in terms of MSQ content.

Still have no idea whether Hydaelyn's crystal will play any importance going further.