Thread: 6.4 patch speculation

Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

That title...it feels like it's referring to Golbez, but at the same time, Yoshi-P's words of "reconsidering its meaning after beating 6.4" are telling me that the criminal here isn't Golbez. Golbez was under control by somebody in FFIV when he did a lot of his horrible acts in the game...what if the Watcher's destruction was another one of them? What if the current Golbez is no longer under the control of that influence and is trying to fix the very mess he helped unleash, and the criminal who caused it turned out to be either somebody now long since dead (Igeyorhm), or somebody we now currently know who is having to turn her life around (perhaps Zero IS Igeyorhm)?

Then again the "Throne's Criminal" could be something non-physical and just be something like greed, despair, or some emotion being manipulated that helped lead to the state of affairs. Perhaps Golbez or a ruler had lost a loved one and decided to believe in Ascian magic to return them to the living world.

Well, we see that Zero is telling the truth about her mortal origins via her flashback, I think. However, it'd be interesting if, instead of being an Azem shard, she's actually an Ascian shard. Though that's kind of repeating Gaia's storyline too much to me.

However, I want to point out: Her mother has been mentioned a lot in an offhanded manner. What if her mother was Igeyorhm? Playing a hero, while really working towards the goal of the Rejoining. Like Hades as Solus or Cylva as the Shadowkeeper.

And half-voidsent Zero wasn't an accident, but an early prototype of what Emet ultimately did to make Vauthry, who arguably was half-sineater? (A concept I'll confess still doesn't really make much sense to me given what voidsent/sin easters actually are. How are you half of what is essentially a metabolic condition? But w/e. Also, insert "patient Zero" pun here.)

There is definitely something important about Zero's origins/past we don't know, and it's going to play in somehow.