Thread: 6.4 patch speculation

So I checked out the 6.4 site today for fun and I saw something. There is a tagline now below the page heading "New Story" that I don't think was there before: In Shadow Looms the Usurper's Seat

Forgive me if this is old news and I am just blind. lol

But, yeah, so I guess that title ties in to the Japanese title of the patch being "The Throne's Criminal". Usurpers are people who criminally take a throne. Which either hints that Golbez isn't the original occupant of said throne, or that he's going to be usurped. I'm guessing the former, though it might be both.

As for what the throne is, then, (b/c this all implies to me that there was a "throne" prior to Golbez taking it) maybe its just him having repurposed the Watcher's "palace" on the 13th's moon, having killed that shard's watcher. (Or at least destroyed or absorbed him, cus I'm not sure they're technically alive enough to die?) Or maybe the throne in question is referring to Zodiark's role in things, and just saying that Golbez has set up shop in the Cradle of Darkness, "usurping" his rightful place?

Also, how likely is it that Golbez has eaten the piece of Zodiark that used to be on this shard, you think?

Or perhaps that bit of Zodiark is what the ascians screwed up with on the 13th. The 13th was their first try at their plans. What if, before they came up with the rejoining of worlds plan, they tried to just go straight to unsealing the part of zodiark on the shard and the piece got absorbed by the lifestream or dispersed/destroyed and that was what ultimately resulted in making a "useless void" of the 13th.