Thancred and Urianger's new mission

[Eisi]

Thancred and Urianger talked about some sort of mission for Sharlayan in 6.4, a weird ask based on the fact they used to work outside direct national interest, which is kind of contradictory now isn't it?

It's obvious foreshadowing for the next expansion, but is there any room for speculation on what might be going on already?

[Cleretic]

I'd say there's too much room for speculation: we literally have absolutely zero information, meaning that every option is possible. And personally, I'm not too interested in a completely aimless shot in the dark.

Thancred, Urianger and Krile is a... poorly balanced team, though. That's two healers and a tank; either that's not the whole complement, or one of Krile and Urianger is gonna ahve to change.

[Denishia]

The only tidbit that I can chew on is that the request was for a politically neutral party (or appearance at least of such) in the Scions/Archons. Which especially if it is the same as Krile's letter means they want a group with experience handling dangerous threats and also researching odd ancient ruins and artifacts. The political situation in Southern Ilsabard is in upheaval and as former Allagan territory has at least a few recently unearthed world-threatening relics to contend with, no doubt. Conversely: Meracydia having learned about the Scions via Tiamat or their singular trade relationship with Thavnair. Or a civilization in the New World, wanting someone from Eorzea who has pull with the Lomisians but isn't them.

The only other thing I can speculate is that wanting that neutral party of the Scions to step in means that whatever the situation is involves to conflicting factions, so whatever the attached story-line is will be meaty and introduce a large cast of new NPCs. That doesn't mean MSQ - Bojza was that, what with the Bojzan Resistance versus Gabranth's Legion.

[Eisi]

Krile's gonna pick up some new craft I bet, big offensive mode. I'd welcome her donning a new outfit, the cute catear hoodie isn't a good look.

[Denishia]

Only somewhat related- the new chocobo barding from Island Sanctuary is a white cat-eared hood - very cute if similar to some other bardings- but when I look at it all I can see is dyed yellow it would be the perfect Krille themed barding. And I'm sad that doesn't exist now.

[Yuella]

Krile will be the new caster job.

[Turethir]

My immediate thought when I saw this scene linked it to the letter Krile saw in the Annex.

It would feel too coincidental for two completely different mysterious sources to be looking to contact very similar groups of people at exactly the same time, so it made sense for it to be connected.

If Krile is involved, I would bet money on G'raha Tia being invited as well - after all, he is an Archon - and we know he has been itching to go on an adventure. In addition, at the end of 6.0, we're quite plainly told that a request into the Students of Baldesion could be what kicks this off.

If the two are related, then I'd expect Krile to pick up the new caster job as others have said. A party of Krile, G'raha, Thancred and Urianger would be a viable Trust party in this case, and that's excluding if anybody else comes along.

This is all huge speculation as we don't have much to go on - it might be that Thancred and Urianger are involved in something else entirely - but it could work.

[Iscah]

Krile ignoring the letter bugged me. Surely reading the mail counts as work?

[Lyth]

Krile's gonna pick up some new craft I bet, big offensive mode. I'd welcome her donning a new outfit, the cute catear hoodie isn't a good look.

One major reason why they've been slow to change the outfit is that Krile is an 'exported character' reference, and the cat-ear WHM is probably her most recognizable FFV job outfit (being itself a reference to FFIII's Devout). That's probably why they went through all the effort to give her a unique hairstyle and then promptly brought back the hood.

I would definitely have a good laugh if she comes back as a Berserker with a reference to FFV Krile's Tiger sprite, although she'll probably end up just going from caster to caster.

As for the two story hooks, we'll probably see an expansion location announcement before we see either elaborated on, so anything is on the table.

[Eisi]

One major reason why they've been slow to change the outfit is that Krile is an 'exported character' reference, and the cat-ear WHM is probably her most recognizable FFV job outfit (being itself a reference to FFIII's Devout). That's probably why they went through all the effort to give her a unique hairstyle and then promptly brought back the hood.

I would definitely have a good laugh if she comes back as a Berserker with a reference to FFV Krile's Tiger sprite, although she'll probably end up just going from caster to caster.

That would be genius!

Alternatively she could either dress in something more classy and cool or a green imp costume.