Ask English Localization Lead Kate Cwynar Lore & Localization Questions

[BBP]

Hello Kate and team

I appreciate the dedication to details you put into localization so thank you and much love

my question
"can the WoL and other Ancients be reborn in any race or do souls have restrictions to what race they get reincarnated in?"

we see in the sundering scene of Endwalker Venat walking among sundered ancients no lalafell, viera or hrothgar among them we also know from 5.2 that not all souls have the echo i assume because they are "new souls"? so are there restrictions to what races ancients can be reborn in? can the WoL be reborn say in a Kobold's body?

[BBP]

another question to Kate

what's your favorite ice cream flavor?

[morika]

Thanks for the opportunity again, Kate!

The circumstances with Elidibus are still otherwise up for interpretation as of Patch 6.4, but I was hoping to ask: despite Elidibus's condition, will there be any more elaborations upon his unique relationship with his pupil, Unukalhai? Their bond as an unsundered mentor and sundered apprentice has always been so fascinating, and it would be neat to see more of it touched upon!

[RubrumYasashi78]

My question is with characters like Fordola, Hilda, Ryne, Gaia etc will we see more of them in the future or are they're stories over ?.... it seem's like so much can still be explained.

[RubrumYasashi78]

In the cutscenes near the end of Endwalker when Venat sundered Ethyris I was thinking we would get a cutscene on par to The Flames of Truth cinematic from ARR my question is was that ever a idea or was that never thought of and could it be something to think of going forward ?

[Hurlstone]

Thank you for all the work you and the team do to bring this world to life!


My question... what happens to a voidsent's soul when it dies on the Source? Is it Rejoined or does it join the aetherial sea on its own?

[morika]

Thanks again for another opportunity, Kate!

We know by Shadowbringers that the forces of light tie with stasis, so I ask: what was the extent of Hydaelyn's influence upon an ever changing realm like the Thirteenth?

A key NPC deriving from the Thirteenth had expressed familiarity with Her presence before, but were there any developments to present this in full?

[15725462]

Hello Kate, I really really REALLY hope you answer this!

I wish to ask, the phenomenon of two or more beings, merging to become one to share memories, body, etc was a hot topic in 6.2 when we saw voidsent do it and also shown in the Pandæmonium raids where Lahabrea and Athena merge into one being momentarily. However, similar feats have been seen in the past too, and I meant not just our character merging with Ardbert at the end of 5.0 but how Ascian Prime was also Lahabrea merging with Igeyorhm

However, we see one other instance of this demonstration but it is neither fully confirmed nor denied, so I REALLY HOPE some answer is given regarding this, but Hraesvelgr supposedly merged with Shiva did he not? Or was the joining of the two simply figurative? Since Hraesvelgr says "'Tis only by the calming embrace of Shiva's soul that mine own fury hath not consumed me." which seems to resemble what we learned in 6.2 where the emotions and memories and personality traits of one being affects the other after the merging.

So please can you confirm on whether Shiva and Hraesvelgr also merged like Ancients did or like we did with Ardbert, meaning Shiva lives on entwined with Hraesvelgr? Or did he actually just consume her?





Thank you immensely in advance!

[Eriyu]

Is Y'shtola's ability to see by sensing aether the same as ancients' like Emet-Selch's and Hythlodaeus's? A) In principle and B) in potency (e.g. can Y'shtola distinguish souls)?

[HakuroDK]

A pretty big revelation we learned during the Pandaemonium: Anabaseios story was that the Heart of Sabik was Black Auracite that was discovered by and experimented upon by Athena.

And it has been very heavily implied by the story that the origin of auracite overall is Ultima, the High Seraph. The only exception to this, at least as far as I know, is how Moenbryda was able to somehow reverse engineer auracite into what we know as White Auracite, which we have used to contain, and subsequently destroy, multiple Ascians.

The lore implications are that Ultima, the High Seraph arrived on Eitherys long before we, the player, set foot onto Elpis and that, while she is not directly responsible for The Final Days, she and her auracite have created myriad problems not just on The Source, but on The Thirteenth as well, which implies that Ultima, the High Seraph, was also sundered, which is likely how we were able to defeat her in the Orbonne Monastery alliance raid.

What is Ultima, the High Seraph and where did she come from? Is she a "Calamity from the Skies" not unlike Lavos or Jenova and, perhaps, her origin point is completely untraceable? If so, are there other Ultimas, the High Seraph out there? Could we see other similar Ivalician Espers come of this, such as Zalera the Death Seraph or others that may have only been conjured in the Ivalice raids as memories of Ultima?

I have too, too many questions, so please refer to the title of this post for a more concise question. Thank you so much!