Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
God, I hope Ultima's not behind everything. Or much of anything.

Partly because we already killed Ultima so it'd feel like a bit of an anticlimax, but also because I'm pretty tired of Secret Magical Forces orchestrating everything. I already feel like there's several plot threads in the game that are devalued by 'the Ascians did it' (Garlemald most of all), part of what excites me about the game going forward is the notion that we'll be seeing machinations of people's own volition, rather than by the whims of shadowy ghost wizards. Replacing them with a shadowy rock alien really doesn't help! Let villains be villains by their own hand!

(Also I feel like there's a much clearer link between the Shadowhunter, a creature basically invented by an Ascian, and the eyes in the background of a fight against an Ancient, than 'what if space rocks were secretly involved in the former and there were literally no clues beyond kinda similar minor symbology'.)
You’re gonna love it when Jenova finally rears her ugly head in this game…