Thread: Revelations from Patch 6.5: "Growing Light", Part 1

Myths of the Realm:

I don't think the ending was bad at all. If they stayed around, they'd be left as potential plot points in the future, which would be Ascians 2.0 except they are good. All of the Ascian and relics of the past need to be buried if we want the next expansions to be good. A god wars honestly would just be uninteresting, and make for recycled plots of Endwalker. Let it end. Let it rest. With that said finding out what Dyrek would be up to, and perhaps tying him into future stories would be fine. It's just one man, and one story out of said character. I'm excited to see what this raid series ends up being for that, as well as what the impact of the instruments, and their blessings are. I hope they have long term plot impact, and that they become relevant later similar to other alliance raids of the past.

MSQ:

I like the idea of a set up for a 13th Expansion, I don't like that we spent an entire patch cycle setting it up. In fact, I down right hate it. That's the kind of thing that would be better off brief, not for an entire cycle, and then left hanging as a cliff hanger. It comes off rude to the writer.

WITH THAT SAID, I think a lot of the information gained in the process is essential to what we will see in Dawntrail. The game seems to be hinting that we will devise a way to go to other shards somehow, and that it won't just be the warrior of light/darkness. We will be able to bring anyone we like with us in their actual form. No puppets, second bodies, etc. It will be the real deal, which is absolutely game changing for the lore. That means inter-dimensional politics, and stories can develop, which could be very intricate, and complicated. I imagine that such information would be closely guarded, and only be used out of necessity, but it would still be there, and have a risk of getting out. There are implications to consider.

As some people have pointed out, there are similarities to the first in the new trailer for the expansion, and potential clues that might signal a discovery of travel in the near future. Therefore the patch cycle isn't completely useless, it just feels.. teased, and not like it really accomplished much aside from keeping the 13th quiet until it is needed again for an expansion, or a potential in game activity, such as an exploration like people have suggested.