That Nutkin

[Eisi]

So it's obvious to me that the peanutkin from the teaser is hiding a massive secret or two. Let's check the source material:



Here we see the nutkin in full focus right after it came back weaseling out from underneath Y'shtola's (played by a stunt double here) skirt, the teaser clearly wants to draw our attention to Y'shtola's reaction as well: "Heavens" she says, surprised, flabbergasted. Then the camera zooms in on the nutkin's face:



Not once.



Not twice.



Not thrice!



The game quadruples down on the zoom-in, for massive dramatic effect.

This is not a normal nutkin. Y'shtola knows this, her reaction gives it all off. She sees it with her aetheric vision. This is actually a transformer or some kind of glamour.

People are asking where Krile is in the Teaser. She might actually be hiding in plain sight.

[Rannie]

or its THE nutkin that assists Thancred

[CidHeiral]

I laughed out loud at the nutkin part. It was so out of nowhere and IN YOUR FACE.

[Raikai]

So it's obvious to me that the peanutkin from the teaser is hiding a massive secret or two. Let's check the source material:



Here we see the nutkin in full focus right after it came back weaseling out from underneath Y'shtola's (played by a stunt double here) skirt, the teaser clearly wants to draw our attention to Y'shtola's reaction as well: "Heavens" she says, surprised, flabbergasted. Then the camera zooms in on the nutkin's face:



Not once.



Not twice.



Not thrice!



The game quadruples down on the zoom-in, for massive dramatic effect.

This is not a normal nutkin. Y'shtola knows this, her reaction gives it all off. She sees it with her aetheric vision. This is actually a transformer or some kind of glamour.

People are asking where Krile is in the Teaser. She might actually be hiding in plain sight.

The nutkin is probably looking at Krile, and she'll appear there in the next trailer... or maybe the nutkin will transform because the next caster job is going to be a Green Mage that is actually a shapeshifter into wild animals LOL.

[Boblawblah]

I don't dislike lala's or anything, but I admit, I'm not particularly looking forward to Krile's redesign, it's either going to be 'aww, cute' or trying a bit too hard to be cool, but since it's a lala, it's not going to hit quite as hard. i assume she's going to be a green mage as well, so that will be cool to see at least.

[kaynide]

On point w/ the Y’shtola stunt double there. Whoever that is straight out of Mrs. Doubtfire.

[Fawkes]

Sometimes a Nutkin is just a Nutkin.

[Vahlnir]

or its THE nutkin that assists Thancred

Modesty Nutkin is best nutkin.

[mallleable]

that nutkin is the true villain of 7.0

[Eisi]

Sure, it may just be any old nutkin, the camera zoom and Y'sh's reaction being merely for comedy. But think about this:

If there exists a tradition of employing shapeshifting magic in Tural, it would naturally coincide with Erenville's ability to identify us despite our changed frog appearance during our investigation into Labyrinthos at the beginning of Endwalker - remember, Erenville is from Tural originally. Yes, he's keen on discerning our behavior as distinct from regular frogs, but don't just brush it aside as his merely being sharp - the attention he pays to critters we wouldn't neccessarily even give second thought to might betray his familiarity with what might reasonably hide behind the facade of animals in the land he grew up in.

Of course such shapeshifting magic would not be mastered in a day's worth. Krile in the trailer clearly displays natural nutkin behavior - the peanut is a dead giveaway - yet at the same time she seems ruffled and frantic, perhaps excited, as though she had just been attuned to the shapeshifting form of a nutkin for the first time and was familiarizing with it - perhaps in an effort to balance not becoming overwhelmed by the animal spirit and fully transform into a nutkin forever and at the same time maintaining the nutkin form and not immediately shifting back into lalafell mode. I assume that Krile is on a trial here to find something in the city while in nutkin form, a quest given by her master, who is introducing her to the shapeshifting arts.