Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
More pointedly a significant number of people were utterly convinced Shadowbringers was going to reveal Hydaelyn to be evil, and have the PC switch sides in the cosmic conflict to become Zodiark's champion instead (if not necessarily join the Ascians)... all because the Crystal Exarch (G'raha) said we'd "become the Warrior of Darkness" in the teaser trailer. Needless to say, none of those things happened and the people who wanted them to were disappointed (though not with Shadowbringers as a whole; and they are some of Endwalker's most vocal critics, but I digress).

Without context an educated guess is next to impossible to make. Personally, I will be very disappointed if it winds up being more Ancient / Ascian crap on account of Endwalker concluding their story and continuing to bring them (or their proxies the Allagans and Garleans) into the forefront would defeat the purpose of having done so.
To be fair, I do recall, in the fanfests leading up to Shadowbringers, there were some lines spoken giving vague implications that we might become some sort of dubious person (though I couldn't actually manage to find any video footage of the ShB keynotes, as those were paid events, so I don't have exact quotes). And the bit at the end of the 4.5 patch trailer also offering some cryptic symbolism that, even if we did get context for afterwards, was still cryptic on purpose. The point is, the devs know what they're doing when they do this. Yoshida says vague, out-of-context things, and then encourages people to ponder, on purpose, and the CG trailers always do the same. Honestly, I really wish they would stop trying to lead people on this way, but I guess it's just what he does.

We're always going to get context later, so I guess ultimately it doesn't matter. I do agree though, I really hope this isn't just yet more pre-sundering Ancient stuff, or even Allagan stuff. I'm making the personal assumption that it isn't Allagan, due to it simply not looking typical Allagan. I know people are bringing up the alphabet topic, and since I don't really follow, can somebody kindly point me to citation where I can read up on that, please?