Thoughts about the ending scenes - Dawntrail Spoilers~

[LyraShu]

Ok, so I have been sitting on this thought for a couple of days now, and it was something that came up for myself and I kinda just brushed the thought away as me thinking too much about it, but the ending scenes in Dawntrail has me thinking and just wanted to share and open it up to extra thoughts. Mixed reviews aside for the actual story, I just like to think about possible futures~

So in the ending few scenes, we are shown with our WoL looking over a map that has yet to be filled in, plus the Alexandrian artifact that we know next to nothing about. We are told that the artifact makes strong desires real, and that even the Alexenandrites had no idea how to use it properly.

The way we look at that map just reminds me of longing. Longing for adventure, longing for reason, maybe even longing for just something new. We all gave a different answer to our reason for adventuring I am sure, but all answers are kinda spoken in the face we make (in my opinion). So my theory/thought is thus; What if we, the WoL, with all of our ambition and want to help, unwillingly create the next disaster? We are given the line of how the artifact would be most trusted with us and the scions, but are we really???

And then there was the ending remarks from Zenos and the answer we gave to him. Not all answers we could have given supports this theory in this regards to be completely fair, but I feel like the point of even asking the question was to make us think for a moment of, "are we really good?". Are we, the WoL, going to create our next villain?

All of this is just headcannon stuff that I feel like could be really interesting but just fun to play around with the ideas~ Did anyone else get this kinda feeling from the ending?

[Loggos]

I actually really like the idea that we are accidentally responsible for something bad once, break stuff and need to fix it.
I wouldn't necessarily want to align it with Zenos' mindset because not everybody would enjoy that for their WoL. Power to everyone who likes him but I don't want to be (metaphorically and philosophically) "force-teamed" with him (again).
(Or give us a *proper* option this time so that Zenos enjoyers and Zenos-not-so-much enjoyers both get their way.)

It would be very interesting though if we accidentally break something while actively trying to do something good or something neutral/seemingly innocent and then a catastrophy unfolds.

It would make for a very different story that we didn't have yet. We would have to lose and re-earn our hero status again and it could lead to some compelling tension between us and our friend NPCs like the scions but also the world leaders.

[LyraShu]

Very good point regarding Zenos! I guess that was me just trying to grasp at things to support this idea more then anything, but you do raise a very good point!