1.23b/c Speculation

[Alerith]

you are all over thinking this....
there is a giant meteor being pulled towards a planet....

have your friend drop a ball off the roof of a condo, and then shoot him dead.... is the ball going to stop?

Welcome to Final Fantasy, where Aether, Primals, Magitek and about a hundred million other things exist that say "Fuck Gravity".

[Azurymber]

Welcome to Final Fantasy, where Aether, Primals, Magitek and about a hundred million other things exist that say "Fuck Gravity".

you must not have taken university physics...
When you throw a ball forwards, what is the force that prevents it from randomly stopping mid air and falling to earth (obviously not gravity)

[NefarioCall]

There is a line from Cid right after the Darnus fight where he says that thankfully Louisoux will not need to use his last resort plan. I'm guessing this last resort is the image in the trailer. So in jRPG tradition, the seemingly 'end' is not as there will be a twist in 1.23a ... it seems this twist will bring about the radical changes, else, why would Goobbue go away?

My guess is right about August 15th to coincide with the end of the event and Gamescon.

[Arkine]

Louisoux betrays us.

[Ryans]

People keep calling "To Kill a Raven" the final fight, but I think they are all wrong. If you take into account the line from Cid about Louisoix and the 2.0 trailer, it is glaringly obvious that something bigger than defeating Darnus is going to happen before 2.0 lands.

"Yet the bravest among us were spared, sent beyond the reach of time" is a very revealing line from the trailer that makes me think that we are going to succeed in preventing Eorzea from being completely destroyed but fail in preventing a major catastrophe (thus the world being reshaped). Our character is going to some how be spared by some kind of aetheryte magic that freezes us in time, a sort of stasis if you will, and we emerge a few years later in the reborn world.

As for Darnus, many people have speculated that he will become Odin. That seems even more likely after To Kill a Raven because his essence was absorbed into Dalamud. We know Odin is coming and the resemblance is striking, I'd wager that he turns into him and is released during the upcoming apocalypse.

Baelsar is definitely going to take advantage of the situation, possibly even make an attempt at the throne considering how ill Solus zos Galvus is said to be, but I'm not sure if he is pro-unification of all the nations or if he wants to end the attack on Eorzea.

[Andrien]

I speculate that you're all wrong.

and the funny thing is I'm most likely right. lmao

[Churchill]

Or you know, 7th Legion/FF7, 14th Legion/FF14

[Munba]

In the lettered patches i think we are going to see some of the first world changes like this,



and this,




..and maybe we'll have a final cutscene before the end of this world. Curious to see the Twelve content as well.. they are going to protect Eorzea in some forms?

[Jinrya-Geki]

World of ruin here we come.

[Munba]

World of ruin here we come.

With a music theme appropriate,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1mkBwMmcaY