So at this point we're a couple months past when the Rising 2024 took place. The chief reason I bring this up is because aside from breaking what's been a pretty consistent tradition for the Rising event, it also calls into question if SE plans to publish another collection of short stories that lumps together everything from 2019's Rising and forward.

For context, "Chronicles of Light" collected all twenty of the short stories published alongside the Rising from 2015-2018, and included five additional stories exclusive to the print edition. These are all stories related to ARR, Heavensward, and Stormblood. And the collection was announced at a PLL in December 2018, after Shadowbringers was announced AND after all of the 2018 Rising stories had been published online.

As of December 2023, an additional 22 stories have been published as part of the Rising events from 2019-2023, related to Shadowbringers and Endwalker content. The last short story was an out-of-season addition for the 10th Anniversary event, and was released December 7th 2023.

Essentially, here are the principal questions:

1. Do we know if SE has said anything (in ANY language) about the decision to not include new short stories for 2024's Rising?

2. Has SE given any indication that they are open to doing a second collection of short stories to accompany "Chronicles of Light?" Because if the timing of the previous announcement was any indication, it should have been announced last year.

I dunno, it just seems weird to me that the Rising came and went and no one appeared to notice that the short stories just weren't a part of it this time.