Quote Originally Posted by Dastan View Post
All should be revealed soon, but I did suddenly have a suspicion that Calyx is one of our missing four Ascians. It is possible we will get a trio of them as the antagonists of 8.0. Yes, we saw Altima and Deudalaphon's masks in Gaius' possession, but that doesn't mean they are "dead". Calyx could possibly be Pashtarot's shard. This could explain his knowledge of primal summoning and his cold and calculating personality. That "ascian" we saw could be Altima, Deudalaphon, or even Halmarut.

But I still think Calyx is definitely dying in 7.4
Considering Gaius wasn't aware that an Ascian has to be imprisoned in an auracite to be "killed", it's honestly pretty safe to assume than any Ascian he fought with is still roaming somewhere out there.

Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I would consider Calyx dying-for-real in 7.4 a personal insult, he deserves better than that and as his apparent biggest defender I'll continue saying that! He's also smarter than that, he knows people think he's dead, you don't get to capitalize on that by just, like, waiting until the next day.

But also... when has this game dodged killing a significant character (especially a villain), only to kill them for real the literal very next chance they get? C'mon, even Yotsuyu and Nidhogg had a couple patches of runway, they just don't do that.
I wouldn't consider myself quite Calyx's defender, but I found him to be a very compelling character within the borders of his trope.

While he underestimated us (and that is hardly surprising, since he wouldn't even know that WoL is a God Slayer in all meanings possible), he still doesn't strike me as the type of a character who'd just storm ahead to be killed right after he encountered WoL head-on. Dude got an actual panic attack and maybe PTSD from that experience, judging by that last cut scene.

He should be smart enough to lie low for a while, consider his options and do research on us by possibly employing other parties to do the dirty job of fighting us.