Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
The lack of reused assets is something I noticed; while the Clyteum appears to use the brutalist architectural style the Garleans are known for, it doesn't look anything like we've seen out of them before. That could be for various reasons, but more noticeable to me was the fact the Garlean emblem they love to plaster on every available surface is completely absent. For a capital district not seeing it anywhere, combined with the architectural differences, is raising a lot of questions.

I'm not of the "It's obviously an Ascian glyph" school (the Arcadion emblem never looked at all like one to me), but we know they're back in play after 7.4 so looking for a match is just due diligence. It's just a noticeable difference from Enuo's V incarnation, which may or may not be relevant to his role in whatever plot he shows up in. (Sounds MSQ, but like I said, with Occult Crescent already being a V homage vehicle in Dawntrail...)





Basically, yeah. JP trial names lack the eloquence of EN's, so just "Enuo" makes sense. EN's tend to provide context since they're named after the location more often than not, so not having that known is sensible enough.

As to whether Enuo will be an MSQ trial... if I remember right they said he would be, but it's weird putting him in the MSQ with Occult Crescent being a V fanservice vehicle already. Worth noting that the Varis EX fight wasn't advertised, but all of the Bozja content is, to my knowledge, accessible without clearing earlier segments of the storyline, so having him easily accessible through Occult Crescent makes sense enough and resonates with the V fanservice. There's also the possibility of him being a part of the Hildibrand storyline as Asura was in Endwalker, but I dunno; Hildibrand's stuff is always out of left field (which is part of his charm) but...

It's just weird to put a V homage boss in an expack that already has a huge V homage vehicle as an MSQ fight, even if it's thematically resonant with the direction the plot seems to be headed. (And no, I don't think we're going to explore outer space; we're already doing that with Cosmic Exploration.)
Then the question remain is where is this new dungeon located? And how is it related to the great winter? The structure look like it was made by Garlean hands at first glance. Could it be from the ninth shard? Or is it separate city that Garlean traitors made? Honestly it is kinda hard to tell. But if this is from the ninth, we need to ask ourselves how there is snow while the shard has thunderstorms 24/7?