Thread: 8.0 speculation

I think the whole forced rejoining thing will be solved via using the key to create permanent passages between the reflections, breaking down the barriers between the worlds equating making the world 'one' and thus nulling the need for the shards to rejoin destructively. Though currently our pathways are only seen/useable by us I believe this will change over the course of 8.0, after all the Milalla were able to use the key to mass exodus. In the hands of the WOL its true potential will be useable.

Re: 7.5 and what we know all together

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...estory_encore/

"Azem had sought the chief's assistance with the refinement of the fourteenth in his series of concepts to help ease the burdens of travel, which was contained within the palm-sized crystal."

This short story and Pandaemonium convinced me of two things. That Azem had foresight (as we've seen demonstrated to a lesser degree by Mikoto) , as well as being one of the foremost experts on transportation beyond what was known after the Sundering.

7.5 part 1

I trust The Key even less now. And I now also don't trust Azem.

If I have only one concern

I hope we avoid a multi-expansion arc of dealing with each Winterer and their own plans for each Shard. If there is one thing FFXIV messes up everytime in my opinion is the sense of urgency, because it can't escapte its videogame shape and you end up having to do X amount of quest to get X amount of XP etc. It's my main problem with Endwalker and a good chunk of Dawntrail, where something dire is on the verge of happening, but we have to do something else at the time (the loporites and Elpis in EW for instance). So I would be disappointed to be shard hoppin in 8.0 9.0 while the whole "rejoining is immininent" is stretching for years.

I'm fine with this new direction of fighting the natural rejoining, but the Void invasions sort of hint at something that is already happening (as Golbez says, it seems natural), I actually liked the last cutscene with Calyx which is I believe one of the first times we see the WoL actually... thinking? Realizing the stakes and how helpless we are right now. I like that, compared to our usual "I can make it" resolve. I'm still finding Calyx a bit shallow but I'm now interested in his own moral compass of what he did vs what the 4th Winterer is doing.

I also wonder if Venat knew about this? As the will of the star and pin that keep the shards in place, must have realize something and left behind a plan or a theory for an alternate solution.