CG Midlander

[Anonymoose]

Woohoo! I called it!

In the first days of dawn, old enemies become new and two were never two.
The highest among beasts and the hoarders of horns would dim the six to silence the one.

Found Among the Incoherent Writings of Nostradamoose

Indeed! I forgot you'd called it so soon, but I figured a big mess of things out (and realized I didn't know a few things I thought I did, as well) while working on a very intense project that's coming soon. I was planning on writing a "This is Your Enemy" article about Ascians as they're mentioned so seldomly, but between the Beta and the new trailer, Team Yoshi-P is going all out "This is Your Enemy."

This is what Gaius meant when he said, "[Eorzea] must be saved." Everything in on the Ascians. The Empire feels that if the world is going to be saved at all, they're not going to be able to waste time being diplomatic with people too stupid to understand what's going on. You can choose - submit to Imperial rule or lose the war. Either way you're not stopping them from taking this threat head on. The only thing that remains to be seen is whether the Garleans made the "Primals are here incidentally as part of a larger ascian plan" leap.

We'll see if Beta also eliminates my need to write the Archons article.

[Fleurette]

Something else that was mentioned in the Ul'dah storyline that reminded me of you guys was some stuff on Lolorito...I'm not sure if it was Moose or Hiir that pointed this out in this thread and the Ul'dah story thread, but as we expected, Lolorito has some dirty tricks up his sleeve. He sends his goons after anyone who aspires to be in the Syndicate and during the second main story quest, is very close to becoming your enemy...He really wants to overthrow the Sultanate. Also they mentioned him in the THM quest i think; he's been donating a lot of gil to the Ossuary, so...I'm starting to see a connection here with the 1.0 Ul'dah story, and I definitely don't doubt the possibility of Lolorito being the one who killed Nielle in 1.0 anymore.

also nice call, hiir!

[NoloeTazier]

Something else that was mentioned in the Ul'dah storyline that reminded me of you guys was some stuff on Lolorito...I'm not sure if it was Moose or Hiir that pointed this out in this thread and the Ul'dah story thread, but as we expected, Lolorito has some dirty tricks up his sleeve. He sends his goons after anyone who aspires to be in the Syndicate and during the second main story quest, is very close to becoming your enemy...He really wants to overthrow the Sultanate. Also they mentioned him in the THM quest i think; he's been donating a lot of gil to the Ossuary, so...I'm starting to see a connection here with the 1.0 Ul'dah story, and I definitely don't doubt the possibility of Lolorito being the one who killed Nielle in 1.0 anymore.

also nice call, hiir!

That was me actually lol.

My 2 points were: either Lord Lolorito hired an assassin after the "thief" who stole the Heartstrike or Warburton had a Revenge-Will that the Thaumaturge honored upon his death, since it was an "unnatural" death. If Warburton had any wealth it went to the Thaumaturge and his Revenge-Will was then executed on the man who caused his death, Niellefresne.

I can see where Warburton would be the one to kill Nielle, after all if Lord Lolorito had sent an assassin after Nielle he clearly would have had instructions to recover the Heartstrike (or at least the jewel on the pommel). But Nielle dropped the dagger and the jewel was shattered. But as a real criminal would think, if the Heartstrike was then taken from the crime...and somehow appeared back in Lolorito's care, everyone would know that he probably had something to do with it.

As for what Nielle saw in the sarcophagus, I'm inclined now to just toss out a bomb and say he's shocked both because Warburton is not inside and the body of Corguevais is staring up at him. That's my own speculation and probably has 0 merit, besides the fact Warburton's body is probably 99% not the body inside the sarcophagus.

Also as Moose says, Raubahn is probably all that stands between the Sultana and the Syndicate now...a nice juicy tidbit is here brother the prince is a member of the Syndicate and owner of the Platinum Mirage.

Enemies enemies everywhere. Ul'dah has the Syndicate, Limsa has pirates, and Gridania is all peaceful in the woods.. =[