FFXIV 6.0: Endwalker (December 7, 2021)

[Koyangi]

Can just do what WoW has done; some zones have a "past" version and a "present" version, so you can still do the older stuff in the past zone and new stuff in the present zone. An NPC in that zone can switch you back and forth between them.

[Lucavi]

They've utilized some phasing tech in-game already. Could be interesting.

[Lokus]

That's because Nomura worked on it, and Gaia, as well. If the plot sounds needlessly convoluted and involves Darkness, Nomura and his main homie are involved, always.

All he did was character designs, the plot was wholly someone else.

[Gokulo]

Seriously though, what's with Thancred? He seems to age so much faster than the other characters. And how is Urianger younger than Thancred? dude looks the oldest.

That's what being a father does to you

[Lucavi]

Its because he's a hume compared to an elf, first of all. Elves age slower because high fantasy and tolkien. Secondly, he's aging faster because once you hit salary-man age in Japan, you're a geezer and your life is over. Its high school forever, baby! That's where the money and joy is at.

[Eurell]

Plus the dude is just fucking exhausted. He's been literally possessed and had his body used to try and fight his friends. Losing Minfillia hit him way harder than anyone else. And everyone else was fairly happy on the 1st, but he was on the run for years playing daddy.

Reminds me of those pictures of presidents before and after they are in office.

[Fhloston]

Speaking of Thancred, based on this theory, he won't be having the best of times ahead. It makes sense if you consider his actions in the past and there's comparisons with Thancred/Venat to Seifer/Edea. Pretty good listen if you're a FF lore buff.



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[arus2001]

Also the fact he had his aether manipulation ability fucked by the events of the story, which could hypothetically have longer term effects on his health. Also the one story fight in ShB where he did the thing(s) he probably shouldn't have. Dude's probably had it roughest of the Scions.

[Lucavi]

He's out of his teens, so he's good and ready to die by JP standards, especially if it advances the plot. We already have a tank waiting in the wings anyway. All Hail Hoary Boulder!

[Eurell]

Oh Gdi. Thancred was straight up cosplaying Seifer all during shadowbringer's

[Uzor]

Speaking of Thancred, based on this theory, he won't be having the best of times ahead. It makes sense if you consider his actions in the past and there's comparisons with Thancred/Venat to Seifer/Edea. Pretty good listen if you're a FF lore buff.



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Interesting video. That sounds 100% plausible.

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I do think Venat might be the final boss, but more in the sense that she wants us to kill her to free the world of her influence, after having defeated Zodiark (who might be the one locked in Silvertear lake). Something along the lines of "the world can never be truly free as long as an Amaurotian is alive"

Another alternative is that the last boss is Zenos. They just mentioned that neither Fandaniel nor Zodiark will be the last boss, they never mentioned anything about Zenos. Perhaps he absorbs all of Zodiark's powers when Zodiark is defeated and becomes even stronger, or otherwise channels Zodiark into himself, similar to what Ysayle did with Shiva.

[6souls]

https://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantas...ter-endwalker/

PC Gamer interview with Yoshida.

Everything will resolve during the main story campaign, and its post-launch updates will instead focus on a brand-new story arc. It's anyone's guess what is going to happen, and I couldn't resist the urge to ask game director Naoki Yoshida about it.

"With the 10 year-plus history, we were able to tie up a lot of loose ends and with the climax there will be more questions that are answered and people will understand the reasoning behind a lot of things that have been present throughout the story," Yoshida told me. "With that being said, there are areas within planet Hydaelyn where we haven't explored yet. There are continents that have yet to be discovered, areas that have yet to be explored. There's possibilities there. And with the story of Shadowbringers, we learned that the Crystal Tower acts as a portal not just to the distant Realms, including The First and those that have been divided by the Sundered, but it can also allow us to travel in time as well so we can go back to the past and future as well. So there's still a lot of possibilities left."

6Because Endwalker's story is largely about an impending apocalypse, I was curious to know if the climax would lead to anything world-changing. When Final Fantasy 14's original version first went offline, for example, Square Enix wrote it into the story that the old world was obliterated by a giant dragon encased in a moon—a cool (and convenient) way to explain all the geographical changes in relaunched version. That won't happen again, Yoshida says. "You wouldn't see a case where right after Endwalker everyone is going to have amnesia or the meteor—Dalamud—comes down one more time and the realm is destroyed again. We won't have those incidents again, rest assured."

"We have no intention of negating all that has happened [in the story]," Yoshida added. "We don't want to negate the adventure that you went on, the characters that you met along the way, and the achievements that you've accomplished throughout your journey. So when we are looking to that transition and moving forward to the next chapter of that story, it's safe to assume that this is still taking place in the same universe so to speak."

He also recommends replaying the earlier main story campaigns and to focus on how many times "Hydaelyn calls out to you."

[Gokulo]

Not too keen on a time travel expansion tbh, but I might be biased after WoTG ;P

[Corrderio]

What if it did a 180 where we need to go to the future instead of the past?

[Lokus]

Don't you wanna see the real Allagan Empire?! Just think of all the new tomestones we'd swim in.

[Uzor]

Not too keen on a time travel expansion tbh, but I might be biased after WoTG ;P

I wouldn’t mind that, there’s a lot of awesome lore to be explored. Like the Allagan empire as mentioned before, or ”the war of the Magi” where they could potentiallt add Void Mage or Necromancer, since the Mchach empire focused a lot on that.

In all honesty though, Allagam is very likely that we’ll see at some point. Hell, a big part of how Xande was defeated was because of the then Warriors of Light. I wouldn’t be surprised if said Warriors of Light were actially us travelling back in time.

[Anoat]

I got a feeling that the town we visit on the moon will be made up of Allagan ancestors. We already know the Allagans were capable of space travel (Dalamud), so my theory is they had either a colony on the moon or a ship in space when Xande caused the calamity and they collectively said “welp we ain’t going back down there right now” and settled on the moon.

[Lokus]

I don't recall Xande dying to WoLs. Was this mentioned in the Crystal Tower raid quests? I thought he ate shit with most everyone else due to the earthquake he caused but I do remember there being a rebellion against him in those final years.

[mahler05]

Didn’t the ascians manipulate the allagans into everything they did? I thought 6.0 was moving away from the ascians completely? Would feel lackluster to go back in time to thwart one of their schemes, unless it’s just to help out the dragons: I’d be hype for that.

[Lucavi]

Didn’t the ascians manipulate the allagans into everything they did? I thought 6.0 was moving away from the ascians completely? Would feel lackluster to go back in time to thwart one of their schemes, unless it’s just to help out the dragons: I’d be hype for that.

Allagans were literally an Emet Selch and Co. plan to further their schemes to cause more calamities to cause the rejoining. Literally every plot post-fall of amaraut was ascian-made, save for perhaps the Ishgardian knights deciding to fuck over Nidhogg and Co.

Also, Xande originally died of old age, but after being revived a generation later by Amon due to what he felt was the decline of their Empire, he went mad from the resurrection and his newfound obsession with defying death and the void. That's when he made the pact with the Cloud of Darkness and started getting freaky with void experiments. Riots happened and shit, and he was sealed in the crystal tower with lots of his followers after the original dalamud earthquake calamity caused by him using the solar power collector to open a portal to the void, which was stopped halfway.

The fact that the void was only created due to the ascian, Egeorythm (spelling) fucking up the 13th calamity means that they probably used Xande as an attempt to balance out that disaster with a proper calamity. When you basically have an eternity to plan for shit, you learn to make chicken salad out of chicken shit.