My suspicion that Elidibus isn't exactly Elidibus more than panned out, damn, but even I didn't see all the twists and turns there they had waiting.
I think Unukalhai is also a Scion and given the seeds in ShB he might become more important soon.
Question time, do we think we'll see Cyella again?
Absolutely, and I agree that they'll be reintroduced into the MSQ together when it becomes appropriate to further fill out the fall of the 13th shard. Go talk to her now that you're done, by the way, she has a few new words!
Looking forward to Berserker Alisaie, Necromancer Alphinaud, and Chemist Mithra Child in 6.0.
Let Chemists throw items in their inventories!
And let me be a Necromancer, pls gods
I think the big question is... Did like the Young and Old G'raha combine or did the latter just completely take over? Krile does mention his personality isn't quite the same as she was told about the Exarch but I'm unsure if that is because he's in his old body or because their personalities mixed.
After asking him how he's doing in the Rising Stones, I'm convinced it was a merger. He remembers his long life on the First, but his memories of the Crystal Tower and the WoD waking him up are now brand-new and immediate. He is young again and feels it.
I think Zenos is going to be to this game what Seymour was to FFX. He's going to be a recurring villain, with aspirations of being the big bad, but he's going to get taken out for good before the final battle.
I'm calling it now that ultimately Zenos will reach Zodiark and attempt to absorb it, only to be consumed and become its vessel instead.
I'm still very much eager to see him attempt it and Zodiark take his body, for sure. Give us a cathartic, horrific transformation where his skin half-sloughs off, his eyes become dead and empty, and the only spark of him left is the bestial desire that can no longer even form coherent words. Feral Zodiarkenos runs on all fours and just looks like a hot mess, he's the beast of the apocalypse!
Lol, what if they make Zenos into a Scion
*hastily scribbling a box onto the chart labeled Chaotic Chaotic Neutral*
So, while we're here... What parts got everyone all teary or outright crying?
Exarch's final conversation really got me good. Seto and Ardbert had me wiping my eyes the whole time, and then Thancred telling Ryne he was proud of her followed up by Lyna's speech fuckin' destroyed me, man. I was not expecting to be an actual mess by the end of the MSQ.
I was teary for hours nonstop, so I'm going to restrict my list to quivering lips and/or crying:
- Lyna and the Exarch's farewell
- Seto and Ardbert's reunion
- Dulia Chai and Alphinaud's farewell
- Lyna's speech
- Halric remembering aloud Tesleen's words of encouragement (I cried like a fucking baby)
- Halric and Alisaie's farewell
- Thancred telling Ryne that he's proud