The Scions Divided – Who's on Our Side? FFXIV Dawntrail Speculation



We’re stepping a bit out of my normal wheelhouse today to discuss another very wordy game I know my audience also likes to see if I should try making more content on it in the future! It’s time for some friendly competition on the beach in Final Fantasy XIV, and I’m interested in who will be on our team and who will be our opponents.

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20 thoughts on “The Scions Divided – Who's on Our Side? FFXIV Dawntrail Speculation”

  1. There is also the potential that the teams are something like Yshtola/Estinien/Alise, Thancred/Urianger/Alphinaud, with us, Krile and Erinville acting as reffs. Perhaps legs doesn't have a horse in the race, grabs us, Krile and the twins in sharlayan to arbitrate. We send the twins to meet up with the scions, and they get drafted on a team each, our customary "go to each zone" before the first dungeon move. First two dungeons are part of this challenge to establish us in local politics, and the 93 trial is Golool Jaja for a friendly spar.

    We might also see the scions split on different lines, like tradition and nature vs progress and technology (which would be different then my booked teams), since we were told that was an issue in one area.

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  2. When you started talking about "Meteor", I went "who?" for a moment until remembering that that's the canon name of Derplander (who WILL stay Derplander for me :P). I'm a long-time FFXIV fan and joined the Xeno fandom with XC2, so if you're covering both, fine with me ^^
    The WoL going against Raha would be an interesting twist and could really help to flesh him out further. And for the siblings, I guess their pre-EW selves would have loved to bash each other, but I'd say their joined work in Garlemald did wonders to their relation and fused them together again, so it's rather unlikely that they'll be split up. For the rest, we'll see ^^;

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  3. I can see the split not being something that remains the same the teams each time. I can see someone jumping to the other side and vice versa as it goes. I do think WoL will end up on the side with the least scions to give room for new characters while having 1-2 people we do know being on our side with room for interactions with the other scions even if going against our goals. I could see a scenario where the WoL is going solo or near solo against most of the other scions. A sort of 'we are the boss' scenario which could lead to WoL verse Estienne showdown (or it being it's own fight).

    I do feel just given the WoL being the savior of the world the side we will be on is more the underdog and if there is some 'younger heir' it would make sense we would end up fighting in their place as their representative.

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  4. the thing that's got me curious about the divided scions bit was Yoshi-P asking the UK audience which scions they'd like to be on their side, so hopeful speculation would be that we'd get to choose which scions we have with us, at the very least we'd get to choose which group we run with. it really felt like the question was a clue to how the concept of splitting up the scions would work.

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  5. My guess is that the arc of the expansion will go something along the lines of
    -Team A and Team B get separately invited to help candidate A and candidate B
    -Meet up in Tural, "What, you're helping the other guy? Well, don't think I'm going easy on you just because we're friends!"
    -Friendly competition leading up to a final battle for the throne which may or may not happen
    -Big Allagan doomsday machine/some other big threat emerges, candidate A and B team up to fight it, bringing the Scions back together
    -Usual shenanigans

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  6. Minor clarification. Krile received no letter. It is an old letter addressed to her grandfather from Galool Ja Ja. However she would be going anyway I suspect. Just not sure how specifically.

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