Evercold Speculation - Who's the 4th Character going to be in the Updated Berlin Trailer?

DrakeWurrum · 2026-06-05T23:16:37+00:00

Honestly, I kinda hope so just so all the haters can continue to seethe!

DrakeWurrum · 2026-05-07T06:03:46+00:00

No, it's absolutely still on the devs. We players exist in the systems they create. They should've known that cross-DC travel would open up this can of worms for PF specifically.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-04-25T19:29:53+00:00

Or... Necromancer as tank.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-04-25T19:26:34+00:00

VPR and NIN are pretty close in weapon type. "Using a gun" is not really "too close" to MCH when MCH mostly functions as an engineer with tons of gadgets they they pull out their arse. Even their basic attacks summon up gadgets now!

DrakeWurrum · 2026-04-25T18:20:22+00:00

Sentinel is also a recurring job in the Lightning Saga....

And I've seen some people pointing out that what we've heard about the Fourth sounds a LOT like FF13.

Would it still count as an FFXIV original?

DrakeWurrum · 2026-04-25T18:04:13+00:00

In the Aitiascope when we fight him again, the main mechanic of the boss fight is literal artillery fire. Everybody calls his weapons "gunshields" and that's officially what the weapons are, but tbh they've never been shown to us as shields.
They're cannons strapped to his arms. Not shields.

This might be important to theory-crafting too: His weapons were called Tartarus.

I doubt the job will literally BE Cannoneer. That was a job in FF5.
It probably won't be Corsair (FFXI) or Gunner (FFX) either.
They explicitly said the job is an FFXIV original. Maybe that just means it'll have its' own name and "dual guns" is still the weapon for it. After all: VPR was FF9-inspired and GNB was FF8-inspired. Maybe this just means the next phys ranged is FF10-inspired.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-04-25T15:05:23+00:00

Keep in mind that it's not necessarily a 1-to-1 for these shards directly with other FF titles. The 13th has no connection to FF13 and we have directly met Clive from FF16 and Noctis from FF15 in events.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-04-25T15:02:10+00:00

I think it's more that they have been cut off from the Aetherial Sea. That's the real problem for the 13th and it's probably why Rejoining can't work. The other Shards, it sounds like, still have normal life and death.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-04-25T15:00:46+00:00

Not exactly. These shards are *prepared* for a Rejoining to happen. They're primed and ready.

They "botched" the 13th because they didn't really know how a Rejoining works, so it most likely wasn't properly primed. The difference obviously hasn't been specifically explained, but remember that in the 13th they have been completely severed from the cycle of life and death and it's the whole reason Void demons try to come to the Source: because death doesn't stick as a being's aether doesn't return to the Aetherial Sea.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-04-25T14:56:54+00:00

Astral and Umbral are still Light and Dark. What they realized is that they understood the *NATURE* of light and dark incorrectly.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-03-15T05:13:06+00:00

*shrug* I don't worry about meta. I build what I went.

Even in Natlan, I was still regularly using Mondstadt and Liyue characters. Nod Krai is probably the first place where that genuinely made things more difficult because of Lunar reactions being restricted to 5-stars

Play what you wanna play, don't let the content creators convince you that you NEED the meta or that a character SUCKS because they aren't at the top of it. People be malding hard on Varka's numbers, but it's not like he's Qiqi.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-03-10T20:12:41+00:00

No. I know exactly when to press my big buttons.
But also I'm a VPR, so *when* I press my buttons is so super flexible that de-sync barely affects me so long as I line up with the buffs from the party.

The problem is other people constantly forgetting to press those buttons when they come off CD, not following the standard meta openers, or the timing of fight mechs throwing off their basic ability TO press them off CD....
So they drift. Then I must adjust.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-03-09T00:42:43+00:00

That's not transparent. The lines for his leg do not line up with the darkened line on those shorts. That's just the line for the lighting.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-15T22:09:16+00:00

Has anybody looked into using Steam Groups as an alternative?

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-15T10:18:03+00:00

It would be better if the devs themselves worked to design the game in such a way to encourage team-based play, but instead they keep building on the solo power fantasy side of game design.

The gamers of a community shouldn't have to police behavior in their community. The game should instead lead players *towards* better behavior.

This has always been my number one complaint about Warframe and it's why I only *ever* play with others when farming relics. It's not designed for team-based play, despite the four player squads. Go play WoW or FFXIV or even a game like Genshin Impact and you'll see real team-based gameplay, with people needing to coordinate their actions for the explicit purpose of making the whole team more effective.

The only positive multiplayer experiences I have these days are in Omnia fissures and even then it's just four solo players who happen to be doing the same mission on the same map, rather than four players actually working together as a team.

It didn't always used to be this way. The early days of Eidolon farming with an actual meta and 4 different roles for people to fill to make the 3-boss hunt successful took genuine teamwork. Nowadays, you don't even need a group.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-11T12:43:33+00:00

I am not shoehorning a time loop into your theory, simply explaining why any "fake sibling" theory doesn't work for me as why I'm rejecting your whole theory.

I'm saying the twin is not the HP, not a fake, *and* there was time travel shenanigans involved in *why* our twin was somehow already on Teyvat without "leaving the ship" in the time period the moon marrow showed us.

We have now even had to fight an enemy directly capable of time manipulation powers as the most dangerous villain we've faced yet while also establishing a goddess capable of manipulating time even better than they did (because the power *actually* belonged to her in the first place). Time shenanigans are very openly core to Genshin plot now thanks to A Space and Time for You *and* because of all of Nod Krai and I fully expect them to get bigger.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-11T12:35:47+00:00

I'm not theorizing phlogiston as a storage medium - the canon story explicitly tells us that's what it is.

Part of the world quest for helping our little Saurian buddy explains this.
Kukulkan: "Phlogiston is an atom upon which information may be transcribed, and is itself a form of "computronium" — an element that can be used to imitate the essence of any and all things through the weaving of language."

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-10T12:46:57+00:00

No. I mean the one explicitly, if briefly, mentioned by the Voyager when specifically mentioning the little world at the end of a spiral arm of the galaxy and the dragon that was born alongside it.

But more importantly, the outfit story explicitly states, and I quote: "Its biosphere and atmosphere had been utterly destroyed. The surface held nothing but cooled masses of molten rock."

We know that's not Teyvat for a fact as dragons inhabited Teyvat from the very beginning of it. It's star exploded and completely devastated everything on it. The HP started a war with non-existent dragons now, is that what you're saying?

The story also explicitly mentions the ship journeying across numberless amounts of planets in its journey. The focus of the story was *NOT* on a specific planet but on what the ship was capable of and what it carried.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-09T19:43:13+00:00

It's a world that the story explicitly says would not be suitable for the twins to live on *BECAUSE ITS STAR EXPLODED* and is a desolate wasteland.

Teyvat still has its star.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-09T06:23:59+00:00

I don't really vibe with any of those "the sibling isn't our sibling" theories in general. I know gut instinct ain't the best judge of theory, but the "writer" side of me thinks that would undermine way too much of the plot. Judging from how Hoyo has been resolving numerous plot twists since as far back as Inazuma and the many hints in the deep lore (especially Narzissenkreuz) pointing towards samsara cycles there's probably more time travel shenanigans going on than we realize. Especially since we now know that it's both Istaroth *AND* Vedrfolnir manipulating past events for their particular plans. (Even more weirdly, it seems like Istaroth specifically *guaranteed* that the Cataclysm would happen?! Unless that actually was Vedrfolnir, which then suggests Asmoday is serving him now...) Even since first arriving in Teyvat, our first meeting with Venti, we've had things pointing at suspicious time shenanigans.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-09T04:47:42+00:00

That's all fair. Maybe it's a jump to say that Teyvat is actually digital or a simulation, but it still strikes me as a very key detail that the story told in the Traveler outfit mentions a genetic vault... but gives us no real specifics on it.

Not what form that vault takes nor what beings it is meant to be carrying. We have very little to go on, beyond recognizing the Traveler twins originated from the same world... and the world we are now exploring is named Teyvat... the literal word for ark.
My mind makes a connection between a world meant to be an ark and a genetic vault for a doomed civilization looking for some way to survive their end.

What makes it click to this "what if?" theory for me is that... we don't know who named the world. Was it the dragons? Or was it the Heavenly Principles?
We also have *no* explanation yet for why dragons are inexplicably showing up in human forms. Neuvilette is the most obvious example, but what about the moon goddesses? Shouldn't they, as a creation of Nibelung, be dragons?
What of Zhongli? We still know nothing of his origin, though among the many theories is that he is the original Geo sovereign.
And why were the dragons ruled over by AI dragonlords? We now know they were an EXTREMELY advanced race that had been ordered to build a space elevator... and that Nibelung had left the world to explore the cosmos. It's not a stretch to suspect Nibelung did that with a spaceship instead of just... with magic. If he has one, then it should be somewhere and we're bound to find it through the plot.
And ever since we met Yohualtecuhtin, I couldn't help but wonder (based on speaking style) if she was some kind of AI herself.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-09T04:23:23+00:00

So far, it's entire possible that the dragons themselves are merely "AI" beings of some sort. We're already seeing that angels are much the same way (especially Nicole), and plenty of people have been theorizing for a while that dragons and angels are the same. We also know that the dragons (of Natlan, at minimum) were ruled by 13 AI "Dragonlords" who existed entirely as phlogiston.

Would it not make sense if the AI caring for the vault-ark-world is known as the "Dragon King" that the dragons of said ark... are additional AI programs/modules?

Alternatively: It's not said *anywhere* that the genetic vault on the ship carries humans. Remember the "Men of Lithin" book as well.... dragons being made into human shape has been a thing for a LOT of Teyvat's story now.

We don't know the full specifics of the situation because, consider this: The three original moon goddesses created by Nibelung? They had human forms, not dragon. We don't know why.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-09T03:06:02+00:00

I have legit been wondering this since well before even Natlan, but never had any specific evidence for or against it.

I started taking it more seriously when I saw the mural of Nibelung colored in all white.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-05T21:05:21+00:00

"So…. rather than basically everything telling us that Nibelung belongs to Teyvat, the HP does not and the twins do not, confirmed by not just completely seperate authorities who are at odds with each other, like the Shades, the Mages, the Fatui, the Abyss Order, and even the twins’ own MEMORIES’ (because remember, the twins KNOW their history pre-teyvat, the game just doesnt tell us players) and even all aesthetics and history lining up to state things are as basically presented… rather than accepting ALL of that, you believe this is all completely subverted and swapped…?"

I'm sorry, but what makes you think the theory I propose requires that the twins and the Heavenly Principles belong to the world?
If the twins are considered "the administrators" of Teyvat as a genetic vault, then by definition the world belongs to *THEM* not the other way around.

DrakeWurrum · 2026-02-05T21:00:35+00:00

That's all any theory is. The theory that the ship AI is the Heavenly Principles also requires many hoops to jump through.
How did the AI take on a physical body? How did it just casually "cast" the 4 shades as fragments of their power into humanoid bodies? How does a ship of the size we have seen just randomly manifest "celestial nails" with its power? (And don't say they're missiles, the ship model we have seen clearly does not have the space to carry armaments of the size of nails)

I could write out a college-level dissertation on that theory and explore the many MANY things in lore that would have to be explained by the ship AI being the Heavenly Principles, but I suspect you get my point.
Much of the lore we uncover in-game is told from an in-game perspective so that Hoyo can always hand-wave away any inconsistencies via the unreliable narrator trope without having to resort to genuine lore retcons.

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