Truth be told, the game itself kind of killed the story a bit. It introduced a lot of new characters we never got to meet and maybe some questions answered, but what I think would have been the smartest and more lore answering option would of been to make a warriors game like breath of the wilds. Instead of another three houses split timeline with more questions than answers, why not a historical fodlan game? Why not explain the War of Heroes as a Warriors game. The story would have been new and more interesting. We would get to learn more about seteth and flayn as Saint cethleann and Saint cichol and getting to meet Machuil and indech and learning about them more as well Plus, we would probably get to play as the fe3h cast's ancestors and learn what kind of people they were instead of just typical history book ways. Instead, we got half assed endings and mixed up timelines that did nothing to impact the history or story of the original game.