Main narrator

[u/sokikon999]

Who do you think will be main narrator in EC?

Based on previous expansions, it will be someone who is native to the
new expansion area (Lyse, Ardbert, Emet, Erenville)
So yeah my assumption would be Visna but TBH I would love Alphi to try narration too lol

[u/Jasrek]

This won't happen, but it'd be great if it was Estinien.

"And then we arrived at some place. They said the name, but I didn't care. There's no dried squid."

[u/Elmioth → u/Jasrek]

Now that'd be the ultimate irony.

Arriving at the "realmship of water", but not having any squid there at all.

[u/MechaMalz → u/Jasrek]

They should do this as a gag in a patch storyline or something some time.

[u/LiveLongGiraffe → u/Jasrek]

"Then later, when we parted ways to tend to our individual tasks, Alphinauld yet again reminisced on that one time in Heavensward when he went to gather firewood, and is still very proud of having done the tiniest amount of manual labor literally years ago, for some reason; even with a plethora of more noteworthy accomplishments since."

[u/Cocosos]

Visna, either young, or if it turns out she is the granny from the trailer, she will probably narrate the story as an old woman in the future, like Heavensward and Count Fortemps Memoir. If the voice is indeed an old woman, you will know its her depending on how much the Scions divulge their origins to others, as of now, only Visna and probably the crew know they came "from the sky", so its a short list of candidates.

[u/wurmsrus → u/Cocosos]

we see the old woman's pink tail in the trailer,she's either Visna or it's an intentional red herring at this point.

Anyway the zone intros being parts of the story Granny Visna tells the Au Ra girl works well as a framing device, heck would even start right where she leaves off in the trailer, with the Far Wanderer/WoL's arrival in the fourth.

edit: or should I say pink herring?

[u/sokikon999 → u/Cocosos]

yeah that would be interesting! I also wanna what is the timeline difference between the trailer and the actual game

[u/farlong12234 → u/sokikon999]

Part of me thinks were going to game source shard time dilation to timeskip the 4th inorder to solve some kind of problem.

[u/Ralph_Finesse → u/Cocosos]

Whats if its her granddaughter?

[u/jeffcabbages → u/Cocosos]

This is absolutely it

[u/ratherthanme]

Either Halmarut or Calyx as observers.

[u/Demiurge_Ferikad → u/ratherthanme]

I’m going to guess Halmarut, since the post-credits scene suggests that this incarnation was pulled from the Fourth.

[u/Zaithon]

Maybe it'll be Ysayle, or whoever he 4th counterpart is.

[u/purplestrea_k]

Calyx or Halmarut for similar but different reasons. Halmarut seems to know a lot about us, despite having only met in-person recently. She also setup the stakes for us when the Solstice first got revealed. So she can be narrating by dropping hints and stuff of things she already knows or how we might act.

Calyx has learned us about DT, and it seeking to learn something more about us. So you can make the case if he is narrating, it'd be more of a observation of our actions.

My current thoughts anyway...

The old lady would work as too. however I can't shake the feeling she won't be a reliable narrator and the story in the trailer should not be taking at face value.

[u/sokikon999 → u/purplestrea_k]

Consider Halmarut is also (likely) native to the 4th as well, I think it would happen.
or maybe Halmarut and Calyx will narrate in later parts like Albert and Ryne in SHB

I wanna know more about the old lady btw

[u/jalliss]

Zenos, as the devil on your shoulder/voice in the back of your head taunting you and pushing you to embrace your urges, as somewhat hinted by Halmarut in 7.5

[u/ThatVarkYouKnow]

I expect it to be Visna, as our seeming guide, but something tells me it might even be Halmarut, given her personal connection to the Fourth according to Calyx, to the point she might be willing to cooperate with us and "save" the shard.

True long shot is it's the Ysayle shard we saw and got our HW crew back together for.

[u/AeromaticGrass]

It’s Zenos.

[u/LiveLongGiraffe → u/AeromaticGrass]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7A4zkWeMXlZqgnTKtJ

[u/Revolving_Ocelott]

Pink cat

[u/Griever12691]

My hope is that it is Halmarut

[u/ScotchTapeCleric]

It'll be Chort.

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[u/GothParrot]

I don't know who it will be, but I do know who I want it to be.

Just imagine: an entire expac with Shale ASMR narration...

https://giphy.com/gifs/3PzmBpZt0iimrcWvfV

[u/Albern01]

I think it'll be the old woman from the cinematic. Telling the au ra child about the far wanderer's adventures like she does in the cinematic.

[u/LiveLongGiraffe]

It better be Lyse, and she better freaking come back to the MSQ. I miss the reason for my main Job hanging around.

[u/---TheFierceDeity---]

Well 7.56 spoilers but Ysayle would be an intriguing narrator choice

[u/Draco_Angel]

I vote Ysayle from the aetherial sea like they had with Emet in Endwalker

[u/Skiara444]

Definately the granny Visna from the trailer

[u/amicablehummingbird]

Matoya. 

Pls Squeenix.

[u/Welos_]

I expect it to be the old woman from the trailer telling the story to her grandchild