A Realm Reborn Opening Cinematic

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn - A New Beginning - YouTube
Along with the opening of beta applications for non-legacy members, Square Enix released the Opening cinematic for A Realm Reborn this morning. Well over half of it is from the End of an Era cinematic that accompanied the end of version 1.x, but content after about the five-and-a-half minute mark is new material.

[Raistlin]

Just two minutes late. Thanks for helping us keep updated, though.

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Hah! I saw you'd posted the beta thread but not the video and thought you may have missed it.

[Raistlin]

Nah, I was just doing two separate frontsite articles, as they were two entirely different things, each worthy of an update.

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I'm just going to go ahead and leave this all to you. Your formatting is prettier anyway. Case in point: I'm too lazy to even properly embed videos.

[Axem Titanium]

Rampant speculation, go!

*Midlander's chocobo has Legacy armor. His party members' chocobos don't. ><
*The Circle of Knowing are all wearing a weird mechanical device and have a new eye motif on their clothes.
*Does the midlander's party teleport back into Mor Dhona (i.e. they moved through time but not place?); this is probably the "special starting area" for transferred characters, as opposed to new characters who start at the cities
*Speculation from official forums: Louisoix is Odin. Plausible? Also Sleipnir only has 4 legs instead of 6/8