As per Final Fantasy 14 tradition, the story of Dawntrail has come to a close with the release of patch 7.3, and the next couple of patches will likely start to set us up for whatever the next expansion has in store. Dawntrail aimed to strip the multiverse-ending stakes of previous expansions back with varying degrees of success, but it sounds like things will soon escalate once again.
"With Endwalker, we reached the climax of one big story," director and producer Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida tells GamesRadar+ via translator. "When we looked at the story of Final Fantasy 14 and the sense of tension that you had at the end of Endwalker, I didn't want us to see a scenario where we just simply inflate the enemy or the bosses that the players encounter. So with that in mind, when it came to the story of Dawntrail, we looked at the hero, our player characters, which are the Warriors of Light, and we positioned them as a sort of mentor of sorts for a younger generation."
