Now that the unofficial spoiler embargo for Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is up for pretty much everything other than late game story content, theories about the game's characters and events have slowly been making their way onto social media. There are quite a lot of interesting claims too, though one in particular appears to have gained a significant amount of traction, and it involves everyone's favorite lovable goofball, Hildibrand.
While the embargo may be up, I'll still warn you all that endgame spoilers are coming up. I'm not a monster.
Ever since our Warriors of Light came back from the First, Final Fantasy 14 has not so subtlety been teasing the idea of certain characters having different versions of themselves across different Shards. In fact, Dawntrail hammers this home pretty hard during the "we're all in this together" train montage, as the owners of the railways in Shaaolani are clearly alternate versions of the trolley gang from Shadowbringers.
That brings us to our beloved Hildibrand, as Twitter user Rehnamyste reckons that Otis, the loyal knight of Alexandria, is actually a shard of our wacky inspector. That's a pretty bold claim to make, though it's an argument that is strengthened upon...
