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Disclaimer: I went full tin foil in many deductions here, so please bear with me.
Ahoy! Matey!, Long post ahead, here's a TLDR:
TLDR: Clues indicate pirate/treasure hunting, sea/underwater exploration league with reworked tormented spirits, maybe ancient reliquary keys, and lab(?), the return of Captain Faigraves, and the really, really, really small possibility of GGG introducing fishing.
I’ve been thinking about this for the past few days, but all I had was a tweet that could and can still easily be a red herring.
But with the recent pictures and the text from the press tour, I think it’s safe to say that what I’m about to write it’s quite plausible.
I think the key to figure out the expansion is in the clues that we’ve missed either because we were mislead or because we didn’t make the connection at the time, but It’s possible I’m also grasping at straws.
First lets have look at the evidence:
Twitter post from Bex, keyword deck.
Twitter post from Bex, keyword deplorable, and maybe high society. Also note how there’s an extra space between such and deplorable as if someone copy pasted a new word instead.
What is a synonym for deplorable that relates to pirates? Scurvy.
What is scurvy?
High society could be a reference to the royal figures/navy in pirate era, and/or pirate movies, like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Twitter post from Bex, keyword draft, goosebumps and maybe seven, heck and damn.
Even though its true that Bex has been working for GGG for 7 years, this could also be a tease to the seven seas.
An idiom refering to all the world’s oceans, linked to pirates and sailors
Heck and damn, could also be a reference to pirate lingo without being too obvious.
Twitter post from Bex, keyword tide.
Self-explanatory.
Further evidence that some clues went under the radar.
Twitter post from Bex, keywords deep dive.
Reference to underwater/sea exploration?
Twitter post from Bex, keyword abysmal.
Twitter post from Bex, keyword chest.
As in a pirate chest, return of ancient reliquary keys?
Twitter post from Bex.
Teasing of a new mob/boss?
Twitter post from Bex.
Whistling was believed to be an omen of bad luck.
It was bad luck for pirates to whistle on the pirate ship, and if it was at the windy you were whistling, then it would be as though your were trying to challenge the wind, which was not a good idea to do.
Twitter post from Bex, keyword wertahert.
An anagram for rather wet. (Source: someone on the forums, don't remember who.)
There’s a few more posts that are either self-explanatory or might be clues but they are too tin foil-hatty to display.
Latest Info:
We have finished our press tour, having shown our next expansion to 17 news outlets. The journalist embargo lifts at noon PST (9am NZ time) tomorrow, so we'll post the announcement/trailer simultaneously alongside the journalists posting their detailed information and interviews. Keep an eye on your favourite news sites tomorrow to see their coverage.
While the content remains shrouded in mystery, you should know the expansion introduces a new challenge league complete with terrifying new foes and tantalising rewards. You can also expect to see new skills, unique items, reworks to existing content and much more!
We will also be launching a new set of supporter packs at this time which means you have less than 24 hours to purchase the Sanctum and Damnation supporter packs before they leave the store forever!
We can't wait to unravel what we've been working on.
Picture depicts a sunken ship likely Ship’s Graveyard, pretty self-explanatory.
Keywords: shrouded, tantalising, unravel.
shrouded
: one of the ropes leading usually in pairs from a ship's mastheads to give lateral support to the masts
tantalising
: to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach
: possessing a quality that arouses or stimulates desire or interest
Teasing tormented spirit rework?
unravel
: to resolve the intricacy, complexity, or obscurity of : clear up
Obscurity its close to Obscure, one of the names in the list, might also tease a rework on some complicated/complex game mechanic, like maybe lab/enchants?
Hidden chest on the press tour header?
As pointed out by /u/fawcan, looks like there’s something between the ‘R’ and the ‘I’ in that image, it looks to be underwater and shining too, they’ve stated that they have reworked existing content, maybe also pre-existing content, like ancient reliquary keys.
So in conclusion, this seems to be pirate sea/underwater exploration expansion with reworked content (reliquary keys and tormented spirits).
It fits both kinds of Bex teasers, water/underwater/pirate ones and spooky/haunted/ghost related ones. (Which may also tease a unavoidable summoner nerf).
Ghost + Pirate= Captain Fairgraves.
There’s likely a return from Fairgraves be it as a boss, a friend or a NPC, wouldn’t be the first nor the last time that GGG rebrands NPC’s to fit their new narrative.
Fairgraves can be related to fishing items, also a Divination Card for fishing items was released in 3.9.
I don’t know if they’ve ever intended to make fishing anything else than a meme, but if there was a league where it would make sense, this is it.
Regarding names, I think there are quite a few possibilities, it depends of the weight of each part of the content and whether we can trust Bex tweet about discarding league names or if it was a lie.
In any case I think they are self explanatory enough.
Requiem, Maelstrom, Leviathan, Obscure, Revenge, Necropsy, Ritual, Entropy (Chaos is a ladder).
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