Civ VII Weekly Reveal Guessing Thread

[Siptah]

What if.... the 2 remaining Personas were not for the base game leaders, but for one of the two leaders of each DLC Collection?

That would be possible, I guess. It doesn't say that the personas are available at launch. With all the speculations that the last unrevealed leader is Shaka, this also doesn't seem so unlikely, as I can't see him having two personas somehow (but then again, I don't know much besides clichés about him).

 

[Leucarum]

That would be possible, I guess. It doesn't say that the personas are available at launch. With all the speculations that the last unrevealed leader is Shaka, this also doesn't seem so unlikely, as I can't see him having two personas somehow (but then again, I don't know much besides clichés about him).

Shaka, and his Shakala persona, as a nod to Civ2.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

That would be possible, I guess. It doesn't say that the personas are available at launch. With all the speculations that the last unrevealed leader is Shaka, this also doesn't seem so unlikely, as I can't see him having two personas somehow (but then again, I don't know much besides clichés about him).

Couldn't it easily just be Frederick and Himiko? I admit I don't know much about Himiko to make 2 different personas for her, but that would seem more likely than Shaka.

 

[gdr_willter]

Well, I'll rather choose Yamatai Himiko and Tenno Himiko for her personas. Not because of mass media like anime, just for her historical part and symbolic part.

As a historical queen of Yamatai, she was not an actual ancestor of Japanese Emperors. She was just a leader of the strongest faction within the ancient Japan. Under her reign, Yamatai ruled the small states and became the first Japanese faction which introduced itself to the regional diplomacy of East Asia. But it slowly replaced with the successors, so Himiko's legacy was transferred to the another families: finally the Emperors of Japan.

On the other hand, after the concept of "eternal blood line of Emperors" established, the historians need to prove that the every rulers of ancient Japan had blood ties with nowadays Emperor. Himiko didn't, so they decided to remove her story. Her reign and legacy partially handed over to fictional Emperors - especially Empress Jingu, who become a symbolic icon of the Japanese expansion. But ironically, this decision unintentionally caused the result that Himiko become very famous in modern Japan. She never was an Empress(Tenno) nor a family of the Emperors, but later people made her the Empress and the ancestor of them. Tenno Himiko may be a good expression of Japanese Emperors, dodging the controversial modern Emperors.

I don't think this will happen in high chance, but it can.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Couldn't it easily just be Frederick and Himiko? I admit I don't know much about Himiko to make 2 different personas for her, but that would seem more likely than Shaka.

My fear is that they make a Historical Himiko and a Manga Himiko.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

My fear is that they make a Historical Himiko and a Manga Himiko.

So, something like sorceress/shamaness Himiko, as well as something more historical? I guess that wouldn't be too horrible.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

I'm still rather scared of normal Gandhi/nuclear Gandhi as the final reveal...

 

[Nikolai II]

My fear is that they make a Historical Himiko and a Manga Himiko.

Doubtful.

 

[Archanist]

The new Dev Diary has leaders between Confucius and Harriet Tubman, and Isabella and Lafayette. Frederick the Great looks like takes the first slot, leaving an Isa-, J-, K-, or La- leader taking the second (with someone having a persona).

My guess is Jose Rizal getting revolutionary/reformist personas, with reformist being the base game. I hope if they do, that they put "Noli Me Tangere" and "El Filibusterismo" (his famous novels that got Spain really mad) as either ability or agenda names. If they don't, they might be "Laong Laan" and "Dimasalang" (his pen names when writing for a newspaper) instead.

He was also known for flirting a lot, and one of them was a French woman named Nellie Boustead, so there's his french connection.

 

[ehecatzin]

I'm going to huff monumental amounts of copium but...Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal. (Pakal the great)

 

[Zaarin]

I'm going to huff monumental amounts of copium but...Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal. (Pakal the great)

I think there's 0% chance they decided to save his reveal for the Modern Age...but it would make me very happy.

 

[ehecatzin]

I think there's 0% chance they decided to save his reveal for the Modern Age...but it would make me very happy.

*cofs copium* maybe he just wasn't ready when it was the turn to showoff the Mayans, very early on.

 

[Potworny]

We know 4 four possible first letters, how should I go about the search… What are all the world languages that use I, J, K, or L and A in their alphabet or latin transliteration…? That should limit our pool…

Only possible indication I can think of are the white awnings in Maurya and Mongolia game guides, which made me think Mughal (but Nur or Shah Jahan might be a stretch). Maybe Kublai Khan? Plenty of Bugandan guys start with a K. I also would like Jose Rizal, finally an artist in the squad. I suppose that it won’t be a European anyway. At least for the sake of all things holy I hope it’s not.

So, my bet is on Karl Marx.

 

[Xyael]

We know 4 four possible first letters, how should I go about the search… What are all the world languages that use I, J, K, or L and A in their alphabet or latin transliteration…? That should limit our pool…

Maybe Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar, Moghol Emperor or his son Jahangir

Otherwise, Kabaka is "king" in Buganda.

 

[Potworny]

Oh, and we still don't have a leader corresponding to the random leader silhouette. Dream of Jogaila is still on

 

[Uberfrog]

Oh, and we still don't have a leader corresponding to the random leader silhouette. Dream of Jogaila is still on

Sarah already confirmed that the silhouette was just that, a silhouette for a random leader. It isn't based on a real leader at all.

 

[Archanist]

The last four (five?) leaders who have led an in game civ irl have been released at the same time (Catherine + Russia, Lafayette + France, Pachacuti + Inca, Franklin/Tubman + America). This pattern tells me we're either going to get Prussia/Germany with Old Fritz revealed, or if not that, maybe Britain with the last unknown leader.

 

[Gori the Grey]

James VI and I

 

[Ryansinbela]

Still holding out for Jose Rizal

 

[chaosprophet]

My guess for next two weeks would be:

One week with Japan and Himiko, plus Mughal, one week with Frederick, a Buganda leader, and Germany and Buganda.

Or

One week with Japan and Himiko, plus Mughal or Buganda, one week with Frederick and Karls Max, Germany plus Mughal or Buganda,