Bananacake887

I would agree with you there regarding the gold and ivory keys being significant in EP19, and with the new world. The two keys are only mentioned in one passage in the Subseven Sanctum (that I'm aware of anyways), and every other book/person only mentions the 4 crystal keys. Perhaps the gold and ivory keys are people, rather than physical objects. Anna refers to the player having a glow, and Bennett calls the player 'the golden child' in the Glass Workstation. If we are the golden key, it would explain why Lin hasn't killed us for our interfering despite her having several chances, and why she wants us to gather the crystal keys. It also somewhat links into the Jasper Ward prophecy and Ame's post with how there is a bad timeline where we don't exist, and how we arrive in the new timeline and save everything hence the golden child(although it kinda contradicts why Lin would need us if we are the saviour of the region). However, if this is true then I'm not too sure what the ivory key could be (maybe Fern for being the original hero? or something metaphorical?). Here is a post which theorizes on a lot of the missing pieces. .__.

How might one go about entering Labradorra? I don't believe there is any hints in-game currently, except for us having to battle it at some point, but as seen with PULSE Clawitzer the PULSE can be disabled without actually destroying it. I suspect the disabling of the barrier would probably be an inside job. We have just dealt with Bennett and his defection from Team Meteor; someone who has access to the city but I query his courage/motivation to do such a thing. Taka(Zekrom)/Solaris(Reshiram) could also be a possibility, but there is the issue that both of them were seen with Sirius chasing after them in a menacing way, so they would probably struggle to deal with the PULSE and Sirius at the same time, and we don't know if Solaris would fully commit to backstabbing his 'own' team. Fern was supposed to be the hero of the prophecy, but there hasn't been any sign of him standing up to Team Meteor since he joined. If the Calcenon Control Centre connected to Labradorra uninterrupted, I'm sure Saphira would have found it when she went to investigate. The only other possibility I could think of would be Lin. It's been suggested that she wants the player to do all the work collecting the keys, and she is probably aware that all the keys are held by the Elite 4. I suspect that she might order the removal of the barrier so that the player can obtain the 18th gym badge and advance to the league(which from a hand-drawn map of the region, I believe victory road starts in Labradorra?). Team Meteor would likely fall after we reclaim Labradorra, and El might side with us as Solaris' loyalty is being questioned and El is loyal to Solaris, so getting the four keys would probably happen after we beat the elite four. Lin doesn't need Team Meteor if we are doing the work of collecting the keys, so the defeat of Team Meteor wouldn't matter to her, so she could just hide and strike as soon as we get the four keys and then run off to the Citae Arc d'Astrae Aerie.

The den in the upper-left of route 4 past the water seems to be bugged(at least for me it is) and you can repeatedly clear it out to get easy red essence.

For me, the den in the upper-left of route 4 past the water where you catch Sobble was bugged and you could repeatedly clear out the den for 250 red essence. Took me like 3 minutes to get enough red essence to buy out the whole shop.

Metagross has been eating their vegetables

The devs wouldn't put an impossible battle in the game if you're using someone else's team. Just try a few different match-ups and see which of Melia's pokemon best counters Madelis'.

Does anyone know where the card key shards are now? The ones in Darchlight cave and Valor summit seem to have moved with the update (or I'm stupid), and the item guide hasn't been updated yet. A lot of these new episode 15 battles are quite difficult and I think a Metagross would help :) Edit: I believe beldum is now located through other means involving red essence, so the card key shards were probably removed (forgetting about the one in the xen base). Please correct me if I'm wrong.