What I've gathered from the last PFH and everybody's reaction to it, especially those with extra info and/or content to share is that we're going to be gobsmacked on release. It will a different game than we played in EA, and all bets are off. And part of me thinks the artifact is immune from that because obviously they shared so little in EA, but I can't help but assume as the time has passed, the relationship between the artifact and the story has changed for the writers