Revelations from NA Fan Fest (July 2023)

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Originally Posted by Vflower

Well, Yok Tural looks like it's South Tural so we may get zones in the North Tural as well. What's currently visible of Yok Tural doesn't look like it could be more than 4 zones. But yeah, the different clouds over the Southern island look suspicious, I just don't think there's any way we're also getting Meracydia in the expansion.

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I don't want us to get Meracydia in this expansion since I want 1 cohesive story that stays in the same place, but the clouds over it being the same style as southern-most Tural, features being seen below the clouds, and the Southern Isles having their name placed on the map makes me suspicious.

But we have a lot of time to throw around wild conjecture until October.

Actually, I just noticed something strange in the new world map. The main continent labels all have a different color and a different ornament. Aldenard, Ilsabard, Othard. And Yok Tural. So Yok Tural is the actual continent? Then what's Tural? Tural uses the same font as Eorzea, Garlemald, etc. so it should be a sub-region of Yok Tural. I thought Yok Tural was Southern Tural, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

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Originally Posted by Vflower

Actually, I just noticed something strange in the new world map. The main continent labels all have a different color and a different ornament. Aldenard, Ilsabard, Othard. And Yok Tural. So Yok Tural is the actual continent? Then what's Tural? Tural uses the same font as Eorzea, Garlemald, etc. so it should be a sub-region of Yok Tural. I thought Yok Tural was Southern Tural, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

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My current guess is that "Tural" is a region like Eorzea is. They both have the same script on the world map. Eorzea is a region consisting of Aldenard and the Isle of Vylbrand. The Near East, the Far East, and Garlemald get the same treatment.

"Tural" could be the continent of Yok Tural PLUS the other, cloudy Tural to the north, just like North and South America are their own continents and together are The Americas.


Also, going to America to seemingly solve a political dispute between opposing factions feels a bit too on the nose.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

[*]A schism between the Scions over a war of succession does actually sound pretty good, but I'll tell you all right now, I know exactly which Scion I don't want on the side I pick.

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I would argue that we all know how it will end, that they all will join against the real enemy. I would be pleasantly surprised if they actually build a real rift with consequences between the characters, but with the lack of risk they've been displaying, I don't really expect that.

The whole new world setting seems nice.
I kinda sad the promise that we would take a break from the scions, and wouldn't have adventure with all of them for a while ended being an empty promise. Sure there is this division thing, but I was totally sold on the idea of having new characters of different origins as main characters, not the gang of Sharlayan scholars, that all have more or less the same background. I hoped we could have some different characters, like Ysayle, Gosetsu, Yugiri, Hien were, or even Ryne and Gaia were to some point. Other perspective than people build from the same mold. But no, the teaser had two point, showing the place we go, and showing the scions would all be there.

I wish they just said "we stop being an official institution, but keep adventuring together", it wouldn't have sent the expect something slightly different. I like most of the scion, but they basically made a promise that I dug for, just to send it flying with the teaser.

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Originally Posted by Vflower

Well, Yok Tural looks like it's South Tural so we may get zones in the North Tural as well. What's currently visible of Yok Tural doesn't look like it could be more than 4 zones. But yeah, the different clouds over the Southern island look suspicious, I just don't think there's any way we're also getting Meracydia in the expansion.

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Yok does have linguistic similarities to a Yucatan Maya word grouping that means land/earth/soil, so it could be as simple as meaning "land of tural"

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Originally Posted by Iscah

It puts me in mind of the description of the Ridorana Cataract, which we never actually got to see. Something about a bottomless hole in the middle of the ocean? (However that physically works.)

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You can see it in FF12. Obviously not the same location but the location it's referencing.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

You can see it in FF12. Obviously not the same location but the location it's referencing.

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Isn't the FFXIV version of the Ridorana Lighthouse already sitting on our own version of the Ridorana Cataract?

I thought I remember something about Goug exploding and making a giant hole in the ocean. It would be strange if there were two but there's only so much we can glean from this map.

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Originally Posted by Parua

Yok does have linguistic similarities to a Yucatan Maya word grouping that means land/earth/soil, so it could be as simple as meaning "land of tural"

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I still think "Yok" must refer to "South" since Tuliyollal is capital of all of Tural but is physically located in "Yok Tural". And Yok Tural has the same script as the other continents on that map while Tural looks like how the regions are labeled. There seems to be a bottleneck/isthmus right at Tuliyollal and I feel like above that will be a whole separate continent, both referred together as "Tural". The Whalaqee seemed to be based more on North American Native Tribes than anything we've seen so far in Yok Tural, but as masters of Tural, the Mamool Ja should have a presence there too and are indeed present in the BLU quests.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

^This. So I'm expecting Vicks and 'Wedge' to show up.. and promptly get slaughtered by it lol

Also seems Derplander is still PLD as he's wielding Lightbringer (PLD AF5 sword from EW), unless the full trailer to come later in the year features a Job change.

Also, is that Gogo I see brushing past Thancred in the trailer? (Fitting, given his appearence in the Masked Carnivale).

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Denmo noticed the WoL's arm was/is resting on air. If he is PLD then he's not using his shield during the fight. It'd be strange to have a 2nd expansion with the same poster job. He is also wearing very light armor if he's supposed to be a tank job. It also doesn't look like the PLD gear we saw in the lv100 slide. The guy that walks behind G'raha does definitely look like Gogo does in VI.

The New World is pretty but the lack of knowledge we have about it compared to Ilsabard or Meracydia makes it a bit difficult to speculate about anything.

I love that Estinien seems to have a fanclub of (what I think is) Mamool Ja kids swarming him. XD