Capital City of the Empire

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There is no base to anything said in this thread, it is all speculation for the mere enjoyment of the more lore and ponderous types of players. Don't rain on our parade with talk of "we won't be seeing this anytime soon" or "lets fix the game first" yada-yada, we aren't $%#@ing stupid, we know these things, but its fun to ponder and speculate, and after all this is just a game. Thanks for reading the disclaimer, now enjoy the content and speculations!

What do you think the Capital city of the Empire look like? Will it be large and vast? Or could it be built inside the workings of a volcano? To provide some stimuli for discussion and speculation (including the name of this city, since to my knowledge it has not been given or even talked about in the lore...unless I missed it) I provide to you a series of images that I can take no credit in.

Maybe the city will be dark yet vibrant, full of advanced technology beyond our primitive minds.

http://coolvibe.com/wp-content/uploa...so-992x451.jpg

Maybe it will be on the water, and tower into the sky, a pyramid of glass.

http://lava360.com/wp-content/upload...rappercity.jpg

Maybe it will be on barren land; where grass is but an artificial remnant of what used to be.

http://coolvibe.com/wp-content/uploa...uture-city.jpg

Maybe it will be within a confined space, a fortress of great magnitude.

http://www.oneness4all.com/wp-conten...uture_city.jpg

Maybe it will be smog covered and filled with airships that are more common than a bird.

http://futurismic.com/wp-content/upl...isticcity1.jpg

Maybe it will be bright and colorful, and full of wonders.

http://michaeljallen.org/future-city-5-web.jpg

Maybe it will be dark and omnious, full of mysteries.

http://www.humansfuture.org/images/l...8786866429.jpg

Regardless if we ever get access to this city, the question still remains: What do YOU think the city would look like? Discuss!

I hope its a steampunk city :3

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something like this would be ideal, but slightly darker.

I hope the people are depressed, with corrupt city officials rampant.
http://futurismic.com/wp-content/upl...isticcity1.jpg

http://th01.deviantart.net/fs29/PRE/...by_fstarno.jpg

or

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/...in-d36ool0.jpg

http://wdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...0_Specs_EN.pdf

Pretty sure it was stated somewhere that page 24 of the above PDF is the concept art of the Garlean capitol.

Steampunk would be cool! And that picture reminds me of NYC (but in the very distant future lol) so +1 :D

thought all those were just Garlean Strongholds? Could be wrong though. :s

I do hope, someday, after all this nasty business of war has been resolved, we will be able to visit the Garlean Empire. Any of the images the OP posted would work nicely.

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Originally Posted by Raldo

http://wdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...0_Specs_EN.pdf

Pretty sure it was stated somewhere that page 24 of the above PDF is the concept art of the Garlean capitol.

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Front Base i believe.

a sprawling metropolis is probably not it, as the ascension of the Garleans is a rather recent development in the lore, within the last 40-50 years IIRC.

While it may have been possible to construct such a city in that time frame, it wouldn't have made sense given the relatively small population of the Garleans then(and now still tbh), even they were breeding like rabbits :P

They appear to have technology beyond Eorzea's knowing, so why would they be super technologically advanced and not have a city to match it? (?_?; )

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Originally Posted by OMEGA_HACK

They appear to have technology beyond Eorzea's knowing, so why would they be super technologically advanced and not have a city to match it? (?_?; )

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Spoilers: The Garlean's capital city is on the moon! :p

I found the crystal tower!
http://omnidownloads.com/wp-content/...f_3dcity34.jpg

dark like midgar?


http://pspmedia.gamespy.com/psp/imag...55874_640w.jpg

or similar to Rabanastre.
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__...re_concept.jpg

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Originally Posted by Andrien

I found the crystal tower!
http://omnidownloads.com/wp-content/...f_3dcity34.jpg

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The image is beautiful. I'm not up on my FF lore so I don't know where the Crystal Tower came from or what its purpose was.

neat-o!

/10char

I'd say a good place to start would be an industrial city like Vector in FFVI, and then expand from there.

Essentially, a city unlike anything that we've seen in XIV so far, maybe an arcology, built extensivly from metal and glass, and making extensive use of magitek for lighting and power. It would be tiered, with the elite living and working in the highest levels, where it's clean, has statues and architecture worthy of an empire, and has extensive natural lighting. The dregs of society would live in the lower levels, or an underground city that supports the levels above. Very industrial, complete with polluted water, artificial lighting, pipes leaking steam, and filled with gangs and various criminal elements.

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Originally Posted by OMEGA_HACK

They appear to have technology beyond Eorzea's knowing, so why would they be super technologically advanced and not have a city to match it? (?_?; )

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Their rise to power is due to their discovery of Magitek technology, whether they invented it or discovered it via the lost-tech route is unknown, but I'm gonna guess it's the latter. Before that, they were literally nothing more than a few poor tribes in the north that was barely making a living.

I'm pretty sure all this is mentioned in-game somewhere, at least I'm pretty sure that's where I saw these info.

Well if that is the case, they should either have an ancient magitek city of some kind that they stumbled upon or if they invented it then they should at least have some kind of industrial magitek city that could house that monster of an airship seen at the final story cutscenes, right?

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Originally Posted by OMEGA_HACK

Well if that is the case, they should either have an ancient magitek city of some kind that they stumbled upon or if they invented it then they should at least have some kind of industrial magitek city that could house that monster of an airship seen at the final story cutscenes, right?

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depends on the manner in which they discovered the tech. For all we know it could've been something like the Zilart in that a few survivors from an ancient civilization decided to make another bid for power, and is using the Garleans to achieve their goal.

Whatever it turns out to be, I sure hope it'll be interesting :D

We know that Cid has invented the magitek technology for the empire.

Maybe Garlemald, the name of the empire and the capitol, look like a city with many industrial complex around now.

I imagine it to be like Vector

http://garcya.us/wp-content/uploads/...ffvi_amano.jpg

or something between Vector and Rabanastre

http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy...abanastre2.jpg

At the very least, heavily industrial like Vector.

Something like Uhra in Lost Odyssey actually.

http://images.wikia.com/lostodyssey/...29/Uhra-02.jpg

oo forgot about Uhra and Vector! Nice finds.

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Originally Posted by Felis

We know that Cid has invented the magitek technology for the empire.

Maybe Garlemald, the name of the empire and the capitol, look like a city with many industrial complex around now.

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we know that Cid worked ON magitek technology and invented many weapons and devices based on magitek, but I don't think it was ever said that he was the one that invented it. Frankly, he looks far too young to have been the originator of magitek, not to mention how he would've came up with the whole thing out of thin air anyway.

I love the images. Keep them coming!

If someone could school me on the significance/lore of ishgard, that would be great. I honestly have not been paying attention to cutscenes...

what would be cool is if their city looked just like their airships LINK