Sharlayan Being Attacked

So, I was exploring Mor Dhona when I arrived at Camp Brittlebark. When I talked to the NPC Thomas, he said:

"The city of Sharlayan is no more. The lakebeds are drying up, the skies are cleaved by flying monstrosities of steel... The end is nigh, friend."

So, what do you think it means? :confused:
Do you think it means the empire is actually beginning his assault on Sharlayan?
Or do you think it has something to do with the opening? The reason why the dragons were defending the land agains the dreadnought?

D; im clueless with the story even thou there one more mission im gonna partake.. which take damn too LONG for me to go T_T

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Sharlayan is a city on the opposite side of the continent from Ala Mihgo, in the region of Dravonia.

We don't really have any information on it..

maybe ishard tech. Maybe the start of the intro was around that city and the guy got flown to mor dhon. There is a image of a dragon over that location. And dravonia kinda sounds like a dragon location.

I want to know where that other area is in the intro with the waterfalls. You see it in the graphic at the top of the forum too. Is it the Silvertear Falls near Mor Dhona? Would be a shame if they don't let players get to it in-game.

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Originally Posted by Xenor

I want to know where that other area is in the intro with the waterfalls. You see it in the graphic at the top of the forum too. Is it the Silvertear Falls near Mor Dhona? Would be a shame if they don't let players get to it in-game.

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some stuff to consider.... its bight out looks around noon time when he fights with the group. He wakes up and its sunset/night time when at place where the dragon (bahamut) is around that ship. And he was in flight the ship wasn't attack anything after he somehow got aboard.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

some stuff to consider.... its bight out looks around noon time when he fights with the group. He wakes up and its sunset/night time when at place where the dragon (bahamut) is around that ship. And he was in flight the ship wasn't attack anything after he somehow got aboard.

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So it was a 5 or 6 hour flight without any snacks or in flight movie. the Garleans run one low budget airline.....

walking through coerthas, i found a area in the northern part near The Lance. It seemed to be a dragon-nest, according to the nearby NPC.

Could be related to Dravonia.


But question;

If the Garleans destroyed Ala Mhigo, and continued their campaign west, why did they skip Grid, and go straight for Ishgard?

the tech could be from ishgard. Look at the map You got ishgard then dravonia, then shar, and mor dhona is south east of ishgard. The garlean empire only attacked ala. Iys all in the front of the booklet you get with the game. There was 6 city stats. we currently use 3. Ala was attacled. Shar is slowly dieing/ destroyed prob with the fight over dragons. and ishard is curently on radio silance. If the machinbes were from the garlean empire why didn't they attack the adventures since the empire is not on friendly terms with the 6 city states. Something happen in ala after it was atttacked to have them stop the assult. Mostly because the empire does have some heafty army since ala was the largest city state.

For the record my info is mixture of reading the front inside of the booklet and watching the intro cs of ffxiv, as well as looking at the map.

points of interest. Next to shar is a river which what the adventurers were fighting in (most likely). Ishgard is to the east of shar. The night of day was pretty noon after noon based on the lighting. The guy was knocked out and the gun ship thing he was in traveled and he woke up as the sun was setting. By the time the ship crashed wuth the dragon it looks like its night time. We know the ship itself is located in Mor Dhona.

Also take into consideration the direction of the dragon and ship came from. If there was a war going on aroud them, why would they bwe fighting a plant beast?

From these points of interest it looks like the areas around ishgard and dragon war spilled over to shar. Since its pretty close to Ish.

Wow very cool find, I am going to have to check out Camp Brittlebark if I can make it there. I agree with you. It sounds like the Empire attacked them.

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Originally Posted by Rau

walking through coerthas, i found a area in the northern part near The Lance. It seemed to be a dragon-nest, according to the nearby NPC.

Could be related to Dravonia.

But question;

If the Garleans destroyed Ala Mhigo, and continued their campaign west, why did they skip Grid, and go straight for Ishgard?

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I think I know the area you're referring to. I've tried going to areas on the Coerthas map in particular that look like they might zone (based on how they appear on the map) to another area, if nothing else just to get the message saying "You can't enter that area" just to confirm my suspicion. If i'm not mistaken though, there was a horde of redwing keds flying around up there and I couldn't make it past them to see, lol believe me I tried a lot :D.

The place where the battle in the CG intro is most definitely Mor Dhona, what with all the crystals/aetheryte scattered across the land, as well as the fact that in the middle of the lake is The Keeper(which is Bahamut) twisted around the airship that he took down in the battle(which took place from 10-15 years prior). The land in Mor Dhona is currently ruined due to the final "breath" of Bahamut, from which the physical manifestations of the other primals were brought forth.

The only city attacked by the Garlean Empire that we know of thus far is Ala Mhigo, which was the strongest of the Eorzean city-states. For reasons unknown(most likely due to their fleet's defeat at the hands of the dragons), the Garleans halted their assault after securing Silvertear Falls, which is apparently a valuable crystal vein, and have been doing nothing but spying on and spreading propaganda throughout Eorzea with their airships that you see flying around every so often.

Sharlayan is on the far west side of Adlenard near Dravania, the Farreach, and Abalathia's Spine. Chances are that there may have been conflict between them and the dragons, however the way Y'Shtola speaks about it in the Limsa plotline, it seems like there was more to the destruction of Sharlayan. As far as we know, the Garleans haven't made it that far yet.


Anyway there's a whole thread on all this stuff, so look it up if you want more plot clarification.

i dont think that the dragon in mor dhona is bahamut. in a recent interview, yoshida said he was going to implement bahamuts and other summons differently in ffxiv so that pretty much means that we haven't seen bahamut yet. it might have been a very powerful dragon, maybe bahamut's mistress or something lol, something like this will make him mad and he will side by you to help destroy garlean or something, would make a nice sidequest

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Originally Posted by Rau

walking through coerthas, i found a area in the northern part near The Lance. It seemed to be a dragon-nest, according to the nearby NPC.

Could be related to Dravonia.


But question;

If the Garleans destroyed Ala Mhigo, and continued their campaign west, why did they skip Grid, and go straight for Ishgard?

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Technically they didn't skip it, they patrol the areas in the black shroud. I'm thinking it has something to do with the forest attacking people, maybe the forest wont let them get near grid?

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Originally Posted by RexSkyborn

Technically they didn't skip it, they patrol the areas in the black shroud. I'm thinking it has something to do with the forest attacking people, maybe the forest wont let them get near grid?

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Maybe the Garleans hate the black shrouds layout as much as the players and as Gridania's a ghost town anyway they skipped it.

It's pretty much accepted that it's Bahamut, given his status as "God of the Eidolons" in the rest of the FFverse and that the rest of the primal deities that are worshiped by the various beast tribes were brought into the Eorzean plane of existence through his "death".

As for summons working differently than they did in previous games, yeah they do work differently. They hate and want to kill us all. Play through the game story.

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I'm willing to bet it's a typo and that the guard is actually referring to Ala Mhigo: the storyline makes no mention of Sharlayan being in such a sorry state. In fact, the guys from Sharlayan that you meet during the missions don't act like their city is being invaded at all. They're just trying to see whether our cities would go to war against the Empire or not to avoid being destroyed. They definitely don't seem like it's already happened (correct me if I'm wrong).

Honestly I'm having a hard time caring about what the guard NPCs say, considering there's an NPC in Camp Bentbranch that welcomes you to Camp Black Brush...

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Originally Posted by solracht

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I'm willing to bet it's a typo and that the guard is actually referring to Ala Mhigo: the storyline makes no mention of Sharlayan being in such a sorry state. In fact, the guys from Sharlayan that you meet during the missions don't act like their city is being invaded at all. They're just trying to see whether our cities would go to war against the Empire or not to avoid being destroyed. They definitely don't seem like it's already happened (correct me if I'm wrong).

Honestly I'm having a hard time caring about what the guard NPCs say, considering there's an NPC in Camp Bentbranch that welcomes you to Camp Black Brush...

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Lool nice

/10 char

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

Anyway there's a whole thread on all this stuff, so look it up if you want more plot clarification.

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Would you happen to have a link to that thread by any chance?

haha, great sig solracht

@ the sig and how is that different?

one is more time consumbing then the other. thats it really.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

@ the sig and how is that different?

one is more time consumbing then the other. thats it really.

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Go read this http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...New-Aggro-Icon , pretty sure thats why he has that. And agreed, solract, its a fantastic sig.

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Originally Posted by Aiko

Would you happen to have a link to that thread by any chance?

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Right here.

People have mentioned a lot about it.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

For the record my info is mixture of reading the front inside of the booklet and watching the intro cs of ffxiv, as well as looking at the map.

points of interest. Next to shar is a river which what the adventurers were fighting in (most likely). Ishgard is to the east of shar. The night of day was pretty noon after noon based on the lighting. The guy was knocked out and the gun ship thing he was in traveled and he woke up as the sun was setting. By the time the ship crashed wuth the dragon it looks like its night time. We know the ship itself is located in Mor Dhona.

Also take into consideration the direction of the dragon and ship came from. If there was a war going on aroud them, why would they bwe fighting a plant beast?

From these points of interest it looks like the areas around ishgard and dragon war spilled over to shar. Since its pretty close to Ish.

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That's interesting. The highest mountains in Eorzea appear to be in that area too and when you see those waterfalls in a full CG image or video you can see huge mountains in the background. It's also interesting to note that on the map there's a dragon above Shar which suggests something is/was happening over there.

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

Sharlayan is on the far west side of Adlenard near Dravania, the Farreach, and Abalathia's Spine.

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You're the first person in this thread to spell the name right. I know it's hard to read that damn Eorzean font, but it in in fact Dravania, not Dravonia.

Sorry for being anal about it, but the Grammar Nazi in me came out and I thought I'd step in and set it straight, haha.

Such a big map... Now if only we can explore it all. ;D

Wait... That's not how I usually post...

I am in favor of more cities.

I am in favor of more places to explore.

I am strongly against this NPC!!!