Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
The music in coerthas is supposed to be gloomy/desperate. The area is covered in an unnatural snowfall, there's dragons everywhere, the Ishgardians are kinda up poop creek without a paddle.
There were dragons everywhere in terms of story/lore in 1.0 as well (we obviously didn't get to experience it all yet for a very obvious reason) and we still had this music:

http://youtu.be/ohsPC_K8S1k?t=18s

So yeah, they kind of always been up the creek without a paddle since the inception of XIV.