All that rain in Drybone has me suspicious

[Dinivas]

Eastern Thanalan is closest to South Shroud where the sylphs live and what's coming? Ramuh. Ramuh's associated with lightning, which could be associated with storms. I haven't stayed in South Shroud long enough to tell if that's the case there too, but what if it's a sign, an omen that Ramuh is coming and the weather-aether is going nuts? What do you guys think?

Aren't the sylphs in East Shroud?

[NoloeTazier]

Close enough According to certain levequest (I don't remember its name, sorry >.<), the aetheric flow changed, and since then it has been raining a lot in Thanalan, even if it's a desert. It makes even more sense in eastern, as you can see all the crystal spikes of corrupted aether. A similar thing happened in Coerthas, for example, and that's why at least the part we can see right now (central) is covered in snow.

Regarding any change in the amount of rains in eastern since 2.2, it has always been the same for me, so it might just be the nature of the RNG :P

The Battle of Silvertear Skies changed the aether of the land drastically and Dalamud's ascent extrapolated this drastically. Thanalan isn't actually a desert it's just a pretty dry place and that's why Ul'dah works because of the access to water (a reason why the Sil'dih-Ul'dah war happened with a drought). The aether of the land has had a chance to recover and return to what it once was...a real desert would be Sagoli to the south (not just the place around Forgotten Springs) home/ruins of Sil'dih and Pagl'than the home land of the Amalj'aa.

[JeniLinsky]

Even in the very first weeks of the game, I heard a lot of 'DRYBONE MORE LIKE WETBONE AMIRITE' jokes going around.

I was making Camp Moistbone jokes all the way back in Beta.

Yes, you may hate me.

[Yshnal]

The Battle of Silvertear Skies changed the aether of the land drastically and Dalamud's ascent extrapolated this drastically. Thanalan isn't actually a desert it's just a pretty dry place and that's why Ul'dah works because of the access to water (a reason why the Sil'dih-Ul'dah war happened with a drought). The aether of the land has had a chance to recover and return to what it once was...a real desert would be Sagoli to the south (not just the place around Forgotten Springs) home/ruins of Sil'dih and Pagl'than the home land of the Amalj'aa.

Yes, these two are part of the reason of why the aetheric currents changed, but Dalamud's descent didn't affect Hydealyn just in the same way as our moon would affect the Earth, and that's why I said that it was close. Anyway, from what we learn in certain place, one would think that the aether is not actually recovering, but quite the opposite :/

Also, by "a lot" I meant "more than what would normally rain in a desert of these characteristics", keeping in mind that most of Thanalan would fall under the category of a semiarid desert. So, of course there is water in deserts, but not in abundace and only in certain parts, and that's exactly why Sil'dih and Ul'dah fought for such an important and strategic resource in that place.

Moreover, it seems that current rains in Thanalan are not dictated by a rainy season, in which the super rainy weather would actually make sense in eastern due to it being savannah-like, but are an anomaly as stated on the levequest that I mentioned. If people in Thanalan say that, it might be because the weather there actually changed from what they had been noticing over the years

[dubstephalflife]

Regarding any change in the amount of rains in eastern since 2.2, it has always been the same for me, so it might just be the nature of the RNG :P

I'm starting to think that's the case. I just honestly don't remember it raining that damn much in 2.0 and 2.1. (I've talked to a lot of people in game, and they're noticing this rain too). This might just be me hoping for a=some really good ominous foreshadowing.

personally; I think calling the place DRYbone and having it rain almost 24/7 there is just the producers little joke.

They're trolling us.

Aren't the sylphs in East Shroud?

You would be correct. I was looking at the wrong map when I wrote that. Blows the sylph theory out of the water a bit, doesn't it? It does put E. Thanalan closer to Amdapor, though.

Yes, these two are part of the reason of why the aetheric currents changed, but Dalamud's descent didn't affect Hydealyn just in the same way as our moon would affect the Earth, and that's why I said that it was close. Anyway, from what we learn in certain place, one would think that the aether is not actually recovering, but quite the opposite :/

That is true. Hydaelyn isn't earth. It's governed by aether. Now technically, an Umbral era (if the end of the 2.0 storyline is anything to go by) should mean that Hydaelyn is repairing itself and recovering from the last Calamity, but you may be on to something here that I hadn't quite considered at first. The aether permanently changed the weather in Coerthas, so why would Thanalan be any exception to this?

[Estellios]

Well you have to remember that Drybone was named as such back before the calamity and in 1.0 i don't think it rained there much, if ever.

[Melinia]

Well you have to remember that Drybone was named as such back before the calamity and in 1.0 i don't think it rained there much, if ever.

I don't remember 1.0 even having any weather other than "sunny".

[Hiroradius]

I have a feeling it's an omen, something tells me the next set of coil will be located in drybone. And the rain has something to do with the bahamut presence there.

[Cessna]

I have a feeling it's an omen, something tells me the next set of coil will be located in drybone. And the rain has something to do with the bahamut presence there.

Its actually not that far fetched. There's a allagan ragnorak fragment of some kind at the burning wall with a pathway thats inaccessiable leading into it. Coil 3 will probably be there. There's also tons of allagan enemies there too in the burning wall like the mirror knights.

[Darske]

I feel like whatever the burning wall turns out to be, it'll be big. I mean BIG. It's such a huge chunk of area formed of that corrupted aether, that it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be the entrance for the final Turn, or maybe even a whole new area connected to a bunch of new Turns.

I'm pretty sure that the text for a fate there pretty much says that the mirror knights are or came from Dalamud fragments, so chances are when we finally get access to that allagan structure we'll see some game-changing information on Dalamud.