Areas in the game that we can see, but can't explore.

[Nalien]

What? Copperbell was explained:

It was a normal mine, but an older dynasty (the ancestor of Ul'dah probably) used hecatonchires as slaves to do the mining. They were later sealed to die. In the present day they broke free and are having their revenge.

Ugh, this is exactly why I hate this kind of "storytelling". I find it very easy to read through quest dialogue and pick up information there, but throw information in a menu? I'm almost certainly going to miss it (although I obviously didn't with the Guildhest... Odd...). Almost exactly why I ended up hating FFXIII, it's a complete break of immersion. Stuff like this really could do with being integrated better, even if they take the laziest option and just dump scraps of what would be in the menu around the dungeon (see: Tam-Tara Hard). They could have thrown a NPC in at the first boss of Copperbell who explains about the hecatonchires after you clear the waves right before the hecatonchires boss actually drops down, and I'd have loved that.

Anyway, thank you. Guess I need to go through the Duty Finder menu for a bit now...