Merycidia (SPOILERS)

[Ansemaru]

At the same time, there are native races to Eorzea. They're just not the playable ones. The Kobolds and Amalj'aa are endemic to Vylbrand and Paglth'an, their histories tied intrinsically to the lands their cultures and biologies adapted to, and the Sylphs have been present in the Twelveswood for millennia longer than any Elezen or Hyur. You are right about the playable races having migrated, but that doesn't really answer or provide much help on the question of whether the Meracydian dragons predated the Dravanian ones. All we have to go on is the fact that the former is recorded as having been present three thousand years ago, while the first mention of the latter is from two thousand years after that. But we also cannot rule out the possibility that dragons could very well have arisen in Dravania before, or independently to, the Meracydian dragons.

[PArcher]

I worry more that the desperation of the Meracydians against the Allagans may be repeated with the Dravanians in the present. Another great wyrm becoming a Wyrmgod....

I can think of a prime candidate for it. But at the same time, the Scions are supposed to be watching out for it...

However, I get the feeling after we meet with Midgardsomr (butchered spelling and all) in 2.5 we may actually help out with his rebirth...

[myahele]

Probably old news, but it now makes sense why there many heretic herriers found in Mor Dhona in a cliff overlooking Midgardsomr and also have a stone carving of thalaik, same as loisoix staff

[Sapphic]

Well we know the Allags enslaved dragons, then followed the destruction of the Allag empire. Could the Dravanians in Eorzea be descended from enslaved dragons that got free during the Allag empires fall?

And what if Midgardsormr does return, not reborn as a living entity, but as a summon done in the same or similar way that the Moogles summoned King Mog?

[Nialle]

And what if Midgardsormr does return, not reborn as a living entity, but as a summon done in the same or similar way that the Moogles summoned King Mog?

It'd be wild if, like with Shiva, his corpse actually gets possessed by the Primal and frees itself from the airship he's wrapped around now.

[Alberel]

I can think of a prime candidate for it. But at the same time, the Scions are supposed to be watching out for it...

However, I get the feeling after we meet with Midgardsomr (butchered spelling and all) in 2.5 we may actually help out with his rebirth...

I have the same feeling about this. There have been several points in the story now, most significantly when talking with Iceheart, where events have implied the dravanians are not the bad guys here...

[saber_alter]

Probably old news, but it now makes sense why there many heretic herriers found in Mor Dhona in a cliff overlooking Midgardsomr and also have a stone carving of thalaik, same as loisoix staff

louisoix put that there. he placed all of the marker stones of the 12 around eorzea prior to the battle of canteau and bade as many people as he could to pray at them. they were his tool for channeling the prayers of the people into a useable form.

[Nonsensicles]

So anyway, continent to the south, possible home to tribal cat people and the origin point of Aloe? I think there's a strong possibility it's an analogue of Africa, or at least part of it.

Not sure how dragons fit into the analogy.

[Mirron]

I always thought there were only three continents honestly, Eorzea, Othard, and... drawing a blank on the one the Garlean Empire started on. So how many continents do we know of then? Kind of curious what all there is supposed to be in terms of the geography.

[Nonsensicles]

I always thought there were only three continents honestly, Eorzea, Othard, and... drawing a blank on the one the Garlean Empire started on. So how many continents do we know of then? Kind of curious what all there is supposed to be in terms of the geography.

Ilsabard is the one you're trying to think of. And Eorzea is not a continent but a region that encompasses the continent of Aldenard as well as surrounding islands such as Vylbrand.

The three continents that end in -ard are connected by land and generally consider themselves to be the most important parts of Hydaelyn. Everything else is across one sea or another and not very well explored nor understood by contemporary Eorzeans. It's generally believed that the other continents are all smaller than any one of the three and much less civilised, but that could be a total misconception.

EDIT: As for what other continents there are, there's Meracydia, of course, and the New World to the West (basically the Americas). There's also Radz-at-han, but I think that may just be a large island, similar to Vylbrand. I thiiiink it's somewhere near Mercydia, but I really don't know.

As far as I know there's no equivalent to Australia nor Antarctica.