Why is Drybone so rainy?

[Skyl1n3]

In the realm's rebirth, a lot of things in the environment changed, including the weather in some cases.

Drybone may be a rainy place these days, but back when it was named....

[Enkidoh]

Don't blame Moose for that tiny image - it's how images on Wiki now auto-adjust to thumbnails if you try deeplinking to a image hosted on a Wiki page. But anyway.

There was a quest in version 1.0 that actually explained that Thanalan used to be, in the distant past, a forest like the Black Shroud - it ended up desertifying though, a change in climate not entirely to blame, but mostly it caused by monsters eating newly sprouted plants, plus gradually turning the plains arid (the quest in question involved having to kill monsters for this very reason). It's also entirely possible that the elementals in trees that grew in Thanalan just were not potent enough , unlike the Black Shroud, and thus it was never able to recover from an aetheric standpoint, unlike the Shroud. But that's just speculation on my part.

[Skyl1n3]

Don't blame Moose for that tiny image - it's how images on Wiki now auto-adjust to thumbnails if you try deeplinking to a image hosted on a Wiki page

It was a joke... jeez sorry for being so utterly offensive, my deepest most sincere apologies your majesty.

[Enkidoh]

I wasn't having a go at you - I was just stating why that image was so small. I'm really sorry if it came across that way.

[Skyl1n3]

I wasn't having a go at you - I was just stating why that image was so small. I'm really sorry if it came across that way.

Ahh nevermind about it, I thought it was funny anyway

[Chewy2nd]

Here's a bigger pic I found, lol

[Anonymoose]

Here's a bigger pic I found, lol

Lmao, same image from a different link. It never scaled down on my screen so I didn't know. I would have replaced it!

[Atlaworks]

It's called Drybone despite the rain because "Wetbone" sounds even more like innuendo.

[Yshnal]

I have to agree with others. Due to the Calamity many weather/climate change has happened throughout Eorzea.

Though I do find it odd that no NPCs have mentioned the influx of rain in drybone. They all say how it's a barren outpost that's only useful due to its close proximity to Gridania

There's a leve in the zone that mentions the change, iirc.

[Toranja]

It's called Drybone despite the rain because "Wetbone" sounds even more like innuendo.

Damn. I was just about to say "Welcome to Camp Wetbone". I was too late.