Question about Cartenau and West shroud from 1.0

[Kotemon]

I've found a nicely marked map from Coerthas 1.0, until now I've been assuming Mor Dhona and Revenant's Toll were re worked parts of Coerthas lowlands. Due to the area between Central highlands and Lowlands resembling the area around Revenant's Toll. After looking up Ewe Lake this old map fills in most of the gap between it and Mor Dhona. This is great reference as now I can move this further away from Mor Dhona when piecing them together on the 2.0 maps. But makes the question as how North shroud is ending up zoning near Dragon Head since the big bridge is a wreck from what was seen in the fight with Greg. (why is it impassible again?)




In another post about the possible location of Alexander possibly being in or around Ewe Lake. If that's true then are we currently warping past the Central Lowlands into Central highlands from Mor Dhona? Just like West Shroud.


Aside from that between 1.0 and 2.0 the Central Region is for the most part unchanged except around behemoth and snow cloak, it seems Ogre's Belly replaced the path to that small area just East of Natalan. Cant see a way that leads to East Highlands though.

A key note at fan fest did say Heavensward would have "Dravania and other beast-tribe domains."

Comparing the two maps and the current Snow weather. Is it possible all that is from IceHeart /Shiva and that weatern Highlands is now a possible Dravanian stronghold (given the state of Stone Vigil) ? Also for 2.55 it seems there is a Keep on the bridge to Ishgard.

[JGwinters]

But makes the question as how North shroud is ending up zoning near Dragon Head since the big bridge is a wreck from what was seen in the fight with Greg. (why is it impassible again?)

If that's true then are we currently warping past the Central Lowlands into Central highlands from Mor Dhona? Just like West Shroud.

These have the same kind of situation to them. The north shroud->central highlands connection has a long stretch of land that we skip over in ARR. The point we end up to in ARR is a bit south-west of Skyfire Locks, so the road must pass south of that arm of the Sea of Clouds (swerving briefly into central lowlands), then back towards east to north shroud. The original black shroud<->coerthas zone line was in that long tail of land east of Briar Lake in eastern lowlands.

Aside from that between 1.0 and 2.0 the Central Region is for the most part unchanged except around behemoth and snow cloak, it seems Ogre's Belly replaced the path to that small area just East of Natalan. Cant see a way that leads to East Highlands though.

Almost right. There was never a path from central highlands to that strip of land east of Natalan. It was accessed through a tunnel from eastern lowlands (Fields of Glory), and it was where Garuda's aetherial node used for the story mode fight was. The way to eastern highlands was through a tunnel from central highlands, around where Ogre's Belly now is. All in all, Coerthas used to be full of tunnels and caves. Getting to some areas (cliff area south of Ferndale, the lowland area north of Dusk Vigil) could be very confusing if you didn't know the way already.

I marked that map btw, great to know it's useful even though it isn't very well done.