Meracydia/Miqo'te/Azys La speculations (spoilers)

[Anonymoose]

is this where Meracydia is on the globe?

Theoretically, yeah. I used every single resource released so far (in-game, Lodestone, trailers, website, Reddit posts) detailing map positions and coastlines to make an as-of-today map of Hydaelyn. I'm up to about 50% of the sphere's surface.

Meracydia seems like the best-fit assumption for that island, though it's a lot larger of a landmass than I expected given that I can't seem to find anything to assume is Sharlayan aside from that small island under the marker on the Ironheart map (which is one of the references used for this image).

[jomoru]

Theoretically, yeah. I used every single resource released so far (in-game, Lodestone, trailers, website, Reddit posts) detailing map positions and coastlines to make an as-of-today map of Hydaelyn. I'm up to about 50% of the sphere's surface.

I think Isalbard is further north, I know one of the many inspirations of the Eorzea/garlean situation is Greece and Persia.

[Anonymoose]

I think Isalbard is further north

I think it's an effect of the globe being projected on a flat surface instead of a sphere. If you wrap it back around half the globe, that line across the top of Eorzea and Islabard is a lot less horizontal. Ever seen one of those world maps where Antarctica is a horizontal behemoth across the bottom of the entire planet? I think it's like that, because I didn't do much guesswork on the coastlines - I did, however, trace them from an image that had been subjected to a lot of sharpness, brightness, and contrast editing, so some of the lines could be slightly off, as well, lol.

[Kyan]

I'm dumb and made a silly mistake