Quote Originally Posted by Daralii View Post
It's very loosely modeled on Earth's geography as far as I know. Eorzea is west Europe and the Sahara, Illsabard is east Europe, Othard is Asia, the New World is the Americas. Meracydia would be sub-Saharan Africa I guess.
Correct. We're missing the chunk of "Asia" where we'd find Othard. We've got from Europe up to about the beginning of Russia as far as Ilsabard is concerned. Meracydia seems to be the southern half of Africa but broken off, while Thavnair seems to be the area formerly comprising the Ottoman Empire, but similarly broken off into its own island.

I'm also not ready to accept it as coincidence that Silvertear Lake is not far from the area of Africa we'd call the Cradle of Life.