Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
the Sixth Astral Era went on for 1500 years, and the Seventh Umbral Era only 5. That's nowhere near enough time to balance things out.
Did the Seventh Umbral era truly end? I know that the leaders of the three Eorzean City-States declared it so, but do they truly have the power to do so, or was that just political posturing? If there is a natural cycle of astral and umbral eras, why would the proclamations of heads of state matter to that cycle? For that matter, many of the forces which marked the Seventh Umbral are still going on... wars and rumors of wars; primals and rumors of primals. No matter what political posturing is happening, I think we're still in Umbral VII.