Quote Originally Posted by Zohar_Lahar View Post
There is a large metal wall the Garleans set up on the border, which will make crossing difficult.
Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
I recently went on a Shroud exploration with a friend looking into this very wall. It looks way too high and way too long to just be Oriens, doesn't it? You can see bits and pieces of Oriens and it looks basically the same size as the other castrums, but that wall is gargantuan in comparison. Could it be the "Great Wall of Garlemald" between Eorzea and the Ala Mhigan Territory of the Garlean Empire?
One would think, were this the case, that there would be a wall preventing us from going through Xelphatol and Gyr Abania as well, although the geography might be a problem with that. There is a path leading up to the wall though, right at X33Y21, it's very similar to how the zone to Thanalan was blocked off in beta.

Come to think of it, where are Yda and Paplymo? If they're truly building up to an Ala Mhigo expansion, that's where they'd be, right? I very much doubt the Ul'dah refugees sent them through Coerthas (right past us), to Xelphatol and Gyr Abania... Heck, even if they took my route, they'd have gone through Gridania... Ul'dah to Ala Mhigo is actually a fairly long journey, I can't see them having gone that far, not willingly at least... I'm more incline to think we have another Little Ala Mhigo going on, with Yda and Paplymo being in Paglth'an... I would imagine the Garleans are there, in much the same way they're in Sea of Clouds, keeping an eye on the Vanu Vanu.