Quote Originally Posted by Dualblade View Post
Thats...actually a very good point. From what we have seen of the previous civilizations, and their calamities, we really did get off lightly. Could very much explain why the Umbral era could be considered so short, and why Lahabrea and his associates were trying to bring about the next one so quickly...
This is something that's kind of irked me, actually. The so-called calamity brought by Bahamut was so piss-poor, it barely affected civilization at all. It almost feels like an offense to the long-ago survivors of past calamities to call it a calamity at all, let alone something worthy of a change of Eras. The fact that the Umbral Era only lasted five years is also pretty hilarious.

Reading about disasters that brought folks like the Allagans or the Amdapori down, it seems difficult to compare them.