Pharos Sirius

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It comes to my attention only now that my information on Sirius is nowhere near as together as I thought it was, lol.

Does this lighthouse pre-date the settlement of Limsa Lominsa? <...>
Does anyone have any screen shots of what Pharos Sirius looked like in 1.0?

I could have sworn Sirius had been dated at some point, but I can't seem to find it in my notes. All of the references I can find are from after the Calamity, referring to how it was damaged in the Calamity. However, it wasn't in 1.0 at all. And I don't mean like the Ishgardian Vigils, where they were retconned from dinky rock forts into massive strongholds. I mean it was never mentioned at all, and there was no lighthouse out there period. Since I can't find any references to it prior to 2013 (so far?), I suspect that it was a retcon for A Realm Reborn and that any attempt to date it will have to come from after (assuming I wasn't wrong that I had a date and just can't find it at the moment). For what it's worth, though, the architecture seems quite Lominsan, but more precise and solid than the earlier stuff you see in town.

Do we have any information about who built it or where the technology inside comes from?

It's clearly aetherial tech, but it seems a bit ahead of 1.0 Lominsan standards. The one reference for it claims that the smallfolk would have you believe that it's an "arcane bomb" or "thaumaturgy", which is interesting because that's the 2010 background for Pharos Polaris, the blue-tipped lighthouse in Galadion Bay (Limsa Lominsa itself).

Assuming there's no info I've just lost for the time being, it'd probably be safest to assume that Naldiq & Vymelli's, in conjunction with various scholars, did have the technology to create these aetherial-powered lighthouses in 1572, and that we're just supposed to accept that Sirius was the "pride of Limsa Lominsa" and is one of the most recent lighthouses after Polaris and the various towers.