Area Redesign / New Area ScreenPics

[Malakhim]

I don't know, but one of those areas seems like it'll be Silvertear Falls or somewhere up North.

[Volsung]

eew.....
=D

:O! how did you know what I meant?

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

hehe

[Rane]

These pictures may be small, but they do provide the answer to a huge question. Namely, that the area redesign is not simply going to touch up the current areas. These areas are being radically altered. At least one of them is being wiped and rebuilt from the ground up.

Hell. Yes.

Hell yes!

[Jouten]

HELL YES!!!!

[Kowen]

On the second image, I'm pretty sure the upper right "Landmark" says クリスタルタワー (crystal tower), but nothing else is legible.

Hopefully they put these images (and the job concept art too) online so we can actually see them.

[Malakhim]

I can barely make out the text, but the first one seems to be a new zone entirely, as I don't see Gridania's name anywhere(although he did say "Gridania" a few times), and that second one seems to say Thanalan, but I can't make out all the text. I still think it's Silvertear though.

That first one also seems to have a city or town on the top that doesn't look like Gridania to me, and I doubt they're going THAT radical.

[Jouten]

I can barely make out the text, but the first one seems to be a new zone entirely, as I don't see Gridania's name anywhere(although he did say "Gridania" a few times), and that second one seems to say Thanalan, but I can't make out all the text.

That first one also seems to have a city or town on the top that doesn't look like Gridania to me, and I doubt they're going THAT radical.

but...what if?

[Betelgeuzah]

Yeah second pic says north thanalan

[Stanislaw]

Second:
http://i51.tinypic.com/4lnlns.png

I believe I can sort of make out the text in the bottom left portion of this picture. I believe it says:

荒野　ＦＬＤ　ＺＯＮＥＳ　北ザナラーン Ver0.8b


Which (roughly) translates to:

Barren Lands FLD (Field) Zones Northern Thanalan Ver0.8b


And it does indeed look like it's Northern Thanalan too, because that picture in the bottom center looks like those factory-looking thingies you see in that zone, and the top right the text reads as "Crystal Tower" - and it was mentioned somewhere in-game that those factory-looking thingies were related to crystals somehow, right?

[Malakhim]

Yeah second pic says north thanalan

I stand corrected. That does look like the kanji for north. Sounds credible seeings as how Northern Thanalan is on the border of Mor Dhona, and it'd make sense to have crystal-related stuff there.

Oh man... The lore nut inside me is in shambles. Just more signs that we can kiss the already established lore goodbye. I really, REALLY wish they'd introduce a sort of "phasing" system like they did with Guild Wars and Cataclysm(I think) where there's some sort of storyline "trigger" that takes you from the original to the "new" world. Sort of like FFVI's world of balance to ruin.

That would seem like a good way to bridge the "peaceful" Eorzea to the "Wartorn broken" one.