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    It is indeed an awkward passage; however, given that two other passages - in the 6th Astral Era timeline and the Garlemald section - all but outright state Dalmasca to be in Ilsabard, that's the direction I personally lean in. In that light, I kinda take the earlier passage (in Geography) to be conflating the two locations based on accessibility by airship, not geographic location.

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    In 2.00 content, Gaius lands at Castrum Occidens and Nero kills the spy "Hummingway". During this encounter, two engineers state their homelands: "Othard, milord!" / "Ala Mhigo, milord!" In other languages, rather than Othard, he says Dalmasca.

    Asked about this, Koji Fox said, "And guess where that is!", implying that Dalasca is indeed intended to be in Othard.
    I always hate to contradict Master Moose, but the line (at least, according to that interview) actually has the soldier say Rabanastre, not Dalmasca; similarly, Koji says "Guess where Rabanastre iiiis!" And indeed, the Lore Book unambiguously places Rabanastre in Othard. The interview does seem to imply that Dalmasca is also located in Othard, but Koji could be mentioning it as another FFXII location that exists on Hydaelyn, rather than as another Othard nature; he doesn't outright say it's on Othard, after all, and given that multiple (well, two) Encyclopedia passages seem to place it on Ilsabard, that seems to me the best interpretation.

    I do like the idea that it's location in a region that's sort of both/neither, like on the land bridge or something. That's an angle I hadn't really thought of!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hinoto-no-Ryuji View Post
    I always hate to contradict Master Moose, but the line (at least, according to that interview) actually has the soldier say Rabanastre, not Dalmasca
    There are presently zero references to Rabanastre in the game (that I can find). I was pretty sure I'd just made a mistake during the interview, saying that I could recall seeing both name-dropped when in fact only one was. However, after the interview was posted, I've had several people say to me that they remembered Rabanastre being name-dropped long ago, as well ... yet we could never find it.

    Either several of us were mistaken (and Koji didn't catch it during the interview) or the references to Rabanastre were later purged and replaced with Dalmasca in a ninja-edit. Text bug fixes are almost always ninja-edits.

    (And I encourage you to contradict me any time you're confident that I'm wrong. I will fight hoof and antler for the truth. For my ego? Meh.)
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