Song Lyrics in FFXIV: Compilation, Discussion, and Interpretation

[Remedi]

I was wondering, since the conquest of ala mhigo happened during the reign of the previous emperor, who was an admirer of arts, maybe he decided to adapt the ala migan anthem as the garlean empire anthem,

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

I was wondering, since the conquest of ala mhigo happened during the reign of the previous emperor, who was an admirer of arts, maybe he decided to adapt the ala migan anthem as the garlean empire anthem,

While it's never specified whether The Measure of Our Reach is the anthem for the Empire as a whole or just for Colonial Ala Mhigo, my bet is the latter. Garlemald was established as a Republic over 500 years before there's any evidence of them encountering Ala Mhigans, and were a nationalistic, expansionist empire decades before the same; it's hard to imagine them not having some unifying anthem for any of that history, or to imagine them replacing an existing one with one based off that of a freshly-conquered state.