Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
Ilsabard is a pretty big place. It looks to be roughly double the landmass of the area explored in Stormblood. If you look at the map so far, we still are yet to explore the eastern reaches of Othard, Radz-at-Han and Thavnair just to the south of Ilsabard, as well as the region just to the west of Ala Mhigo before we even get to Garlemald proper. Most of this represents territory that the Garleans conquered during their rapid expansion and empire-building, which, prior to that, would have been autonomous nation states. So even if Garlemald is sitting at the end of the next expansion (which it may not necessarily be, given the amount of unexplored map that lies in the way), there are probably a number of other nations/cultures that we will probably encounter along the way, first.

So could magitek play a big part in the next job(s)? Possibly. But it's not the only thing that they can draw on. Everyone is expecting us to head straight into Ilsabard towards Garlemald. But remember how Doma (and Samurai) made a surprise introduction as the second half of the reveals for the last expansion. We're probably missing an important part of the picture. If Dancer or Blue Mage get introduced, I wouldn't be surprised to see either tied into Thavnair.
I honestly hope this war theme ends in 5.0 i'm so tired of it. We had enough of a war theme expansion in 4.0 I want to explore untamed lands like jungles. (Basically the Seeker of Adoulin Expansion of FF11 but with less copy and paste.)