New Tales from the Storm (August 18)

[Kusanagi7]

im gonna guess and say the next story will be shadowhunter.

[Anonymoose]

im gonna guess and say the next story will be shadowhunter.

First story of next year?

[Kusanagi7]

i will admit im interested in how he survived n hope its a good reason.

[YianKutku]

I suppose it is safe to also infer that these Bozjan rebels knew enough about what the empire was up to there (Meteor). Possibly this suggests/confirms suspicions that Bozja was built upon significant Allagan ruins?

This actually brings up something I've been wondering about that I might have missed:

We all know that Midas nan Garlond did his test of the Meteor Project at Bozja despite the events of this story, and blasted it from the face of the planet, thus proving the rebels correct.

So the question: how did the rebels know?

Was it just a lucky guess that the Meteor Project happened to be the one time that the conspiracy theory was validated rather dramatically? Presumably the official staff of the Meteor Project, including Midas nan Garlond, had more in the way of resources and expertise than the rebels, if only because the rebels would have to steal and smuggle the reports out of Bozja rather than just consulting it openly. And yet Midas obviously saw fit to go through with the test anyway, and unless there was some unknown scheme at work here (to what end?), he probably did not expect to die at Bozja, along with the rest of the city.

[Theodric]

I wouldn't be surprised if we end up going to whatever is left of Bozja at some point in 5.0. Perhaps as a dungeon, or even an entire zone.

[jameseoakes]

I wouldn't be surprised if we end up going to whatever is left of Bozja at some point in 5.0. Perhaps as a dungeon, or even an entire zone.

Is Dalmasca and Bozja the two remaining kingdoms that made up Othard? (sorry for the geography question but I'm not sure where these places are suppose to be on the world map)

[Theodric]

Is Dalmasca and Bozja the two remaining kingdoms that made up Othard? (sorry for the geography question but I'm not sure where these places are suppose to be on the world map)

We don't have a precise location for Bozja as of yet. Dalmasca is definitely in Othard though.

[YianKutku]

Is Dalmasca and Bozja the two remaining kingdoms that made up Othard? (sorry for the geography question but I'm not sure where these places are suppose to be on the world map)

Dalmasca is at the southern part of Othard. It's not been officially labelled on any map so far, but based on NPC dialogue, we know it's south of Nagxia, and featuring largely of desert, ie the Dalmasca Estersand and Westersand (and the capital city of Rabanastre somewhere in the middle).

Infuriatingly, this is contradicted by the lorebook (and only the lorebook; every other non-lorebook source agrees with NPC dialogue in-game), which claims Dalmasca to be somewhere in Ilsabard, so we just kind of pretend that it's a typo there.

As for Bozja, we have no idea where it is. The mention in this Tales From The Storm that it's "frontier lands" is new information to add to our very limited collection.

[Alleo]

This brings me to the inconsistency I found in today's Tale: the story opens saying that this story takes place during the 38th Year of the First Emperor, aka 1559. It also says that Cid and Nero are both age 12.

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*inserts Ilberts Sloppy sentence* Well seems that the story writers are also not always good at maths.

Anyway I like the relationship between those two and really hope that Nero will survive Omega so that he can continue to annoy Cid, so that he might truly finally notice him.

Someone on reddit also posted how it was the first meeting between both of them for Cid but seemingly not for Nero. Seems we have a little stalker here.

[Iscah]

I liked that story! Nice to see some character history.

Also, tactical reuse of the 'young Cid' character model for the illustrations. Would have liked to see Nero in there as well though (from behind at least, if they want to cheat on not showing his face) - I'm having trouble picturing him at that age.

[timeline issues]

Four years out.... curiously the main lorebook error with the astrologian quest timing is also four years out (events happened 19 years ago in-game, 15 years ago according to the book) although that's tangled up with some other things as well. Could be coincidence.

Someone on reddit also posted how it was the first meeting between both of them for Cid but seemingly not for Nero. Seems we have a little stalker here.

It says that right in the opening of the story - "the first meeting... as far as Cid was aware". And then a few paragraphs explaining why Nero has been aware of Cid prior to this.