Why i think "Flames of Truth" was a weak way to explain the world's survival

[YianKutku]

Astral/Umbral Ears are probably planet-wide. The Umbral Eras definetly are. You don't get disasters on the scale they are described in the Lore Book and have them only be local.

Here's a write-up I did of all the Umbral Era effects earlier: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4824364

It does create the odd effect of the entire world being stuck in a disaster just because Eorzea screwed up. People in Othard or Meracydia or the New World were probably going "all right, what did those Eorzean idiots do this time".

The Seventh Umbral Calamity/Era really was weird, though. The actual Calamity was very localized, even if the pre-Calamity effects (eg aether drain) was presumably global. So to everyone outside Eorzea, everything continued more or less as per normal, minus one moon in the night skies.