Il Mheg 1/2 of two mirrored zones?

[Crushnight]

Do remember the 1st reflection of Coerthus would be pre ice since no 7th calamity would change that so it would have to be a very mountainous region with grassland if a area exist that is.

[Chewy2nd]

Do remember the 1st reflection of Coerthus would be pre ice since no 7th calamity would change that so it would have to be a very mountainous region with grassland if a area exist that is.

I'm thinking Kholusia is Coerthas, it kinda has the same feel

[Crushnight]

I'm thinking Kholusia is Coerthas, it kinda has the same feel

Yea that looks closer to 1.0 Coerthus so can see that being the 1st reflection of it

[castielcampbell]

Rejoined in previous Calamities, and no longer in existence.

Oh reaaaaally?

[Mansion]

Firstly, the Greatwood is the scene in the trailer with Y'shtoya and Uriangier, and her words 'until our friend returns, I'll hold the line' implies they've got things on the Source covered while we're off on the First.

I really don't feel like that. It's ambiguous, but it does not necessarily mean they are on the source and us on the First. It could be the other way around. It could be all of us on the first but at different places.
I read it like The Call has sent our friends on the First, and they don't have our Echo to freely warp between shards (as Yoshi P confirmed it will be possible). So I think while we are still on the Source, things are already going on in Rak'tika on the First, where Y'shtola and Urianger are, and they seem confidant that we will come to them. The fact that their souls are "gone" means that they are on the First for me, not somewhere else on the Source.
After all, it's already burnt on the screenshots we have.

The comment about it being home to the Vieras is kinda vague. Could be the home of the Viis on the First...

Of course everything you say could be true too, that's just my interpretation of it

[Chewy2nd]

I feel like Rak'Tika is on the source too, it doesn't really display any signs of being over taken by light, it just seems to be a normal zone. Plus, I think people are too busy trying to survive instead of bombing a town in Novrandt.

[Iscah]

Oh reaaaaally?

Um, yes?

But if you won't take my word for it, these guys probably know what they're talking about.

From Beneath a Star-Filled Sky:

URIANGER
As thou didst request, I sought out The Gerun Oracles, that we might better understand the aims of the Warriors of Darkness.
Though their copious use of allegory defieth any single interpretation, the oracles paint a most disturbing picture─one of worlds parallel to our own, apart yet linked, reduced to ruin with every Umbral Calamity...

ALPHINAUD
"Seven times have they succeeded." Then of ten and three, only six worlds remain.

[ObsidianFire]

In the games's internal code, we can already see the technical names of the new zones. And all of them are from the same region. So yeah, the Rak'tika Greatwood is probably the 1st Shard's analogue of the Shroud.

[castielcampbell]

I feel like Rak'Tika is on the source too, it doesn't really display any signs of being over taken by light, it just seems to be a normal zone. Plus, I think people are too busy trying to survive instead of bombing a town in Novrandt.

I'm convinced it's rak'tika. He has cat boi facial structure.

[Seraphor]

In the games's internal code, we can already see the technical names of the new zones. And all of them are from the same region. So yeah, the Rak'tika Greatwood is probably the 1st Shard's analogue of the Shroud.

So why are Uriangier and Y'shtoya there?
It might 'look' like they're all in the same 'region' simply because they're all added at the same time.
Unless it literally says "Norvrandt" in the code next to Rak'tika, I'm not convinced.