The 5.2 dungeon looks like it'll be a lore bomb

[WrenElessedil]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but anyone else thinking this place might be the meeting place for the Convocation? It would definitely give some big clues about the past if so.

[Enkidoh]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but anyone else thinking this place might be the meeting place for the Convocation? It would definitely give some big clues about the past if so.

That's already shown though - the Convocation met in the Capitol (which is appropriate, given what we know of the Convocation is that it was effectively the closest thing the Ancients had to a government).

Also if you are particularly sharp-eyed during the Amaurot dungeon, the battle arena for the second boss of Amaurot (the Terminus Bellwether) looked like a ruined senate hall (the actual battlefield was a raised circular platform surrounded by ampitheatre-like benches where the bodies of dead Amaurotians could still be seen collapsed on or buried under rubble, and the walls of the building that still stood appeared to show it was a fairly large circular auditorium.).

So unless this was just more of Emet's 'creative embellishments', or was part of the Hall of Rhetoric where lively debates took place but was not part of the government, that was as good a location as any as to where the Convocation met.

[Wyssahtyn]

(which is appropriate, given what we know of the Convocation is that it was effectively the closest thing the Ancients Amaurotines had to a government).

Amaurot was presumably, given the "Debate and Discourse" sidequest, one city-state of many.

[Enkidoh]

Amaurot was presumably, given the "Debate and Discourse" sidequest, one city-state of many.

Oh of course (that specific quest you mentioned outright referred to a city "across the pond" that was already succumbing to the 'crisis' that the Amaurotines were engaging in realpolitik with), but the way Amaurot was framed, is that it was regarded as being the biggest and most important city of all - they certainly were the ones who took charge of the crisis by enacting the whole Zodiark project.. and giving birth to the current worlds.

And although the Capitol building in Emet's reconstruction... looks rather small all things considered, there is a very large and imposing tower like structure in Amaurot's background that is never given any mention or reference as to it's importance or purpose. Food for thought in any event.

But yes, you are right that from what information can be gleamed from Emet's Amaurotine shades, Amaurot was one citystate among many that existed in the world back then, but seemed to be the most important culturally, politically and academically. If there was some other international organization that oversaw all the cities politically then Emet did not bother (or care) to include it as part of his reconstruction, instead putting the Convocation on a pedestal as the highest political office in the city, and by extension, the rest of the world. But it is correct that the Convocation was specifically a de-facto government for Amaurot.