Quote Originally Posted by Archwizard View Post
hard up for some Meracydia
Uhm, what? Azys Lla is pretty much all Allagan. Not Meracydian. You don't even encounter Meracydian things until the 4th Island with the Dragon brood and Tiamat. Meracydia in Azys Lla has a waaaay more tacked on feeling than Sharlayan's colony in the Hinterlands. I never once thought about Meracydia while in Azys Lla until getting to Tiamat's island.

What we know about Sharlayan:

They hoard knowledge, and their entire society is based off of it
They brought Aethereytes to all of Eorzea, and they produced them at the Hinterlands colony
They are capable of Time Magic on some level.
They figured out how to draw aether from other planets and stars.
They mark their most intelligent/skilled personages as Archons.
They have post-secondary education known as, "The Studium."
They are made up of every major race, though maybe not every clan.
The engaged in hoarding flora and fauna from all over the globe, and altered it, as well as had a fertilizer/manure that worked a little too well.
They have airships and sailing ships.
They are highly political.
They take in refugees.
They love to debate.
In a lot of ways the Ascian's Amaurot is very reflective of their society, only more advanced.
They venerate Thaliak.

We also have allies who were born at the colony, as well as those who lived there. Namely the Twins.

What we know about Meracydia:

Bahamut/Tiamat brood

Warring Triad and associated races, most of which are likely no longer alive.

It's a barren wasteland that has reclusive and violent specks of society here and there.

It's directly south of Eorzea.

I really don't know what Meracydian knowledge you're gleaning from Fractal Continuum and HM nor the Aetherichemical Research Facility. All three of those were basically all Allagan everything. /shrug