6.0 Predictions: Will it be Garlemald, Sharlayan, or Meracydia?

[RyuDragnier]

I would bet that Sharlayan and Hingashi will be the two halves of 6.0. We're heading into the finale of the Hydaelyn/Zodiark storyline, and both states are some of the oldest and most learned areas of the world, and are also both extreme isolationists. Also, apparently, there's an island nearby in the Northern Empty where the Roegadyn believe the world originated from, could be relevant. Basically, as far as we know places like Meracydia and the New World don't really have any connection to Hydaelyn/Zodiark, so that leaves us with locations that may at least know much more than they're letting on about the conflict.

Unless they just go with space Allagans on the moon or something.

Bolding the part I feel we must talk about. Considering how much of the game's lore leads back to the Allagan Empire and the events in Meracydia, it feels heavily that Meracydia itself is special for a reason. The threads of the Ascians, Dalamud, Bahamut, the Warring Triad, Crystal Tower (Cloud of Darkness and the voidsent specifically), Azys Lla, the Allagan Empire, primal summonings, all of it leads to Meracydia. It feels like too much of a coincidence that multiple major threats that the planet has ever seen come from there. There has to be something there, something big, because there's no way that it's mere coincidence that 4 Elder Primals came from there. As for the New World...Blue Magic looks an awful lot like creation magic considering you're casting spells that mortals shouldn't be able to do out of nothing.

[Morningstar1337]

Bolding the part I feel we must talk about. Considering how much of the game's lore leads back to the Allagan Empire and the events in Meracydia, it feels heavily that Meracydia itself is special for a reason. The threads of the Ascians, Dalamud, Bahamut, the Warring Triad, Crystal Tower (Cloud of Darkness and the voidsent specifically), Azys Lla, the Allagan Empire, primal summonings, all of it leads to Meracydia. It feels like too much of a coincidence that multiple major threats that the planet has ever seen come from there. There has to be something there, something big, because there's no way that it's mere coincidence that 4 Elder Primals came from there. As for the New World...Blue Magic looks an awful lot like creation magic considering you're casting spells that mortals shouldn't be able to do out of nothing.

Mayhap Meracydia was the original location of Aumarot, and thus Ground Zero for the Sundering, Leading to the continent being the best possible place to revive Zodiark?