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

[Mimilu]

My crack-theory:
Spoilers

We will be going to Garlemald but we will also be going to future Eorzea.
Like in the future we hopefully prevented, a calamity will destroy civilization.
La Noscea, the Black Shroud, and Thanalan will all be big maps, their individual ARR parts put together, with the city states in ruins. Maybe we will see some of Coerthas but Ishgard will be lost.
Mor Dhona might survive (and be our new hub city or end game hub) due to the Crystal Tower.
Back in current times, Garlemald will get like 3 areas.

[FrightfulNight]

My crack-theory:
Spoilers

We will be going to Garlemald but we will also be going to future Eorzea.
Like in the future we hopefully prevented, a calamity will destroy civilization.
La Noscea, the Black Shroud, and Thanalan will all be big maps, their individual ARR parts put together, with the city states in ruins. Maybe we will see some of Coerthas but Ishgard will be lost.
Mor Dhona might survive (and be our new hub city or end game hub) due to the Crystal Tower.
Back in current times, Garlemald will get like 3 areas.

If i recall the bad future is no longer reachable, or phased out of existence due to the efforts to undo the 8th calamity. I also do not think they will do another split expansion after the weak story in SB and since we just had a more isolated location this expansion i do not feel it will be so next expansion, i also do not think they would have spent such time adding flying to the ARR zones and even modifying them a bit to accomidate it if they were just going to destroy and completley remodel them again. I feel wherever it will be it will be the Source, modern time, and relevant to the current events. also while i know my idea of Islabard getting exploration five zones with one being Garlemald proper with other Islabard zones being added in Raid series, trials and future Eureka like content was not well received, i see getting just three zones for the entire continent, again like Orthard all over again will be widely panned. either way i feel it should be Islabard for this expansion, the veil of clouds just adds that irresistible sense of mystery to it, and it just screams end game zone. i do not know what they will do with Garlemald but the continent of Islabrd almost has to be where they do the next expansion. Plus i do not see them leaving that world map incomplete for long, we are already exploring or have already explored areas in the mist such as Dalmascus, and Bozja, and they already have locations developed there such as the capitol, i doubt it would have been shown in game if it is just going to be in the background and unexplored another two more years with more meanwhile at the Imperial palace cutscenes that have been prevalent both this expansion and the previous one. No they are just screaming to be used. i feel the subvert expectations was either a red herring or that what we will be doing there will be different then what most people expect, maybe instead of SB 2.0 which everyone dreads, it will be more espionage focused.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

If i recall the bad future is no longer reachable, or phased out of existence due to the efforts to undo the 8th calamity.

Read the most recent Tales from the Shadows, please.

[FrightfulNight]

Read the most recent Tales from the Shadows, please.

I feel that this recent story was done in the similar fashion as a plot point in Season 5 of Agents of Shield where

where the team is sent into a bad future where the world was destroyed and when they went back to their own time they left a hopeful message in the bad future where the survivors would find a way to go on, since we already averted this future it will continue on its own separate timeline with the survivors trying to make their world a better place as well but since we already averted it and since the method of getting there is so great as shown by the methods G'raha used i do not think the player will ever go there, or they may years down the line but after ShB dealt with a similar concept i do not feel it will be in 6.0