A PoC Scion please? There is so much untapped potential here.

[Iscah]

I don't mean a dark continent, I mean the dark continent, what Africa was often referred to as during the colonial period. Africa was often portrayed as a vast expanse of untamed wilderness teeming with great beasts, where one wrong turn can take you miles away from civilization and leave you stranded in the territory of dangerous tribes, or have you stumbling upon ancient lost ruins, or stuck dealing with some kind of strange occultism or mysticism.

That sounds like a great description of what little we know of Meracydia. Hostile, unexplored and home to strange and unfamiliar creatures from an Eorzean perspective.

I really do not see the parallels between that "idea of Africa" and Eorzea from an in-game perspective. Eorzea is set up as "home", the familiar place for the characters. There are cities and civilisations. Meracydia is the distant and unknown.

Also of note: the lorebook describes Meracydia's location as "far to the south of the Three Great Continents, beyond the equatorial line" - again establishing Eorzea as north of that line, like Europe, not straddling it like Africa.