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

[Jandor]

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.

Your original comment was that looking at the map indicates that Eorzea is Europe, but the map we have shows an African shaped continent in the place where Africa would be.

We do actually see a bit more of the planet in one cutscene, where we see Hydaelyn from space. Assuming that island far to the south of Eorzea is Meracydia, then it seems more like a potential Australia proxy to me.

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.

Of course the Eorzeans don't view themselves as particularly savage or their home as particularly wild, I doubt the Africans did either when the Europeans came over to conquer their cities and topple their civilizations.