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

[Lauront]

I'm not so sure - it seems like he has little memory of the ancient world. Also, Amaurot did not necessarily take a non-interventionist stance. That was a point of debate in the reconstruction of the city, but the Convocation acted in the end to devise a solution to the problem. It wasn't the default stance of the city. They still acted to rescue the villagers in the short story, just not the island, which is the respect in which Azem acted against their decision. The very fact that they had Azem travelling around the world to help focus their attention on matters suggests the very opposite. However, it doesn't sound like they were heavy-handed in so doing given that the ancients seemed to value autonomy.

I also don't think the other cities would need a spy to study creation magics, given that this, by all accounts, was an ubiquitous trait of the ancients. Hence their surprise when the MC is unable to manifest it in ways they'd consider even suited to a child, and why they treat this as an aberration (albeit one they're not unfamiliar with) rather than something specific to non-Amaurotines. I believe this is further added to, when explaining the sundering in the Crystarium, Emet stresses that all men were once immortal, and Elidibus in 5.2 stresses that the Echo is a fraction of the power that all men in their completeness possessed.

The sound preceding the loss of control over creation magics was a keening noise with a subterranean origin, which to me points to something originating in the Underworld (=Aetherial Sea.) I think if Fandaniel had some role in the ancient world, it may have been to sow discord between Venat's faction and the Convocation. If there is some creature feature behind the sound, perhaps he or ancient Zenos had something to do with it or collaborated with it.

I do think Sharlayan is inspired from Amaurot, as its ruins possibly lie more or less where it was built, but its current political stance is a deviation from what it used to be, and I'm sure as with Amaurot, is the product of debates inside Sharlayan, and is therefore fluid.

[Kesey]

I do think Sharlayan is inspired from Amaurot, as its ruins possibly lie more or less where it was built, but its current political stance is a deviation from what it used to be, and I'm sure as with Amaurot, is the product of debates inside Sharlayan, and is therefore fluid.

Although I feel Sharlayan and Amaurot cultures are linked as there is plenty of evidence due to stress on Greek naming conventions, overlapping conch symbols, and cultural tendencies, I'm fairly confident they aren't the same location.

Amaurot's ruins seem to lie south of Kholusia which is the equivalent of Limsa on the source. Sharlayan exists on an island north of Dravania and Idyllshire. These are roughly opposite directions of each other.

Now there is one mention of other "cities" in a side quest in Amaurot and Sharalayan can very well be one of those cities.

It could also be an Amaurot sister city as they potentially are on the same line latitudinally, but not longitudinally.