Revelations from Fan Festival Around the World 2021

[Kuroka]

Then again, maybe we're being trolled and the Zeal-like floating islands is actually where we'll be doing our Harvest Moon farming life.

Might be, but the buildings definitly look like Amaurot... the spirals and stone patterns... idk..

[YianKutku]

Might be, but the buildings definitly look like Amaurot... the spirals and stone patterns... idk..

Possibly. I'm also mostly wondering why we'll be going there, that requires it to be a full zone. (Or is it even a zone? Could it be just a dungeon?) If it's Amaurotine in nature, that might suggest we're there to look for something from Amaurot to handle the current crisis.

The floating islands could also be related to basically any other revealed zone: a bastion of lush greenery in the barren landscape of the Moon, or that suspicious floating landmass on the map of Ilsabard, or Thavnairan exotic magic, or Sharlayan went "yeah, we raised a few islands and kept some stuff there". The only one I suspect is not related is Labyrinthos, since I don't think there's enough "underground" on those islands.

Hence my questioning about the number of zones: in other expansions, while there are six zones, generally at least half of them are connected to others in some close manner: the Fringes leads to the Peaks (leads to the Lochs), the Ruby Sea leads to Yanxia, the Coerthas Western Highlands leads to the Dravanian Forelands leads to the Dravanian Hinterlands (with the Churning Mists attached to the Forelands), and so on. Here, we're apparently being sent across two continents, with Thavnair, Old Sharlayan, and Garlemald, and then we're going to the Moon as well, and we know the Moon, Thavnair, and Garlemald have their own zones. Whoever our companions to these places will be must have as much teleport anima as we do to blip back and forth.

Speaking of spirals and teleporting, I did notice that in the art for the harbour of Thavnair (and presumably Radz-at-Han), there was a Sharlayan-style aetheryte. This wasn't seen in the other pictures of Radz-at-Han, which had their own (pointy, rather than spiral) aetheryte style.