Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
I mean, I don't have anything against seeing Gelmorra, but it really does only apply to the Shroud and one specific time period. There's not a lot to work with there, in overall story terms, and people who didn't play 1.0 and don't play Duskwights aren't invested. Maybe we'll find the plothread of subterranean civilization visited/lifted with less stone work and more sci-fi in Endwalker in Labyrinthos for under Sharlayan.

I had a Duskwight character for a while that I named a Dark Souls reference. He's an alt back up for my LP character now, though. We at least know that the Mun Tuy Beans were a Gelmorran staple, since the big thing about them is that they need no sunlight to grow and are described as Duskwight food (That everyone loves).
The thing that gives me hope of 'maybe we'll actually go to Gelmorra now' is more that, once Endwalker's big far-reaching story wraps, that sounds like a perfect chance to loop back home and do some 'housekeeping story', spend some time in the settings of previous expansions. We're actually due for at least one focused around Gridania; remember that Stormblood and Shadowbringers got patches about Ul'Dah and Limsa respectively. And when they do that... honestly, the Shroud's got a lot of weird stuff, but it's all interconnected: Amdapor, Gelmorra, the Padjali, and the Elementals.

Gelmorra may be a bit too in-the-weeds to be the proper core of a story about all of that, but it would make for a very good stage; the birthplace of the Padjali, and the home of both the descendants of Amdapor's destruction and the closest there ever was to actual opposition to the Elementals' whims. If you did a 'Versus the Elementals' trial or dungeon, it would perfectly fit to set it in a Gelmorran site.