Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
FFVII is a game that does not need a huge focus on classic fantasy elements because that is explicitly not the kind of story they are trying to tell-a story of corporations and environmentalism is better suited to settings like the city of Midgar and the modern settlements of that world. FFVII takes place in a time period roughly equivalent to the 1980s-1990s, depending on the given birthdates of the cast. FFXIV's battle of Cartenau takes place in the year: 1572.
FFXIV is a game pretty heavily inspired by the early modern era. Indeed, the year you just cited for the Battle of Cartenau, 1572 - puts it squarely in that time period according to most historians. The 16th century was home to things like the establishment of colonial powers, the beginning of the slave trade, the erosion of the power of the catholic church, the rise of several Islamic Empires that expanded through the use of gunpowder.

Feudalism and the kind of society established in the late middle ages were very much in decline at this point. Constantinople had fallen to the Ottoman Empire nearly 100 years ago, the Crusades were a distant memory, and the place for knights and lords was becoming more and more ceremonial. When you say 1572, I don't think "knights in armor and castles", I think "the beginning of the age of sail and expansion of colonial powers".

Not that I take too much stock in the calender year in a fictional setting, the events of the LotR novels takes place in 3019, so what's that supposed to mean?