Building a better Alphinaud

[Raven2014]

Hingashi is way worse than Ishgard. While yes Kugane has consulates and stuff but with Hingashi, we are just on the smallest island of Shishu and there's still the whole main island of Koshu that we never even get to get close too. Its like Camp Dragonhead / Ishgard proper x10

How does any of that make Hingashi "way worse than Ishgard"!? Even if you want to argue Kugane is the equivalent of Camp Dragonhead, it's 100x more elaborated. Camp Dragonhead is basically just a security outpost to receive traveler with minimum accommodation and definitely not a commercial hub. It's basically a gatekeeper. Kugane has diplomatic mission, is MEANT to be a commercial, transportation, and culture exchange center and amplify those function to the max. Kugane is like New York city while Camp Dragonhead is like ... Midway, not even comparable. Also the Hingashi citizen embrace interaction with foreigner while Isghardian were just straight up xenophobic (which is a common straight for hardcore isolationist).


And the reason we never visit the Hingashi proper because we never have a need to, that does not explicitly say anything about its access comparing to Isghard, which is EXTREMELY hard. You may had forgotten and taken for granted now, but we didn't just willy nilly walked pass the Gate of Judgement to get into the city. Haurchefant went back to fill out the paperwork before we could go in. We were only allowed to enter the city after House Fortemp (one of the 4 great houses) agree to sponsor us as their charges.