Quote Originally Posted by Teraq View Post
Nice headcanon about the Ancients and Amaurot, btw. Endwalker presents all the immortal people clad in black robes and masks we meet as "Ancients" rather than "Amaurotines", and I am going to keep addressing them as such. We have no indication that the world and people outside this one city were different to all the ones we've met, and the game never once bothers to even imply a difference, which I trust it would have if such a difference was relevant at all.
One of the Amaurotines mentions other cities and implies Amaurot as being a cut above:
Quote Originally Posted by Eloquent Amaurotine
Oh, do you hail from another city originally? Even so, surely you must know you stand in Amaurot, the intellectual utopia that flourishes at the heart of our world. From the Capitol where our preeminent minds gather to carry out the duties of governance, to the Akadaemia Anyder where devotees of knowledge strive to solve the greatest unsolved mysteries of our era, to the smaller but no less valuable institutions─Amaurot has all that you will ever need and so very much more.


Another specifically targets the robe wearing as being "Amaurotine" and chides us:
Quote Originally Posted by Patronizing Amaurotine
I must say, little one…those garments you’re wearing. They are your own original concepts, I take it? Clearly they must be, given their rather…singular flamboyance. I would never dream of stifling a fledgling creator’s creativity, but to parade about in your cultivated individuality is hardly praiseworthy. An Amaurotine of character shares their creations with the community─they do not hoard them for their use alone.

To delight in disparity is a mark of the morally deficient. Disparity engenders feelings of want and resentment, which degrade the bonds of fellowship. Thus do we encourage creators to share and share alike, else we risk kindling the embers of covetousness and violence that ever smolder in the hearts of all. Therefore I must implore you, little one, to cast aside your original trappings and don the communal robes, that you might acquit yourself as an equal among many. In so doing, you will be afforded greater respect and autonomy.

The whole world could be "Amaurotine" just like how in our own ancient times, a large chunk of the world was Roman, centered around the city of Rome. My point is, is that the term "Amaurotine" exists in the game and is a term used to describe a people. We just simply don't know what exists outside of Amaurot and its satellite institutions such as Elpis. I'm not saying that there's a downtrodden underclass here. I'm just pointing out terminology being used in the game.