[Wishlisting/Speculation] A historian weighs in: the New World

[Wyssahtyn]

"I am certain that with the New World expansion there will be an additional class of Hyur available to people"

They didn't bother with making Far Eastern Roegadyn a la Gosetsu and instead reused Hellsguard models, what makes you think they'll suddenly make another clan for a single race this far in, lmao. They're just going to reuse Midlander/Highlander models as they see fit and slap a New World Hyur tag on them in a lore book. Wouldn't even be surprised if they end up having player-inaccessible color palettes too.

"I think that they will be integral to mainstreaming the Blue Mage as a Ranged DPS"

The likelihood of this is infinitesimal at best. And would require the devs backpedaling on their previous statements of being satisfied with blue mage being side content. Which to my knowledge have not changed.

"(don't look it up, it is correct)"

there is no better way of getting people to lose interest in what you have to say than to go "just trust me bro"

[Parua]

"(don't look it up, it is correct)"

there is no better way of getting people to lose interest in what you have to say than to go "just trust me bro"

Well, it's explained pretty clearly upthread. If you haven't studied the history of the new world the lore might just seem 100% original to you, which I do understand well enough, so don't feel bad for thinking I was being glib there.

KeseyUnfortunately, Azys Lla was pulled up from "The Burn" which was apart of Islabard, confirmed in the Stormblood expansion.

And the Ixal are an Allagan creation as was confirmed in a Heavensward dungeon.

I would also expect there to exist a coastal settlement that is more like a colonial town with a "frontier" aesthetic where people from Eorzea have settled to explore and begin to trade things from the New World as well.

Discourse! Gaming forums can and do surprise, so thank you for correcting the lore here.

I do feel like there's got to be more to the dev angle on the new world, just like how the appearance of the "optimates" and "populares" should have tipped people off to the direction of the game's story and the attic greek should tell people where the current story is headed. That said, I do wish Asahi could have gotten the Saturninus treatment.

...but yea, there is certainly a large chance that we're going to get something pretty stereotypical. We're talking about folks playing blip bloops on their monitor, not folks angling for a Bancroft Prize or cites on h-list.

KeseyTaking the last one as the most likely path for game's story as this creates a mystery to uncover, the city of gold could be tied to an unknown civilization, maybe one that was old enough to battle the Allagans (We know that nations can date back to the Allagan just like Mercydia or Bozja) or we could go even further back in time and speculate that the city of gold housed a civilization that was around in the time of the Ancients, possibly a sister city to Amaurot or another government/civilization independent of the Ancients.

See, this is where I'm leaning on that. Legendary cities of gold have always been exactly as you've described. Even myths that Mansa Musa had a city of gold were based purely on the fact he was bringing thousands of pounds of gold as tribute to places like Mecca and the legendary Peruvian cities of gold were misinterpretations of people telling conquistadors stories about a place where you can _get_ a lot of gold, not a literal city of gold, and we saw how the Spaniards reacted to that news.

[Parua]

If you're screaming "cram it nerd" or "go back to your books and leave us gamers alone, dweeb" give this reply a thumbs up. I can handle the scorn.

[Iscah]

My (not particularly educated) understanding was that the Mamool Ja were based on Central/South American cultures.

I'd like to see the ability to choose Whalaqee as your race/clan when creating a hyur. Perhaps their height range is narrower and perhaps they are either stronger or weaker or have better magic. Perhaps this questline will appear in the New World to bring the Blue Mage into the regular lineup after quests at, say, lvl 90?

If you want your Hyur character to be Whalaqee, you give them an appropriate name and hit the "create character" button. That's all there is to set different cultural races apart here.

[Zsolen]

They didn't bother with making Far Eastern Roegadyn a la Gosetsu and instead reused Hellsguard models, what makes you think they'll suddenly make another clan for a single race this far in, lmao. They're just going to reuse Midlander/Highlander models as they see fit and slap a New World Hyur tag on them in a lore book. Wouldn't even be surprised if they end up having player-inaccessible color palettes too.

I'm surprised you also didn't mention Ishgardian Elezen in addition, the easiest excuse to add High Elves to the game.