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[Cleretic]

I'd like to see more about Aerslaent. I don't think that we'll have a reason to travel there anytime soon, but I'm hoping that at least Nyunkrepf and his backstory comes up to give us more information about the region.

Bringing up Aerslaent makes me realize there's a lineup of places that we've only barely heard of, that I still kinda think would be more interesting than just 'Ilsabard'.

The lalafel come from a series of southern islands that I don't even think are on the map. And while we've technically been to Abalathia's Spine as far as, like, regional borders go, we've never been to anywhere you'd actually call 'Abalathia's Spine', like where the Warriors are from; we've definitely only been to the Spine's weird outliers.

(The very local history precludes me to heavily side-eye claims of cannibalistic natives, so I’m hoping that particular pulp adventure trope doesn’t crop up again. The dangling plot thread of the ziggurat Qiqirn and their counterparts bug me, especially as between the Namazu and the Qitari they will never be touched again outside of lore books.)

The Meateater Qiqirn were sort of an odd casualty of the devs changing their mind on something; the qiqirn were originally going to be the Stormblood crafting tribe before they instead went with the namazu and put the qiqirn off until Shadowbringers (I'm not sure if that was due to public response or just them realizing they struck gold while developing Stormblood itself), so their worldbuilding to lead to the qiqirn tribe is still there, but sort of... orphaned. Looking around the Peaks there's a couple places that feel like they could've been the qiqirn tribe's area.

I wouldn't trade either the namazu or qitari tribe storylines for the world, but I do wish we could get a peek at the plan for the SB qiqirn storyline just so we could get a bit of definition for the Meateaters.