In-world time to travel?

[shadowclasper]

The lore books cover travel times to an extent, I believe it's 6-8 months to go from limsa to othard's primary trade port

[Cleretic]

The lore books cover travel times to an extent, I believe it's 6-8 months to go from limsa to othard's primary trade port

Which is the main reason that, if you were to measure all the expansions by presumed in-universe time elapsed, Stormblood is in front by a LONG way.

The shortest is either Shadowbringers or Heavensward, both of which lack much in the way of confirmed long-period travel, so it's all down to stuff like 'how long do you think it takes to get an airship to the Sea of Clouds' and 'how long does the WoL sleep on average'.

[kaynide]

Which is the main reason that, if you were to measure all the expansions by presumed in-universe time elapsed, Stormblood is in front by a LONG way.

The shortest is either Shadowbringers or Heavensward, both of which lack much in the way of confirmed long-period travel, so it's all down to stuff like 'how long do you think it takes to get an airship to the Sea of Clouds' and 'how long does the WoL sleep on average'.

This was honestly one of the most mind boggling parts of the expansion. Sure, out of game it’s a handwave and a dungeon, but in game we all know time is incredibly precious. 6-8 months traveling to Kugane and the entire rebellion could very well be over. The Reach had just been sacked and rather than dig in/regroup, our best option was to peace out for 6-8 months (or whatever) to go to an entirely new place.

I get we were trying to get Allie’s and what not..but I was surprised there never was any other faster way conceived, even if it was sneaking into a Garlean airship or just taking a smaller airship covertly/quietly through. Couldn’t have sent Gosetsu/Yugiri first? Or teleport shenanigans?

I guess that’s why the insta teleport from Sharlayan to Thavnair was added to the story… because wow.

[Cleretic]

This was honestly one of the most mind boggling parts of the expansion. Sure, out of game it’s a handwave and a dungeon, but in game we all know time is incredibly precious. 6-8 months traveling to Kugane and the entire rebellion could very well be over. The Reach had just been sacked and rather than dig in/regroup, our best option was to peace out for 6-8 months (or whatever) to go to an entirely new place.

I get we were trying to get Allie’s and what not..but I was surprised there never was any other faster way conceived, even if it was sneaking into a Garlean airship or just taking a smaller airship covertly/quietly through. Couldn’t have sent Gosetsu/Yugiri first? Or teleport shenanigans?

I guess that’s why the insta teleport from Sharlayan to Thavnair was added to the story… because wow.

It makes sense in the context of Stormblood, because especially in that situation we know that neither nation was necessarily high-tension, and these sorts of wars aren't exactly brief. When talking about wars, it's rare that they're over and done with within six months, especially when the stakes are high. Especially since the one guy involved that would have lit a powder keg in either of those wars we know was also on a boat for most of it; Zenos probably could've taken a quicker route since he didn't have to sneak around the Empire-owned lands (we had to take the long route through Sirensong, remember) but he didn't have the luxury of time either.

It's absolutely why they added that Sharlayan-Thavnair teleport, though. Endwalker's story, and that part especially, isn't something that plausibly slow. Shortcuts make Endwalker more plausible, while they would've had the opposite effect in Stormblood.

[shadowclasper]

Which is the main reason that, if you were to measure all the expansions by presumed in-universe time elapsed, Stormblood is in front by a LONG way.

The shortest is either Shadowbringers or Heavensward, both of which lack much in the way of confirmed long-period travel, so it's all down to stuff like 'how long do you think it takes to get an airship to the Sea of Clouds' and 'how long does the WoL sleep on average'.

Heaven's ward is at least 6-9 months because it covers a woman going from pregnant but not obviously so to having a child.

[Cleretic]

Heaven's ward is at least 6-9 months because it covers a woman going from pregnant but not obviously so to having a child.

In a bit of devil's advocate here: it might be less than that just by factoring in that they might've just not wanted to make an entirely new 'pregnant woman' skeleton for one NPC to use temporarily. The scale is most likely still months, but there's ways to weasel out of the pregnancy being a smoking gun.

[shadowclasper]

Nothing is ever going to convince me less that 6 months, minimum, per expac (barring shadowbringers which had time dialation shenanigans going on) was going down. Even end walker has to have taken at least 3 or so months.

And frankly, I always think of it as closer to a year per expansion, including post game, again, with the exception of ShdBr, due aforementioned shenanigans

The ever expanding bubble stopped making sense with stormblood.

Also pretty sure the pair mentioned being newlyweds but I'd have to go digging in my endless journey to even potentially confirm