The Next Housing District

[Khryseis_Astra]

Why not Old Sharlayan? After the MSQ they keep talking about welcoming people from elsewhere. Fourchenault is pretty explicit when you complete the final job quest. I'm in the Goblet and wouldn't go to Sharlayan though.

Now that I’ve seen what other people had to say, I’m thinking Old Sharlayan is probably the most likely. I think initially I was thinking, it’s on an island, there might not be much room, but after taking a closer look, I see places it could be done. But I could see them doing some sort of plot twist and being like reclaim the Sharlayan settlement in the Hinterlands for us! lol Still there does seem to be a formula, though ShB probably breaks it… for some reason the Crystarium seems unlikely.

I’m a Lav person myself… I love the trees and waterfalls. But if they could keep just enough of the wild natural beauty and not make it another fully marble/stone city, I might consider Old Sharlayan if it happens.

[4clubbedace]

doubyt crystarium for lore reasons, unless they say "lol doesnt matter" and let new players warp there for fc housing

if not crystarium for shb than i think theyll do ala mihgo

easy excuse with ala mihgo city restoration

[Jojoya]

Why not Old Sharlayan? After the MSQ they keep talking about welcoming people from elsewhere. Fourchenault is pretty explicit when you complete the final job quest.

Nation leaders talking about welcoming others is a far cry from getting the general populace to accept outsiders moving in after decades of isolation. Obviously it's up to SE to write the story if they want that to be a housing district but it seems more of a stretch than it would be for Radz-at-Han.

Sharlayan has no need to attract adventurers to their nation. Radz-at-Han does. They're still trying to rebuild from the damage done to their nation first economically due to the Tower of Zot scaring away foreign trade then from the damage done to both the populace and the land during the Final Days. The treasure reclaimed from the legacy will help but they still need to attract outsiders, such as adventurers, to help with the work. If you have already unlocked Island Sanctuary before you get to the end of the 6.2 MSQ, Varshahn has a dialog option about wishing he had known you had such interests because he could use help with some of his outlying islands (though that's more likely a hint about where Island Sanctuary will be expanding to).

But either way, Radz-at-Han needs the adventurers while Sharlayan doesn't.

I'm also leaning toward Radz-at-Han for an aesthetic reason. It would give us a housing district that would have a very different look thanks to the brilliant colors the Hannish like to use.

We can get a fairly good idea of what Sharlayan housing would probably look like by looking at the area near the Leveilleur estate. For me, it comes across as Mist where the palm trees and tropical plants have been replaced by pine trees. The streams from the screenshot would become shallow creeks at best. Most of the trees would disappear.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

Radz actually makes a ton of sense. And while I've been saying they don't make end game zones into housing, I just realized something: Radz is much bigger than any other end game zone. Its probably almost as big as Idylshire, Rhalgar's and Eulmore all put together. Maybe they did this with the intention of giving it a "major city" feel in anticipation of new housing.

[Khryseis_Astra]

@Jojoya: I think that’s why my mind went to the Dravanian Hinterlands at first, in case Old Sharlayan’s xenophobia wins out! lol

Radz does make sense too, and I’d love the aesthetic of the housing items we’d probably get out of it. I love how colorful everything is! I’m just not really into the tropical beach setting, but it would be a cool option for those who are. Of course, we also have a tropical island already, so who knows?

You’re probably right though, if they did Old Sharlayan, they’d probably make it Sharlayan-style Mist, and that doesn’t appeal to me at all. Give me some trees and a nice pond, waterfall is a bonus. lol

[Alycen]

The only option currently is Old Sharlayan. If you pay attention, they only make housing districts in cities with a marketboard. Crystarium fits this but is unlikely, for lore reasons.

[not_ya_wify]

Or, where would you want to live?

I recently wandered through the Dravanian Hinterlands (the area outside of Idyllshire) and thought this could be a nice area to consider for a housing district. I know a lot of people who would like Old Sharlayan, but how about New Sharlayan? lol might need a better name…

We could have another restoration phase similar to Firmament where we help the goblins and friends rebuild Idyllshire and the surrounding areas. There’s plenty of space off to the sides and back of Idyllshire that this could be accomplished.

But it has evergreen trees, lakes, waterfalls and streams, big rocks… it could be a more wilderness-style Lavender Beds, and we could get Sharlayan style architecture, housing items, those cool blue stone roads…

We already have 3 mostly stone/marble residential districts… Lavender Beds and Shiro are the ones that really have any natural beauty feel, so let’s balance it out with a third! Just look at this place! I’m sure some wonderful plots could be created…

Draconian hinterlands probably has the best grass look in the game imo. That being said, I'm really emotionally attached to Amaurot and would love to get a giant Ancient-sized apartment in one of the sky scrapers. This would also be lore accurate since Emet-Selch invited us to live there.

Additionally, I would love being gifted an apartment in Eulmore as thanks for freeing them from Vauthry and a decoratable version of our room in the Crystarium with window and all.

In EW, I am most fond of Elpis but I can't think of a lore reason for why they would give us a house there. But imagine a window with a view over Lethe.....

[not_ya_wify]

Given that all housing districts are in major hub cities, unless they break that trend, there are four options. There's the Crystarium, Old Sharlayan, and whatever cities we get in 7.0 and 8.0. It will almost certainly not be the Crystarium, as its very existence is a massive spoiler, so that leaves Old Sharlayan and two cities we haven't seen yet.

Only if the Crystal tower is visible. If we get a decoratable room in the pendants, it's not really a spoiler

[Archeron]

My top picks for a housing zone would be;

Crystarium, Place looks cool, I don't care about any lore reasons. It sounds like they're going to have cross rift travel become a thing in 6.5, or at least VERY soon.
Radz, would set itself out as a very unique tropical housing district, I like the way the city looks, and that could be incorporated into a housing ward.
Garlemald. The aesthetic would be awesome, though VERY unlikely garleans would let us filthy savages start living in their territory.

Controversially I don't want to see an Ala Mhigo housing ward. It would be very boring, Ala Mhigo really isn't that much different from Ul'dah and we certainly don't want another Goblet type housing district for people who lost the housing lottery everywhere else.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

As I understand it would be The Crystarium. My logic is that all housing locations share similar properties.

1. They all have a market board in the City.
2. They all are the first hub city we visit in a expansion.
3. We never got a district for Shadowbringers.
4. Y'shotola suggested a good source of "light infused" aether to break Zeromus shroud in the most recent MSQ - so its quite possible we are going back to the 1st; which is still rebuilding from the Flood of Light and the destruction of the Light wardens.
5. Hunch wise I keep getting the feeling that SE wants to tie off the weird "alternative" world of the 1st and make it more a part of the "bigger picture" as the entire Shadowbringers storyline was really kind of detached from Eorzea which meant it was hard to incorporate the 1st into our current gameplay and figure out what all those interesting characters we met are up to.