Is Meracydia going to be a a inspired retelling of FFIX?

[MikkoAkure]

Isn't that like 3000 years prior? If so (because I'm not exactly sure) there's more than enough time for civilizations to build up and the wasteland state to flourish once more.

The little post-2.0 knowledge we have about Meracydia is that the Allagan war turned nearly the entire continent into a giant wasteland and even today there are parts that are uninhabitable while the few that live there attack all outsiders.

In 1.0 there was a little more knowledge about them, but whether or not that's canon is a different story. In 1.0, there were witch doctors who were mentioned in leves and you had to gather or craft things for the Limsan traders to send to them. Other tidbits of lore describe the people there as "primitive tribes".


All that can be retconned, but as of what we know now, there's not really any reason to go there and nothing to see unless the writers throw out some old pages and fill in some blanks.

[Raikai]

The little post-2.0 knowledge we have about Meracydia is that the Allagan war turned nearly the entire continent into a giant wasteland and even today there are parts that are uninhabitable while the few that live there attack all outsiders.

In 1.0 there was a little more knowledge about them, but whether or not that's canon is a different story. In 1.0, there were witch doctors who were mentioned in leves and you had to gather or craft things for the Limsan traders to send to them. Other tidbits of lore describe the people there as "primitive tribes".


All that can be retconned, but as of what we know now, there's not really any reason to go there and nothing to see unless the writers throw out some old pages and fill in some blanks.

Also bear in mind that a lot of the little we know is from the point of view of possible 'unreliable narrators', which might have points that can be clarified, without necessarily retconning.

[MikkoAkure]

Also bear in mind that a lot of the little we know is from the point of view of possible 'unreliable narrators', which might have points that can be clarified, without necessarily retconning.

Oda has repeated the same Meracydia lore at least once when asked about it, so it seems to be the state of their existence right now even within the company, at least as presented to us. That isn't to say it can still change but I'd personally rather go to the places closer to home that haven't been explored but have been teased.

I was expecting 6.4 to end the void nonsense and 6.5 would be all about the next expansion. But it looks like it's going to drag on and it still hasn't been resolved, meaning the next expansion will have less prep leading up to it and payoff once we get there, especially so if it's for a whole continent unrelated to anything going on right now.

[Raikai]

But it looks like it's going to drag on and it still hasn't been resolved, meaning the next expansion will have less prep leading up to it and payoff once we get there, especially so if it's for a whole continent unrelated to anything going on right now.

I know, right?

There's very little time for a meaningful build up, which leads me to speculate that is either one of the following:

a) Something secondary triggered as a side-effect, from .5 (part1) to .55 (part2), of the void arc resolution, which will lead into the next story.

b) Something really simple, like for example, Krile asking you to acompany her to wherever that missive she got leads to, but in this case there's very little cliffhanger value on its own (as in, without the teaser we'll get this week).

[Powercow]

I know, right?

There's very little time for a meaningful build up, which leads me to speculate that is either one of the following:

a) Something secondary triggered as a side-effect, from .5 (part1) to .55 (part2), of the void arc resolution, which will lead into the next story.

b) Something really simple, like for example, Krile asking you to acompany her to wherever that missive she got leads to, but in this case there's very little cliffhanger value on its own (as in, without the teaser we'll get this week).

There was some off-handed mention before we went to confront Golbez about Thancred and... someone else, I forget who, getting some opportunity from a benefactor, and that would wait until the whole "voidsent apocalypse" thing was over. Very blink-and-you-miss-it.

(Also there's still that line about Thancred scouting the far east from 6.1 that's never been addressed. Dude hears we're on a quest to go unlock the secrets of dimension-hopping and he can meet his surrogate daughter again, and whatever was happening in Hingashi was apparently more important. I thought it might have been Mount Rokkon, but apparently not.)

I figure I'll find out on friday, but I still maintain the next expansion is going to be FFXIV: Chains of Promathia. Well, not called that, but take a lot of elements from that. Just a hunch I've had.

[Raikai]

I figure I'll find out on friday, but I still maintain the next expansion is going to be FFXIV: Chains of Promathia. Well, not called that, but take a lot of elements from that. Just a hunch I've had.

Not quite maybe... if they follow their reveal routine, we'll see 7.0, and just glimpses of new areas - which may just fuel speculation. I remember when ShB 1st trailer showed Thancred running with Ryne people thought it was some Thanalan ruins.

[Powercow]

Not quite maybe... if they follow their reveal routine, we'll see 7.0, and just glimpses of new areas - which may just fuel speculation. I remember when ShB 1st trailer showed Thancred running with Ryne people thought it was some Thanalan ruins.

Yeah, most of my speculation on that theory is... a bit loose, to be sure. Maybe a lot of wishful thinking. But it would fit a lot of what we've seen, would explain some choices about stuff they've shown off pre-and-post-Endwalker MSQ, and would fit the bill on the Yoshida's whole "you guys are gonna say, 'wow they went that far?!'" comment.

But yeah we'll likely get a title drop and some concept art for some zones, maybe an empty walkthrough of one of them. I'm not holding out hope for a trailer. But hey, an FFXI simp can dream, can't they?