Quote Originally Posted by EdwinLi View Post
I am talking about a Future expansion after 7.0. Not the 7.0 expansion being about the stranded Garleans left in the New World when Garlemald fell..

With so much of the New World we have not access to yet, they can easily focus each section or two of the New World for each expansion which we do know among them do have Garleans left stranded there after Garlemald fell. This open up one of expansion in the future to be maybe FF7 themed in a way if a certain region already gone through massive Garlean Influence before events of FF14.
Again- why do that anywhere in the New World when you have the rest of Ilsabard who has had confirmed decades under Garlean imperial rule? People are already upset that we skipped over those regions due to not wanting to rehash a previous expansion. There is no reason that excludes not to have 8.0 going to North Tural and encountering a cerulean-based diselpunk society for more Shinra - or returning to Ilsabard where there's guaranteed Garleans - but putting the Garleans in the New World creates an unnecessary duplication when CBU3 has already shown leeriness of that before after SB.

And frankly as a fan of the Seanchan from Wheel of Time, the germ of this concept is fine with me- but also like the Seanchan I would want a few centuries of separation before the Returners invade or at least long enough for a syncretic culture to have formed. Which is why I could see that direction going for an unexpected take on Meracydia, where stranded Allagan conquerors survived.