Politics

[Chasingstars]

Unless its some side content, the colonialism is probably going to be from in-fighting from the various peoples who have been experiencing peace, maybe some foreigner eorezans who are looking to make a quick buck. Like it would be a real kick the dog moment if evil npcs go after the Whalaqee's Lapis Canyon.

As that blue mage book in 6.55 might be a red herring, or it could be foreshadowing. Of a book talking about one of the natives to Tural, how this tribe of natives highly value nature, how they view the aforementioned Lapis Canyon as sacred when its just one giant ceruleum deposit.

And it wouldn't be the first time as in the 1-50 quests you do deal with that as a blue mage. But it will be much like the Bard (Song of Oblivion) or Dancer (Dance of the Damned) was for endwalker. And as a blue mage you also have to deal with a mining company that wants to use you as hired muscled. Follow with me as it will make sense.

After all ceruleum is a highly valued liquid found in the earth and its also highly flammable. Which would be equivalent to black oil in our world which is known as "black gold". So one could say that ceruleum is "blue gold". While I use the world gold here, I think its evident that the City of Gold is seperate from this and its Sector 9. So that what I am getting at here, is this location:

After all it looks like a boom town for a "blue gold" rush, with train tracks and ceruleum smoke stacks. Even a bar with eorezan writing, which we already know is distinctly foreign compared to the Tural writing.

After all if the story is about how one of Wuk Lamat's siblings is an ego-manical powerhungry dictator who wants the throne to go wage war with the desolated land of garlemald, what would be the reason other than revenge? Ceruleum and Garlean Tech. And what better way to show how bad a person is how they will exploit their own and land people to amass that kind of military might.

Or it could just be some eorezans who are entirely seperate from the plot, maybe greedy ul'dah lalafells from a mining company.