Quote Originally Posted by Turnintino View Post
This is kind of a funny conundrum in-game anyway, if you want to take the text at face value, because while it's true that character creation asserts (or at least very strongly suggests lol) that you're Eorzean, the text immediately asserts that you're a visiting outsider -- no matter where you go -- because character creation doesn't allow you to pick an origin, so the narrative can never reference it. Hell, it rarely acknowledges your race, even divorced from that context.
Yeah it's weird and a little inconsistent since they have to introduce new concepts to us and that's always easiest from the "outsider" POV.

But there's more of Eorzea than just the city-states. The party meant to mirror our own in the early ARR quests is from an unvisitable village in an unvisitable region in Abalathia's Spine. If this is meant to be a proper medieval world, the VAST majority of people do not live in the cities and instead live on farms in the countryside. We have to take a member of our Twelve (a religion that does not exist outside Eorzea) as our preferred deity in character creation, as well as Eorzea-only subraces like Midlander, Hellsguard, Wildwood, etc. In other expansions including this one, our character specifically is referred to as being "Eorzean". One place in Eorzea we specifically CAN'T be from though is Ishgard. The city has been closed for years until the events of HW and their Elezen subrace is different from the Gridanian ones.

Another thing that can only happen if we're Eorzean is summoner. The only way we're able to summon Bahamut and Phoenix is that our WoL was present in Eorzea during the Calamity and has bathed in the aether of both primals and I think the SMN quests mention that we were here during that time.

One thing I think I remember from my time in 1.0 though, is being referred to as coming from the "Old World" by my path companion, a name now applied to Old Sharlayan. Considering the Limsa Lominsa opening video has us arriving via boat with the twins and that city is made up of people from Eorzea who still have an Eorzean deity if at least in name only, that origin could be fairly likely.