Observation: Post- Impact, does Mor Dhona become a lush jungle?!

[Inzoum]

Proof?

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/about/...ties/mor-dhona

Picture is listed in the part of the ARR website describing the Mor Dhona region. Exact filename and location:
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/static...or-dana-01.jpg

This is as official as you can get. I don't know what more proof you want. Those maps are super old and it's likely they were revised during the development process. It's highly possible they decided to move the entire Behemoth area to Mor Dhona somewhere between then and now. Fact is this picture, today, is associated with Mor Dhona.

Also: "Jungle" does not exactly scream "harsh, desolate, devastated" to me. 5 years is a liiiiiiitle short for so much flora to reclaim a murky swamp area that was just scorched down by a gigantic dragon. That icy mountain scenery is a lot more fitting.

[Okazaki]

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/about/...ties/mor-dhona

Picture is listed in the part of the ARR website describing the Mor Dhona region. Exact filename and location:
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/static...or-dana-01.jpg

This is as official as you can get. I don't know what more proof you want. Those maps are super old and it's likely they were revised during the development process. It's highly possible they decided to move the entire Behemoth area to Mor Dhona somewhere between then and now. Fact is this picture, today, is associated with Mor Dhona.

Also: "Jungle" does not exactly scream "harsh, desolate, devastated" to me. 5 years is a liiiiiiitle short for so much flora to reclaim a murky swamp area that was just scorched down by a gigantic dragon. That icy mountain scenery is a lot more fitting.

^ this, its been on the site for a while now, and its the best information you can use untill any ARR story leaks out. If you look at the concept arts too that helps, there are a couple areas similar to or could be in coerthas(the trees are a dead give away), also covered in snow.



Also in the concept art are snowy areas covered in snow with crystal formations around, also a hint at mor dhonas new landscapes. Crystal tower is also in the backround if that wasnt enough.

[Zantetsuken]

This art IS Mor Dohna.

You can see the 1.0 style crystals sticking out of the cliffs on the right side.

It has become a crystalline landscape. (like Lake Bresha in FFXIII)

The snowy zones are in Coerthas (you can see small versions of the illustrations in the 2.0 concept art PDF, page 17)

[Aenarion]

This is as official as you can get. I don't know what more proof you want. Those maps are super old and it's likely they were revised during the development process. It's highly possible they decided to move the entire Behemoth area to Mor Dhona somewhere between then and now. Fact is this picture, today, is associated with Mor Dhona.

Super old? really? Also, already revised? just what fact are you basing your conjectures on?

It's equally possible that some guy simply picked a random old picture (behemoth) to throw up under Mor Dhona's section.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Super old? really? Also, already revised? just what fact are you basing your conjectures on?

It's equally possible that some guy simply picked a random old picture (behemoth) to throw up under Mor Dhona's section.

So... why is that Behemoth picture is under Mor Dhona section.... :|

[Aenarion]

So... why is that Behemoth picture is under Mor Dhona section.... :|

Could be an older picture, who knows. Point is that if a design document could be revised and be out of date, so can a pre-rendered picture. Personally I'd put more stock into the design document, it wouldn't be the first time (nor the last) that a picture gets posted in the wrong section of a website.

[Elexia]

Could be an older picture, who knows. Point is that if a design document could be revised and be out of date, so can a pre-rendered picture.

It was in multiple trailers.

[Aenarion]

It was in multiple trailers.

pretty sure there was no "THIS HERE IS MOR DHONA!!!" sign when it showed up in those trailers :P

[Inzoum]

Super old? really? Also, already revised? just what fact are you basing your conjectures on?

It's equally possible that some guy simply picked a random old picture (behemoth) to throw up under Mor Dhona's section.

This whole thread is just conjecture. Neither me nor OP has a solid "Mor Dhona is going to be like ___" to pull out of an official press release because such statements have not been made yet. We're all just guessing.

It's quite possible some web designer just slapped that picture on the website in that section like "we need 3 pictures at the bottom, only got 2 so I'll pick one I find cool, whatever". But if this had been in any way contradictory with the developers' intention or misleading in anyway, at some point or another it would have been removed or replaced. It's been there for a long while already.

The behemoth and icy mountain range are part of recent trailers, they're most certainly still of actuality. The map that was brought up is as old as the first roadmap and Version 2.0 announcement, that's like a year and a half ago and some designs most certainly have changed since (remember how they said at first that cities would be mostly unchanged and in the end they admitted that they ended up adding so much it changes them a lot? yeah....). It may have been part of Coerthas then, but moving an area in a MMORPG is as simple as changing where a zone line leads to. It could very well have moved to being part of Mor Dhona after all.

As for drastic landscape changes, take it with a grain of salt, other parts have changed as well. Camp Tranquil certainly didn't have any marshlands with Adamantoises in it, from what we've seen in the live letter, it does now.