[Loremonger] 1.X Lominsan Story Arc

[Catapult]

Easter vacation done. Back to business...

I'm gonna focus on the Limsa stuff for now. I might get into the aether/primals stuff in a different thread.

The French text does not imply that Carvallain was the imprisioned captain of the ship in Shapeless Melody. Rather, when combined with the German and English text, it suggests that Stahlmann is trying to tie the Misery's captain to a smuggling operation (a form of piracy) conducted aboard this supposed passenger ship. But to do so, he needs to extract a connection to Carvallain out of the ship's one-eyed capatin. That captain may or may not be Hylfyrr - being one-eyed isn't a physical feature we can tie to a single pirate, conspiracies notwithstanding.

If Stahlmann can tie Carvallain to a crime, he has an easier justification to arrest the silver-tongued captain, who is having a nice time aboard the Astalicia, unafriad of the Authorities. In the end, I guess he gets an opportunity when Emerick is rumbled.

Also, I can "run a tight ship" in a business, or in my house. The figure of speech could be considered appropriate to Carvallain's operations rather than explicitly the Astalicia, or the Misery. In fact, Stahlmann could even be referring explicitly to Carvallain's smuggling operation that he has seemed unable to crack. It is also possible Carvallain controls more than one ship. Those two clearly have no love for each other.

Fishbacks:
I'm sure how confortable I am reading stuff in to this 5-year thing. We're talking about a race of aquatic beastmen rather than typical land-rovers. The Sahagin may have had very different reasons to become more active around Limsa in the 5 preceding years. We also have to remember that we've got an ascian posing as a fishback (sahagin-affiliated landlubber) and that throws another spanner in any assumptions we make about them.

Questions:
Can someone tell me if Carvallain ever appeared aboard the Astalicia outside of echos? I'm thinking about occurances in the Pugulist quests etc (I never watched those properly).
Also, are all the references to the Astalicia being the name of the ship docked exclusive to the present time or inside the echo as well? I've got this tingling sensation we might be ship-jumping to the Misery down at those docks as we echo-jump and this would open a whole new can of worms. Please quash this suspicion if you have evidnce handy.