Midgardsormr and the Airship in Mor Dhona!

[Catapult]

The geomancer in me is screaming at the contradictory map situation here...

[Duuude007]

The geomancer in me is screaming at the contradictory map situation here...

The Cartenau flats is an area west of the westernmost point players can reach in Northern thanalan.

In fact, based on the terrain, it has more in common with Mor Dhona.

Check this out:



The areas marked in black are explorable. That entire peninsula Marked in red, including the Cartenau flats we are unable to explore.

Based on the info we have, the green circle is where the battle took place, and the asterisk I marked as the location of the crashed airship in "Don't Hate the Messenger". Seeing that this is where the train of magitech for the final event stopped, further supports this likelihood.

I hope that makes things a bit clearer. It is likely the GC commanders were all up top near that Garlean crate to observe the skirmish during the cutscene.

[Catapult]

The Cartenau flats is an area west of the westernmost point players can reach in Northern thanalan.

In fact, based on the terrain, it has more in common with Mor Dhona.

Check this out:



The areas marked in black are explorable. That entire peninsula Marked in red, including the Cartenau flats we are unable to explore.

Based on the info we have, the green circle is where the battle took place, and the asterisk I marked as the location of the crashed airship in "Don't Hate the Messenger". Seeing that this is where the train of magitech for the final event stopped, further supports this likelihood.

I hope that makes things a bit clearer. It is likely the GC commanders were all up top near that Garlean crate to observe the skirmish during the cutscene.

I should probably explain better...



I'm being generous with how much space the Mor Dhona Map takes up on the Eorzea Map - it more likely sits wholly inside the crater, but I believe this better articulates the layout. The red star shows where the Garlean airship crashed.

If the effort was centered at Cartenau Flats, why the bloody hells were we a whole bloody mountain range away from the action during those last few hours?

((I'm calling it now: map limitations and a need to put the battle somewhere in-game. Hence why my geo-sense is screaming.))

[Anonymoose]

If the effort was centered at Cartenau Flats, why the bloody hells were we a whole bloody mountain range away from the action during those last few hours?

I was under the impression that we were trying to intercept the forces leaving Castrum Novum before they were able to get to Cartenau, where our GC leaders were holding the front lines. In the grand total of 10 minutes of that 2 hours the servers were up, I followed the action from the Castrum to the south and west, so I figured that's where they were headed.

Maybe there were some clues in the dialogue that mostly happened while we were offline, lol.

But, yes, you're right - the battle had to happen somewhere we could go.