An aether-what?

[Rognis]

If that's true, it would of been fun if SE made a tally of all the gil gathered at each teleport node just to see how often/how much "profit" the nations have gained from those active teleports.

This needs to be done. My curiosity needs to be quenched.

[Anonymoose]

I'd be surprised if they don't track it; currency sinks usually are monitored, after all... but, what would we do with this knowledge other than accuse them of gross embezzlement after millions of gil don't even result in a cappuccino machine?

[Enkidoh]

I'm actually wondering if SE actually is considering eventually restoring anima use for teleporting some day down the track, given the fact that the aetheryte guards explicitly mention it even though it no longer serves a gameplay function like it did in 1.0.

Maybe eventually there could be some event in the future where the aetheryte restoration debt the three nations have is finally considered paid off and an option is given to adventurers from then on to use anima or gil to teleport, with the gil cost increased to compensate. Or maybe I'm just flapping my gums here.

[Lecan]

Forget about the lottery. What about free healthcare?

Wait, I should have been charging for healthcare this whole time?

[BobbinT]

No you're not. You should be paying SE for lending you the ability for it. lol

[Anonymoose]

HOLY NECROBUMP.

A deserved one, however. I've been going through a lot of my notes from the ancient year of 2010 out of fear that this whole "archiving of the old Lodestone" business might push all the art and lore in the old topics beyond my reach, and I came across something...

We know that many of the post-Calamity aetheryte camps were re-built using Sharlayan technology...

Aetherytes are colossal structures comprised of crystallized aether. So that they may serve as waypoints for aetherial travel, these crystals have been amplified through the use of advanced Sharlayan technology.

However, these crystals are quite different than the ones from Version 1.0, and I just came across this:

Aetheryte is the name given to massive shards of crystallized aetheric mist, precisely cut and fused to arcane machinery. While it is not known when or by whom these devices were originally constructed, their teleportational qualities have become the backbone of everyday transportation throughout the realm, with most managed and operated by individual city-states. Their existence in Eorzea seems to be what drew scores of people to settle in the hostile land in the first place.

Lore released around the same time also talks about the original arrival of settlers in Eorzea:

Countless moons have waxed and waned since wandering tribes from across Hydaelyn first arrived in Eorzea and settled its untamed lands. The benevolent deities who ruled the empty continent and its surrounding islands were impressed with the resilience of these primitive men and women, and in an act of mercy each saw fit to ensure their welfare.

A wrench in the Ancient Allag theory?

Then again, I don't know about Gods that need to build aetheryte camps to get around...

Hmmm...

[Magis]

Question, from someone who didn't play far into 1.0.

How common was Allag tech in the original storyline? It seems it's used everywhere as a crutch in 2.0.

[Anonymoose]

How common was Allag tech in the original storyline?

Very rare until the guy whose family was descended from the Allag showed up.

At first we only had a road that was built by them (Royal Allagan Sunway/Starway) and a levequest centered on reclaiming for some archaeologists Allagan coins minted in the Third Astral Era. A few months later, on NM runs, we started to come across Allagan runestones that had the symbols of the Twelve carved into them. Then nothing for a while... in Eorzea, anyway. Back in Garlemald, House Darnus had been using their family's secrets to resurrect the use of Magitek without the Magi part for use by the magically inept Garleans for a few decades.

When Nael killed his father and took the war to Eorzea under Bahamut's puppet strings, he started unearthing a lot of the long-buried Allag ruins looking for tomestones filled with the information he'd need to finish his project - between those unearthings and the ones pushed up by the Calamity messing with our geological landscape, the Allag remains are a lot more visible.

I mean, a hundred years ago, the Allag were just a myth to most Eorzeans when an archaeologist named Coinach proved they existed. Between then and Darnus showing up, we mostly just had coins and runestones, and those who knew of the Allag greedily hoarded those.