Quote Originally Posted by Kyan View Post
It has been a while since I played XI, but yes, I forgot it was man made bridges, hahaha. But I guess, what I was implying is the notion that people are saying the "three Great Continents" are physically connected in Hydaelyn without evidence, but that could be because of the expectation and familiarity of Vana'diel's middleland continents being physically connected.
The continents being connected by a land bridge comes from early marketing materials, before 1.0 was released I think. I'm sure someone with more resources readily available could give you a quote. I'm not sure if it's been mentioned since that (maybe at the 1.0 site it was?), but nothing since has contradicted that piece of info so there is no reason to stop thinking that that is how the continents are laid out.