Quote Originally Posted by LloydShade View Post
This is from FFXIV:ARR, and only from FFXIV:ARR. On the other hand, FFXIV apparently got build up for all these characters mentioned above. This means all the observations I made could have been significantly wrong. It feels like I'm playing a sequel, but it's not suppose to be a sequel.
Sorry to disappoint you, but storywise, ARR IS a sequel. The main plot of FFXIV was the Meteor Project mentionned a lot in ARR. As for the characters, FF XIV did have a proper introduction to most of them.

We saw the Grand Compagnies reform, the alliance being forged and the empire rising. Even Gaius was far better introduced in v1.