New area speculation for 1st expansion

[Hayward]

Just a speculation thread to guess at what new areas might be in store when an expansion is announced:

*Radz-at-Han. That oil isn't of the current regions we know about, so that may be a new region entirely.

*Ishgard and the rest of Coerthas. This might lead us into the introduction of Shiva given what we know about the change in climate from 1.0 to now.

*Ala Mihgo. Turning back the Garleans would certainly lead people to believe this area will become available.

[BlueMage]

I'm certain the other parts of Coerthas will be included in the first batch of new zones added come an expansion or whatever.

[Enkidoh]

Radz-at-Han isn't in Eorzea at all - I'm pretty sure it was stated as being on either Islabard or Othard, making it part of the Garlean Empire. As for the other two, it's more likely Ishgard will be the one opened up in the first expansion, given it's zone line already exists (and has existed in the game since 1.0), it has the most contact with the existing cities, and even Yoshi has stated in the past the city will be made accessible in the future.

Ala Mhigo on the other hand, is a Garlean fortress sealed off from the outside world, and has no physical zone connection to the current zones (a whole new zone will have to be added to join onto the East Shroud just to make it accessible. So Ishgard is far more likely at this stage to be accessible than Ala Mhigo.

[EdwinLi]

Sadly I doubt Radz-at-Han will be released in 1st expansion since it is located on another continent.

From this map and how 1st Expansion will be more focused on releasing the rest of Eorzea giving us access to all areas in Eorzea...



I'm expecting to see

- Sharlayan - since 2.1 story has set in motion events that will require us to go there to discover the fate of the Circle of Knowing since we have lost contact with them in 2.1.

- Ishgard - since we have been promised this place and that current Main storyline is building up to the opening of Ishgard's gates.

-Ala Mhigo- With all of Eorzea finally united in 1st expansion storyline we can finally make the final push to kick the Garlean Empire out of Eorzea and retake Ala Mhigo. The City-States have already claimed all Castrums in Eorzea and the Castrum guarding the path into Ala Mhigo is currently under the Twin Adder and Sylph ally control. Not to mention with Ala Mhigo being the last of the Garlean Strong Hold in Eorzea we may see a new Imperial Legatus appear in Eorzea to finish what Gaius started since we have proven to be a threat to the Garlean Empire with the defeat of Gaius Van Baelsar and his XIVth Legion.

From this point we may see 3.X main story build up to the path into the Northern Continent where the Garlean Empire and Far East (aka Radz-at-Han) is located while intorducing a few new City-States, Beast Tribes, and New Primals we have yet to meet.

[Enkidoh]

- Sharlayan - since 2.1 story has set in motion events that will require us to go there to discover the fate of the Circle of Knowing since we have lost contact with them in 2.1.

Actually the Circle of Knowing was just the name given to the Archons in 1.0. The group no longer exists as it was disbanded when the Archons joined up with Minfilia's guild of Echo-users the Path of the Twelve to form the Scions of the Seventh Dawn after the Calamity (because they had lost their leader Louisoix and decided they could help the city states better by allying with Echo users). But yes, contact with Sharlayan has been lost - from what I understand it was attacked by the Empire and destroyed. But nothing is known for sure other than contradictory dialogue in both 1.0 and ARR.

[EdwinLi]

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Well we will still need to go there due to Story reasons currently. The information we need about the White Acsian is currently located in the Circle of Knowing and it is mentioned by Minfillia that the place is heavy defended and only way to get past those defense would be the similar power the White Ascian has.

Also, it was not the Garleans that attacked the Circle of Knowing but the Acians. They may have placed spies in the Circle of Knowing with similar powers like the White Ascian which would explain how they got around the defenses and attacked the place directly from the inside.

Despite the change to become part of the Scions the Circle of Knowing still maintained their name and served as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn main headquarters and to provide information about ancient knowledge before it was attacked. They may exists in 2.0 now because of events during the 5 year gap between 1.0 and 2.0. 5 years is enough time to rebuild a place after all and from what Minfillia said it had quite the strong defense that was designed to hold back any invaders from the outside. However, the weakness in those defense was the inside of the Circle of Knowing.

[Naria]

Its the Students of Baldesion that have the info we need actually, but they are another Sharyalan organization. Unless its been stated elsewhere I'm not remembering, since Sharyalan the city-state has been abandoned, they might be located in the Sharyalan home land/island (with the same name different location). I wish they called the city "New Sharyalan" or something.

Abandoned or not, I would love to see the other city states though.

[Antanias]

I forgot the places that the Wandering Minstrel mentioned in 1.20b, but they sounded like awesome zone/region names.

[Norna]

I'm thinking something like...
First expansion: Ishgard + rest of Coerthas - Help the fight against the Dravanian Horde and the reappearance of the Coerthas Primals.
Second expansion: Sharlayan + Dravania - Help Ishgard end the Dravanian Horde attacks once and for all, freeing them up to helping with the Empire, and restore Sharlayan to its former glory.
Third expansion: Ala Mhigo + Gyr Abania - With Ishgard and Sharlayan in the Eorzean Alliance, we finally will have the firepower to take back Ala Mhigo.
Xelphatol and Paglth'an could be released in some major patches (they don't have large cities, and are more like Mor Dhona, so they should be quicker and easier to make, in theory at least, and would inject some freshness between the expansions) between first and second, and second and third, meaning that we'll have the whole of Eorzea by the third expansion.

[Phe]

*Ishgard and the rest of Coerthas.

Yea might be cool to finally get the 80% of Coerthas back that has been existing in 1.x already...