Printing In Eorzea, and Linkpearl Recording

[subteraneanbird]

A large segment of the MS right before level 50 involves you setting up a way to disrupt Garlean communications to make your Castrum hijinks easier. It seems like EVERYONE uses them for communication, which makes me think they aren't Garlean exclusive. Could they have adapted them or enhanced them? Absolutely. But the base method seems identical.

[TinyRedLeaf]

Where is Eorzea in that technology? Renaissance era?

We have airships. Airships. The goblins also have tanks. And the Garleans are capable of deploying weapons of mass destruction.

I think it's fair to say that Eorzea enjoys many of the modern conveniences we do today, except transposed into fantasy, magical terms. Hence the Eorzean equivalent of our radios and telephones, the linkpearls.

But Reinassance-era "technology" would probably be a good guess as to where their printing capabilities are. Mind you, block printing was already common in Europe by the 1300s. The Gutenberg printing press was invented in the 1430s. Mass printing became common in the 1500s. This was also the time of Leonardo da Vinci, who, among other things, conjured up designs for airplanes and tanks.

So, yeah, I reckon Reinaissance Europe is as good an analogy for "present-day" Eorzea as any.

I'm more curious about the state of plumbing in Eorzea, actually. No toilets around. If we could smell the world, Eorzea would probably stink to the high heavens.

[Enkidoh]

I'm more curious about the state of plumbing in Eorzea, actually. No toilets around. If we could smell the world, Eorzea would probably stink to the high heavens.

Ironically there's a FATE in Southern Thanalan called 'Downwind' that actually deals with this - it mentioned that the residents of Little Ala Mhigo dig latrines outside the townsite for hygiene reasons and thus because they neglect to properly bury the waste, the resulting stench is then carried on the wind back into the town, and worse, attracts wildlife which make a nuisance of themselves (resulting in adventurers being called upon to cull the monsters). So yeah, indoor flush toilets I don't think exist in Eorzea (although it could also be this trope in effect.)

[Nialle]

Ironically there's a FATE in Southern Thanalan called 'Downwind' that actually deals with this - it mentioned that the residents of Little Ala Mhigo dig latrines outside the townsite for hygiene reasons and thus because they neglect to properly bury the waste, the resulting stench is then carried on the wind back into the town, and worse, attracts wildlife which make a nuisance of themselves (resulting in adventurers being called upon to cull the monsters). So yeah, indoor flush toilets I don't think exist in Eorzea (although it could also be this trope in effect.)

It could just be that way things are for Little Ala Mhigo, being basically a campsite in a cave without any other amenities of civilization (besides the Aetheryte, I mean). I'd be really shocked if none of the richies in Ul'dah have plumbing.

[Lukha]

We have tubs and fountains, though, so obviously there's some sort of plumbing in use. And don't all the inn rooms have doors leading off to the side? I assumed that was the bathroom.

[Diyne]

We also have aqueducts and such. That big long arch thing in Mist is an aqueduct, and apparently brings water to each house in the residential area. (At least, that's what is said in the artbook.) Privies have also been referenced a few times in different places. However, I'm not sure if those are outhouses, or actual toilets with plumbing.

As for the Garleans using linkpearls: It does not say that they use linkpearls in that MS questline. Cid simply says "Imperial forces communicate at a distance via electromagnetic waves. Simply put, voices are borne upon aetheric lightning energy that permeates the air." I think they might have some other form of magitek based communication device, moreso like a radio. (And maybe a bit more advanced than a linkpearl.)

[Enkidoh]

As for the Garleans using linkpearls: It does not say that they use linkpearls in that MS questline. Cid simply says "Imperial forces communicate at a distance via electromagnetic waves. Simply put, voices are borne upon aetheric lightning energy that permeates the air." I think they might have some other form of magitek based communication device, moreso like a radio. (And maybe a bit more advanced than a linkpearl.)

They do use linkpearls - 1.0 stated they were dropping them from airships to broadcast Imperial propaganda in version 1.0, and the scenes of Imperial soldiers communicating in ARR showed they had the exact same mobile phone-like tone that the player's own linkpearl had as well (not to mention Nero was clearly able to hack into the player's linkshell feed with Cid in the Praetorium, showing that the Garleans are intimately familiar with the technology). And linkpearl are radio devices - like radio they're prone to interference and signal drop outs.

[Dyvid]

I would say the industrial era. But then again it's hard to compare Earth with Eorzea but they use Aether as a power source which totally changes the law of physics.

[CGMidlander]

The linkpearl the player is given is probably not a real linkpearl, but rather an earpiece full of prerecorded messages of Minfilia telling them to go see her.