I was watching the Heavensward opening cutscene last night and this caught my eye. In the screen grab below it looks as if Ishgard is missing the bridge (Steps of Faith?) and Gates of Judgement completely. Has there been any talk of them retracting it ever?



This thread (here) shows some different pictures of the bridge. Keeping in mind that this is a CG animation version of the area and would be better detailed, I can't imagine they would leave it out accidently.

I have to assume that this is the side of Ishgard we always see as the lower left looks t be the entrance to the city, so where is the bridge? Did it fall down or retract? Could the reason we don't see the floating islands be because Ishgard has up and moved somewhere else a bit more north? I mean the structural integrity never seemed to be there looking at the bottom of the whole dang place. Another point of interest is the tower/pillar on the right side of the city, it's just kind of floating there not really attached by anything. I can't even begin to figure out how they would show this in game to people before HW and those who are into the new part of the story.

What are your thoughts?