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[SIZE="5"]Ishgard + Coerthas[/SIZE]
Location: Center-West Aldenard
Guardian Deity: Halone, the fury, mover of glaciers and goddess of war
Political Structure: Theocracy / Holy See (soure: Ermiance)
Leaders: His Holiness, The Archbishop
Economy: Trade with various regions, used to trade a lot more and in various goods including beasts for Ul'dah's Coliseum
Military: Holy Knights

-The Archbishop has closed off Ishgard and is only allowing holy knights to go in and out
source: Odeve

-The gates to the city of Ishgard are called the Gates of Judgement
source: Odeve

-No single person can defeat a dragon by themselves
source: Emerissel

-Citizens believe that those are killed by dragons are granted a special place in Halone's heaven
source: Elde

-Those who do not believe in the fury are not welcome in the Arshibishop's lands
source: Janlenoux

-The waters of Ashpool and Banepool are tainted by the dragons and thus poison man and beast if they drink it
source: Patrick

-Dragons tend to attack airships that pass by
source: Heat of the Moment Faction Leve

-Those living in Falcon's nest do not like outsiders or unbelievers
source: Armantel

-The Archbishop summons those from Falcon's Nest to fight the dragons, and they end up dying doing so
source: Quenburga

-It is the Archbishop's law that you can't look in a dragons eyes, you can't listen to the words of a dragon, and you can't touch the flesh or blood of a dragon.
source: Hubairtien

-Poachers defy the Archbishops edicts and have laid many hunters traps throughout the mountains which have been forgotten about
source: Rickeman

-Ishgardian nobles often go hunting for fox or deer on their chocobos
source: Gaetelle

-The airship landing between the Coerthas and Swiftrun rivers is a favourite target of the dragons from Dravania. Knights were sent to defend it but it didn't help much, so less and less pilots have been willing to land there
source: Ermiance

- The imperials believe that the fury disapproves of those who won't fight the dragons for her. They say she would deem them "as traitorous as the First Dragons"
source: Loloma

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-Imperial's are known to attack whoever they like and "re-educate" anyone that thinks differently from them.
source: Baderon, limsa opening inn scene

-Empires airships create tremors in the Twelveswood as the fly above
source: Khuma Moshroca, 'Seeing the Seers' quest

**-Imperials have committed unprovoked attacks on Ul'dah's passenger airships bringing one down (shooting it with a battle cruiser) in Thanalan. Garlean operatives may then have scavenged the wreckage.
source: 'Quid Pro Quo' quest + Blandhem
-further, the Ul'dah soldiers at camp Black Brush hurried to ships wreckage but there were no survivors
source: Chechedoba

**-Imperials have been damaging the twelveswood, defiling trees and such. They don't seem to have much care about destroying the forest and don't really seem to get the woodsin thing.
source: 'Scrubbing the Soul' quest

**-Imperial operatives have been chilling in the La Noscea region

**-The Empire has a keen interest in preventing the best engineers, machinists and technologists from leaving their lands. Many of these born in Garlemald flee to Eorzea through Ala Mihgo seeking asylm.
source: Mestonnaux, 'Scrubbing the Soul' quest

-Garlemald trading vessels do visit cities like Limsa Lominsa
source: Lilina

-Rumors that the Empire is planning an attack on the primals which they call eikons and which they believe to be nothing more than lesser demons posing as false gods
source: Lauda

-Imperials have attacked and killed people within the Twelveswood
source: Tseh Panipahr
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General Lore / History / Miscellaneous
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-Aetheryte's are known to break and there is no one in Eorzea that is capable or restoring them once they do
source: Lulumo

-The Allagan Empire spanned across all of Eorzea (maybe further) some 1000 years ago.
source: Rowena

-The Allagan Empire created small round stones with symbols of the Twelve now known as ruinstones. These are being collected through Rowena for a noble in Ishgard.
source: Rowena

-Those caught in the falling star incident in the opening scene of the game are rumoured to have been cursed
source: Kiroa

-Rumours going around that those who saw the starshower in the opening scene are going missing
source: Maunie

-Rumours that those in the area where the falling stars from the beginning of the game fell got turned into sludge.
source: Anene

-There have been 6 umbral eras in the past, but no books detail when then 7th one would be
source: Rosalind

-The ferry between Thanalan and La Noscea was docked for some time and has recently just started running again. -All- ferry routes had been closed on order of the Admiral of Limsa, due to a Sahagin threat (they sunk a ferry ). However the Knights of the Barracuda neutralized it and officially deemed it safe for the lines to be reopened.
source: Sylviel, Lorhzant, Gert