Thread: Hengr's Crucible: The most obscure 1.0 reference?

Koji (aka Fernehalwes on the forums) stopped by the Heavensward play area while I was testing out the Sea of Clouds at E3 and I let him know that I noticed this, as well. He was stoked that two or three of us caught such an obscure reference; even some of the developers forgot something that old and unused, lol.

It is indeed the same name as in 1.0; he wanted to use some old names that never came back; it's meant to really drive home the idea that all of this was torn from Coerthas itself (by wind crystals gone wild). I'm not sure we're meant to look deeper into it than that, but, like you, I was curious about the timing. Laniaitte says that Ishgard started exploring the Sea of Clouds several years ago (Greater than five? Less than five?). But the Vanu have clearly been here much longer, which implies that there was a place for them to be. So did Hengr's Crucible rise later? Has part of it been down there and part of it up here the whole time? Does it make any difference?

Either way, Hengr is a figure from Ishgardian fairy tales, a witch whose cauldron was said to look like the landmark.

If what's left in Coerthas looks like a couldron, the part in the Sea of Clouds might be the hollow that was ripped out of it to make that shape. The island in the clouds looks like it, too, on the map, though, so who knows. Maybe it's cauldrons all the way down if you tilt your head and squint right.

You can visit it for an entry in the new Sightseeing Log.