Meracydia/Miqo'te/Azys La speculations (spoilers)

[Daralii]

the new world is othard right? i mean, technicly it would be there no? but to be honest i never heard it being called as that.

It's very loosely modeled on Earth's geography as far as I know. Eorzea is west Europe and the Sahara, Illsabard is east Europe, Othard is Asia, the New World is the Americas. Meracydia would be sub-Saharan Africa I guess.

[Anonymoose]

It's very loosely modeled on Earth's geography as far as I know. Eorzea is west Europe and the Sahara, Illsabard is east Europe, Othard is Asia, the New World is the Americas. Meracydia would be sub-Saharan Africa I guess.

Correct. We're missing the chunk of "Asia" where we'd find Othard. We've got from Europe up to about the beginning of Russia as far as Ilsabard is concerned. Meracydia seems to be the southern half of Africa but broken off, while Thavnair seems to be the area formerly comprising the Ottoman Empire, but similarly broken off into its own island.

I'm also not ready to accept it as coincidence that Silvertear Lake is not far from the area of Africa we'd call the Cradle of Life.

[jomoru]

Theoretically, yeah. I used every single resource released so far (in-game, Lodestone, trailers, website, Reddit posts) detailing map positions and coastlines to make an as-of-today map of Hydaelyn. I'm up to about 50% of the sphere's surface.

I think Isalbard is further north, I know one of the many inspirations of the Eorzea/garlean situation is Greece and Persia.

[Anonymoose]

I think Isalbard is further north

I think it's an effect of the globe being projected on a flat surface instead of a sphere. If you wrap it back around half the globe, that line across the top of Eorzea and Islabard is a lot less horizontal. Ever seen one of those world maps where Antarctica is a horizontal behemoth across the bottom of the entire planet? I think it's like that, because I didn't do much guesswork on the coastlines - I did, however, trace them from an image that had been subjected to a lot of sharpness, brightness, and contrast editing, so some of the lines could be slightly off, as well, lol.

[Kyan]

I'm dumb and made a silly mistake

[fireslash]

in the ending u can see the planet of eorzea


it seems that the dev team has the whole plant map

that i can speculate

[WyrahFhurrst]

in the ending u can see the planet of eorzea


it seems that the dev team has the whole plant map

that i can speculate

That's a maybe. We don't see quite a lot of the map, so they may have left it dark so they have wiggle room.

Also, it's either the planet of Hydaelyn, or continent of Eorzea.

[treuhavik]

Also, it's either the planet of Hydaelyn, or continent of Eorzea.

Technically, lol, It's the planet Hydaelyn, continent Aldenard and realm/region of the the three city-states that is named Eorzea.

[myahele]

After doing Qarn repeatedly to level up my AST, I started noticing similarites between Qarn architecture with that of The Cathedral in Azys Lla. While the masonry is similar, the most important part, aside from Azeyma's symbol, are the smaller design imprinted on the stone:


The glyphs to the right:

[-Krypyonite-]

yeah and not only that, the border of the wall (dont know the name in english) has the same pattern but well, anonymoose had already said that in the first pages of the thread, but thanks for the pictures!