Why we pay for aetherythes

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Support what community? We have moogles that spend their time protecting whatever is left of their home from Nidhogg's brood and don't have time to meddle with gil while Ayzs Lla has been desolate for hundreds of years.

[myahele]

Support what community? We have moogles that spend their time protecting whatever is left of their home from Nidhogg's brood and don't have time to meddle with gil while Ayzs Lla has been desolate for hundreds of years.

My thoughts, exactly. Up until recently (game time-line wise), Moogles in Churning Mists never dealt with the outside world and just focused on repairing/ maintaining Hraesvalgr's domain as part of their covenant with him. Things have changed once Ishgardians have set foot there and are now helping Moogles rebuild.

Anyx Trine ... there's really no reason other than maybe they like how gil look (shiny)?

[FaizeD]

One reason is to cover restoration/maintenance costs but the other would be for $$$ profit. These monetarists don't go around rebuilding things out of the kindness of their hearts. If you're going to invest in going to the middle of nowhere to establish transportation you're going to want to make bank long term, not just break even. Especially if it's a useful service for adventurers and you have zero competition. I mean, there's a reason they're "wealthy"

The non-lore reason is to remove gil from circulation to prevent inflation.

[Enkidoh]

My thoughts, exactly. Up until recently (game time-line wise), Moogles in Churning Mists never dealt with the outside world and just focused on repairing/ maintaining Hraesvalgr's domain as part of their covenant with him. Things have changed once Ishgardians have set foot there and are now helping Moogles rebuild.

Anyx Trine ... there's really no reason other than maybe they like how gil look (shiny)?

Except the group that set foot there was not entirely Ishgardian after all, only Ysayle and Estinein were. There was a Sharalyan youth (Alphinaud), a person of unknown origin/homeland (the Warrior of Light/the player), and three Gridanians (Kan-E-Senna and her Serpentguard), not including a Twelveswood moogle (Kuplo-Kop). So therefore given the fact that it was technically Gridania who made direct contact with the moogles of Moghome and not Ishgard, it could be kind of handwaved away that before she returned to Gridania Kan-E established some kind of permanent diplomatic tie between the two nations, which would explain the fees paid to the moogles for using the local aetheryte. But maybe I'm just grabbing at straws here.

Anyx Trine's one could also be explained away by hunters from Tailfeather collecting the tolls... but given the dragons who inhabit the place seem to be understandably wary of spoken intruding into their sanctuary, that's a real stretch.

Finally payment for the Azys Lla aetheryte fees could have a mundane explanation which has ironically nothing to do with Allag - as soon as you first arrive in Azys Lla, Cid explains that he has immediately set up an Ironworks airship route back to Ishgard (symbolized by an Ironworks standard at the end of the dock in Helix) in case you "need to return quickly for supplies" - taking that further whose to say he hasn't stationed an Ironworks employee nearby the aetheryte to collect a toll? But again, that's really stretching logic I think.

[myahele]

SNIP

Lol yeah I completely forgot about Gridania involvement

[Sovi]

Could it just be programmed into the crystal from its original installation? Like a toll both or the lift gate at a parking garage. I put in my money it lets me pass even if un-manned. Maybe no one collects the Gil, Maybe it's all just been piling up in some store room under the crystal with the skeletons of those that once processed Eorzea passport and porting permits...

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Could it just be programmed into the crystal from its original installation? Like a toll both or the lift gate at a parking garage. I put in my money it lets me pass even if un-manned. Maybe no one collects the Gil, Maybe it's all just been piling up in some store room under the crystal with the skeletons of those that once processed Eorzea passport and porting permits...

How would that work? How does an aetheryte go through our pockets to take gil? As far as I know, someone had posted in the Lore forum not too long ago that NPCs take our gil before we're allowed to teleport (in the general areas before 3.0), but we don't see it for the sake of keeping the game moving. We also know in game that the aetherytes were rebuilt thanks to the wealthy merchants from Ul'dah and we're all paying them back every time we use the things. This wouldn't apply in areas where there hasn't been civilization for eons or in areas where the current residents don't have a use for gil (such as dragons).

[Kaiser-Ace]

I think they are taking our Gil when we arrive. The Gil doesn't deduct till after Teleport is cast. And Return doesn't cost us at all.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Who are "they"? In regards to the ancient and desolate areas we teleport to in 3.0.

[Eul]

Even it's about maintenance, I don't even see any NPC that using Aetheryte for teleport. So we pay for who? Hydaelyn?