First of all, I made a huge effort to pay attention to the Seventh Astral Era storyline, but there came a point when the unnecessary fetch quests took a toll on me. I plan on going back to some cutscenes and perhaps quest logs, I just don't know when yet. So excuse me if anything I say here is explained during those events.

First, I noticed that the broken aetherytes around Sharlayan use the 1.0 design, same as the ones present in the maps. At first I thought the map icons were kept for convenience, but then I arrived in the hinterlands and started wondering what exactly happened. Is it that the fall of Dalamud broke every aetheryte and they had to be replaced by the ARR variant? Is that why the ones in Sharlayan are broken, or could that have happened prior to the fall of Dalamud? I'm curious bc Sharlayan suggests the ARR aetheryte designs were not just a choice made by the developers in order to improve the game quality, but rather has some lore purpose I'm not aware of.

Second is Midgardsdormr and his little chat with Tiamat. During that cutscene he specifically says he brought dragon eggs from another star--or as we know here on Earth, sun. Remembering FFV's introduction to the concept of multiple worlds, could it be that the dragons in FFXIV come from another FF planet? Now, I know many things are just the franchise's common places, but for Mid to say he comes from another star, it made me wonder.

Thx in advance!