World Map

[TinyRedLeaf]

Eorzea is slightly-broken Africa, but being the melting-pot Vanilla game world, the culture doesn't quite match up as well as the others.

Let me extend that metaphor further with my personal pet theory: Eorzea is the cradle of all intelligent life in Hydaelyn, the way Africa is the cradle of humanity on Earth.

At the very least, Eorzea would be the "source" of all life in Hydaelyn, being as it is the wellspring of the planet's aether. I like to think of Lake Silvertear as this planet's equivalent of Lake Victoria, one of Earth's largest freshwater lakes.

Which makes me wonder how ecosytems change, in lands so far away from Eorzea. We know that foreigners to Eorzea experience aether sickness when they first arrive to the realm, as their bodies take time to adjust to the higher concentrations of aether in the environment. While the breaking of the seal of Silvertear may well have caused vast amounts of aether to spill over, into lands as far away as Hingashi, it would still be common sense to assume that the levels of aether in these realms would be lower than those of Eorzea.

How does that affect magic, let alone all the fantastical beasts and beast tribes that roam these parts of the world?

[Caitlyn]

I made a quick "translation" of the current world map, but I m not finished yet. If someone find some errors or new names, please let me know ^^.

[Ghastly]

Looks great but you forgot Aerslaent, near that sea dragon in the north.
Here's a map I stole from another topic

[Caitlyn]

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Wow thanks. I found it pretty hard to name the different regions. Thank you for the map : )

EDIT: I found a mistake by myself. "Crown" instead of "Drown" ^^. But its definitely "Koshu" not "Roshu" (in my opinion).

[LineageRazor]

The Allagans probably have beautiful and thorough maps of what the world was like 5,000 years ago ... as far as our visible in-world experience goes, however, it's mysteriously never come up.

Also worth considering is that there's been a couple of Calamities since the Allagans (including the one that ended the Allagans). While Bahamut's pansy rampage may have colored our expectations a bit, Calamities are SUPPOSED to be pretty serious affairs, and may have actually caused some significant changes to the world map. Allagan maps may now be too wildly inaccurate to be useful.

Allagan maps may be a common collector's item - and utterly useless for any practical purpose. So, no one bothers to mention them. Rowena probably has a few stashed away.

[Anonymoose]

Let me extend that metaphor further with my personal pet theory: Eorzea is the cradle of all intelligent life in Hydaelyn, the way Africa is the cradle of humanity on Earth.

Well, you've got me on board!

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.

[Sounsyy]

Going to throw up my own translation of the map. I left the original Eorzean text alone because there’s a few place names I just can’t get a sure translation of even after squinting through a magnifying glass for four hours. I marked unsure translations with (?). “??? Sea” in northwestern Othard was the only place I just couldn’t make heads or tails of. My best guess was “-iprou Sea” but I didn’t feel confident enough to put it on the map. At this point I figure I’ll have to wait for my physical CE map to get here to take another stab at the unsure place names.

Some differences I saw between mine and the other maps posted here:
>I read "Naaxia" instead of "Nacxia" but I'm not sure which is right. It doesn't look like a C under my magnifying glass but it's hard to tell.
>"Daitenz" vs "Daitenzan," again not sure which is right but I can't make out any text after the Z that I could assuredly differentiate between artistic coastline wave drawings. I can kinda see what might look like an N, but it could also be waves?

[DroFrehter]

The thing that stood out most to me too was Genbu, Seiryu, Suzaku and Byakko on the Doma map. I hope you're right about them being in the Lands of Eureka!

[Caitlyn]

Some differences I saw between mine and the other maps posted here:
>I read "Naaxia" instead of "Nacxia" but I'm not sure which is right. It doesn't look like a C under my magnifying glass but it's hard to tell.
>"Daitenz" vs "Daitenzan," again not sure which is right but I can't make out any text after the Z that I could assuredly differentiate between artistic coastline wave drawings. I can kinda see what might look like an N, but it could also be waves?

Nice work.

Yeah, I found it pretty hard to identify the pixelated letters xD

"Naaxia" sounds a bit more correct to me. But I think "Daitenzan" is also right (because it sounds more asian-like than "Daitenz") ^^.

[DarthSanguine]

I made a quick "translation" of the current world map, but I m not finished yet. If someone find some errors or new names, please let me know ^^.

Only mistake I can see right now, is that you put Corvos instead of Dorvos.