Rasen Kaikyo

[Anonymoose]

Hingashi is the nation/archipelago, Koshu is just that island.

Correct. The uniting of the islands is a man-made convention, much like Aldenard and Vylbrand and the islands around them are united into the cultural realm of Eorzea. I was just pointing out that it feels odd to look at the map and see an atlas-style convention (Koshu as a landmass, Shishu as an island of the landmass of Koshu, Daitenzan as a region of Koshu on the same level as Shishu, and Hingashi unmentioned) while the map links are conventional (Hingashi, pinned to Shishu, which opens a map labeled Koshu).

For example, imagine the wiki pages for the atlas. You can't follow the DB structure, 4.0 is offset a tier of 2.0. Also, Hingashi is a cultural term. So you would need people to understand that when looking at the atlas for Kugane, the hierarchy would start at (not Shishu, not Hingashi, but) Koshu - a landmass with the subordinate island Shishu upon which is the city of Kugane.

I'm not sure if it's ever been presented that way; that while Hingashi is a nation, geologists would see Koshu on the Vylbrand level and Shishu on the La Noscea level. We'll just have to adapt!