Quote Originally Posted by Kazrah View Post
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I don't think this is the case as a normie like me was confused by the bait-and-switch the ruins in the Hinterlands became. That IS Sharlayan, but so is the homeland city that all Sharlayan people (save Matoya) migrated back to since Eorzea-Sharlayan saw the Garleans coming.

And Eorzea-Sharlayan was as much part of Eorzean trade and culture as Pre-Garlean Ala Mhigo had been before Sharlayan turned tail and ran when the Garleans told them diplomacy was never an option. (Which turned out to be kinda a big deal and made the precident on how Garleans deal with outsiders to Eorzea.)

There was nothing that I saw indicating Sharlayan referred to at least two entirely different places until HW. I likely just missed a few lines at some point, but I was pretty miffed to land in a dead city when the place had been talked up as hard as Ala Mhigo had.

But, wait, no, this WAS Sharlayan, but not the Sharlayan we came from, oh no.