Concern about the Aetherytes

[YianKutku]

I don't think it's just Cid and Nero (or at least, not anymore). The Imperial Outpost in Western Thanalan houses the teleportation device that leads to Castrum Marinum. We see a similar device in Doma that leads to the imperial outpost there. So Garlean Teleportation is a thing in the military at least.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that we see lots of examples of magitek teleportation in Garlean bases, but Cid and Nero somehow manage to create teleport points (or something akin to those, anyway) while cut off from Garlemald support. Cid at least has the Ironworks for logistics purposes, and Nero probably uses the same, but it does imply that magitek teleportation can be accomplished by civilian means, rather than purely military.

I'll be very interested in how they explain Aetherytes/Teleportation once we get to Garlemald.

Off the top of my head, there could be the handwave that the aetherytes are for the non-purebloods, and the teleport fees are the tax they have to pay for the government to maintain this parallel quick-travel network.

Or we could just be using Garlean magitek teleports, which happen to work exactly like aetherytes (including linking into the existing aetheryte networks we already have), just skinned differently. That might be a bit more trouble for the lore team to justify, though, so I think they'll just use aetherytes and say it's for non-purebloods.