Ok so I thought we could discuss the story that happens before the character we make start the game. I am a little fuzzy but I will explain what I know, (or think I know) and you guys can all tell me if I am wrong or you can add stuff.

Ok so it seems that our biggest info comes from the opening movie. It seems like some adventurers from some city (I can't tell which) get together and want to battle the Marlboro. In the middle of the battle they are dragged into the fight with the imperials. The 1 main adventurer that we follow somehow manages to find himself in the imperial war plane. This makes me think that the adventurers are from the imperial nation. While on this ship the main adventurer we are following, sees a giant fight over Mor Dhora with a bunch of dragons (presumably summons). The biggest dragon (defiantly a summon) blows a big hole in the biggest imperial ship. After this the dragon's summon is over and splits apart. As it is doing this we see that this one summon was made up of many different summons (making me think that when they add summons to the game we may also be able to link our summons in order to create more powerful ones).

Now I am confused about who is fighting this battle. Looking at the map Mor Dhora seems to be in the direct center of all 4 cities (the 3 you can start in plus Ishgrad). Now Uldah, Limsa, and Gridania have not gotten into the fight yet according to the storyline once you start the game. So that leaves Ishgrad to summon the dragons (meaning Ishgrad will probably have a summoner's guild?) and fight of the empire. Once your player starts playing for a while you find out that this battle was lost and now the other 3 cities are scrambling to figure out what to do because they may be next...

If there is more info that I am missing please let me know but for now this is about all I have come up with. Tell me your guys' thoughts.