Thread: [4.4 Discussion] "The Reunion"

You really need to have watched the 1.0 cutscenes (they are on YouTube) to get what's going on between Cid and Giaus (and Nael). The answer is long and complicated and starts all the way back in Garlemald.

(Very) Long story short... Cid is really tired of people telling him what he should be working on. Mostly because he doesn't want to be designing weapons and that's what Garlemald wanted him to design. So he left Garlemald. Various people have wanted him back working for Garlemald ever since.

There has to be some aether for things to be surviving there as the 4.4 page says there are ferocious beasts that live there. Anyone not Garlean would understand why Cid left after how his father died.

Well I'd say the reunion at hand may bring joy, it may bring fear, but let us embrace whatever it brings.

i see what you did there

So the Burn is FFXIV's version of Borderlands, sounds fun.

Actually, I don't remember a setting like the Burn being used very often in FF games as a whole. The closest I can think of is the area around Midgard/Mako Reactors in FFVII. It's since to see FFXIV using a more original setting for once.

The Burn reminds me of the Great Salt Lake from FF8.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake

It would be interesting if just beyond this lake lays a technologically advanced city (Garlemald). Maybe they'll tie in the Lunatic Pandora as a means to get to the Moon (which was hinted at the end of HW as where the Ascians reside....so Lunar Subterrane 24-man dungeon in 5.0!!!)

Also, they would be remiss to make a zone like the Salt Lake and not include this as a boss:
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/A...l_Fantasy_VIII)

One of the "what if" scenarios I could always see Garlemald pulling off was becoming the FFXIV equivalent of Eshar. That is, instead of expanding their borders once they discovered magiteck, I could see them going the isolationist route and becoming that super advanced country that wanted nothing to do with everyone else's problems because they'd been dealing with every one else's problems for so long.

Actually... I could still see them going that route...

Originally Posted by ObsidianFire

One of the "what if" scenarios I could always see Garlemald pulling off was becoming the FFXIV equivalent of Eshar. That is, instead of expanding their borders once they discovered magiteck, I could see them going the isolationist route and becoming that super advanced country that wanted nothing to do with everyone else's problems because they'd been dealing with every one else's problems for so long.

Actually... I could still see them going that route...

That's Sharlayan, basically.

hmm if we would recognize its gaius from his voice whouldn't maybe also alphi cant remember if there was a scene where he heard him talk?