Quote Originally Posted by Sounsyy View Post
Lea Monde is somewhere to the southeast of Rabanastre, in "Dalmasca Inferior," which is made up of Greylic's Bend and the Golmore Jungle regions. "Dalmasca Superior" is made up of the Dalmascan Desert (Westersands and Estersands).
From the quote you posted, if the "Superior" and "Inferior" labels were only imposed by the invading Garleans, then it makes sense that the Dalmascans themselves - and especially the Resistance! - are unwilling to use those labels. Either the map predates the invasion, or the mapmaker simply won't acknowledge the division.

On the choice of the label "Dalmasca" rather than "Rabanastre", it could be to do with what we 'normally call' the region politically. For the Eorzean cities we often talk about Gridania or Ul'dah as if the name represents the entirety of the Shroud or Thanalan. Dalmasca doesn't have the same oddity, and is correctly used to describe the country, while (from what little it's been discussed) Rabanastre only seems to refer specifically to the capital.

It's possible that the mapmaker (in-world or out) was thinking along these lines, equating the label "Dalmasca" with the city-name labels elsewhere on the map, and didn't realise the mistake until later. At which point, in-world at least, the map is 'done' and the error can't be fixed without making a mess of it.

It's possible we'll get a second-edition map with the name fixed, though!

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On a related note, is Doma supposed to be the capital of Yanxia?