Shadowbringers and Ivalice

[YianKutku]

So is the new expansion going to take place in Ivalice? Maybe Ivalice and Garlean empire

Impossible to be both at the same time, because the Garlean Empire is a thing now, while Ivalice is an ancient lost kingdom, and the two do not exist in the same timeframe.

However, if time travel is going to be a thing in this expansion, then who knows.

[silentwindfr]

the best guess is for the orient we will explore dalmasca and try to stop whatever gabranth want to do with the remain of goug. while we go to the world of light for stop the 8th calamity to happend, for the west maybe more place between the empire and eorzea, but don't expect us to reach the empire we are stil super far.

[DarthSanguine]

So is the new expansion going to take place in Ivalice? Maybe Ivalice and Garlean empire

Ivalice doesn't exist any more - it's a nation from an unknown past Astral Era. The nation that now exists in its former territories is Dalmasca, which is part of the Garlean Empire.

[DarthSanguine]

the best guess is for the orient we will explore dalmasca and try to stop whatever gabranth want to do with the remain of goug. while we go to the world of light for stop the 8th calamity to happend, for the west maybe more place between the empire and eorzea, but don't expect us to reach the empire we are stil super far.

There is no between the Empire and Eorzea, the two border each other.

[Bright-Flower]

I'm thinking we'll see some form of continuation of the RTI story in the form of Fran's group and whatever was found in Goug, but I think the game is done with ancient Ivalice.

If we do end up going to another shard or something, my guess is that the expansion will be part western Othard dealing with that region, the Viera etc, and one part time travel or other shard or whatever. And the keynote teasing has me guessing that the main city will be Radz-at-han with Dancer as the second job, but we'll see in March what the city and job are for sure.

[silentwindfr]

There is no between the Empire and Eorzea, the two border each other.

can i be means? tell me yes....well i will be:



here the world map, you can see the empire is in middle of the cloud, we are kinda far of it....
if that was the only thing left to explore, yes, we will be able to go to it.... however, it's not case, worst, what we learn from the story don't tell us about going after the empire.... the empire is kinda pointed like the dark side of our world... why we will need to become a warrior of darkness, the empire is not the light....

[Daralii]

can i be means? tell me yes....well i will be:



here the world map, you can see the empire is in middle of the cloud, we are kinda far of it....
if that was the only thing left to explore, yes, we will be able to go to it.... however, it's not case, worst, what we learn from the story don't tell us about going after the empire.... the empire is kinda pointed like the dark side of our world... why we will need to become a warrior of darkness, the empire is not the light....

The capital city of Garlemald is in the middle of the cloud. What he means is that everything within that cloud is Imperial territory, either other Garlean cities or conquered nations.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

I do not think we are going to visit the empire right away...

*Yoshida releases full trailer and we are in the palace room killing Varis while the capital burns as the alliances win*

But maybe we are like, taking care of all the "provinces", as far as we know the empire is pretty much Rome and Rome fell exactly because it began to lost cohesion towards the provinces, we've seen deserters all the time from imperial legions and damn, even rogue ex-legatuses. I think this expansion will be the pave road towards the central part of Garlemald while uncovering maybe all the southern regions of Ilsabard and Western Othard. Maybe finally visiting Thavnair, Nagxia, Dalmasca, and going further north of there into the Southern Provinces. The other route would be through Ghimlyt Dark and east-northeast, probably the fastest yet more heavily defended road towards Rome/Garlemald.

All that assuming we are visiting those regions in OUR reflection, as time/dimensional travel has been pretty much confirmed. We might be going to "re-visit" our regions, or regions inside our explored geography that we have yet to see in game properly. I do know the regions showcased seemed pretty alien to me, that or they were displaying a few tech upgrades to their graphics, i gotta yet to see them in detail though. Also i don't have the encyclopedias cause my country sucks and probably those regions are already know both in location and maybe even dimension.

[silentwindfr]

it's not time travel and that thanks to yoshida that we know it... while the keynote they did admit that Rak'tika greatwood was the house of the viera.... but! we know that the forest from where are coming the viera of dalmasca is called Golmore jungle!

a good map of dalmsca area:

in this map, we have no rak'tika greatwoord.... means it's possible it's the name of golmore jungle in another shard, like the first shard that is satured of light and more need a warrior of darkness than a warrior of light for stop the 8th calamity!

[Iscah]

it's not time travel and that thanks to yoshida that we know it... while the keynote they did admit that Rak'tika greatwood was the house of the viera.... but! we know that the forest from where are coming the viera of dalmasca is called Golmore jungle!

in this map, we have no rak'tika greatwoord.... means it's possible it's the name of golmore jungle in another shard, like the first shard that is satured of light and more need a warrior of darkness than a warrior of light for stop the 8th calamity!

I also watched the keynote and live letter. Where did they say it's not time travel? Or are you just saying that because you've concluded that the forests must be alternate versions of each other?

Just because we know one forested area is called the Golmore Jungle, doesn't mean that the Rak'tika Greatwood can't exist elsewhere.

From memory, the Dramaturge said that one clan of Viera live in the jungle, and the other in more temperate forest (further north?). It's quite possible that the Greatwood is the home of this second clan.