Ask Questions to Main Scenario Writer Banri Oda

[faiarrow]

Time to bring back all my roegadyn questions because I really need lore and Oda is our roegadyn friend.

Will we ever learn more about the Abalathian Hinterlands and the amount of clans/tribes of hellsguard that live there speaking the old tongue? It seemed like it was more of a small footnote in the lore books, given we see next to no hellsguard in Dravania despite that it is also a part of Abalathia's Spine. If there are enough hellsguard there to have an established culture where they speak the old tongue that not even Aerslaent uses (to our knowledge) and can permanently reside there (meaning there is ample food and water,) why does other lore regarding the amount of hellsguard in Ul'dah contradict it by saying that many leave their ancestral home due to it not being hospitable/not enough food for the clans.

[faiarrow]

Though not used since 1.x to describe the hellsguard, where does the lohengarde name they originally were called come from? It isn't from the old tongue/ahldzoeng, as hell is hyll and guard is waht, and we have loh (cloth/clothes,) gara (skin,) and garr (choir) as our closest written and phonetic to lohen and garde in the current dictionary.

Given sea wolf can be actually translated into the old tongue (Merlwilf) with no contradictory name it just seems odd that this archaic but not retconned term has no match in current lexicon.

[faiarrow]

Will we ever see an expansion to the current roegadyn dictionary? At the moment fans are having to transliterate from german or protogerman to make new words or 'roega-fy' them because we've not seen any updates to it since it was first released. Additionally, if we have confirmation of clans still using the old tongue/ahldzoeng can we learn how sentence structure works, or priority of nouns/verbs/adjectives in spoken order?

It is just really frustrating that I can make sentences in dragonspeak but not this, and now the new beast tribe in ShB has their own language (fae) as well. We haven't had lexicon or further additions to their language since the dictionary went live for 2.0.

[Efrye]

The story of the A Realm Reborn main scenario starts off very slow, which can be off-putting for new players. Are there any plans to rework the beginning of the game to make it more engaging for newcomers?

[Theodric]

What are the naming conventions for Dalmascan Hyur?

[Temporal_Pheonix]

How come one of the time settings we get in-game is still Eorzea Time, even when we are in Othard or Hingashi? Since they are different countries, shouldn't they have a different in-game timezone? Or are we living in a flat-Hydaelyn planet rather than a spherical planet?

Also for inclusivity, shouldn't it be changed to Hydaelyn Time instead of Eorzea Time if they do live within the same timezone?

[Lauront]

Do you believe that the lore quest progression during the SMN quests, leading to the acquisition of the Bahamut-egi, poses a strong obstacle to being able to revise the job's ability set, and if not, how would you go about dealing with the existing lore if you opted to overhaul SMN in some way? E.g. extending the Demi-egi system more broadly and focusing on trances.

[Caelis]

Can we have Promyvion as the new Relic Weapon zone?

[SigMarti]

Will we ever get additional lore about the Scholar pet, Lily? With the upcoming references to the Fey, I'd be excited to learn more about how Scholars first communed with these beings.

[Merunari]

Stormblood presented us with an entire zone dedicated to Xaela lore (in both MSQ as well as quite literally all of the sidequests), whereas the only Raen lore we were given was limited to one little village at the bottom of the Ruby Sea. We know they were more willing to integrate and adapt to Othardian culture/society than their Xaela counterparts, but will we ever see more Raen specific lore? If not, are there any traditions the non Sui-no-Sato Raen kept that are unique to them despite having integrated into Othardian culture/society?