Quote Originally Posted by Wyssahtyn View Post
This is wrong. Drest's homeland was never mentioned by name in ARR and the most specific it got was in a postmoogle quest wherein it was mentioned that he was from a desert. He wasn't stated to be from Dalmasca until you do the completely asinine wine fetching quest to unlock Ridorana in Stormblood.
Instead Dalmasca was first mentioned in material regarding the rise of the Garlean Empire as one of the first nations to fall to the power of magitek, and existed in Southern Ilsabard, but this would later be retconned into Nhalmasque, so that the current Dalmasca could exist.