Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
Technically Radz-at-Han is the "Eulmore" zone, according to the devs. Specifically, it's the "small city" zone, ie the one with the endgame currency exchanges, serving the same purpose as Eulmore, Rhalgr's Reach, and Idyllshire.

Having said that, generally the "small city" zones don't have marketboards (which are the domain of the "big city" zones), but that would feel really weird for Radz-at-Han, the centre of trade on Three Great Continents.

So honestly I agree that Radz-at-Han should feel more like the "big city" zone with the marketboards, and Sharlayan, with their cutting-edge researches, would fit Rowena's entrepreneurship for the endgame currency House Of Splendours in the "small city".



Technically the aetherytes in the Far East were constructed by the Onishishu. (Who call them "tenkonto", but that's semantics.) And then there are the "wild" aetherytes, as well as the ones from Allagan times.

My point was the shape of the aetherytes, which are definitely based on Sharlayan aesthetics in the screenshot. "Wild"/"natural" aetherytes are pointy spiky crystals, and the usual aetherytes we see in Eorzea are diamond-shaped (geometrical kites) that resemble those, but slightly smoothed. The Far Eastern tenkonto are also vaguely kite-shaped, but with further embellishments and smoothing and additional curves.

And Allagan aetherytes come in various shapes (Doylistically due to different designs across the years and expansions), but according to the second lorebook, the one the Sharlayans found and studied for their aetheryte network looks more like a crystalline USB. (Like the Ragnarok Internment Hulk from Dalamud, but shrunk down and truncated to look more like a tomestone.)

So the point is the shape of the aetheryte clearly doesn't have much of an effect on the function, and Sharlayan's nautilus-spiral aetheryte design is based on their worship of Thaliak (or descent from Amaurot, depending on speculation). This nautilus design of aetheryte is seen in that Thavnair screenshot, and is not anything like the more "regular" pointy kite shape of the aetheryte we saw indoors in a previous Radz-at-Han screenshot, so it can't be a "Thavnair-style" aetheryte either.

Therefore, the aetheryte is specifically Sharlayan-style, rather than merely Sharlayan-constructed. And I was wondering why.
I think you answered your own question. Why would both of these Island nations have an aetheryte based on Thaliak worship? Because Thaliak is the god of water.