Quote Originally Posted by Gramul View Post
Kinda makes me wonder if Ishgard was ever completed in the first place.
I kind of doubt Ishgard ever really existed. I'm glad I didn't know that back during open beta...I would've been really disappointed. Back then I thought that the gates to Ishgard would swing open on release day. Man, was I wrong.

At this point, however, I'm kind of happy there's no Ishgard in 1.0. Given what I've seen of other locations in the game, I don't think there's any way the inside of Ishgard could have lived up to the view from outside. I know it's kind of weird to hope that it never existed at all now, but I'd like the new team to be able to design it from the ground up following their own vision.

Just for kicks, I tried to come up with the most disappointing scenario for what the inside of Ishgard might have looked like. Ishgard is attached to a huge rock, right? What if the castle on top was mostly decoration, and the accessible area of 1.0 Ishgard was just a few tunnels in the rock.

Ooh, but what do we have here? Ishgard Guildleves! Let's see what we got!
"Find the scattered pages of the Necrologos near Camp Glory..."