Updated map of The Three Great Continents

[Vyrerus]

Especially since the parts the clouds cover presumably have actual people living on it, going about their lives as per normal, and thus it's not completely terra incognita.

It gets even more hilarious when the Endwalker trailer uses that map in the Sharlayan scene with Y'shtola and Fourchenalt, which means even Sharlayan maps have that cloud cover.

Lmao yeah. Man, what if it's just everyone worldwide hates everyone who lives under the clouded areas? lol.

[VictorTheed]

I just wish they'd clear all the clouds out and let us see the world unhidden on the map, I'd even extend the map to where we could see mericydia and the new world.

[Iscah]

I just wish they'd clear all the clouds out and let us see the world unhidden on the map, I'd even extend the map to where we could see mericydia and the new world.

The simple out-of-story issue is that they aren't using those locations yet and don't want to reveal or map them until they're ready to do so, because it locks them into geography that they came up with "just to put it on the map" several years ago.

[Curisu]

What I wonder more is the size of the full world.

When we compare it with our world we have only seen Europe and Asia.
Are there any continents around the equator?
Can we go further east or west to find another continent?
What is south of the equator?
We have at least half the world still to explore and once we don't have a war to care about we can start exploring.

[YianKutku]

What I wonder more is the size of the full world.

When we compare it with our world we have only seen Europe and Asia.
Are there any continents around the equator?
Can we go further east or west to find another continent?
What is south of the equator?
We have at least half the world still to explore and once we don't have a war to care about we can start exploring.

We do know, yes. The southern continent is Meracydia, which is mentioned/core to a lot of lore, especially regarding the Allagans (due to them invading and conquering). To the west of Aldenard is the New World, which is basically what the Americas would be on Earth. The Mamool Ja come from there (and Blue Magic, although that only gets named as such by the Eorzean trying to introduce it here), and there's a decent amount of trade in recent years thanks to Merlwyb finding a safe route.

[Iscah]

I think someone has previously posted a wider map based on an "Earth from the Moon" shot that showed not only Meracydia (roughly Africa) but the edge of a would-be Australia as well?

[Fenral]

I thought Eorzea was Africa and Meracydia was Australia. Ilsabard is Europe (which means yes, Garlemald is there), while Old Sharlayan is the British Isles.

[ReynTime]

What I wonder more is the size of the full world.

When we compare it with our world we have only seen Europe and Asia.
Are there any continents around the equator?
Can we go further east or west to find another continent?
What is south of the equator?
We have at least half the world still to explore and once we don't have a war to care about we can start exploring.

Imagine when/if we finally get to go to Meracydia and they pull a Hunter x Hunter and reveal the 10+ years old exploring we did is like 1% of the full world size and Eorzea is this teeny tiny land in comparison.

[WhiteArchmage]

I thought Eorzea was Africa and Meracydia was Australia. Ilsabard is Europe (which means yes, Garlemald is there), while Old Sharlayan is the British Isles.

Common misconception, it seems. But I've had to dispel that before because of the Equator line. Basically, both culture and climate-wise, Eorzea is above said line, with only Ul'dah, perhaps, being Northern African-equivalent: Its architecture being closer to Morocco than Southern African tribes and architecture (And Morocco is on the other side of Spain, connected by the "Columns of Hercules"). Because of Alexander the Great, most of Northern Africa is more Greek (although also Islamic) than what we'd commonly think as African (Cleopatra, for example, is of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, so she's actually GREEK and not Egyptian). (Also, Those countries I mention are also ABOVE the Equator line, with Africa being half above and half below it. Basically, for it to correspond to Fantasy-Africa: Gridania should have Ul'dah's climate and Ul'dah itself should be more lush like Southern Africa)

Meracydia is closer to Hydaelin Africa or Hydaelin Australia. If Iscah is correct, then Meracydia would be our Africa-equivalent and there's another Fantasy-Australia off somewhere. It's of note that, while the Garlean Empire is very based on Rome, the initial Eorzean Campaign was based on the invasion of the Greek City States by Persia.

[Con_Carne]

Just a silly thought from my mind. When 5.0 was new, before the Eden storyline, I was hoping that in a future story we would try to finish the "Rejoining" of the worlds, but in a different way from the Ascians. A way that wouldn't result in the destruction of the reflect and the Calamity of the Source, but just transportation of the remaining place.

Norvrandt for example. We would "rejoin" the First to the Source, but actually transporting the remaining place (Norvrandt) to somewhere in the Source as a new continent, so Norvrandt would be included in the map as a "fourth great continent" (and doing the same with the remaining shards, and so those places won't be so isolated as the last ones in their world).

I don't know why I say this, perhaps because of the map thing and my thought of Norvrandt to be included in a Hydaelyn's new global map. But this was before I played Eden's story.