Quote Originally Posted by TeraRamis View Post
I wouldn't have minded the aesthetics at all if it wasn't JUST an open pit. If there was a 'front line' and then, like, forest and hamlets scattered on either side, with baggage trains, etc. moving to the trenches, that would have been really cool. But it's just nothing but wasteland.
It's an open pit because the city of Bozja was destroyed by an attack from Dalamud (that moon that features so prominently in the events of the Calamity, 10 years later) that literally vaporized the city and most of what surrounds it. All those happy villages and hamlets were wiped out in that single incident 15 years ago. Yup, it's a wasteland.