The Oddities & Mysteries of FFXIV Screenshots (ARR to Stormblood)

[Kaliesto]

I thought I make a compilation of Unknown Places & objects that never really got an answer over the years


Path leading to nowhere




The Gelmorra Ruins Pathway (I managed to peek at this behind the gate when I was on my flying mount)




Larkscall Eastern Path




The Unknown Door at the Northeast Edge of the Dravanian Forelands




Nyunkrepf's Hope (We never could get inside of it)





Caved In Tomb?




The Dark of Lasting Cumber (I don't believe this area ever served a purpose)




The Moai Heads






The Nhaama Desert




The House of the Crooked Coin (I always felt like there is something much more larger here that we couldn't see)




The Path of the Craven (It leads to a place called The Wound)

[MikkoAkure]

The first image is the Golden Saucer.

The 2nd to the last image was a big part of one of the Stormblood patch MSQs and it's an Allagan device that's explained there.

[Kaliesto]

The first image is the Golden Saucer.

The 2nd to the last image was a big part of one of the Stormblood patch MSQs and it's an Allagan device that's explained there.

Thanks on the gold saucer! (edited it out)

And yeah I remember that part from Stormblood, but I feel like there is just something incredibly big underneath the Azim Steppe personally. >.>

[Enkidoh]

Yeah, the House of the Crooked Coin got a major explanation during SB's later patch story.

As for those unused pathways and doors, they're just dummied out zone lines for potential future additions like new zones, areas or dungeons/trials/raids that were never ultimately needed, and are now just window dressing sadly. SE may do something with them later on, but generally they end up remaining unused.

The Moai heads are something all to themselves incidentally, being a reoccuring element throughout the FF series.

[MikkoAkure]

I do really like the "what-ifs" and possible, but abandoned zone/dungeon teases. Usually when I finish an expansion, I fly around to try to find suspiciously prominent or unusual places in the map and try to theorize which ones will be dungeons. I wonder how much of it is intentional and they purposefully have a bigger list of possible dungeons than what ends up being added, or if it's just set dressing.

[Jandor]

They've explained in the past that they add stuff like this in on purpose, so that they have ready made entrances if they ever decide to do more with the zone.

Any areas like this from a previous expansion are, unfortunately, probably never getting fleshed out.

[Atamis]

The Gelmorra one probably leads to Gelmorra proper, its actually an underground city spanning most of the shroud. PoTD was just living quarters.
Theres a few more entrances around but most are ruined or blocked.

[RyuDragnier]

I'm placing bets that the Unknown Door in Dravania is going to be used for one of the Alliance Raid entrances this expansion.

[Kaliesto]

I'm placing bets that the Unknown Door in Dravania is going to be used for one of the Alliance Raid entrances this expansion.

Oh The Twelve, I was speculating on entrances as well but nothing concrete (maybe the statues throughout Eorzea that represents the Twelve)


There was something else I forgot to post - Sil'dih itself, we just know of the forgotten city and nothing more, we only got remnants.

[MikkoAkure]

Oh The Twelve, I was speculating on entrances as well but nothing concrete (maybe the statues throughout Eorzea that represents the Twelve)


There was something else I forgot to post - Sil'dih itself, we just know of the forgotten city and nothing more, we only got remnants.

Ul’dah was relocated to be partially on top of Sil’dih after their war. Parts of the city were integrated into Ul’dah, such as the aqueducts. There are some scattered remnants nearby but I don’t think there would be much left if it was reused to build new-Ul’dah unless it’s a Rabanastre-Lesalia scenario.