What is the Story behind Haukke Manor?

[Necrotica]

And I do not mean the noble lady turned to void magic story.

I mean the GIANT prison cells in the basement. These things are huge, have enormous doors, and the bars are wide enough apart a Roegadyn could fit between them. In one of the cells is an oversized table with chopped wood on top of it the size of full grown men.

At some point in Gridania's history were they at war with giants or some other excessively large species?

[KageTokage]

Eorzea does have giants of dubious intellect who were known to be employed as slaves in eras past so that could be a possible explanation, though I have no recollection of them being used in the Black Shroud, only Ul'dah.

[Wyssahtyn]

It's just excessive dungeon scaling

[TheMightyMollusk]

If the rooms were small enough to be single-person cells, the camera would be clashing all over the place. Look at the small cells in Toto-rak and you'll see what I mean.

[Zero-ELEC]

And I do not mean the noble lady turned to void magic story.

I mean the GIANT prison cells in the basement. These things are huge, have enormous doors, and the bars are wide enough apart a Roegadyn could fit between them. In one of the cells is an oversized table with chopped wood on top of it the size of full grown men.

At some point in Gridania's history were they at war with giants or some other excessively large species?

Haukke Manor used to belong to the Padjal, and was seen as proof of their excess by the populace of Gridania, which caused them to sell it to Lady Amandine Dartancours. What went on within its walls during its time as a Padjal residence is unknown.

[Necrotica]

If the rooms were small enough to be single-person cells, the camera would be clashing all over the place. Look at the small cells in Toto-rak and you'll see what I mean.

But doesn't that kind of prove they are actually giant cells? This is 2.0 content. They were willing to make dungeons that were difficult to see in for the sake of realism. If they had wanted them to be normal cells they would have made them normal cells. Just like in toto rak.

[Cleretic]

But doesn't that kind of prove they are actually giant cells? This is 2.0 content. They were willing to make dungeons that were difficult to see in for the sake of realism. If they had wanted them to be normal cells they would have made them normal cells. Just like in toto rak.

Yes, Haukke Manor is 2.0 content.

But Toto-Rak was 1.0 content. One of the things you can see change about the recycled 1.0 dungeons (such as Toto-Rak, Sastasha, and Dzemael Darkhold) compared to the new stuff made for 2.0 (such as Haukke Manor, Brayflox's Longstop, and Stone Vigil) is a tendency away from tight quarters and towards something much wider. Which I suspect to be equally because of the camera situation as it is about the fact even that early in, they knew the game was shaping up to be very 'dodge the AoEs'-focused.