Thread: Current Timeline of Events from 2.0 On

Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

IIRC, in one of those early SB quests were we told something along the lines of "it usually takes three months to get to Kugane, but with my secret magitek engine I can do it in one."

I was looking for that quote before when I was making an earlier post because I thought I remembered that too, but I can't find anything on it on the websites that have the actual quest dialogue and all I can find on the internet is other people referring to it as fact.

What I did find is that by the time they were at the Sirensong Sea, they did not fire up their hidden ceruleum engines yet and that Alisae somehow knew about them. That seems to be the first mention I can find of them. Does anyone remember where and when Carvallain himself brings it up as making it speedier? This is going to bug me now because I swear I remember something about the journey being faster and I wonder if it was another thing made up that spread around and everyone started believing.

Alisaie: Well, why not fire up the ceruleum engines you have hidden below?
Carvallain: An excellent suggestion based on knowledge you should not have. Alas, our engines appear to be malfunctioning for reasons that escape my engineers at present...

Other than the 2 months voyage to Doma that is in the lore book, the only other things I can find on the length of the voyage are descriptions from multiple characters about getting provisions for a long voyage and the Sirensong Sea description that says "lengthy voyage to the Far East".

Originally Posted by Vyrerus

To play devil's advocate about the boat trips, Carvallain has a ceruleum engine on his ship.

This, in essence, makes it similar to a modern day sailing ship in terms of travel time.

I don't think he'd have the fuel to use it for the whole time and the quest dialogue suggests he didn't even have them on for at least half the voyage.

Funny enough, I found that out from a post of yours when I was trying to find the Carvallain quote I was looking for:

Originally Posted by Vyrerus

Just wanna point out that it's explicitly stated that Carvallain's boat has a clandestine Ceruleum engine. He didn't use it until after the Sirensong Sea, at least to the knowledge of the player, but Alisaie sure as heck figured out it was there and questioned the fuck outta that dandy boy about it.

Realistically if you wanted to conserve fuel, but get where you're going quick, then you could use the Ceruleum engine when the wind was against you or wasn't with you. I have no idea if the sea around Thavnair has still winds except in/right after the monsoon season in India, but the Sirensong Sea was what, somewhat around that point but a bit southy south?

In the real world it took a European sailing ship about a full year to reach the Dutch East Indies, what with sailing around the horn of Africa and all, and then hitting the still winds in the Indian Ocean. We've no Africa analogue in FFXIV, so we can take out 6 months there, assume Ceruleum engine use for half the trip... and I'd say that gets the trip for our WoL down to about 2~3 months.