Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
It's part of the astrologian job quests. Although I always read that as being a specific group, not the entirety of Sharlayan.
There's that and also the expeditions into the ruins strewn throughout the Dravanian Hinterlands/Isle of Val that had us encounter all manner of creepy and weird familiars/experiments. The music in relation to Sharlayan before Endwalker always had a very distorted and eerie angle to it as well as if something wasn't quite right. To say nothing of the insinuations of certain levequest/FATE flavour text.

I don't have the energy these days to go hunting down specific text snippets, so people can take it with a pinch of salt. It's not like the writers who took over bother to pay attention to it themselves which is a shame but it is what it is.

Those who are in the know likely know though.