Did solution 9 reveal like a jump the shark moment yesterday?

[Boblawblah]

No it didnt because literally this was the same feeling with Azys Lla in Heavensward and Amaurot in Shadowbringers.

Can we stop purposefully forgetting the past?

I was hoping we were past the ancients/allag/garlemald, but alas, here we are.

[Tsumdere]

People also pass things along without verification. I am still trying to track down where the text actually might be used because I have no memory of seeing text in any of the World Unsundered areas – which is not to say that it isn't clearly the alphabet just recently snuck into EE3 as hypothetically the one used in the ancient world, because it is, but even so that doesn't confirm the city is Ancient. They may have simply retained or revived use of the script somehow, and it's just a big red herring like "Master Matoya" in the Shadowbringers trailer.

Thus far the only place I have confirmed that the alphabet is used is in the background during Thaliak's arena-shift phase. It's mostly numbers and maths equations but there are a few strings of text mixed in.

Someone else mentioned that it is specifically in the Loporrits' "on air" sign for their radio show in the crafter questline.

Your examples + the map for Elpis and the maps inside Pandae fights use proto-alphabet just like the maps in Norvrandt use Norvrandt Standard. And while EE3 which has always been an "in universe" encyclopedia I do find it extremely hard to believe they would show what they believed to be Ancient writing and then immediately use that writing in a new zone without a real purpose.

And you're right. It could be a people who stumbled upon Ancient script and used it. It could be Lopporits who fell off the moon for all we know. Whichever way it ends up being, it is proto-alphabet which means there is going to be Ancient connections which is what people are concerned about. It's very bizarre all around.

[Mosha]

I was hoping we were past the ancients/allag/garlemald, but alas, here we are.

Those 3 groups are integral to how modern-day Etheirys is today. It wouldn't be realistic if they just vanished without a trace after 6.0. It will be cool to see what the ancients did in the New Word.

[Iscah]

Your examples + the map for Elpis and the maps inside Pandae fights use proto-alphabet

Maps, huh. No wonder it didn't stand out – I'm looking at it now and they're so small and fuzzy and always with an English translation label alongside, so there's no reason to normally scrutinise it, and even if you did it's 95% Eorzean anyway.

[Eisi]

I like it! Here's some speculation:

[Hurlstone]

It was one of my favorite moments of the presentation actually. Like they set up Tural wonderfully with the lush jungles, illuminated forest and wild west saloons, and then suddenly we are in a Cyberpunk New York! I cannot wait to find out just what Solution 9 is and who runs it. Is it in the future/past? Under Tural or somewhere else? What culture created it, and are they still inhabiting it? Whilst I was looking forward to the adventure anyway, this has made me a little more excited to see what the MSQ will throw at us.

[Fawkes]

The opposite. Right before they showed it I felt like everything they had showed was just copy-pasted from Thavnair.

And I was expecting them to have a Moon-like reveal for a new weird area. If anything Solution 9 is more grounded and realistic than what I expected.

[MisterNublet]

Opposite for me. Other than the glowing forest, everything else looked exactly the same as other zones we've already seen. Solution 9 looks intriguing and I look forward to learning more about.

[Tsumdere]

Maps, huh. No wonder it didn't stand out – I'm looking at it now and they're so small and fuzzy and always with an English translation label alongside, so there's no reason to normally scrutinise it, and even if you did it's 95% Eorzean anyway.

For sure. It's super easy to overlook. I was confused myself when I heard this yesterday and had to check, but lo and behold the maps are indeed written in Proto-Alphabet and not Eorzean.

Pretty definitive that Sector 9 has Ancient connections, but what they are and to what extent is still to be seen.

[GTK0HLK]

I'm all for Seeing if we'll have to AGAIN "Party Like It's 2023" in the Vaguely "' '"Dimension Neptunia City.

Wonder how many Shares-/-Lores gonna be needed to Start "Chippin In" to the Raid.



All things aside, it's honestly the least jarring thing.
It's all just wondering how they'll tie everything together.
I'm starting to no longer worry about the past. I just wished we had a remnant piece of crystal to carry with me(in memory)