Solution 9 - Unfounded Speculation!

[MikkoAkure]

I'm more curious if it's connected to anything else in old lore (like the Green "Ark" near Rhalgar's Reach is connected to Sharlayan). Like, I wonder if S9 is the survivors of Mhachi. And the streets are crawling with undead (but very polite) citizens!?

Mhach’s version of that Sharlayan ark in the mountains was the Void Ark that was supposed to take them to Dun Scaith and we all know how that turned out. Ul’dah, Sil’dih, and Ala Mhigo were populated by Mhachi survivors so I think they’re accounted for anyway.

Does anyone know if Allag used the modern alphabet? I know all our maps for Allagan areas do. If Solution Nine is still using an older script, they’d have to be older than even Allag, from another Shard, or picked it up from somewhere and adopted it as their own for some reason. I think that script being there pokes holes in a lot of theories and limits the scope of our speculation.

See, if Solution Nine is tied to the civilization of Urqopacha, being a heavily and aggressively expansionist empire originating in a Peruvian-looking region, then a lot of undead would be highly appropriate. What with not just the mummies but that dead rulers were still afforded political power and given taxes, so a fantasy version could very well have actual zombies.

The old civilization of Urqopacha were giants and their descendants still live in Urqopacha. I think they’re the trolls that are being copy-pasted from Treasures of Aht Urghan that were shown off in the last fan fest.


Another weird potential clue is the merry-go-round that Yoshi-P insisted is important. Horses aren't very widely known around this world, but Solution Nine's merry-go-round features them. If Tural is accurate to our world, horses would not be present there at all unless they were introduced but the people they've been in contact with as a potential Europe-analogue use chocobos instead.