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7. XIth Legion and Nagxia
The XIth legion is one of the few who has almost never been talked about. In fact, as far as I know, it is only very briefly mentioned in one of Bozja's field notes, pointing out that they brutally slaughtered an entire village in the Nagxia region. The only reason why I'm mentioning this one is because I think this plot line was supposed to be further explored in 6.0 back when it was still planned to be an Ilsabard expansion (I'm not even sure if Nagxia counts as Ilsabard or Othard, but still) and also Corvos, of course.
IIRC the XIth legion was rotated out and likely dissolved following war crimes in Nagxia. Pretty sure it's supposed to be a parallel to the Vietnam War since Nagxia is itself fantasy Vietnam. The XIth Legion was not on the list of legions that the Xth legion were trying to wrangle together before they failed and turned to Eorzea to help, so that's the likely case here. Considering that the XIIth legion held two completely separate major fronts of the war at the same time, while the VIth legion just got sent to Azys Lla, all legions are not necessarily equal and the XIth could have been on the smaller side anyway if they were just deployed to Nagxia, which doesn't even have large cities the best that we can tell.

It was never meant to be followed up on, it is in Othard, not Ilsabard, and there was never a "planned" Ilsabard expansion from what I got from that one dev interview. They just said they had time to finish the story in one or two expansions, settled on one, and mentioned what it would've been like if there were two instead and most if not all of the story beats were covered in Endwalker.