For the writers of the FFXIV story

[kaynide]

What's 'That Scene' for Stormblood?

To be fair, story-wise Stormblood is by far my least favorite expansion pack, but I would say the standout moments for me were:

My top is probably when Emet (Solus) revealed the Ascian machinations. That the Garlean empire itself and the overall Eorzean conflict were just a cogs in his elaborate plans to a rejoining.
Basically the wind-up to Shadowbringers.

I'd say other stand-outs are:

Yotsuyu's trial-fight (not technically a cutscene, but more the despirete holding-onto-hope that we wouldn't have to kill her...though granted her death tells a better story.
The actual retaking of Doma with our Steppe allies
Fordola's surrender (the "I will never forgive you, but I will thank you" bit)

Buuuut, I wouldn't really put any of those above really good scenes in other expacs, like say, Shiva's sacrifice. Or even Estinien getting bullied into joining the Scions.

Putting the Whalaqee in the one tiny visitable sliver of Xak Tural would make the continent feel very small. Better for them to be off somewhere in the distance.

That would have been cool- a small outpost (like the native village we already have), with them saying (some area they've blocked off) is sacred/off limits to outsiders, then show some stuff in the distance to imply there's a lot going on over there.

...Double points if that off limits area became a dungeon/exploration area that shows a lot of wide open tribal stuff (like Paglth'an); Triple points if it's modeled after yellowstone.

[Iscah]

That would have been cool- a small outpost (like the native village we already have), with them saying (some area they've blocked off) is sacred/off limits to outsiders, then show some stuff in the distance to imply there's a lot going on over there.

I mean more hypothetically off in the distance – they're *somewhere* in Xak Tural but that doesn't mean we're going to be anywhere near them just because we visit one random stretch of desert. A continent is a big place to expect to cross paths with the one village we previously knew was located there.

[kaynide]

I mean more hypothetically off in the distance – they're *somewhere* in Xak Tural but that doesn't mean we're going to be anywhere near them just because we visit one random stretch of desert. A continent is a big place to expect to cross paths with the one village we previously knew was located there.

I gotcha, but even so one of the only things we knew about Tural WELLLLL before DT was that the Whalaqee were somewhere there, somewhere near where Ceureleum fields exist, and that they were big-enough of a thing to have Mamook members and at least one guy wanting to bring it back to Eorzea, even if it was kinda a con. It's kinda like if your parents booked a vacation to Orlando and just didn't go to any of the theme parks.


I don't expect a future expansion to further detail the Tural continent outside of DT itself (exploratory zone or deep dungeon etc)- too much low hanging fruit in Meracydia, the north viking-lands, the 4 remaining shards.

Shame really that we'll never really get to interact or at least see it.

Could be wrong though; the world map we got has a few regions we haven't visited (Loazeniheta NE of Shaaloani) and Ty'ak Tyak south of Yak T'el. Could be dungeons. Could be exploratory things. Could be -whatever replaces island sanctuary for this expac-.