Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
Been looking at the world map, dreaming of where 8.0 could take us, and can't help but notice that the southernmost part of Yok Tural is covered by clouds. And my corsair-addled brain also can't help but get Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean Sea vibes from the area, and that it could be a shady backdoor to Meracydia. Do we know anything about this area or are these uncharted waters?
If we're continuing the South America parallels, Southern Yok Tural would likely be a Patagonia-type region like Argentina, rather than something tropical, but we don't have anything else to go on and it's gone unmentioned.

As far as a Caribbean-feeling region, we know that actually exists. We're told in the Studium Delivery role quests for Carpenter/Leatherworker/Weaver that barbecues are "a culinary practice originating from the archipelagos off the coast of the New World". There are a few candidates looking at the map from the tropics looking areas. It could be the Great Shallows off Yak T'el, it could be in the Stardust Sea near Tuliyolllal, it could be the islands off Loazeniheta, which we still know nothing about despite getting a name on the map, or it could be the Shades' Triangle and we might get some vaguely Caribbean stuff there mixed in with the 5AE stuff.