Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
Like off the top of my head the 4th umbral calamity and the 6th umbral calamity ONLY affected eorzea (the earthquake that ended allag was centred on the crystal tower and the flood that washed away the magii cities didn’t affect the inner sea)

Like does tural or hingashi even acknowledge the calamity system of dates
There is some explicitly mentioned evidence at least the 4th calamity was worldwide. Zadnor is in the state it’s in with floating rocks and such because that calamity and it’s on the near opposite end of the world. The earthquake also directly affected Bozja itself, requiring a shrine maiden to be made queen to protect the country and setting the stage for the Save the Queen questline thousands of years later.

And there’s a single throwaway word that suggests the 6th Umbral Calamity could have affected as far as Rabanastre or is at least present in the consciousness of Ilsabardians because the city is described as “antediluvian” by Ramza (a Garlean) which means it’s older than the flood.


The issue though is lack of written records and thousands of years of time passed in lands that aren’t the focus of the story and where our characters are from. There’s some other events around the world that could be linked to calamities, but no direct connection is explicitly stated.

Like Hingashi having a succession crisis right around the beginning of the 6th Astral Era, or the fact that the oldest civilization present in Tural was the Yok Huy Empire which was only about 1000 years ago. Even Mamook is built on Yok Huy ruins. The Raen also happened to migrate out to the Near East and then Thavnair at the dawn of the 6th Astral Era. All that put together could suggest worldwide upheaval from a calamity.