Races

[MikkoAkure]

It’s not that much of a stretch to imagine in etheryis the analogue to the Pacific Ocean east of hingashi is smaller which would make travelling east of hingashi to hit the west coast of tural much easier, especially since the Polynesia equivalent; the south seas islands are south of eorzea where the real world would have Africa so it could be quite likely the far east ocean is much smaller

Exactly. Which is why I bring up the whalaqee tribe in the lore. Because while they are hyur, they are also the native american analog, and we currently have the hypothesis in our own world that native americans traveled by land bridge from asia to the americas thousands of years ago. So in eitherys, equivalent of several eras ago. Which means it makes perfect sense with the hrothgar and viera as well if they traveled a similar way and would explain the difference.

You can see the Glass Ocean between Hingashi and Tural from the surface of the moon and it's just as vast as our world's Pacific Ocean. When Eitherys spins that way, the entire planet is blue. On top of that, there is no "Beringia" analogue on the world map so bridging across does not seem feasible. Plus, on the west coast of Tural you have to contend with the Fathomless Sea, which is a series of giant cracks in the planet with oceanic waterfalls covering an area that seems to be just as big as Tural itself. I don't think it's very realistic to expect sailors coming to Tural from Othard with those things in mind.

But they might not have necessarily settled there via mundane methods. The 5th Astral Era had airships and even a flying city. The 3rd Astral Era had spaceships and space stations as well as airships. But we'll probably never know for sure until EE4.