Quote Originally Posted by ShadowyZero View Post
i hear you about the people excited about Mercydia but i think we know too much about it as is, which is why it confused me when Hades brought it up because like what more is there for us to possibly know that hasn't already been revealed or is common knowledge at this point? how would they translate it all into a compelling narrative thats supposed to span across an entire expansion?
like i tell you what we all know about Mercydia if that will help my argument here but to give you the cliff notes version it boils down too: "people really hated the Allagan Empire so they joined hands with the Dragons to fight them"
The devs can concoct any number of reasons that we currently have no context for to get us to Meracydia. This basis for our journey to Tural was mostly just "go on adventure" with a secondary addition of "help random NPC become queen of her nation because she says her brother wants to send an army (despite Tural seemingly having no navy)".

Beyond Late Allagan history there already affecting many stories in the game, Meracydia seems interesting as a setting because it's been dangled in front of us for a long time and seems to be based on Africa (Kple kple mask, ben-ben stone, hippopotamuses, shabti, sphinx, biloko, leucrotta, etc.) with additional Australian animals and geographic location/isolation thrown in for good measure. Neither really shows up often in fantasy so it would be interesting to see what they could work with.

I'm personally not very keen on another shard-hopping story or a time travel/alternate timeline one. We've done shard-hopping stories 3 times now and I don't really trust the writers to make a good story that involves time travel anymore.

Other options include anywhere in Ilsabard, which we've been to the edges of but never really delved into. Freshly independent countries all over the place hot off of their rebellions could be the seeds of a good story, especially since we've had an expansion-long break from anything to do with Garleans. And Ilsabard has more relevance to our characters than far-off Meracydia.