So we've got all sorts of theories for the future of the games story in this new arc. We got World Trees and World Serpents and Bifrost brigdes but I wanna focus something that seems to be being left for later. Ever since Dawntrail was revealed and we got the new World Map people were asking about this "crack in the ocean". And unless something WILD happens in September in 7.5 MSQ Part 2 I think we won't get our answers this expansion. But regardless I've had a few theories about the grand chasm that splits the two halves of Tural (Image 1)
We haven't actually being told all that much about it, except that it is somehow related to the Turali's "Great Sunken Gods" and then there is this singular line in the second quest of the Dawntrail MSQ (Image 2)
Okay so it's implied the fissure in the earth might be the result of essentially the Sundering, the fight between Zodiark and Hydaelyn. We were in fact given a visual of this fight, at the start of the Evercold teaser trailer. We first saw the Star undergoing the Final Days, then a great shroud of purple enveloped the atmosphere which was then pierced by a blue light (Image 3)
After this the trailer transitioned into a little graphic about the shards and such. So with the events of 7.4-7.5 and the reveal of Evercold and the Keynote we know this new story arc is all about essentially dealing with the "after effects of the Sundering"
So knowing that, we know that the actual action of the Sundering, the fight between the two Elder Primals that saw Hydaelyn do a flying dropkick on Zodiark that hit so hard it shattered him and the planet into 14 pieces with 13 phased out of reality. Again we are shown this in Image 3.
From the MSQ Dialogue in Image 2 we know it left a physical impact. But looking closely at the fissure on the map, this isn't a mere crack. It's the "edge" of a larger impact, as we can see on the eastern most edge it tapers off to a point, but on the western side, right on the edge of the map we see more fissures. So this is a little "teaser" of something much more significant.
Now this part is a bit more wild speculation because the CGI trailers take a lot of liberties. But if we look at the trailer image again (Image 3) it seems like the impact happened in the "upper" part of the star. Now the World Map falls into the typical pitfalls of being a slight innacurate depiction of landmasses true locations, however we can go into space! So I present my helpfully annotated with stereotypical red circles image of the "Pacific Ocean" of Etheirys (Image 4)
So as we can see the country of Higashi, the most Eastern landmass we can see relative to Eorzea and the location of the city of Tuliyollal in Tural are relatively "high up" on the planet. If the Evercold trailer isn't overly lying about the rough location the battle between Hydaelyn and Zodiark went down, plus the great fissure separating North and South Tural being the only physical evidence of this battle we can predict somewhere in the white circle there is a massive "wound" to the star (Image 5) (sorry I'm not an artist bad paint copy paste is what you get)
As we learned in 7.5 the planet itself, whatever that means be it just "nature" or some supernatural entity we have yet to encounter, is trying to put itself back together. It is trying to "heal". I don't think this will come up in 8.0 but at some point during this brand new story arc, I have zero down we will be visiting or having to deal with the great gaping wound in the planet. Perhaps with the Hydaelyn-Zodiark storyline concluding with us going deep into space this Godless Realms Saga might conclude with us...going downwards, deep into the planet itself. I know we've being as "deep as possible" when we plunged into the Aetherial Sea to confront Hydaelyn but perhaps hidden out there in the "pacific ocean" is a great bleeding wound hidden from view by thousands of years of rejoinings and continental shifts and no one bothering to sail East from Hingashi.
Maybe that's where the Ridorana Lighthouse will be revealed to be, that the Clockwork City of Goug in FF14's setting was nearby to the already existing fissure and when Construct 8 fired its black hole weapon it caused the Island to collapse further into the hole.
There is a portion of the world hiding a big secret and it's not just Meracydia. The planet trying to heal itself isn't just going to be about the Shards, I believe there is a real physical *wound* that has being sitting there doing...maybe nothing while Hydaelyn kept the planet in a state of relative stasis. But with her gone maybe this wound has started to ache. Regardless there is something much bigger and I believe important out west of Tural.
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We haven't actually being told all that much about it, except that it is somehow related to the Turali's "Great Sunken Gods" and then there is this singular line in the second quest of the Dawntrail MSQ (Image 2)
Okay so it's implied the fissure in the earth might be the result of essentially the Sundering, the fight between Zodiark and Hydaelyn. We were in fact given a visual of this fight, at the start of the Evercold teaser trailer. We first saw the Star undergoing the Final Days, then a great shroud of purple enveloped the atmosphere which was then pierced by a blue light (Image 3)
After this the trailer transitioned into a little graphic about the shards and such. So with the events of 7.4-7.5 and the reveal of Evercold and the Keynote we know this new story arc is all about essentially dealing with the "after effects of the Sundering"
So knowing that, we know that the actual action of the Sundering, the fight between the two Elder Primals that saw Hydaelyn do a flying dropkick on Zodiark that hit so hard it shattered him and the planet into 14 pieces with 13 phased out of reality. Again we are shown this in Image 3.
From the MSQ Dialogue in Image 2 we know it left a physical impact. But looking closely at the fissure on the map, this isn't a mere crack. It's the "edge" of a larger impact, as we can see on the eastern most edge it tapers off to a point, but on the western side, right on the edge of the map we see more fissures. So this is a little "teaser" of something much more significant.
Now this part is a bit more wild speculation because the CGI trailers take a lot of liberties. But if we look at the trailer image again (Image 3) it seems like the impact happened in the "upper" part of the star. Now the World Map falls into the typical pitfalls of being a slight innacurate depiction of landmasses true locations, however we can go into space! So I present my helpfully annotated with stereotypical red circles image of the "Pacific Ocean" of Etheirys (Image 4)
So as we can see the country of Higashi, the most Eastern landmass we can see relative to Eorzea and the location of the city of Tuliyollal in Tural are relatively "high up" on the planet. If the Evercold trailer isn't overly lying about the rough location the battle between Hydaelyn and Zodiark went down, plus the great fissure separating North and South Tural being the only physical evidence of this battle we can predict somewhere in the white circle there is a massive "wound" to the star (Image 5) (sorry I'm not an artist bad paint copy paste is what you get)
As we learned in 7.5 the planet itself, whatever that means be it just "nature" or some supernatural entity we have yet to encounter, is trying to put itself back together. It is trying to "heal". I don't think this will come up in 8.0 but at some point during this brand new story arc, I have zero down we will be visiting or having to deal with the great gaping wound in the planet. Perhaps with the Hydaelyn-Zodiark storyline concluding with us going deep into space this Godless Realms Saga might conclude with us...going downwards, deep into the planet itself. I know we've being as "deep as possible" when we plunged into the Aetherial Sea to confront Hydaelyn but perhaps hidden out there in the "pacific ocean" is a great bleeding wound hidden from view by thousands of years of rejoinings and continental shifts and no one bothering to sail East from Hingashi.
Maybe that's where the Ridorana Lighthouse will be revealed to be, that the Clockwork City of Goug in FF14's setting was nearby to the already existing fissure and when Construct 8 fired its black hole weapon it caused the Island to collapse further into the hole.
There is a portion of the world hiding a big secret and it's not just Meracydia. The planet trying to heal itself isn't just going to be about the Shards, I believe there is a real physical *wound* that has being sitting there doing...maybe nothing while Hydaelyn kept the planet in a state of relative stasis. But with her gone maybe this wound has started to ache. Regardless there is something much bigger and I believe important out west of Tural.
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