Summary
Final Fantasy 14may have just revealed the continent of Tural inDawntrail, but fans have discovered hints of the fabled New World that date back as far asA Realm Reborn. This evidence proves some of the next areas ofFinal Fantasy 14have been over nine years in the making.
Dawntrail,Final Fantasy 14’s next expansion pack, brings players to Tural, a massive western continent inspired by the Americas. That said, the idea of the “New World” is not new toFinal Fantasy 14; indeed, the Mamool Ja native to Tural reappeared in the first zones ofA Realm Reborn. The New World was shrouded in mystery, but many fans knew about it in concept.
However, fans have now discovered some of the details about Dawntrail’s new zones had been teased as early as nine years ago. Recently, Trust Insiders, a fan group that postsFinal Fantasy 14Duty Supportquotes and dungeon Easter eggs on Twitter, shared an in-game book called Over the Horizon, which details an account of Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn’s journey to the New World. However,Final Fantasy 14player B’runi Masana pointed out that this book was itself referenced in a fishing log entry added in Patch 2.3, released in July 2014, provingFinal Fantasy 14has had plans for Tural and Tuliyolal, the City of Gold, for over nine years.
Tuliyolal isn’t the only location in Tural that has been teased inFinal Fantasy 14’s past. During the recent Fan Festival,Final Fantasy 14revealed Solution Nine, a cyberpunk hub city players will visit in Dawntrail. While this futuristic city might have felt out of left field by some,FF14fan Ashril Enard pointed out that Solution Nine was referenced in the originalEncyclopaedia Eorzeareleased in December 2016. The brief description of the Haragin Xaela tribe mentions their ancestors once sailed around the world eastward and found a “terrible island covered in massive grey monoliths and inhabited by fire-breathing steel demons,” seemingly referencing Solution Nine in the seven-year-old passage.
These are not the only references to Tural hidden throughoutFinal Fantasy 14, of course. The Blue Mage class quests explain theFinal Fantasy 14limited joboriginated with the Walaqee tribe from the New World – likely in Shaaloani, the Wild West-themed zone coming inDawntrail. It seems like the new expansion is drawing deep from previous lore of the critically acclaimed MMORPG.
Dawntrail doesn’t have a release date yet, but players can expect it before the end of summer. Before then,Final Fantasy 14is releasing Patch 6.55 on January 16, the Xbox beta on February 21, and theFinal Fantasy 16collaboration event in early April.
Final Fantasy 14 (2010)
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