In several of the "flash back" scenes there is a rather obvious meteor in the sky. Perhaps this will be one of those "once every 100 years this meteor passes by and grants people the ability to travel to the past" type stories.

How about we wait till we get more news from SE before we start talking random nonsense?

I bet you 3 things:

1) SE will announce more updates about expansion at a later date.

2) SE will not make 6 new jobs, it would probably off balance the game a great amount.

3) ToAU will probably still be completely unfinished by winter '07.

It's been so long and things might be running together but...

I think Hinoree says something about Davoi's history in a CoP CS, but I can't be certain. Maybe someone can verify or disprove; not sure where if any the Gobbie Footprints are here.

Perhaps someone can help me out on this; when was the passage from the Orc & Gigas homeland officially closed/collapsed? I'm wondering if the stone watch towers are part of it.

One area in the video looks like Gustaberg, but I don't ever remember seeing ruins of the towers like they show in the videos.

While I'm extatic over the new expansion and this whole prequil it seems to be unfolding there are two things that stand out in my mind that I want to see:

1. The original Galka homeland before they were driven out by the Antica
2. Beaudicine before it became a Glacier (wasn't it supposed to be a thickly forested area, similar to Ronfaure or Jugner?)

Edited, May 13th 2007 7:18pm by cherrysweater

ffxi is indeed dying - this may very well be the end of the world









of vana'diel

ok... all i c see here is only speculations, and the "6 new jobs" and "raise of lvl cap"? i won't bite on that one unless you can give me some sources....
but i did a bit of research and found these links:

http://www.funender.com/finalfantasy/forums/se-working-on-new-online-ff-game-vt10680.html

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/untitledsquareenixnextgenmmorpg/news.html?sid=6147946&om_act=convert&om_clk=gsupdates&tag=updates;title;1

http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2006/1375.html

well, there was one more link i was going to put up, but i don't sem to find it >_< as you might notice, this isn't directy connected to WotG, but it is an indicator of how much work SE is willing to put in FFXI. read the links and tell me what you think of it, and if you find any mantioning of WotG, then please post ^^
oh, and for the guy that wanted more/better music, read this ^^ :

http://www.finalfantasyxionline.com/content/guides-musichackingguide.php

oh, and rate-up's are REALLY apriciated ^_^ (and pardon the wrong-spelling)

Some of the writing in that passage is my own, I was/am assembling a repository of Vana'Diel's mythos- The index goes something like this at the moment, though I'm not currently willing to share it publicly until it's a lot closer to being finished. I was much further than I am now, but due to some PC problems and someone erasing it from my server I had to take a huge step back and have been unwilling to take the time to fill in what I had already filled in. I'll try to let you know when it is finished or give you what I have currently if you PM me.

I. Introduction
II. Time Line
III. Historical Figures
IV. Key Events
V. Geography
VI. Beastiary
VII. Key Terms
VIII. Clothing, Arms & Armor
IX. Food & Drink
X. Magic, History & Application
XI. Credits

As for sources, all of my sources have been the Tribune (God how I wish it was still going, that was by far the absolute best source for canon and just an enjoyable read every now and then) FFXICyclopedia and Wikipedia and of course the game itself. Going back and re-watching a majority of the game's CSes is a huge step I need t o take in finishing this repository.

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Edited, May 13th 2007 1:52pm by CRaZIEfOrLucAS

uhhh no.. those are guild wars jobs.. that have never ever been in final fantasy.. assassin for one is like ninja.. the rest are strict guild wars stuff.. and by the way ..
where are you getting your information.. cause i dont see anything like that posted anywhere.. is it possible that this draws all the stories together.. yes
however ToA has nothing to do with the story lines.. so is the the last story out there that FF11 will institute .. probally not.. they want to keep the game goin.. and they want to make people interested in missions and quests.. so they will for all money purposes.. keep the updates and expansions goin.. IMO...

oh dear, I'm not sounding too smart now am I... I live in Australia, therefore I joined with the EU release that coincided with CoP and because of the heavy CoP content in the trailer I naturally assumed it came out then, my (understandable) bad : (

Oh? Interesting, what i recall reading indicated something completely different, i am willing to cede this point (and yeah ok, it makes sense to have fortifications in south west ron/north la theine) but can i ask for a link to your source please? i'm always seeking official back-history for the ffxi story so any help, much appreciated : )

mabye the "missions" for this new expansion (WotG 1,2,3 ect) will take place in the past. like the first 1 or 2 missions give you access to it, and the rest take place there. similar to the promy's giving access to the rest of the CoP missions, or whichever ToaU mission gives you access to assault.

OK, let's ignore the silly silly debates about inconsequential matters... let us look at the facts.

From what I can tell the areas shown are:
La Theine Plateau: Sauromuge Champaign (extensions of fortifications of Garlaige Citadel), Rolanberry Fields Sarutabaruta, Davoi (or whatever the settlement was called before the orcs came) and parts of the opening cs from CoP detailing the fall of Tavnazia... Let us extrapolate from this.

La Theine Plateau: The beasties would have been silly to attack from here, the were fortified in the northlands (beau -> rang' pass -> east ron) and there is now a settlement in ghelsba... This would indicate something to do with the sandy <--> bastok wars (sweet, I finally get to slap down those hum biatches ^^) after all, the 2 main staging points for said war was la theine & konschtat highlands...

Sauromuge Champaign: Again, if you know your vana'dealie history you know garbage ********* fell to the taru might well before the great wars... Interesting.

Davoi: Saddly I don't know enough to say whether this fell to the orcs before or during the great war (I haven't leveled pld or rdm where i suspect this story unfolds, assistance appreciated but no spoilers please).

Sarutabaruta: Fairly safe to say this could have occured during the great war or in windurst's hay day...

Tavnazia: The footage shown is most certainly from the great war. It has been ripped directly from the opening trailer introduced with CoP detailing the end of the war. This means either a) it is just another piece of the earlier expansions used to pad out the trailer or b) it is of great importance to WoG (power to the wogs!)...

post analysis: The new expansion covers several of the key battles in the history of vana'dealie. Wings of the Goddess infers that Altana herself takes a hand in the story. Perhaps Altana sends you to the past to influence key events in history? New jobs? Doubtfull. unless they died out during the great war (last big event in history), after all dragoon almost died out but was resurrected with the release of RoZ, what are the chances two class types went this way (up to you to judge, really...) Perhaps they were ancient classes from the time of the inter-race wars? wtf knows lol. Time mage??? as a vehicle for the storyline? go away, think about it for a bit and come back later mmkay?

Honestly I know no more than you do, I'm just applying logical reasoning and too many years playing knowledge to what little they've shown us so far. Think about it all and reply, tell me what your knowledge tells you : )

Mobius o' Kujata