(03-12-2015, 12:51 PM)Shoshopu Wrote: also re: the zombies in Thanalan, does it annoy anyone else that all the undead enemies are Hyuran? I would have thought Ul'dah and Sil'dih would be mostly Lalafell...? I mean, with some confirmed Hyur living there I suppose (cough, cough), but still mostly Lalafell. Even all the supposedly Belah'dian statues we see don't depict anything like a Lalafell, even though all the names of the rulers and such definitely seem Lalafellin... now I'm off on a tangent sorry
So the statue that you see off the side of Highbridge is actually that of Thal, not one of Belah'dia's rulers. The ruins found of the Invisible City are not actually a city at all, but an extravagant tomb for the dead. Basically... a city for dead people. Hence why there's a giant statue of Thal, keeper of the dead, outside. As for the zombies in Southern Thanalan, surrounding those ancient ruins - well, lore tells us that most of those are actually from the initial Hyur migration to Eorzea, around 800 years ago. The Hyur attempted to conquer Belah'dia, but Belah'dia prevailed over them. Possibly by using very similar methods that the Ul'dahns did during the War of the Sisters to conquer Sil'dih.
Quote:Albin the Ashen
When the Hyuran tribe came to Thanalan some 800 years ago, Albin the Ashen was at the head of one of the columns. Then-native Belah'dians rose against the invaders and prevailed, as history records. Albin was but one of many slain in the abortive conquest, yet his mortal coil still roams the land in search of vengeance.
Quote:#19 - The Invisible City
Buried under nearly a malm of solid rock, if it not for a gaping rent torn open by the Calamity, these ancient ruins may have gone undiscovered for another thousand summers. Scholars sent to Highbridge to study the site are currently of a mind that the structures are not a city, but in fact the tomb of one Lalafuto IV, famed sultan of Belah'dia.
