(08-02-2013, 07:13 PM)doctorgalactic Wrote: Don't know how on topic this may or may not be, but what do we know about Sharlayan? Â From the wiki:
Quote:Sharlayan is an inaccessible city-state in Final Fantasy XIV. It is on the north western region of Aldenard calledDravania. The Circle of Knowing hails from there, and Louisoix was the last to come south to offer assistance. Their patron deity is Thaliak the Scholar.
The speculation here being that the Circle of Knowing are all well capable with magic (watch the End of an Era video...), and their patron deity hints at the further pursuit of said knowledge. Â It seems like there may be more information there in regards to magic academia, but we don't have much more information than that.
I had actually considered this as I was doing my research, but what I found about the Circle of Knowledge implies that they focused on the crystals (granted not familiar much with what the crystals are or do past teleportation). So it didn't seem much like the Circle of Knowledge would be about Magic research in other areas, but a strictly focused academic group. But those are just my thoughts.