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For the most part that has been what I've concluded from in game evidence and seen a few other threads say. The other side I have seen people saying the opposite because of the different openings that 1.0 legacy players get of just appearing and walking into your starting zone as opposed to 2.0 players getting carted in on the chocobo cart and giving the set up that the 2.0 carters are just adventurers from somewhere else just traveling to that zone at the time while the legacy intro seems to indicate the character finally reappearing from the time warp spell cast by Louisoix on those at Carteneau. That seems to be the main point of I contention have found in regards to this. It's not just the opening, this is coming from someone who has both a 1.0 and 2.0 character, some of the dialogue is different. Cid actually remembers your character if you played in 1.0, but most of the dialogue is the same. You can RP a character that was at the battle if you want to even if you never played 1.0 as I always felt like the main story and RP story doesn't have to line or nor should it. You wouldn't want ten thousand people claiming that they killed the main Garlean baddie in 1.0. So storyline and mechanic wise the only difference is a few bits of dialogue and a neat tattoo, other than that they are pretty much the same exact story. Looking at what I bolded, I mean it makes sense in the end that Cid wouldn't realistically know/remember EVERYONE who was in the battle, he would need one HELL of a good memory to do so cause that was a ton of people, so that's how they can kinda push that one under the rug if need be.

Speaking OF Carteneau itself has it ever been accessible? I know it was on the 1.0 world map but from what i gathered was never accessible, cause i guess the original plan of it to be opened much later got scrapped when 1.0 decided to be shut down. It is also present on the 2.0 world map as one would expect it to be cause it has to be a place that exists but is it also currently inaccessible still? For that matter, even if it did become open, how would you get to it in general. From what I could make out on the world map it's roughly between Mor Dhona and Northern Thanalan.

For the most part that has been what I've concluded from in game evidence and seen a few other threads say. The other side I have seen people saying the opposite because of the different openings that 1.0 legacy players get of just appearing and walking into your starting zone as opposed to 2.0 players getting carted in on the chocobo cart and giving the set up that the 2.0 carters are just adventurers from somewhere else just traveling to that zone at the time while the legacy intro seems to indicate the character finally reappearing from the time warp spell cast by Louisoix on those at Carteneau. That seems to be the main point of I contention have found in regards to this.

So, the basic idea is I am just trying to tie the lore together as best I can. I am a huge lore nerd in regards to MMO's I play and A Realm Reborn is no different. Now, onto my question. The Battle of Cartaneau from 1.0, are characters that were only from 1.0 the ones that were at the battle and 2.0 characters are, for the lack of a better term here, random new scrubs just showing up and getting involved or, are 2.0 characters like 1.0 characters people that participated in the battle? I have heard conflicting stories on the subject but from what I have gathered from the story in the game itself, it makes it seem possible the "adventurer" you're playing was at Cartaneau unless I have just massively misunderstood, which is possible. If anyone can make heads or tales of this tired then godspeed and if anyone can clarify this info for a fact for me, it would be greatly appreciated.