1) One year is definitely short, but it at least remains a certain time period. It didn't happen in a month, or a week. I would be annoyed with way less, but one year doesn't bother me too much. Nanamo still saying 5 years when it's obvious that the MSQ has dropped hints and facts in other lines that it's been a little more than 6 actually, is confusing. The hell Nanamo, learn your calendar. I mean, I can understand you got cloistered in your palace for so many cycles, but still...
2) Even without considering what Sounssy said above, who says that those resistance tempered souls were tempered recently? The resistance has been going on for 2 decades (although it got really meaningful only in the last 5 years considering how a joke it was in 1.0). It's also possible that the tempering goes rather deep, and has been there for a long time.
On the Saltery, if you pick up all the wrong answers before answering the correct one, the last choice you're given from what I saw from reddit screens is actually funny (unless those screens were faked, which is also a possibility):
1. "The Saltery"
2. "You really want me to say the Saltery, aren't you?"
Anyway, more seriously, and even if I chose Ala Ghanna myself first without thinking a bit more, because Ala Ghanna was said to be actually very profitable before the garlean invasion, there is a reasoning to be had. Ala Ghanna stopped being profitable when Garleans came and crushed the country, but also didn't kick back in because they generally are fonder of metallic alloys and cermet construction. Ala Ghanna's only choice was to export to other cities like Ul'dah or Ishgard, but the export costs were just too prohibitive to sustain.
That's also what Lolorito says when you mention Ala Ghanna (would cost more than the price of the stone itself). And the deal breaker here is that being profitable to Ala Migho AND Ul'dah both is mandatory.
Ala Ghiri has no real resource of economic value as far as I know. They used to have a chocobo relay and stables, and possibly other services, but otherwise no raw resource specific to their land.
2) Even without considering what Sounssy said above, who says that those resistance tempered souls were tempered recently? The resistance has been going on for 2 decades (although it got really meaningful only in the last 5 years considering how a joke it was in 1.0). It's also possible that the tempering goes rather deep, and has been there for a long time.
On the Saltery, if you pick up all the wrong answers before answering the correct one, the last choice you're given from what I saw from reddit screens is actually funny (unless those screens were faked, which is also a possibility):
1. "The Saltery"
2. "You really want me to say the Saltery, aren't you?"
Anyway, more seriously, and even if I chose Ala Ghanna myself first without thinking a bit more, because Ala Ghanna was said to be actually very profitable before the garlean invasion, there is a reasoning to be had. Ala Ghanna stopped being profitable when Garleans came and crushed the country, but also didn't kick back in because they generally are fonder of metallic alloys and cermet construction. Ala Ghanna's only choice was to export to other cities like Ul'dah or Ishgard, but the export costs were just too prohibitive to sustain.
That's also what Lolorito says when you mention Ala Ghanna (would cost more than the price of the stone itself). And the deal breaker here is that being profitable to Ala Migho AND Ul'dah both is mandatory.
Ala Ghiri has no real resource of economic value as far as I know. They used to have a chocobo relay and stables, and possibly other services, but otherwise no raw resource specific to their land.
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