[ Himeka nods readily in agreement. Ships are an important method of travel no matter the medium through which they do so. ]
Yes, and we have airships that travel through the air as well.
[ Airship travel isn't something that every can afford, after all. She had been gifted with several tickets to move across Eorzea for a while. Money isn't an issue anymore, and traveling across aether currents is much faster, but there is still a thrill in being up in the air from time to time.
The tale of a disaster bringing winter upon the land is something she's heard before, sad as she is to think on it. Though not quite like this. ]
There were rocks that blotted out the sun?
[ What...what does that even look like? Large, floating stones that keeps the land in perpetual darkness? An endless eclipse? To be trapped in an eternal night...well, it's almost the exact opposite of what happened on the First. Hallowing, to say the least. And no matter how plainly he states it, she does read a bit of the tension in his voice as he recollects. It clearly wasn't easy. ]
That sounds...well, unsettling. Did all the plants die too? What sort of winter is a nuclear one?
[ The Elementals would do their best, but she knows that sun is important for growth. At least on land. But even in the sea there were more plant growth up near the surface than down in the depths.
His question, in turn, is a bit easier for her. She wasn't in Ishgard when the Calamity hit so all she knew of the region was ice and snow. But seeing one's homeland turn that way has changed the people and the land forever. ]
...To give you the short version, after an attempted assassination on the Sultana of Ul'dah, my friends and I were framed for it and we had to flee to Coerthas, a land that was once full of rolling green hills and timber forests, now turned to ice and snow after the last Calamity. Ishgard is the city-state there.
[ Which doesn't paint the nicest picture, but she finds herself smiling despite it. ]
While we were there we helped end the thousand-year war that the Ishgardians had with the dragons and overthrow the theocracy. They're doing much better now! And you can even find dragons in one region of the city--little ones like you had met.
[ It's hard not to feel fond about those creatures. ]
I spent over a year there and it was the longest I'd spent in any one place sine I left home, so I suppose both Ishgard and it's people also started feeling a bit like a second home. It is still very cold, though.
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Yes, and we have airships that travel through the air as well.
[ Airship travel isn't something that every can afford, after all. She had been gifted with several tickets to move across Eorzea for a while. Money isn't an issue anymore, and traveling across aether currents is much faster, but there is still a thrill in being up in the air from time to time.
The tale of a disaster bringing winter upon the land is something she's heard before, sad as she is to think on it. Though not quite like this. ]
There were rocks that blotted out the sun?
[ What...what does that even look like? Large, floating stones that keeps the land in perpetual darkness? An endless eclipse? To be trapped in an eternal night...well, it's almost the exact opposite of what happened on the First. Hallowing, to say the least. And no matter how plainly he states it, she does read a bit of the tension in his voice as he recollects. It clearly wasn't easy. ]
That sounds...well, unsettling. Did all the plants die too? What sort of winter is a nuclear one?
[ The Elementals would do their best, but she knows that sun is important for growth. At least on land. But even in the sea there were more plant growth up near the surface than down in the depths.
His question, in turn, is a bit easier for her. She wasn't in Ishgard when the Calamity hit so all she knew of the region was ice and snow. But seeing one's homeland turn that way has changed the people and the land forever. ]
...To give you the short version, after an attempted assassination on the Sultana of Ul'dah, my friends and I were framed for it and we had to flee to Coerthas, a land that was once full of rolling green hills and timber forests, now turned to ice and snow after the last Calamity. Ishgard is the city-state there.
[ Which doesn't paint the nicest picture, but she finds herself smiling despite it. ]
While we were there we helped end the thousand-year war that the Ishgardians had with the dragons and overthrow the theocracy. They're doing much better now! And you can even find dragons in one region of the city--little ones like you had met.
[ It's hard not to feel fond about those creatures. ]
I spent over a year there and it was the longest I'd spent in any one place sine I left home, so I suppose both Ishgard and it's people also started feeling a bit like a second home. It is still very cold, though.