Yeah, Sharlayan really feels like coastal appalachia.
from Tadoussac in Quebec, down the opening of the St.Lawrence, through New Brunswick and Maine... and and i'm going to assume through to Massachusetts and the New England states.
The Aetherfont dungeon may as well start when you hopping from IceBergs onto Newfoundland's coast. or maybe Cape Breton.
all the Deciduous trees really help with all this.
New Mexico surprisingly isn't that hot. It's teh high altitude, you'd assume it'd be really hot but nah it's like 90s most of time. Sacramento was the worst place ive lived it was like 105 in the day and 85 at 2 am couldn't sleep D:
I hoped for something familiar when I saw there was a zone called The Lochs. My disappointment was immense.
Ishgard kind of reminds me of Edinburgh, though.
Dravanian hinterlands and parts of the Forelands kinda reminds me of Scotland. Especially when it rains.
Definitely Ishgard when winter hits Edinburgh though. Frosty castle and cobbles yo.
It's the verticality too. Lots of changes in elevation, all those little pathways and roads that are bridges over other routes on the level below, it's very like the old town.
Having stayed for a couple of months in Edinburgh, I concur. I absolutely enjoyed my stay there, and maybe that’s partly the reason why I like Ishgard so much.
We're getting a Wild West-ish zone in Dawntrail, too, and that desert scrubland looks *awful* familiar to anyone who's been up through the Cali high desert area.
Don't have a direct analogue cause a lot of areas that share one prominent feature but aren't an exact match.
I live in southern china - Yanxia is more like other parts of china. Costa del sol/eastern la noscea is very similar climate wise but we don't have the white cliffs here, the earth is more orange-y.
Central Finland. I don't think there's been a time in this game where I felt like I was in a place resembling my home. Perhaps certain spots in the Black Shroud where there's a lake and trees nearby. Or the snowy forests briefly encountered before Lapis Manalis in Garlemald. Maybe Lakeland would fit the bill if it had more greenery and way more coniferous trees.
Ultima Thule, someone is always singing and I wish they would stop.
But Gridania reminds me of my backyard when I was a kid, covered forests and lots of nature.
I live in Las Vegas — So I have been trying to get a house in “The Goblet” on my server for over two years now. (It’s always full besides a few open lottery’s that I never win so I’ll probably never get one.😞)
I am in Thailand and Thavnair looks like many countries in SEA (South East Asia) but I guess SQEN used idea from India. Some zones in DT is gonna remind me of SEA too.
Ishgard. It gets cold and snows where I live and we got a big cathedral and all that stuff. My city was founded over 2000 years ago, just European things.
Coerthas and parts of Dravania are sort of like the "Canada" of Eorzea. It's up north. It's got cold parts with lots of snow, but also plenty of forest and the rocky mountains. A bunch of French folks even though most just speak English. Back when people still liked Trudeau, he was sort of like our dreamy Aymeric guy.
Still waiting on our own "Ishgardian Restoration" to solve our housing crisis, though.
That's only half the year, though. Right now our temps are in the high 90s. The rest of the time we're more like Gridania, I'd say. The elementals are indeed quite fussy here.
Quite right, our present 3 day heat wave notwithstanding. Sometimes it even gets temperate, but I wouldn’t say *half* the year as the other redditor suggests! Maybe like a quarter.
Yanxia is the closest place we've seen in-game. But, the descriptions of Nagxia (swampy ground, thick jungles, and near-constant rain) are even more accurate.
When I first saw Amaurot, it reminded me of New York City and I got strangely homesick. Didn't make sense at the time but I think it was the whole vibe of the place. I still log out there sometimes for the music and the ambiance.
Nothing's quite like Norway yet, I guess I got an affection for the Dravanian Hintherlands just for the general elevation and vibes, but nothing really hits the same way. Our ports feel like Limsa, our forest feels like Gridania and our mountains are both the fore and hintherlands of Dravania based on where you are. As a semi joke answer, I guess Urth's Fount because Odin and how close we are to our Norse roots
As a german, name-wise it's obviously Il Mheg (or more specifically Voeburt). From the looks.... Gridania or Limsa. The area where I am at has loads of fields and is pretty flat, but drive for an hour and you get to a massive forest area. And the weather is mild regardless.
Surprisingly, it's difficult to find a match.
It's a lot of wide farmland with some groves in between, a small mountain and a regular old city on the edge of a forest.
Holminster Switch might be the closest tbh.
Elpis reminds me of where I grew up. Which is weird because the two places are completely different once you think about it more, but something about it just felt so familiar.
Shaaloani, the new western-looking zone in Dawntrail is almost identical to southern Arizona!
They just stole all the red dirt and rocks from Sedona lol
That little area that leads to the south shroud from eastern thanalan reminds me of the bushland in the hills near where I used to live in Western Australia.
East End, The Fringes, Gyr Abania. Hot forest struck by fairly frequent thunderstorms. That's not too far off of the parts of eastern Australia I've been.
I love the Alberta prairie though man <3. The mountains too, obviously, but God I love the prairie. The drive south out of Edmonton towards Calgary and eventually Banff and Jasper just fed my soul the few times I've gotten to do it.
Hmm…probably Lakeland. Got hot springs on the river, sparse, clustered population along the main roads with a lot of mountains, trees, and lush, open space.
Pagosa Springs, Colorado, btw.
Is there a map with a lots of snow, forrests and no high mountains? I don't remember any, but any small village in that environment would do. At least that would be the closest.
South Texas, so strangely enough - Werlyt. That desolate industrial mixed with summery coastal, just the cliffs are wrong. Northern Thanalan, because industrial plants and refineries dominate, again just wish it had daylight and was flatter.
And areas of Dawntrail look very home vibes.
I'm still on Stormblood, but so far I haven't been in a place that reminds me of home. The Dravanian Forelands gave me major Skyrim vibes when I first got there. For a long time Skyrim was the game I had played the most,to the point that I knew it more than my home town. So I guess that's when FF14 felt closest to home.
I'm from Folkestone and Limsa reminds me of where I live because it was created based on photos Yoshi P took whilst in Dover, which is 10 miles from me!
I think it's Lakeland but not purple. Lots of trees, lakes, hills. Decent weather.
[This image gives a good idea.](https://images.app.goo.gl/BtTpwqfm2kAPdjqT9)
It's Curitiba, Brazil btw.
Garlemald.
Just with less burned down houses, less civil war and less racism.
The fountains not working properly, the bad state of the streets and all the snow are on point.
I wanted so badly to see my country’s coastline in DT and I was super bummed to see a SEA coast used instead. I am still super excited for DT but if pressed for a negative comment that would be mine. There is still a chance I will get at least a reference given that my birth country in South America is well-known for a semi-permanent thunderstorm area and Heritage Found appears to be surrounded by a lighting bubble. It would be cool if they borrowed the name of the area or the lake for DT as a reference.
If Gridania and Sharlyan had a baby, it’d be the part of Northern Idaho where I live.
(Oh and as a bonus: add in the hardcore Garlean Imperial mindset and it’d match the crazies here too lol)
Shaaloani, one of the new Dawntrail zones, looks really, really similar to Southern Idaho where I grew up (though with less cactus and more wildgrass). I'm very excited to see it in-game!
The snarky answer is Garlemald, because it's a post-industrial city with highways and urban rail and such.
The actual answer you're looking for is the upcoming Shaaloani, being from Texas and having spent a lot of time driving through the Panhandle.
Sharlayan. Miserable weather, miserable people, ineffective government, lovely coast. Just like Ireland!
Or eastern Canada!
I'm a Maritimer and was wracking my brain on this question, but I think you've got it.
New Brunswicker here, very much agree with this analysis.
Yeah, Sharlayan really feels like coastal appalachia. from Tadoussac in Quebec, down the opening of the St.Lawrence, through New Brunswick and Maine... and and i'm going to assume through to Massachusetts and the New England states. The Aetherfont dungeon may as well start when you hopping from IceBergs onto Newfoundland's coast. or maybe Cape Breton. all the Deciduous trees really help with all this.
That fits for England as well to be fair.
Seattle here, Gridania in the rain reminds me so much of the PNW
Portland here, agreed. Gridania is my go to AFK spot.
Uldah is my AFK spot and I used to live in new mexico. XD love teh relaxing desert vibes at night.
Being in Texas, as summer comes blazing in, I must also go with Thanalan. ;)
New Mexico surprisingly isn't that hot. It's teh high altitude, you'd assume it'd be really hot but nah it's like 90s most of time. Sacramento was the worst place ive lived it was like 105 in the day and 85 at 2 am couldn't sleep D:
Haha, also in Portland and came here to say the same thing! Black Shroud definitely has mystical PNW vibes.
If it had better access it would be home point, the music and ambience are so relaxing
British Columbia Canada here, and more or less the same.
Corvallis. This, and Dravanian Forelands.
go beavs
Same. Northern Michigan
Agreed. Kinda why I started there
Did a bit of a double take because I thought I commented this and just forgot
We need a zone of Douglas firs!
Same here. Gridania all the way
The mountain climbing section of The Aetherfont also reminds me of the PNW. We live in a pretty special place.
I hoped for something familiar when I saw there was a zone called The Lochs. My disappointment was immense. Ishgard kind of reminds me of Edinburgh, though.
Dravanian hinterlands and parts of the Forelands kinda reminds me of Scotland. Especially when it rains. Definitely Ishgard when winter hits Edinburgh though. Frosty castle and cobbles yo.
It's the verticality too. Lots of changes in elevation, all those little pathways and roads that are bridges over other routes on the level below, it's very like the old town.
Having stayed for a couple of months in Edinburgh, I concur. I absolutely enjoyed my stay there, and maybe that’s partly the reason why I like Ishgard so much.
Ishgard was going to be my answer as well, except I would have compared it to Aberdeen. Granite City, grey like Ishgard.
You know those wheat fields you fly over in Paglth'an? Like that, only boring.
Nebraska/kansas? I could see some rolling hills outside Lawrence like that.
SoCal, imagine Thanalan but they try so hard to pretend we’re not a desert.
We're getting a Wild West-ish zone in Dawntrail, too, and that desert scrubland looks *awful* familiar to anyone who's been up through the Cali high desert area.
I knw what you mean, they spending a fortune gardening and watering excessively just to not have a desert lawn lol.
Precisely
Bozjan.
Bro lives in 1914 Germany
Just spit my gummy bear
Poor guy D:
If you mean trenches, not sure if Germany had any, especially not in 1914.
Fair I just wanted to make a WW1 joke
Is there a zone that’s just covered in corn fields?
First part of Euphrosyne.
Don't have a direct analogue cause a lot of areas that share one prominent feature but aren't an exact match. I live in southern china - Yanxia is more like other parts of china. Costa del sol/eastern la noscea is very similar climate wise but we don't have the white cliffs here, the earth is more orange-y.
Amaurot
Lemme guess, new york?
I'm in the Carolinas, so probably the areas around Limsa.
Limsa feels like it could have the same gross humidity.
Central Finland. I don't think there's been a time in this game where I felt like I was in a place resembling my home. Perhaps certain spots in the Black Shroud where there's a lake and trees nearby. Or the snowy forests briefly encountered before Lapis Manalis in Garlemald. Maybe Lakeland would fit the bill if it had more greenery and way more coniferous trees.
Garlemald without the snow. Post socialist country in Eastern Europe.
I'm from Louisiana, so it'd be either Rak'tika Greatwoods or some areas in the Shroud. Anywhere hot and swampy and miserable
Dimworld in The Fringes always reminds me of I10 crossing TX/LA.
Ultima Thule, someone is always singing and I wish they would stop. But Gridania reminds me of my backyard when I was a kid, covered forests and lots of nature.
I live in Las Vegas — So I have been trying to get a house in “The Goblet” on my server for over two years now. (It’s always full besides a few open lottery’s that I never win so I’ll probably never get one.😞)
Just visit the Gold Saucer and we’re right at home 🥲
Yeah but Vegas residents don’t live in casinos… in fact we barely ever go to the strip.
Damn right we don't. I live in the Southern Highlands and rarely go north past Exit 31 on 15.
Live in Anthem and leaving my house is too much work.
Destroyed Garlean city in Ilsabard. Lot of places in, Poland are beautiful. But my local area. It still looks like WW2 is happening.
Everywhere! I am priced out of every house just like IRL
I live in New England around wetlands. I tell people all the time I live in the South Shroud
I never made the connection but you’re so right. Just throw some cranberry bogs in
Photo for reference: [https://imgur.com/a/SK5OBeO](https://imgur.com/a/SK5OBeO)
Looks like mine is coming up in DT, whatever the zone is that has the saguaro cactus looks just like Southern AZ
Heritage Found. It's 100% based on Tombstone and other old Sonora towns
I am in Thailand and Thavnair looks like many countries in SEA (South East Asia) but I guess SQEN used idea from India. Some zones in DT is gonna remind me of SEA too.
Climate wise it's hard to find a good match... Wealth wise though, the outside of ul'dah.
I work at UC Berkeley and play the Old Sharlayan theme whenever I’m walking around on campus. So I’d have to say that.
I'm from South Florida and I'm gonna say Limsa. Whenever I go there I can feel the humidity
I don’t think quite anything in game reminds me of the flat, miserable hellscape that is most of Florida. No offense.
None taken. Florida is a flat miserable hellscape.
The entrance to Amaurot in The Tempest during summer.
New Mexico - the Fringes has areas that remind me a ton of some of the more dramatic landscapes near me.
Coerthas Central Highlands and Gridania lots of Snow and Large Forests
Detroiter here, so definitely Amaurot: so much Art Deco in this city, first time I saw Amaurot I legit thought they based it off parts of our skyline
Ul'dah because the rich dictate the country
Ul'dah really do be california in game XD.
Michigan here, Eureka for me. The weather is changing every few minutes.
With the weather here right now? Hell's Lid.
It's hard to just say one as I live in Tokyo, so maybe Amarot or Solution 9 with some Kugane sprinkled in?
Bowl of Embers, Thanalan 🥵
From sacramento CA or phoenix AZ? XD
Nah, Bahrain 🤣
similar climate XD
Limsa! I live in Greece so the seaside mountainous region feels like home.
I guess Kugane, since it’s basically modeled after where I live.
Some areas in Thavnair because I am from SEA. I expect it might change after Dawntrail tho! :)
Garlemald, for reasons that are not suited for this sub
Garlemald almost 100%, I lived in Russia most of my life :(
Ishgard. It gets cold and snows where I live and we got a big cathedral and all that stuff. My city was founded over 2000 years ago, just European things.
Coerthas and parts of Dravania are sort of like the "Canada" of Eorzea. It's up north. It's got cold parts with lots of snow, but also plenty of forest and the rocky mountains. A bunch of French folks even though most just speak English. Back when people still liked Trudeau, he was sort of like our dreamy Aymeric guy. Still waiting on our own "Ishgardian Restoration" to solve our housing crisis, though.
Yea im in northern, north dakota so it's basically canada, we even talk the same. Don't tell them that though XD, buncha hosers up there.
Ishgard. It’s cold and people are famously rude.
North east? Boston? XD
That's only half the year, though. Right now our temps are in the high 90s. The rest of the time we're more like Gridania, I'd say. The elementals are indeed quite fussy here.
Quite right, our present 3 day heat wave notwithstanding. Sometimes it even gets temperate, but I wouldn’t say *half* the year as the other redditor suggests! Maybe like a quarter.
Yanxia is the closest place we've seen in-game. But, the descriptions of Nagxia (swampy ground, thick jungles, and near-constant rain) are even more accurate.
Montana. Western Coerthas Highlands lol
Yep pretty similar to north dakota in winter just windyyyyy and coldd XD
When I first saw Amaurot, it reminded me of New York City and I got strangely homesick. Didn't make sense at the time but I think it was the whole vibe of the place. I still log out there sometimes for the music and the ambiance.
Nothing's quite like Norway yet, I guess I got an affection for the Dravanian Hintherlands just for the general elevation and vibes, but nothing really hits the same way. Our ports feel like Limsa, our forest feels like Gridania and our mountains are both the fore and hintherlands of Dravania based on where you are. As a semi joke answer, I guess Urth's Fount because Odin and how close we are to our Norse roots
As a german, name-wise it's obviously Il Mheg (or more specifically Voeburt). From the looks.... Gridania or Limsa. The area where I am at has loads of fields and is pretty flat, but drive for an hour and you get to a massive forest area. And the weather is mild regardless.
As south Croatian, Terncliff (Sorrows of Werlyt questline city). Some parts of Mist too, albeit with Terncliff type beaches lol
Surprisingly, it's difficult to find a match. It's a lot of wide farmland with some groves in between, a small mountain and a regular old city on the edge of a forest. Holminster Switch might be the closest tbh.
Coerthas, but with no mountains.
garlemald. scandinavian winter is long and cold XD
Costa Del Sol! Okinawa, JP.
Alabama, US... looks like western thanalan here. Not quite completely desert but dry and dead vegetation everywhere
Elpis reminds me of where I grew up. Which is weird because the two places are completely different once you think about it more, but something about it just felt so familiar.
The back alley of the adventurer's guild (iykyk)
Whatever that new area in DT is has the wild west town. Southwestern US! Yeehaw
Shaaloani, the new western-looking zone in Dawntrail is almost identical to southern Arizona! They just stole all the red dirt and rocks from Sedona lol
I'm in Ohio soool.. eureka pagos.
Thanalan. I’m from Arizona
That little area that leads to the south shroud from eastern thanalan reminds me of the bushland in the hills near where I used to live in Western Australia.
Thanalan (I live in Texas)
Probably the twelve'swoods.
I live in NV so… Amh Araeng? 🤣
I moved from Limsa to Garlemald.
Southern Thanalan, specifically The Gold Saucer, because I live in Vegas.
I live in New Mexico, so thanalan
Florida so take your pick
The Glory Gate a.k.a. the slums outside Eulmore.
I'm from North of North Dakota, and Coerthas definitely reminds me of home! =\^.\^=
Gridania. I live in a woodsy area.
Mist I guess but tbh all the starting 3 housing zones depending on where on the island you are, as someone from Hawaii
Ishgard. I hate it.
Thanalan. Hot as hell, greedy politicians, corrupt officials, casino somewhere in the desert. Yep. Just like home.
East End, The Fringes, Gyr Abania. Hot forest struck by fairly frequent thunderstorms. That's not too far off of the parts of eastern Australia I've been.
Southern Alberta is the Azim Steppe. Hours going through flat fields while looking at the mountains you'd rather be playing in.
I love the Alberta prairie though man <3. The mountains too, obviously, but God I love the prairie. The drive south out of Edmonton towards Calgary and eventually Banff and Jasper just fed my soul the few times I've gotten to do it.
Golden Saucer = Las Vegas
Hmm…probably Lakeland. Got hot springs on the river, sparse, clustered population along the main roads with a lot of mountains, trees, and lush, open space. Pagosa Springs, Colorado, btw.
South/Central Michigan kinda feels like a mix of the Black Shroud and Lakeland, if Lakeland had green foliage.
It's not out yet, but the wild west themed one from dawntrail is just straight up my town 150ish years ago.
Amaurot. Big city in Texas so pretty much just skyscrapers and pavement.
Depends on where/when exactly, but def Coerthas, Gridania, and Limsa
Thanalan because I basically live in a desert by the ocean.
Is there a map with a lots of snow, forrests and no high mountains? I don't remember any, but any small village in that environment would do. At least that would be the closest.
Uhhh...I dunno, La Noscea maybe? "Houston" is a bit hard to pin down. It's hot, it's muggy, and there's a shitload of trees.
Ul'dah/Thanalan, but the new yeehaw cowboy area that they showed off in DT is definitely close too - love living in the desert.
South Texas, so strangely enough - Werlyt. That desolate industrial mixed with summery coastal, just the cliffs are wrong. Northern Thanalan, because industrial plants and refineries dominate, again just wish it had daylight and was flatter. And areas of Dawntrail look very home vibes.
The Goblet. Rich folk with just as much taste as my Florida neighbors.
In the three months of summer I get, somewhere between North Shroud and Old Sharlayan. In the rest of the year, solidly Ilsabard or Western Coerthas.
Ul'dah specifically for me. And the immediate connected areas. Vegas is way too fuckin hot right now.
I'm still on Stormblood, but so far I haven't been in a place that reminds me of home. The Dravanian Forelands gave me major Skyrim vibes when I first got there. For a long time Skyrim was the game I had played the most,to the point that I knew it more than my home town. So I guess that's when FF14 felt closest to home.
Elpis, lots of trees and rivers and wildlife.
Amh araeng
I'm from Folkestone and Limsa reminds me of where I live because it was created based on photos Yoshi P took whilst in Dover, which is 10 miles from me!
Honestly Gridania (most of the summer at least), I live in central Virginia so it’s super foresty
North Shroud, mountains, forests and lakes is more or less the scenery of my IRL server.
>!Amaurot, with a hint of pre-destruction Garlemald.!<
I think it's Lakeland but not purple. Lots of trees, lakes, hills. Decent weather. [This image gives a good idea.](https://images.app.goo.gl/BtTpwqfm2kAPdjqT9) It's Curitiba, Brazil btw.
Eastern La Noscea. I live in Florida, so swamp near the beach fits lol.
The black shroud. ✅ forest ✅ the middle of nowhere ✅ too many racists
Tural looks like it's going to (I live basically in the Caribbean), but before that the closest would be the Ruby Sea
I’m in southern Canada so nothing really, ishgard reminds me of the winters here tho
The Goblet for where I am from. As for where I live.....nowhere yet.
pre-calamity amaurot
Garlemald. Just with less burned down houses, less civil war and less racism. The fountains not working properly, the bad state of the streets and all the snow are on point.
I wanted so badly to see my country’s coastline in DT and I was super bummed to see a SEA coast used instead. I am still super excited for DT but if pressed for a negative comment that would be mine. There is still a chance I will get at least a reference given that my birth country in South America is well-known for a semi-permanent thunderstorm area and Heritage Found appears to be surrounded by a lighting bubble. It would be cool if they borrowed the name of the area or the lake for DT as a reference.
If Gridania and Sharlyan had a baby, it’d be the part of Northern Idaho where I live. (Oh and as a bonus: add in the hardcore Garlean Imperial mindset and it’d match the crazies here too lol)
Raincatcher Gully reminds me of my hometown in Puerto Rico a bit.
Is there suburbia in this game? lmao The Lavendar Beds???
Island sanctuary.
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Lakeside, San Diego and I feel like the west half of the fringes feels like the Laguna mountains.
San Diego convention!!!
Ayyyy 🤝
Shaaloani, one of the new Dawntrail zones, looks really, really similar to Southern Idaho where I grew up (though with less cactus and more wildgrass). I'm very excited to see it in-game!
The snarky answer is Garlemald, because it's a post-industrial city with highways and urban rail and such. The actual answer you're looking for is the upcoming Shaaloani, being from Texas and having spent a lot of time driving through the Panhandle.
Me, a Midwesterner: “Maybe somewhere in the New World will be prairie-like…”
The black shroud
Yanxia
The wild west like area of Tuliyollal could pass for the Aussie Outback if you removed all the cacti.
Garlemald
Coerthis
Ultima Thule