#arr

I wonder if there are ishgardian regional subcultures that have simply been lost with the change in climate. Communities in the lowlands with their own clothing and food and farming styles survived only by those who moved to the city, where they had no access to their own norms. Highland villages swept off the map, their microbreeds of karakul and hardy winter vegetables lost or run wild. Old embroidery patterns that don’t mesh with the city’s highly ingrained styles. Songs and tales that sound foreign and therefore suspicious to the city folk. Towns that thrived along the rivers, defined by their use of fish and reeds, more connected to eorzea than the city in the clouds thanks to trade. All lost.