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[peninhand]

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Hey everyone!

The trip around Vaikuntha has made me realize we barely know anything about what everyone's homes are like, don't we? It's important to learn more about this world if we're to live here, but it's even more important to get to know each others if we're going to live here together. I think we could learn a lot by sharing neat details about what our homeworlds are like.

I come from a planet called Earth. We have no magic or magitek, no jobs or monsters between cities. Most of these things belong to the realm of fantasy and imagination where I come from. It is what the people of my world excel at, creating stories and imaginary worlds with words and images for people to enjoy. We have technology kinda like what they have in Oktavia, but not as advanced.

But anyway, that's it for my homeworld. If you'd like to share what your world is like, I'd love to hear what you have to say.

Thanks for reading,
Monika

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[chefbayardee]

I'm also from Earth, Monika!

We have technology kind of like Oktavia, except we have space travel. Like airships except more advanced. We have a place called the Galaxy Garrison to teach students what they need to excel in spacefaring lives. So we might have different Earths. Or the same Earth at different times?

Also my friends and I travel through space and help distant worlds with their problems. Tends to involve beating up monsters and despots with space lions. It's crazier than it sounds. Also Shiro and I are from the same world (If you read this, Hi Shiro!)

Oh, this is Hunk, by the way. (・ω・)b

[nanaimo_bar]

My land is called Eorzea, and the nation I hail from is known as Ul'dah. it is a City-State based on the concept of market and sales, as well as excelling in thaumaturgy, and the coliseum where men and women fight for glory and wealth.

It is a beautiful city but it has its problems. Some of which are a surplus of refugees from the nation of Ala Mhigo. Ala Mhigo has been liberated, but not all of the refugees have returned to their homelands, nor do some of them want to. Ul'dah works to benefit Ala Mhigo and our own coinpurse when it can as it stands.

Other than that, the land is rich with people of all nations, traders come and go at our port in Vesper Bay and other locations. With luck, the city will run itself with my absence.

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[garyoutensei]

-She's already been confronted with the idea that some people are not from the same time she was, or possible even the same 'earth', so she's no longer exactly shocked to hear about someone coming from a planet 'earth', especially one with no magic.

But hey, that doesn't stop Baiken from being Baiken, regardless.-

It's a shithole.

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[studdedcouncilprez]

Thank you very much to do this, Monika. I too am very much interested to hear about the worlds that people come from. As for myself, I hail from Earth. Like Monika said, there are no magic or monsters or anything noteworthy. I could further clarify that I am from a country called Japan, which is an island nation on Earth.

I can also add that from talking with a few others that simply coming from the same world may not necessarily be from the same place. From the few people I have met there seems subtle variations in time as well. This difference can be as short as a few months to as long as many years. I believe this may be important to know. The same world at a different time could be two drastically different locations.

[kuposcreed]

Kupo!

This thing is tricky to use with paws

um my world is Crystallis
It's a bit like this one?
I was a helper moogle for one of the summoned Heroes there but the reason they were being summoned wasn't just to save the world but also because it turned out my world was using theirs to keep itself from dying. And then there was the Calamity that came about because of that. But it was also contained by the way things were going

But our Heroes stopped it and put an end to the cycles

And um
Some of them sacrificed themselves to make a new world? I'm still not clear on how it worked

but a lot of the names of places in this world are a lot like Crystallis' Heroes
Do you think it means something? Is this that world?

kupo,
Bonnie

this is what happens when you text someone who can't write very well.

[littlemhigan]

im from eorzea too. i was born in ala mhigo but i grew up near ul'dah, and i think nanamo already told you a bit about it. ive travelled all over eorzea though and to the far eastern continent of othard. the whole world is a sight to see, and its full of places to explore.

this is wierd. im not very good with my letters. im sorry.

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[witchwithoutacause]

I'm from Earth but with magic seeing as how I'm a witch.

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[despairing_hope]

I'm not really sure what to say. I'm also from Earth, Japan specifically. There's not a lot interesting to share. Things were normal, the world went to hell, and now it's slowly picking itself out of the rubble of despair.

Hope truly is an amazing thing, to enable people to still strive forward when shown the true ugliness of man.

This is Connie! Nice to see you again, Monika!

[conniemaheswaran]

Wow! I... honestly didn't expect so many Earthlings here. Huh. Anyways, I'm from the U.S., Delmarva specifically. The world is pretty normal, except for a... few things.

A couple thousand years ago, an alien species called Gems invaded and tried to drain the planet of all its resources. They were defeated by a rebellion, but the planet's still been dealing with the aftershocks of the war ever since. There are a few monsters called Corrupted Gems in the wilderness, and occasionally we deal with a few scouts from Homeworld or some other kind of gemtech-induced wackiness.

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[rivieran]

[ Monika will find a photo attached to a blank message in response to her post, which happens to be Ena's handwritten response to her text post, a photo taken with her iMog, then uploaded for all to see. Typing is for losers. ]

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[seekthelight]

My home world is called Destiny Islands! It was always sunny and we could go swimming anytime we wanted! There was this smaller island that my friends and I would always take our row-boats across to that was our play island and we'd spend all day over there building forts and rafts and having races! We'd practicing fighting too! (Riku was always a lot better at it than I was back then.)

Our play island had Papou Trees on it, too! They had these star shaped fruits and it's said that if you shared the fruit with someone you cared about your destinies would be intertwined forever.

[likewishes]

I'd say your version of Earth is likely similar to my own. Magic doesn't exist at any rate.

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[singerofspells]

I wonder if it is an artifact of translation that so many of us give our home planets the name of 'Earth', or that few of us are star-faring.

I'm also from an Earth, with humans, though I have an outsider's view of them. I'm not human, or land-dwelling but I work with them. The name for the part of the ocean I live in is the North Atlantic Ocean, off the shore of the city of New York.

[And S'reee trying to say human-language place names drives home that her voice doesn't sound very human -- a lot of the consonants are half-clicked, and vowels are dropped or held too long]

Human societies are... oh, the words in the Speech are sevarfrith and asdurrafrith for short. Sevarfrith means that wizards don't practice their art openly in those societies, though usually their kin-groups will know. Asdurrafrith means that a species as a whole hasn't met other self-aware species, and may not be prepared for it.

In the Sea's name, it feels weird introducing humans to this, even if you all are here on a world that is astahfrith. I can't shake the feeling that I'm breaking the rules.

[zanarkandian]

I'm from a place called Spira.

[That still feels strange to write. It's not the full truth, but it's close enough.]

It's a little like this world, actually. We have to use magic to fight fiends when we travel, we have shoopufs, and Blitzball is a huge sport for us too! We play to keep ourselves busy and to give us something to look forward to when we're worried.

But if that's true here too, I'm a little worried about what Vaikunthans might be distracting themselves from.