vergil443: FFXIV is going to get a lot of mileage out of the Reflections, and Dragon Australia.
secretpenguinprod.9788: Speaking personally, I would like an adventure to another reflection. Somewhere where we are not known and we are stuck there (at least MSQ-wise) entire time. Sort of like shadowbringers. But instead of apocalyptic themes, there would be a thriving world where we dive into political game while at the same time we search for answers about the key from dawntrail/aurocite etc.
natebroadus8474: Next? Probably the "Treasure Islands beyond the waters of Blindfrost in Othard's North."

The one I'm most excited for? Meracydia.

The story is all pointing to Meracydia. It was the scene of the Void incursion into the Source where Azdaja was lost. It was ground zero of the dragon vs Allagan war. When we get back to the void story, that's where we're going, and if we have some control of Azem's relic by then, who knows where the story is going to go from there...
TheMexRAGE: The fact that emet used plural for golden city and the giants found the "golden city" on skydeep cenote probably before the alexandrians got their calamity and even started to experiment with dimensional fusion, make me think the gate was hijacked by the alexandrians and there is more gates on tural leading to different reflections, probably being made by the Ronkan, who were aware of the sundering, and both skydeep cenote and the ruins unearthed by the giants on tender valley having very uncanny similarities
NightBane345: Ahhh damnit, the speech Emet said at the end of Endwalker always gets me, I miss him as a character, one of the best characters ever done in Final Fantasy genre, even in games as a whole
HaitaniMasayuki: I also wouldn't mind going deeper into places where we "already are". Like a closer look at Gelmorra, or is there really nothing else interesting in Xephatol? What about all those clouded areas in Ilsabard that we skipped?
(and yes, of course I want to see Meracydia and the rest of Emets hints as well! :D )
Freezeblow: Personally, my blood was boiling when Emet-Selch brought up the Southern Continent and Meracydia. We literally have known about Meracydia existing since ARR and we still haven't gone. I am BAFFLED that Meracydia has been almost entirely forgotten and there are a lot of people who want to keep going dimension hopping to other reflections. We haven't even explored our entire STAR, why do we keep doing things like go to other reflections or even to where Endwalker left off?! I, personally, want to finally go to the Southern Continent just because its STILL shrouded in fog on the map like Ilsabard and the Garlean Empire is...meaning we know almost nothing of that area of the world. All I remember of Meracydia, in fact, is that its a nation of dragons and that Tiamat and Bahamut were rulers there. Please, please, please, let us finish exploring our own world before we have more off-world adventures; I am on my knees, BEGGING!!!
antgc8893: It's interesting that most of what Emet-Selch mentioned were portals to other reflections:
Ruins beneath the waters of the bounty had a fissure to the 13th.
Golden City was a portal to the 9th.
Sacred Sites of the South Sea Isles had a portal opened by the Speaker for the Milala to another reflection.
So maybe Blindfrost and Meracydia will also have something related to portals as well. Meracydia is where Azdaja was lost to the Void if I remember correctly.
MajorShepard: When I hear "Treasured Isles" I don't think of actual treasure, I think of the islands themselves being a treasure. Be it a place of vast resources, idyllic beauty or unique fauna found nowhere else. But I really want to see Merycydia as it keeps coming up in lore to the point that I want to see this place that has so much tied to it.
danmarshall4812: I was very hyped about the New World before Dawntrail, needless to say that is no longer the case. I only hope they do Meracydia justice where they have failed with Tural.
zamboozle3741: There's still quite a lot of places in Ilsabard we haven't seen in the slightest, which is why it remains clouded on the map. We also still don't know the state of the 13th after Zero and Golbez started restoring the light there.
Esmoire: I always felt like Emet-Selch's speech was mostly there for the people out there who weren't as close to the lore who needed to be sold on why they should stay subscribed after the end of their ten-decade-long story. It's marketing. That said, while he mentioned some items I had been wondering about, there's so much out there I want to get to know more about, like Nagxia, Gelmorra, Hingashi proper, or going back in time to experience the War of the Magi. There's whole eras I'd love to see.

Don't think we'll be going to Meracydia soon. Feels like they wouldn't have back-to-back expansions of going to long-anticipated massive continents.
meaninglez100: I still want to know more about Aerslaent, the Roegadyn homeland
doctorcis3510: We haven't even fully explored Aldenard. Paglth'an was only briefly visited in one dungeon, but on the map you can see the amount of land we montage over when we go from East Thanalan to South Shroud is massive. East of Mor Dhona/West Shroud is also unexplored, despite how interesting going through the devastated land would be. And all that land underneath the Sea of Clouds. Combine those three together and there's basically an expansion worth of territory lurking between the lands we already know.
Anon2496: Hingashi and Dalmasca are my two biggest desires for places to focus on for a future expansion. I love 12 and the Tactics series dearly, so Dalmasca as a whole holds great promise there, if it ever gets to be showcased outside of just an Alliance raid.

Hingashi also just has a shitton of potential. Warring feudal lords, yokai, hell any number of interesting plots could be pulled from Japanese history. Its a goldmine, and the history that the devs would be most familiar with-- It'd shock me if they wouldn't want to do something with that.
silversoul0658: I would love to see more of Dalmasca, Hinganshi or Old Sharlayan. But at this point I take anything if it comes with a competent enough script and cast of characters.

Having said that, why go to other reflections when there is still to much for discover about Hydaelyn?
tybie9468: I would love to hear some lore about the Warring Triad! Equilibrium is my favorite FFXIV song and there's plenty of lore from it alone. Coming from later in 14's life cycle, I would assume many of us haven't heard the details of the stories
Zerix3Dragonkin: Mericydia is probably what I want to learn more of most. Dragons, some of the races of Man, we know they have Roes and Hyurs at least, some plant-like folk, and some sort of dracotaur looking people, who may or may not be related to the dragon races. Of these, we also don't know what has occurred in...what, several thousand years? It's been at least 1500 since the 6th Calamity, and the last time Allag interacted was before the 3rd? Almost anything could have happened in the intervening time, save perhaps a dragon dying of old age.
Fgtr4Life: I'm kind of annoyed that they followed up on all of Emet's hints so quickly. That's a lot of content I feel we just blasted through that could have been spread out a bit more evenly. :/
Sil3ntLynx: I still want to know more of Tural, I'm curious about the people further South and I want to finally see the Azure hills and the mages that Martyn told us so much about. After that, Meracydia is obviously alluring, though in my head Mount Rokkon was mistakenly thought to be the Blindfrost allusion, therefore I wonder what's there. Another aetherfont? Eh, too banal. A group akin to the Inuit? Or perhaps a group of proto Garleans who eschewed technology and conquest for tranquility, even in the cold

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