Once thriving but now fading Baron in my world, only thriving in Ishgard in yours... What makes dragoon traditions so unlikely to spread out, I wonder? Not everyone has the legs for it, certainly, but not everyone has the potential to cast spells and mages are everywhere.

[But between that and the chocobos, he's confident that's another world he can add to the 'close, potentially enough for the gods' war' list. Certainly not Cloud's or Squall's, though. And hopefully not one that was visited by the Creator.]

And that species barely scratches the surface of this world's strangeness. It has sentient swords, sentient food-like creatures, harmless red fish that grow into Leviathan-esque sea serpents as they age... They display even greater variety than monsters, though they usually have better personalities.