Part II of our WotG journey will contain a guided tour through the streets of
Southern San d'Oria (S). It's the only zone of the red city which you can access in the past.
This is where we start our tour – The Moogle Residence – The furniture inside looks really fancy, but there is not much more added value. In fact, you can't even use your storage from the present. Makes sense though 
Now let's continue our walk from outside our Moogle house and try to make our way
to the center of Southern San d'Oria (S).
The decor seems a little more detailed. Some banners and different NPCs were added.
All SHOPS are closed in the past ! So there is not really much you can do in these streets, but to listen to the fresh Sandy music and complete the two quests that are already implemented.
A nice top view on Southern San d'Oria (S) Plaza
This is where you would normally find the chocobo stables. In the past there are just a few npc soldiers who are staring at some chocobos. You can't rent these chocobos (perhaps in one of the next updates?).
Center of South San d'oria with a closed gate in the distance which should lead
us to Northern San d'Oria (S), but is currently inaccessible.
The Auction house with a local pig. Of course the auction house isn't working in the past, but here it functions as a place where you can sign up for all sorts of mini-missions, most comparable to the assault missions in ToAU. The NPC at the tree (you can hardly see him) is the person who teleports you to the battlezones where beastmen are attacking the outposts (like Jugner, E-Ronfaure,…) and you're able to team up with the allied forces to hold them off. The fights are a mélange of Garrison and Besieged and will give you a decent chunk of EXP at the end of each battle (excellent to solo or while waiting for LFG). The more you show your face on the battlegrounds, the higher you will climb up in rank and status on the warladder as well.
A higher valued medal means for example more EXP as reward.
But more details on the actual Campaign struggle in a later update…
Back to our tour, this is the exit to East Ronfaure (S). Certain zones like La Theine and
West Ronfaure just don't seem to exist in the past…
Curious how this will work out in the future
This is how East Ronfaure looks like as soon as you exit Southern San d'Oria (S)
And this is how the exterior of Southern San d'Oria looks like by night.
As I experience it, there is just not much content yet in the new expansion. Besides the addition of Campaign and the brushing up of certain zones in the past, it's obvious that SE still has a lot of work to do contentwise. Then again, the content of FFXI expansions were always far from complete when they got launched. It will take at least a year of SE version updates, before we can truly review what Wings of the Goddess really has to offer.
