User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-3315689-20130728153935/@comment-8874090-20130728184017

It's a very good idea, but I don't think it's true. On the raviente benchmark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_GS61DtvPo), you see that there was once a raviente in the area, who somehow made a volcano erupt. Then you see the same volcano, probablly a thousand years later or more. It has become an island and the volcano is long inactive. You also see the same raviente, who is now much older, and because of that, stronger and differently coloured. At least that's how I explain the video to myself, since it's the only thing that makes sense.

Now, you can clearly see the island on 1:48 and you can see that it's a full island and doesn't have a hole inside like the island on the map does. So it can't be the same island, unless at least one of the following is true:

1. The island seen in the video is just a part of a much larger archipelago, which is shaped like a hollow island.

2. As, you said, the volcano erupted afterward and destroyed parts of the island. I highly doubt this one, since in the video, you can see that the volcano has been inactive for millenia, so it's very unlikely that it will ever erupt again.

Sorry for the wall of text.