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Originally Posted by Fernehalwes

It's simply talking about the Eorzean Alliance and 'her' three hands (Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, and Ul'dah). :)

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. . . That iconography choice was made back when Isghard was also a member, huh?

Four arms you can balance pretty easily, three arms probably makes the propaganda artists of Eorzea cry at night.

This explains a great deal about the state of things in Eorzea. Now I want to see newbie THM or ACN NPCs that are just learning to read accidentally casting spells from a cookbook, maybe summoning a Carbuncle with a tomato for a head or something.

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Originally Posted by Limecat

This explains a great deal about the state of things in Eorzea. Now I want to see newbie THM or ACN NPCs that are just learning to read accidentally casting spells from a cookbook, maybe summoning a Carbuncle with a tomato for a head or something.

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That's assuming you need to know how to read to learn Thaumaturgy. It's very likely you just need to be trained.

Arcanists though... yeah I see the need to read there.

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Originally Posted by blackbluesky

That's assuming you need to know how to read to learn Thaumaturgy. It's very likely you just need to be trained.

Arcanists though... yeah I see the need to read there.

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There's a great deal in the THM questline about the book: Thaumaturgy: The Yawning Abyss so it is likely that they do need literacy.

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Originally Posted by Clawtooth

There's a great deal in the THM questline about the book: Thaumaturgy: The Yawning Abyss so it is likely that they do need literacy.

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In Version 1.0, it was a running joke that the guild receptionist, Yayake, would threaten you with needing to memorize the contents of a very large stack of books before deciding that perhaps, for now, you might learn more in the field... this time. So, either literacy rates among adventurers are, as Ferne suggests, much higher, or she knew most people couldn't read and was just a terrible, terrible person.

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Originally Posted by Fernehalwes

But! But! In the movies when you zoom in on a picture, there's always this button that you click that magically un-pixelates the image and shows you a clear view of the bad guy's face! Don't you have one of those?

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Enhance...

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

In Version 1.0, it was a running joke that the guild receptionist, Yayake, would threaten you with needing to memorize the contents of a very large stack of books before deciding that perhaps, for now, you might learn more in the field... this time. So, either literacy rates among adventurers are, as Ferne suggests, much higher, or she knew most people couldn't read and was just a terrible, terrible person.

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The NPC refers to it in 2.0 as well. Something along the lines of "So you have to read all the tomes of this book before anything else... Or that is what you should have done if we didn't say it was pointless a few years ago".

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Originally Posted by Wolfandre

Enhance...

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UNCROP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp77AjBdlEc

Funnily enough, the racial lore for Midlander hyur have long stated even back before 1.0 was launched that they are "trained in letters from a very early age", meaning that most Midlanders at least are literate, if not highly educated. There was a thread a while ago that debated just how educated Eorzeans were which had some surprising ideas.

I guess though that we now know exactly why the books you can buy as furnishings for your house/private chambers have blank pages. ;)

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Originally Posted by Magis

UNCROP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp77AjBdlEc

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