Encyclopædia Eorzea ("Lore Book") Bug Report Thread

As was said on the stream, despite some hefty QA that squashed most of the bugs, the Encyclopædia Eorzea still has a few typos and errors.
Hey, it strives to mimic an ancient tome; you ever seen the typos that crept into ancient tomes? I can barely find a clean trade paperback.

This thread is explicitly for reporting and discussing potential errata.

Keep it as neat, organized, and polite as you can; let's try to help them squash the rest of these bugs.

PAGE: 089
HEADING: Sea Wolves
SUBHEADING: Nomenclature

Says the suffix -wyn means "aughter". Should probably be "daughter".

Going by the naming conventions thread, I'm assuming there's no ancient grammar sorcery going on here, lol.

PAGE: 053
HEADING: Timeline
YEAR: 1561

Refers to the former sultan of Ul'dah (father of Nanamo) as Sasabaru. In Version 1.0, this name was Sasabal Ul Sisibal. This potential error is complex, however. The name Sasabaru is also used in A Realm Reborn within the fishing log entry for Loyal Pleco (which ironically seems to contain a joke about swapping L for R).

The German variant of the same entry, likewise, says Sasabaru now whereas the name was Sasabal Ul Sisibal in 1.0.

The French version of the same entry, however, retains the 1.0 name: Sasabal Ul Sisibal.

PAGE: 193
HEADING: Biographies
NPC: Una Tayuun

Refers to her as once having been part of the Circle of Knowing. She was never seen with Louisoix, never mentioned such, and has no Sharlayan sage tattoo. I believe this was meant to say she was part of the Path of the Twelve, which is what she implies when she arrives at the Waking Sands for a little while in A Realm Reborn.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Una Tayuun

Why don't any o' these blokes know who I am!? I swear I was one o' 'em Scions o' the Seventh Dawn! Only we didn't have such a fancy name back then, an' the headquarters was in a far more convenient location. At least, I think it was... Or is me mind playin' tricks on me? Gods, what's wrong with me? Why can't I remember it more clearly?

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PAGE: 211
HEADING: Biographies
NPC: Ysayle Dangoulain

Second column uses what looks like an open-quotation rather than an apostrophe.

Iceheart ‘s

Iceheart’s

PAGE: 214
HEADING: The Warriors of Darkness
NPC: Naillebert

Uses the word eachother's. This be two words, I believe: each other's.

PAGE: 087
HEADING: Seekers of the Sun
Section: Culture

Is this a possible error? In the Miqo'te Naming conventions post, Nunh status does not equate leadership in a tribe and it is a rare occurrence. The culture section states "with each tribe centered around a strong breeding male (nunh) whose duty it is to form a harem and lead his people to glory and prosperity."

Is this perhaps erroneous a statement?

(Disclaimer: don't have the book yet)

PAGE 85
HEADING: Dunesfolk
Section: Nomenclature

Not sure if this is a bug or just some really ambiguous phrasing, but it says that the spelling and pronunciation of Lalafellin names is due to them only have 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u.) Except I'm pretty sure that the other races have the same amount of vowels as well, it wouldn't make sense unless their old language had no consonants.

Is this a bug? does the old Lalafell tongue have only 5 letters?

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Originally Posted by Morningstar1337

(Disclaimer: don't have the book yet)

PAGE 85
HEADING: Dunesfolk
Section: Nomenclature

Not sure if this is a bug or just some really ambiguous phrasing, but it says that the spelling and pronunciation of Lalafellin names is due to them only have 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u.) Except I'm pretty sure that the other races have the same amount of vowels as well, it wouldn't make sense unless their old language had no consonants.

Is this a bug? does the old Lalafell tongue have only 5 letters?

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In this particular context, they could be speaking about linguistic vowels, diphthongs, etc. So something like that standard Latin pronunciation of just those letters. (Or Japanese). In that sense, there wouldn't be a linguistic vowel for the diphthong [äɪ̯] for "eye" or "light" anywhere. Or the "a" sound in something like "apple" as well, since that vowel sound isn't technically contained in a strict pronunciation of the vowels.

A vowel chart with audio examples can be found here for all the IPA sounds. It doesn't include diphthongs because those are technically combo sounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vo...art_with_audio

It's a little something that's getting lost in translation, and reiichi is mostly right - the real-world in-joke of Lalafell names is that they're all created using exclusively Japanese gojūon and yōon phonetics. タタル・タル (Tataru Taru), テレヂ・アデレヂ (Teledji Adeledji/"Tereji Adereji"), ロロリト・ナナリト (Lolorito Nanarito), パパシャン・ノノシャン (Papashan Nonoshan), ヂュララ・ヂュラ (Dewlala Dewla/"Jurara Jura")... you get the idea. While other names might be transcribed into katakana for Japanese pronunciation, the Lalafell names are built within Japanese phonetics. Japanese has only five normal vowel sounds yes, we can split hairs about how many yōon sounds work and are romanized, but with no real equivalent of things like "hard A vs. soft A", so Lalafell names also possess only the five vowels of Japanese - soft a ("ah"), soft i ("ee"), high u ("ooh"), soft e ("eh"), and low o ("ohh").

This is the point the book was trying to convey, but without referencing the real-world conceit of Lalafellin names.