In-game bestiary

In a lot of FF games, you can find out information about your enemies. My favourite was FFXII, where it would have little details you could discover. Why not have something similar in FFXIV? This would go perfect as a tie-in with a card game, but I'll leave that discussion for the existing threads on that matter. In this thread, throw ideas around for an in-game bestiary! It could be part of a quest, perhaps. It could ask us to gather information on the various species, and we could go about fighting them. I would love it to be like XII where once you fight them once, you get some information, and when you fight them enough times, you get even more. Thoughts? :)

I suppose it could also include a rough idea on stats or something, but I'd prefer a bit of background to each of the species for the sake of immersion.

In-game bestiary {Yes, please}. The world is dead enough as it is, and while even more text wouldn't help the "being alive" issue, at the very least it'd add a little more lore... And considering how they've already given out lore-bits on various monsters through the official site(s), it shouldn't be too much of a pain to write such things for the remaining ones.