1.0 Resources
Videos of the different storylines from 1.0 up to 2.0. All video great to watch but can be hard to read at times and time consuming.
http://danforthwright.blogspot.com/p/ffxiv-10.html

A written version of the story and contains a large amount of lore assembled by Anonymoose with the help of the community and devs, I think.
http://gamerescape.com/2013/08/21/th...e-white-raven/