Gazing into Grimoires Galore

[Catapult]

But now the next big question...

If the SMN/SCH tomes lack the geometric shapes seen in the ACN tomes, how do we manage to still cast the ACN spells?

[DoctaruRavenbe]

But now the next big question...

If the SMN/SCH tomes lack the geometric shapes seen in the ACN tomes, how do we manage to still cast the ACN spells?

Either rote memory or crib sheets.

[Raestloz]

But now the next big question...

If the SMN/SCH tomes lack the geometric shapes seen in the ACN tomes, how do we manage to still cast the ACN spells?

There are small notes at the edges of the pages

[SamaelVantas]

I want a Death note cause reasons

[dubstephalflife]

I find it interesting that the Scholar relic (and the level 50 Immortal Flames book) actually look like illuminated manuscripts written in Eorzean gibberish (though considerably less colorful than manuscripts). It really gives it an interesting and rather old feel.

I haven't particularly looked at the summoner books, but I have one from Stone Vigil that actually has reverse colors, white text on black background (there's your Deathnote, Samael). It'd be pretty interesting to see pictures of tomes and compare them, see how much of a difference there are between distinct tomes (like dungeon drops, special books only goldsmiths can make, company books, and relics)

[Niniyo]

I want a Death note cause reasons

Some arcanist: "Ifrit, Lord of the Inferno"

The next day: "The Sagolii Desert has been beset with extremely frigid conditions, with only parts of Coerthas as it's rival. Conjurers are at a loss to explain it, but, upon hearing of the death of many Amalj'aa, and the falling of their primal, the Immortal Flames has responded practically, providing warm uniforms, but otherwise seems unconcerned about discovering the cause of the malaligned aether."

[Alistaire]

That's neat. I kinda wonder what they actually say, though, the grimoires.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start.

[SummonerSenah]

Does anyone else find it interesting that you wield your grimoire with your right hand, but write in it with your left? It seems every single arcanist is left-handed.

I noticed that and used it to my roleplay advantage by making it important to my character's backstory. ^_^

[Apoptomon]

Sorry to bump this thread, but I remembered seeing this thread from a while ago, and was reminded of it after hearing the talk about glyphs in the recent post-E3 gamerescape Fernehalwes interview. After getting my SMN relic I had taken this screenshot of the inside:

The text definitely isn't standard Eorzean font, but I'm also curious about the drawings:n the right-hand page there's that circle that I'm guessing could either be a summoning pentagram or some kind of Vitruvian man/chi-esque aetherflow diagram, and above that the three arrows look kind of like Halone's symbol (though I'm not sure what she would have to do with summoning)...

[gornotck]

Greetings, grimoire worms!

With the amount of time spent in front of grimoires as arcanist, summoner, and scholar you may have thought to yourself, "Every grimoire seems to have the same content--I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" Well, this isn't exactly the case and I'd like to drop a bit of knowledge about this that I read in a book (okay I lied it's from the Lore Team!).

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It would be the diagrams related to summoning ebi primals, as Camate so helpfully mentioned the Lore Team mentioning. The triangles may be deltas.