Bismarck

[Anonymoose]

If only they could be trusted! In 1.0, most NPCs referred to Dalamud as something that'd been in the heavens since the beginning of time, something later revealed to be off by at least a few thousand years. I usually have to attach mythology to the present-day subject. For instance, the Keeper of the Lake and the Battle of Silvertear Skies would end up hosting most of the mythology of Midgardsormr, and those events would be fitted to a chronological timeline, since 1562 is known. Most of the time, that works out best, seeing as my notes for Dalamud hosted such things as "mythologically Menphina's loyal hound" and "scholars consider it one hunk of rock orbiting another hunk of rock" and "accused of glowing red due to the rise of Ifrit," and yet we were still able to suss out in Patch 1.18:

Is Dalamud really a moon? 'Celestial Body' does denote a natural object, but maybe the term is being used loosely. Perhaps the red hue it takes is an activation protocol of some kind; some kind of Magitek that powers a sort of base of operations that we'll have to invade someday a la FFXI's Tu'Lia...

That's why to discern the truth of the sea serpent, I'm still stuck on little knowns like Nepto Dragon, lol.

And all of that could just be wrong, too. Let us not forget the time this tried and true method led me to the epiphany that the five races were blessed by the primal Siren based the name "The Echo," some dialog from my favorite drunken pirate, and Answers having a harp in it.

Ah, well. It's the journey that counts, and the forum is the best inn on the path.

[EDIT] inb4: "Using Anonymoose's method I have discerned that the Vanu Vanu are actually over-tempered Sea Wolf ancestors."

[treuhavik]

If only they could be trusted!

Seriously. Want an even simpler example? Look no further than the Deepvoid Deathmouse, lol.

Native Eorzeans are the main source of our information and it's painfully obvious most know very, very, very little about the nature of their world, let alone it's history. Which is exactly why I can't help but feel every Eorzean myth should be taken as exactly that until proven otherwise (which will probably never happen when it comes to the really important things, like The Twelve). Hells, even the myths themselves seem mostly inaccurate, as you can see in the discussion leading to this one.

[Nialle]

Native Eorzeans are the main source of our information and it's painfully obvious most know very, very, very little about the nature of their world, let alone it's history. Which is exactly why I can't help but feel every Eorzean myth should be taken as exactly that until proven otherwise (which will probably never happen when it comes to the really important things, like The Twelve). Hells, even the myths themselves seem mostly inaccurate, as you can see in the discussion leading to this one.

With the amount of total civilization collapses (basically multiple Dark Ages) throughout Eorzea's history, it seems very natural that this should be the case. Lots of gaps in knowledge, lots of hazy myths whose roots in reality are uncertain (or nonexistant).