Lalafell Forehead Gem Accessory vs Garlean Eye?

[ExKage]

One that's actually confirmed, some Lamia freed from Dalamud wreckage end up in Sastasha HM and their names show Lominsans assuming that they, like Madison, were over-Drowned people because they know nothing about Allagan technology.

Oh, OH! I see what you mean now. The game names the Lamia as Over-drowned people as a case of the misinformed because those people just -assume- they must be overdrowned because they have no idea what the Allagan technology is. And I didn't even make the connection that the misinformation was being presented through the game hud text and not (for some reason my perception was this) an NPC telling us "oh those overdrowned!!! people!"

[Anonymoose]

That's interesting! Where is this confirmed?

Funny enough, in the same interview question I was paraphrasing a few posts ago, lol.

In many games, NPCs tell you exactly what’s going on in the world. They just know everything about the lore and everything is true. In the real world, people don’t always have the answers, even though they talk like they know what they’re talking about. We wanted Eorzea to have that feel, as well. There are lots of different theories, but not everyone has the right answers. People sometimes assume things that are relative to their own lives; if a Lominsan sees these Lamia with their scimitars and they think pirate, what else could it be, for them? They don’t know about Allagan technology.

The mileage we get out of those interviews on the forums is amazing <3

Isn't it also possible that Allagan Lamia ARE created from over-Tempering, or a similar process?

In theory, it definitely could as we head towards the fringe. Before 3.00 kind of downplayed the significance of the six primals being elementally aspected, I had thought it possible that perhaps Allag created Lamia by tapping into the Essence of the Whorl, so to speak - the essence of the Land from which Leviathan was shaped with Sahagin folklore and expectations (hell, to take it further, I thought perhaps the sahagin were created that way). There are lots of details which remain unknown, though Occam's Razor has a pretty good track record even in FFXIV, nowadays.

And I didn't even make the connection that the misinformation was being presented through the game hud text

Before I was positive that the system text, too, could reflect in-world assumptions, the mob Deepvoid Deathmouse used to bug me so bad.