Lore book? Why not a Lore Database App for FFXIV?

[Theodric]

Aren't there plans for some sort of in-game 'bestiary' at some point? I could have sworn I read that somewhere...but I can't recall where. I'll no doubt buy the lore book for my own use, though, since as a role-player it'll be great for adding further depth to my characters as well as learning more about Garlean affairs which I'm rather fond of. Hopefully it'll be relatively painless to get a copy shipped to Scotland...

At any rate a lore book will be incredibly useful if it expands on stuff that isn't really displayed in the game itself. I'd love to learn more about the Au Ra, for example, since I can count the number of Auri NPC's I've encountered on two hands.

[Anonymoose]

Aren't there plans for some sort of in-game 'bestiary' at some point? I could have sworn I read that somewhere...

It's come up a few times officially:

2011

Spoke to Yoshida himself about this idea and he said that he would like to implement a bestiary if they can make the appropriate parameter adjustments during the battle fixes.

1.0 Official Forums

2013

For those playing solo, there will be quests, guildleves, as well as some other casual content we have planned, such as the "bestiary."

RPGamer

2015

Regarding the bestiary, there is a lot of back-end saving data necessary because we need to flag which monsters hasn’t been killed so if we increase this to Level 60, we need more save data for that. However, we’re also suffering about inventory and armory. There are not much slots available so we want to focus more on inventory and armory slots rather than bestiary. However, we’re trying to work on some new contents, new brands contents instead of Bestiary.

FFDREAM

A while back, I also asked (as an aside, after an interview) if, hypothetically speaking, I were to spend a while working out the kinks of the bestiary, if I would suddenly find that time wasted, since SE was making their own. More or less I was told that there are lots of "databank" kind of things they'd like to add one day (sightseeing log, triad card flavor, minion flavor, gear compendium, bestiary, etc.), but, "Maybe probably please don't look forward to it too much anytime soonish." on the bestiary front.

Whether the year I've spent on it was "anytime soonish" and I'll totally regret this sometime soonish-er? Perhaps in the lore book itself?

... We'll see, I guess, lol. I would be my luck tho. ><