Lore found in The Great Gubal Library (Hard) [SPOILERS YO!]

[Fiaryn]

As someone who is still not particularly happy with that localization choice, that Amdapori book really irked me.

A sure sign that you take yourself entirely too seriously my friend.

I enjoy the Fire/Fira/Firaga/Firaja system more as well, but the book is still funny.

[Shadotterdan]

Speaking of lore, how about some of the references sprinkled about as well. The various mechanical creations on the upper floors are based on jobs from FFIII that haven't gotten much love in the series, primarily Magus, Scholar, and Viking. The Apanda is a recurring enemy that appeared in FFV in the dimensional rift as a palette swap of Byblos and in FFT as minions in the fight against Elidibus. On the lower floors, many of the names of the voidsent do not bode well for the books in the library ranging from bibliophobe (afraid of books) to Bibliovore and Bibliophage (both meaning an eater of books) and the living flame's attack of Bibliocide as a roomwide attack. Good thing we got there when we did.

[DarthSanguine]

Probably middle-aged, by our standards? She's got a daughter, and despite the general dilapidated state of the Hinterlands, it hasn't been abandoned all that long. Y'shtola was born and raised there, and she's only in, what, her 20s?

Actually, the archons have to all be in their 30s at least, since they first arrived in the city-states 15 years prior to ARR, and they looked exactly the same age then as they did in ARR. In one of the Tales from the Calamity it is mentioned that Thancred claimed to be 18 I think at that point, which would make him 33 in ARR. Of the main 4, I think from oldest to youngest it's probably Papalymo, Y'shtola, Thancred, Yda.

[swiss_Momo]

I don't know about the others,but the German description of the wind-up Y'shtola states that she's 23

[Kallera]

A sure sign that you take yourself entirely too seriously my friend.

I enjoy the Fire/Fira/Firaga/Firaja system more as well, but the book is still funny.

I get the joke, I just don't find it funny seeing the devs glorify taking familiar concepts and butchering them.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Welp, what you gonna do. It is what it is.

[Rocl]

I get the joke, I just don't find it funny seeing the devs glorify taking familiar concepts and butchering them.

Yeah I was pretty mad when FF8 introduced the ra/ga/ja system too

[Yasuhiro]

Yeah I was pretty mad when FF8 introduced the ra/ga/ja system too

You mean a system that's always been in Final Fantasy since Japanese releases? The numbered system was only in FF1, II(IV) and III(VI) Because of space limitations and FFVII because that translation was mediocre. Ra/Ga/Ja is the proper naming convention for these spells even Record Keepers FFXIV events uses them. Koji Fox obviously didn't have faith in the playerbases intelligence if he thought they couldn't get their head around suffixes

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Didn't final fantasy 11 use numbered spells too?

[Zorzi]

Didn't final fantasy 11 use numbered spells too?

It used both. Strength was measured in I-V, but -ga spells were AoE (and also tiered I-V.) So Thunder II and Thundaga II both existed. -ja spells existed too. I can't remember what they did, I think they were AoE and decreased in damage if you cast it successively.