Lore Book Revelations

[StarDrake]

Yes, the localization team messed up.

No, it goes even beyond that - the confusion about the gender of Nael is in the original Japanese too. The White Raven lyrics were commissioned as if Nael was a guy, the role was written for a dude and the confusion of Alisaie is in all versions of the script, because the art team always intended for Nael to be a woman and for the ARR content to contain a big unmasking event... one that the writing team didn't get wind of until Nael's T9 model was done.

It was a breakdown of communication and it's a multi-pronged mistake, and assigning blame to just one section of Development 5 isn't fair in this case.

Would it be alright if I made a separate thread for discussion of the origins of the Spoken races, their clans and their evolution?

I would be down because a number of my private theories got proven right (all Dunesfolk are Mhachi! Nym was originally majority-Plainsfolk and some of them eventually came back to Limsa!) and attentive reading more or less stops exactly short of spelling out the origins of the Au Ra.