Lore Book Revelations

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

I'm still reading through mine - only about 100 pages in - and the book itself is kind of...interesting. Gorgeous and filled with fascinating information, to be sure, but it sometimes comes across as having been written by multiple (fictional) authors, as what they know and don't know seems kind of arbitrary and changes from chapter to chapter - for instance, as we all know, the book confirms Nael to have actually been his sister, and yet refers to Nael via male pronouns throughout the portion that summarizes 1.0's story, making no mention of Eula.

It's not really throwing off my enjoyment of it at all, so it's sort of nitpicky, and I can't wait to learn a bit more about..well, everything. A couple things of note so far:

-Ozma is, astonishingly, not mentioned anywhere. The section on the War of the Magi is quite lengthy, but aside from an appearance in an illustration of the Pyramid, everyone's favorite superboss is completely MIA. This seems odd, considering it swallowed a huge chunk of Nym; you'd think that would at least get a mention, even if Ozma itself was unknown to the author.

-Quite a few interesting tidbits out of the 6th Astral Era timeline, too. So it seems that, while Rabanastre is an Othardian nation, Dalmasca is located in Ilsabard. And speaking of Othard, it seems the Bozja Citadel is located there; is that something we already knew? I feel like it wasn't.

Cool stuff! Regarding Au Ra lore:

I gotta join in on the racial lore requests: I've theorized for a while about Au Ra being related to demons in some way or another, is there anything in the lore book about their physiology that may hint at this? I've heard about their horns and tails, but what else is there?

They're presented in the same way as anything else - as a Race of Man that just happens to have horns and scales. There are no implications towards them being related to "demons" in any way.

So the two clans get along? That's.... interesting.

Well, it's part of their creation myth, not a statement on their current relations. While they're not exactly at each others' throats in modern times, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say they get along; between the Xaela being suspicious towards any outsiders and the fact that they live in such different pats of Othard, they probably actually see very little of one another.

On to City-State lore now!

(also, Moose! You were at FanFest! I wanted you to sign my Encyclopedia, and then realized I had no way of identifying you even if we did cross paths. Probably should've thought of that first...)