Encyclopædia Eorzea ("Lore Book") Bug Report Thread

[Fernehalwes]

Greetings all!

Thank you for taking the time to point out all Lore Book’s many flubs (no sarcasm intended!)

We did our best to clean up the book as best as we could before printing, but many appear to have made it through the editing process...and for that I apologize. DEEPLY apologize. A lot of the things you are bringing up are legit errors (Althyk, the Scholar...ULP!)—the result of a lot of long hours and not a thorough enough check process. Another reason behind some of these is simply inconsistencies within the game itself, especially when it came to 1.x lore and the crossover into 2.x and 3.x lore. A lot of 1.x stuff (especially the pre-Yoshida stuff) got lost in a haze once the baton touch occurred. This thread is actually helping bring to light some of that, and hopefully we can get things in-game fixed.

I’m still recovering from last week’s Fest, so I’m not yet going to touch upon everything in thread, but there is one issue brought up here that I wanted to address: Leveva’s mother.

In the lore book, it states that Leveva’s mother died in childbirth, even though the woman is mentioned specifically in several of the Astrologian job quests.

Here is the story behind this:

Leveva’s birth mother is, in fact, DEAD. She died in childbirth as the lore book states. Leveva’s father never really recovered from this, which can be attributed to his desire to travel the world and focus on his realm of study—he needed something to help him forget his pain. However, he recognized that his daughter would need someone to raise her, so he gave the task to his childless younger sister, who raised Leveva like her own daughter. With her father gone, it was only natural that Leveva saw this woman (the only woman to raise her) as a mother figure, and she naturally took to calling her “mother,” even after she was old enough to realize that she was actually her aunt.

It is my fault that I did not make this clear in the original Astrologian quest, and so I have gone back and tweaked a line in the quest spoken by Jannequinard from:

Well, then might I suggest a rooftop garden directly to the south of here? Your father and I would spend many a night there gazing up at the stars and prattling on about our dreams into the small hours. It is where he first told me of your mother...and the child she was carrying.

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Well, then might I suggest a rooftop garden directly to the south of here? Your father and I would spend many a night there gazing up at the stars and prattling on about our dreams into the small hours. It is where he first told me of your mother─your birth mother, not the aunt who cared for you after Lady Byrde died in labor─and the child she was carrying.

This comes in the last quest, after Leveva has already mentioned her mother and the fact that she might be kidnapped by Sevestre. Those will stay as-is, as for Leveva, there is no reason to clarify that she isn’t speaking of her birth mother...because for her, her aunt is the only “mother” she has ever known. Having Jannequinard reveal it here, when talking about Leveva’s father, seemed more natural.

Again, I apologize about leaving this important part out of the original quest. The updated text should be implemented into the game for 3.45.

Thank you guys for bringing everything to our attention! This past week has been amazing for me and Oda-san, and we owe it all to you!

[Anonymoose]

<...> many appear to have made it through the editing process...and for that I apologize. DEEPLY apologize.

hopefully we can get things in-game fixed.

I'm no less impressed with the quality and speed at which it came out, really, given that it's 300 pages of things that—in many cases—had to be consolidated, stitched together, and polished up. Looking at the "front" of the big picture, I'd never guess how much duct tape and Elmer's was on the other side of certain areas.

Besides, trivia for text bugs is a time-honored tradition!
(And I hear errors make first editions more valuable, anyway.)

I’m still recovering from last week’s Fest

The team crushed it, btw. I know a sophomore event aims to objectively improve on the debut, but it's unfairly difficult to not subjectively lose the magic of the original. The team pulled it off, though! (Aside from that one thing, but that seemed out of your hands. #MerchSurvivor)

Thank you guys for bringing everything to our attention! This past week has been amazing for me and Oda-san, and we owe it all to you!

May the JP launch go just as well! We'll keep looking, here.