Lore Book Revelations

[Zohar_Lahar]

I wonder what it has to say about the Fourth and Sixth Astral Era histories.

[Writer]

Lores about Jobs (RPers freaking out about limited amount should be happier):
http://amdapori.tumblr.com/post/1520...-and-when-soul

[Yuella]

poor Limsa doesn't have a job crystal originated there

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

I wonder what it has to say about the Fourth and Sixth Astral Era histories.

Anything you wanna know in particular?

The 6th Astral gets a massive, 11-page writeup (basically a summary of 1.x), and then also a detailed, 7-page timeline. The 4th Astral gets a few paragraphs - basically, it was a sort of Dark Ages, where technology and science were shunned (with Allag being taught as a cautionary myth, hence the later assumption that it was naught more than a metaphor for hubris as opposed to a real civilization). The Eorzean alphabet originated here as a means to restrict information flow to the clergy, keeping the population illiterate.

[jomoru]

Anything you wanna know in particular?

The 6th Astral gets a massive, 11-page writeup (basically a summary of 1.x), and then also a detailed, 7-page timeline. The 4th Astral gets a few paragraphs - basically, it was a sort of Dark Ages, where technology and science were shunned (with Allag being taught as a cautionary myth, hence the later assumption that it was naught more than a metaphor for hubris as opposed to a real civilization). The Eorzean alphabet originated here as a means to restrict information flow to the clergy, keeping the population illiterate.

Do they give anything on how long Umbral eras usually last?

[D-Gold]

Is there any info on the fairy that appears when using angel feathers(sch lb3). I am curious since I haven't seen a quest reference her.

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

Do they give anything on how long Umbral eras usually last?

The First Umbral Era section, which introduces the idea of Astral and Umbral Eras, describes the latter as "short, yet harrowing"; the Second Umbral era is the most specific, saying that lightning razed the land "for a full twelvemoon and a day" (although it's a bit hard to tell if that's the whole of the Era, or just the duration of its Calamity). For the most part, the other Umbral Eras are described in broad terms like "moons" and "years".

Is there any info on the fairy that appears when using angel feathers(sch lb3). I am curious since I haven't seen a quest reference her.

Actually, the section for each Job details their LB3 as one of their Tricks of the Trade. Scholar's seems to indicate that it's just the usual faerie that executes LB3. From the book:

Angel Feathers
"The faerie spread her angelic wings, and a shimmering light exploded over the battlefield. As it washed over me, I felt my pain subside, and where I had thought myself fatally broken, I was whole again."
- Anonymous adventurer describing the healing power of a scholar's faerie companion

[Balipu]

Lores about Jobs (RPers freaking out about limited amount should be happier):
http://amdapori.tumblr.com/post/1520...-and-when-soul

This really sounds like the lore explanation for the inevitable and sad removement of base classes.

[ZhaneX]

Lores about Jobs (RPers freaking out about limited amount should be happier):
http://amdapori.tumblr.com/post/1520...-and-when-soul

This really sounds like the lore explanation for the inevitable and sad removement of base classes.

On the one hand, stuff like Gridania further studying the potential for wider spread use of Bard's Warsongs was already established within the game's story...

But then, no lore on any of the classes? At all? That is...worrisome.

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

But then, no lore on any of the classes? At all? That is...worrisome.

Well, the areas where the guilds are located are detailed in the section on each city, and the guild leaders all get write ups as well, and between the two some background info and origins of each Class is present. So it's not like there's nothing, they just don't get their own special multi-page section.