Encyclopædia Eorzea ("Lore Book") Bug Report Thread

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PAGE: 12-13
HEADING: The Near East - Ilsabard or Thavnair?
SECTION: Geography

After quickly toppling several nearby nations, the Garleans, now an empire, set their sights on warmer climes and led their armies across the mountains and into southern Ilsabard - an area known to Eorzeans as the Near East…

To the south of Ilsabard lies a great sea known as the Bounty… The most prominent of those civilizations would have to be that of Radz-at-Han, located on Thavnair - the Bounty’s largest landmass.

This seems to conflict with in game lore that uses Thavnair and the Near East as inseparable terms that are nearly completely interchangeable.

Our impromptu excursion to the Near East afforded me the opportunity to sample authentic Thavnairian cuisine. I should like to introduce it to the Scions, but achieving the perfect balance of spices is key…

This silk has been spun from thread created by a worm found only on the Near Eastern island of Thavnair.

In response to recent fluctuations in the market, the [Brugaire Consortium] is sourcing these arms from the city-state of Radz-at-Han, far across the Jade Sea. I should note at this juncture that these are no ordinary weapons—they are fashioned from a peculiar stone called Giantsgall, a material traditionally used in the making of Near Eastern arms.

To list a few of about 30 or so other correlations. Additionally, as yet in game, we've never once seen any part of Ilsabard referred to as anything but "the northern great continent"?

Until some fifty years ago, Garlemald was a remote and sparsely populated nation which held little more than a fraction of the northern continent of Ilsabard. But with the arrival of a technological golden age and the concurrent emergence of a brilliant young legatus—now the reigning emperor—in the span of a single generation Garlemald established itself as one of the most formidable forces in all of Hydaelyn.

In the name of the Twelve and all that is good, you must cease this folly at once! The Ixal and Amalj'aa are not enemies!Your enemies lie in the northeast—the Empire! They are the true threat to Eorzea. What will come of quarreling amongst yourselves!?

My assumption is that the region known as the Near East must include all of these islands and small landmasses in the Bounty / Jade Sea as well as the southern tip of Ilsabard, but the revelation seemed to come out of left field is all?