Lore Book Revelations

[CyberGoblin]

Does the lore book cover the Heart of Sabik at all? All that's mentioned of it in the game is that its older than Allag

[Zohar_Lahar]

I think Balipu worded it awkwardly, but his point was correct. Unukulhai's story told of how his world was consumed by darkness and lost due to great warriors using primal-infused auracite that slowly corrupted them. Since we know all the other lost reflection worlds were Rejoined via calamity it was logical deduction that Unukulhai's world had to have been the 13th as it was the only one to have been lost due to a Flood of Darkness as he described.

Essentially Unukulhai came from a world that was outright lost instead of Rejoined and 3.4 revealed that only one world had thus far been lost in such a way: the 13th. Thus the 13th had to be Unukulhai's world.

There was speculation immediately following 3.4 that all the ruling tier voidsent were the 13th's WoLs that Unukulhai spoke of. The lorebook has at least confirmed one such to be true. I wonder if the Cloud of Darkness and Scathach may be corrupted warriors as well.

Warriors of Void?

[JMadFour]

what,if anything, interesting does the Lore Book say about Dark Knights?

[Berethos]

A few interesting bits about the Dark Knight (not sure how many of these are learned in the DRK quests):

The LB3 is called Dark Force, and is created by the DRK infusing a "vast well of aether with their own inner darkness" they create arcane barriers of "impregnable midnight." It's technically a benevolent technique, but is noted as visually unsettling for some.

The Chaos Armor has been passed down through generations, forged of Ishgardian Steel, and the once well-polished iron has been dulled by years of blood.

Dainslaif was crafted during the time of peace between the Dragons and man, originally made for monster slaying, being commissioned by a knight at the time.

Fray of the Onyx Shade was an orphan of the Brume. He helped save Rielle (the Au Ra with Sidurgu of the Obsidian Heart) from an "unjust fate" but was forced into trial by combat as a result, and it was there that he lost his life. He was 25 at the time.

The Darkness is described as coming from the "fear and wrath" from the DRK's soul, and is a "shadowy flame that feeds greedily" on the aether of the body. If one loses control of that, they will be consumed in a "backlash of entropic energies."

And finally, and perhaps most interesting to me, is that it was not until several centuries had passed that the Dark Knight actually learned how to wield the Darkness as a weapon to augment their own techniques...before that, it was simply swordplay and naught else.

There's a bit more, but personally I think those are the most interesting elements.

[JMadFour]

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none of this stuff, except for Fray being involved with Rielle and Sidurgu before his death were mentioned in the DRK questline.

mind sharing some of the cool MCH stuff, if you don't mind? sorry for being greedy, I don't have the lorebook, and I'm trying to decide between MCH and DRK as my character's primary job. leaning MCH at the moment.

[Ametrine]

I feel like he's going to skip the Stormblood action and act as the (unofficial) Scion leader for a bit, hanging around in the Rising Stones in Minfilia's place, and Alisae will be the one traveling with us.

I certainly hope so. I really don't want to see another precious ally die or "go away" after all we've been through. (I'm tryimg to mentally prepare for it, since Yoshi-P warned shit is getting dark @.@)

Alisaie's even sassier self acting as our new sidekick would be a treat, though.

[alimdia]

Is there anything on the Thorne Dynasty?

[Balipu]

I certainly hope so. I really don't want to see another precious ally die or "go away" after all we've been through. (I'm tryimg to mentally prepare for it, since Yoshi-P warned shit is getting dark @.@)

Alisaie's even sassier self acting as our new sidekick would be a treat, though.

I know saying this will bite me in the ass but I am totally fine with allies dying as long as they really are dying and not just having a fake death like Nanamo, Y'shtola, Thancred, Yda, Papalymo and Estinien.

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

I know saying this will bite me in the ass but I am totally fine with allies dying as long as they really are dying and not just having a fake death like Nanamo, Y'shtola, Thancred, Yda, Papalymo and Estinien.

Really though, only one of those character had a fake death. Everybody but Nanamo was left highly ambiguous.

[Fenral]

I know saying this will bite me in the ass but I am totally fine with allies dying as long as they really are dying and not just having a fake death like Nanamo, Y'shtola, Thancred, Yda, Papalymo and Estinien.

You do realize what a terrible thing that would be to say about living human beings, right? They may be video game characters, but we're supposed to care about our allies, dammit.

As far as I'm concerned a "fake" death just means that things weren't as bad as they seemed, which happens a lot in reality, too. Something like the Apollo 13 accident could never happen in fiction, because it would be too good an opportunity for someone to make the ultimate sacrifice for the cause.