Yeah, I didn't take screenshots of most of the slides of the Lore Panel Q&A, because as Matt Hilton pointed out, anyone just looking at joke-y answers on the slides will be very confused.
Based on my half-asleep summaries on Discord (2:30am Keynote, then 6:30am Lore Panel) though:
- Garlean third eyes are hard like keratin.
- There will be more lore-focused side stuff like Tales Of/From The X on the Lodestone and the Postmoogle questline. At least, that's the plan.
- Raen lore is basically Hingashi lore. As in, the two are effectively equivalent. (In other words, no Raen-specific lore that isn't part of Hingan lore.)
- The two guards at the end of 4.4 are merely very high-ranking and thoroughly vetted for their trustworthiness and discretion, despite Koji Fox's attempts to create an overwrought backstory for them.
- Aetherially conductive inks in magical tattoos is totally a thing, and is used all the time. This is in the Lorebook 2, as part of the MNK gear examples.
- The last queen of Ala Mhigo (ie Theodoric's queen) is probably from somewhere in the Black Shroud, given that the critters in the Royal Gardens are variants of ones found in the Black Shroud. Koji Fox goes "more information soon", and implies that there's a pretty interesting story there.
- Aulus mal Asina is "dead", but nobody believes the lore team about character deaths anyway, so that can probably be amended to be "dead today".
- There are plans in the future to introduce more subraces of the playable races to NPCs, although players will probably just be stuck with the two per race we now have. (The "joke" answer on the slide was that a six foot tall Lalafell is now a possibility.)
- Koji Fox went into the history of the Padjals, but nothing we didn't already know, and I think the implication is that for now the Padjals we see are the ones that exist currently, and the total number that ever existed is "less than you can count on three Simpsons hands" (whatever that means). I could be mistaken.
- Alphinaud may or may not be half Lalafell.
- The known crew of the Galadion have Elezen names because there was a ship of Elezen adventurers that was in trouble, when the Galadion (itself fleeing Aerslant) happened by and picked them up. The Elezen were so grateful that they offered to join the crew and be navigators, and that's why while the story of Limsa Lominsa's founding involves Roegadyn on the Galadion, there were also Elezen there.
- Regula's real face (ie under his helmet) was never actually decided, dev-wise. Koji Fox jokes that it could be time for a new fan contest to fix that.
- Ascian hosts don't have to die for the Ascian to leave (although it's implied that it will take some convincing to accomplish this), and more information will be coming in Shadowbringers.
- Vampire myths exist in Eorzea in the same way vampire myths exist here in RL; there may not have been actual bloodsucking vampires, but the myth is widespread enough that that the concept gets applied to names like vampire plants and vampire bats.
Then they went into creating The Vegetarian.
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