Do we have some kind of FFXIV lore wiki?

[Vidu]

Well, we have the two lorebooks, where a lot (but not all) stuff is written down by the dev/lore-team themselves -> https://store.na.square-enix-games.c...ntasy-xiv-book (there might be pdfs of the books out there, but I would still recommend buying the books - they're beautiful, well written, loaded with pictures and all in all just great!)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=2055243359 -> there is also this, written by our lore-master Anonymoose.

Thats the only two things I can really think about - besides browsing the forum, seeing if something you want to know about has been discussed before or, if not, make a thread asking about it.

[Amekaze]

Well, we have the two lorebooks, where a lot (but not all) stuff is written down by the dev/lore-team themselves -> https://store.na.square-enix-games.c...ntasy-xiv-book (there might be pdfs of the books out there, but I would still recommend buying the books - they're beautiful, well written, loaded with pictures and all in all just great!)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=2055243359 -> there is also this, written by our lore-master Anonymoose.

Thats the only two things I can really think about - besides browsing the forum, seeing if something you want to know about has been discussed before or, if not, make a thread asking about it.

Oh wow,this book looks amazing,I will keep my eye on it to grab it in the near future for sure!
Thanks!

Okay let me drop directly the question that has been bothering me for days already,
Do Calamities happen only on the Source? I would answer yes,since to Rejoin shard needs to come back to the Source,but if it is not true I will be even more confused of how the world works.

[LineageRazor]

Okay let me drop directly the question that has been bothering me for days already,
Do Calamities happen only on the Source? I would answer yes,since to Rejoin shard needs to come back to the Source,but if it is not true I will be even more confused of how the world works.

At this time, it is unknown just what happens on a Shard prior to a Rejoining. Really, we don't know much of anything about what life is like on other Shards. The most we know is that Ascians go to other Shards to meddle, and that that meddling sometimes causes a Flood. Since Ascians don't actually want Floods to happen, they must be meddling for other reasons. While what those reasons might be are unknown, we DO know that Ascian meddling on the Source usually has the purpose of introducing more chaos into the world, in the hopes of eventually causing a Calamity to occur.

Calamities are said to thin the barriers that lie between the Source and a Shard, which is what allows the Shard to be reabsorbed into the Source. It's not out of the question to speculate that having a Calamity occur on BOTH sides of the barrier would be more effective at destabilizing it than would doing it on just one side or the other. By that logic, it would make sense to assume that the Ascians on the Shards are trying to trigger Calamities to coincide with the Calamities on the Source.

However, that seems like it would require an awful lot of coordination, and Ascians are also known for being rather independent from one another. They're not great team players, each having their own schemes and ambitions (even if their overall goal of resurrecting Zodiark seems to be pretty universal among them). That would be a point against the idea that the Ascians on the Shards are trying to trigger Calamities. Every Rejoining has coincided with a Calamity on the Source. If one happened on a Shard, but not on the source, it did not cause a Rejoining.

Anyway, I'm rambling a bit, but the bottom line is that we do not know the answer to your question, and no current source of lore provides an answer. We can only speculate at this point - but since we're going to a Shard next expansion, it's at least possible taht some of those questions will be answered. It'll be interesting to see how much of the history of the First Shard we're able to learn, so we can compare it to what we know of the history of the Source.

[YianKutku]

Every time the idea of a lore wiki for FFXIV comes up, it gets a lot of approval and "someone should do it", but honestly I don't think anyone really has the time and spare effort to make a good one.

Especially since it needs to be actively curated and updated, which means setting up a wiki is just the easiest step. Moderating it would be the real test.

[Amekaze]

However, that seems like it would require an awful lot of coordination, and Ascians are also known for being rather independent from one another. They're not great team players, each having their own schemes and ambitions (even if their overall goal of resurrecting Zodiark seems to be pretty universal among them). That would be a point against the idea that the Ascians on the Shards are trying to trigger Calamities. Every Rejoining has coincided with a Calamity on the Source. If one happened on a Shard, but not on the source, it did not cause a Rejoining.

Yep,that is EXACTLY what I was wondering,but my hopes are now in vain. I thought we had answers to that. I had some crazy idea that maybe Calamities that happen on other Shards somehow reflect themselves on the Source too,so they actually happend there and not on the Source but Source got hit just as much as the Shard. I dont really know,just my stupid thought on it :P.