What caused Eorzeans to lose their memory of the 7th Umbral Calamity?

[Anonymoose]

The wiki isn't generally reliable for lore, since anyone can edit and add information they think is true - but may be misinterpreted, fanon or just making things up as they go along.

Even worse, they take the usually-benign "any information is better than no information" wiki principle to an extreme, immediately reverting it if you try to remove misinformation unless you can provide a citation to the contrary...when it didn't require a citation to add it in the first place. "How about you prove that Thancred's favorite ice cream isn't mint chocolate chip?" Someone finally managed to get "ceruleum is made from draining crystals" off there, though, so maybe there's still a chance things like "the Fall of Ala Mhigo was the Third Great Hyuran Migration" will get hit from orbit one day.

It's a great resource in general, but FFXIV coverage (if not their citation policy as a whole) needs medicinal action ASAP.

[Isutowaru]

The wiki isn't generally reliable for lore, since anyone can edit and add information they think is true - but may be misinterpreted, fanon or just making things up as they go along.

You're not wrong, but this is the only source I can find regarding the matter and thought it'd be interesting to point out. To add to your point, what I quoted hasn't given a source as well so I'm perfectly aware it could be wrong.

[ObsidianFire]

What you quoted is actually correct and canon, but it's from a source that isn't that easy to get to for most people. It's from the Zenos short story in the Chronicles of Light book.

Long story short... Zenos has always had everything come effortlessly to him and he has been bored for... basically his entire life. The only time he really wasn't bored was when he had to go looking for information about how to somehow manipulate aether to fight and kill a fighter from another Garlean province who managed to beat him. The WoL is just that on steroids for him.

[Rannie]

Errrrr I think you may have posted that on the wrong thread Obsidian... the quote that iscah was referring to was a reply to the ffxiv wiki about the WoL and how 2.0 players differ from 1.0/legacy players. In which take what the wiki says with a grain of salt.

[Keever]

The dialogue in Coil accurately reflects whether your character is a legacy player or not. If you were a legacy player, Louisoix recognises you in T12. If you were not a legacy player, he does not recognise you as being a person from before the Calamity.

This has not changed with any recent patches.

[Joven]

I wonder if there was a bug or something when I did ARR. Because some of the lines from Cid when he got his memory back and comments from people post Pratorium made it sound like they were remembering my character as a 1.0 WOL, but I didn't make my account until well after 2.0.

Did he specifically say he remembered you the isle and Van Darius and how he thought you had ended it all that day?

I vaguely remember a scene near the end of ARR where my character and Cid shared a moment. Cid said something about how I was the reason for everything and his decisions regarding helping the Eorzeans over Garlemald. I can't remember details since it's been 5 years since I did that part. I'm not a Legacy player either, I started when ARR launched.

[Rannie]

That was a scene both legacy and non legacy share. All it is is of you helping him regain his memories by using the echo and he recognizes you helping him during him trying to remember due to him being a pure blooded Garlean and having that third eye. Legacy players get a second cutscene with him saying, "It took a while for the memory to return, but I remember you. The floating isle, van Darnus... We ended it, that day- or so we thought. Listen- let's keep this between the two if us, for the time being.... " ETC listed as cutscene #4 with Lady of the Vortex.

[Joven]

That was a scene both legacy and non legacy share. All it is is of you helping him regain his memories by using the echo and he recognizes you helping him during him trying to remember due to him being a pure blooded Garlean and having that third eye. Legacy players get a second cutscene with him saying, "It took a while for the memory to return, but I remember you. The floating isle, van Darnus... We ended it, that day- or so we thought. Listen- let's keep this between the two if us, for the time being.... " ETC listed as cutscene #4 with Lady of the Vortex.

Ah, ok.

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