Quote Originally Posted by JeanneOrnitier View Post
I mentioned this in the speculation thread too a few weeks ago but it's definitely worth noting that Sharlayan owned a book (in the Great Gubal Library) which Elidibus showed to Urianger to tell him about the Shards. The Gerun Oracle. So at the bare minimum Sharlayan knows about that.

Incidentally Gerun's namesake from FF12 was one of the Occuria, same as Venat. Wouldn't be surprised if 14's Gerun who wrote (or is just the namesake of?) this book was one of Hydaelyn's summoners.
Interestingly, according to Urianger, the Gerun Oracles were also very confusingly written, full of allegory and obtuse wording. Which is alarming, coming from Urianger.

Also the wording implies that the Gerun Oracles were the only source about the Shards, and Urianger dismissed them as "apocrypha" when Elidibus was trying to tell him about it. So I'm not sure if the Gerun Oracles were taken all that seriously by Sharlayan scholars, especially since it was left behind in the Gubal Library rather than taken along on Sharlayan's exodus from Dravania. Then again, it's also possible that the general Sharlayan public considers the Gerun Oracles to be apocrypha, but the Secret Cabal Of Secret Sharlayan Leaders know that it's true.

I also vaguely recall that the Gerun Oracles were cited as the "mysterious source" of various hints and teasers on the Lodestone for YoshiP's messages to the playerbase, but I don't know how canonical they are.