Tales from the Dawn #4: "A Question of Death" (Jullus)

[SentioftheHoukai]

That's still a lot of "what if?" and conjecture. To my knowledge, no one in-game from Eorzea has made mention of plundering Garlemald's ceruleum and piping it to Eorzea.




Tumblr is still Tumblr, but Mirke's Menagerie is the greatest single source of properly compiled and sorted FFXIV lore I've seen on the internet and Sounsyy has done a really good job of putting it together. It's easier to flip through the topics to find bits of lore than opening up the encyclopedias, or searching through dialogue on other sites. Discounting it just because of the website it's on, not even clicking it, and posting an MCU reaction gif is what I'd expect a stereotypical Tumblr user to do so I guess you're already halfway there.

Perhaps, but the author possesses a known bias. The Encylopaedia Eorzea lacks such things. Almanacs are expected to remain impartial, when they do not they lose the respect and trust they require to survive. It's indicative of the perils of the modern internet, that such repositories tend to be less reliable than that which is hand-written due to the considerable vetting and fact-checking processes that such knowledge gets put through before publishing. Tumblr lacks these rigorous safeguards, hence my comparison to Reddit and Wikipedia. Any such information found firmly on the internet and the internet alone is subject to butchering based upon bias rather than the factual and the court of public opinion can influence what is thus written.

In shorthand, I suppose then: Despite it's disjointed nature, I personally would yet sooner pick up a copy of one of the Encylopaedia Eorzeas' Volumes than trust what is written on an unverified, unvetted public domain blog. I cannot trust such a compromised source.