The Lore of Inter-breeding

[Cleretic]

I looked into this mystery a while ago!

The oldest mention I could find of the concept is from a early 2012 post where they describe it as a "theory" based on a cutscene where a black mage character's eye glows in a cool way. That's from the late 1.0 era.

It seems like an idea people were excited about just got mythologized into something actually in the game over the years.

Wow, that is... not even circumstantial evidence, that's just straight-out nonsense. Losing the evidence over the years probably made that more credible.

[Lurina]

Wow, that is... not even circumstantial evidence, that's just straight-out nonsense. Losing the evidence over the years probably made that more credible.

Yeah, I was surprised by how dumb the explanation turned out to be with how many people say it. I guess if you can't actively fact-check something, it can just spread around.

I did learn some interesting stuff about how the 1.0 job quests were structured looking into it (which I never made it far enough at the time to actually experience). Apparently, most of the structure and dialogue are re-used for the 2.0 ones, but they have different (and generally somewhat stupider) lead-ins. For example, in the black mage one, you find the Gem of Shatotto by killing killing poop bugs until it drops.

I hope it's okay for me to borrow this thread. Since it's been bumped from 2013 anyway, might as well use it to talk about 2013 content.