Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
No, 'secret' in the verb form basically means 'to hide a thing'; it's a generally pretty archaic term, so you mostly see it in fantasy and period settings now. 'Secrete' is DEFINITELY wrong, unless that crystal is... significantly grosser than we were ever told. That's a very different verb.
TIL, thanks. I know "secrete" has another definition of "to conceal", but I would not be surprised if it came from the mentioned archaic usage of "secret". (Checking Merriam Webster via Google, that definition is still there, although I acknowledge the "secretion" definition appears to be primary.)

Still, I now know it's not an error, due to that archaic verb form of "secret". I sincerely love learning new vocabulary from FFXIV.

Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Interestingly, and perhaps a bit of a set for expectations of the people who don't have theirs yet: it more or less cuts off its 'new stuff' details at 6.0; it's got Smileton and the Stigma Dreamscape, but nothing on the void or the Twelve. The exceptions actually seem to come from the tribe questlines: the Hippo Riders are mentioned in the Arkasodara's section, and the section on the denizens of Ultima Thule has a bunch of info from the Omicron questline. I can't ID anything new from the Loporrit questline in their sections, which might give an idea of exactly when a bunch of the text was finalized. Interestingly there's no info on Pandaemonium at all outside of Hippokampos and Phoinix being in the bestiary, probably because that info wasn't even complete on the writer level by the time the EE3 was being written. You could also possibly argue that, since much of the info here is from the Scions, Pandaemonium's a black box because none of the talkative ones even knew it happened.
Very technically it does have MSQ information from 6.1, in that it mentions the existence of the voidgate under Thavnair, as well as Azdaja's historical fate.

Not much new stuff on the Void, though; most of what is in EE3 was already written in EE1 and EE2, to the point where I suspect the blurbs for the various voidsent (Cloud of Darkness, Scathach, Diabolos) were copy-and-pasted from those earlier books.

Personally I was both amused and disappointed with how EE3 confirms my own malicious bias: the Yorha raids were almost completely absent from EE3, with only stuff to do with Komra having minor mentions of "otherworldly attacks" and nothing else. The general impression is the lorebook just going "weird stuff happened, it was weird, moving on". I don't think any Yorha Raid enemies were even mentioned in the bestiary section, compared to the bestiary being full of Bozja critters.

Hence my continued biased belief that FFXIV could excise the Yorha raids entirely from the game, and nothing of value plotwise would be lost.