FFXIV Lore Book: Would SE do it?

[Yamimarik]

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Lore Book?! Yes, YES...YES!!! Oh how I love lore everything! Honestly I'd love a physical lore book that I could have in my hot lil' hands as well!

[Cetra]

Warhammer Online had something which would be a fantastic template for this, The Tome of Knowledge if I remember correctly. It collected all your stats as far as mob types discovered, kills, death count, total EXP earned, lord about the armor you'd found; where it came from, who smithed it, etc. It also collected lore about the game world. As you discovered new areas you would get a Tome unlock which gave you some information about the area, zone, dungeon or whathave you. Same with monsters you discovered. It was VERY cool feature, that I could see the FFXIV devs having a field day with.

[odie]

I like the suggestion the lore team had better i think. An in-game location. It would be fun to visit, and would be easier to include in the story/game than a magically updating tome you had on you. Researchers could eventually uncover more information or something as the game went on, updating the library.

[AlexionSkylark]

SE needs to build more hype around the universe of the game, like blizzard did with the Warcraft universe.

There needs to be books, art books, lore books, action figures, merchandise.

[treuhavik]

The it's the name of the stairs, because they are 80 of them... but why 'sin of Sasamo'?

Here's a lil' somthin'.

I can give you a little background on the oddly named locale, but only a little, because there is actually a quest planned for a future patch (written by me!?) that will feature the stone staircase and touch upon its colorful history.

For now, let's just say that several centuries ago, a certain member of a certain royal family was arrested for certain crimes, and a certain flight of stairs was used in her slightly cruel yet highly unusual punishment.

On a "Lore-Book" itself, well...

In one of Ferne's more recent posts, he mentioned that something might someday be mentioned in some kind of tome that you might be able to read at a something something something. I think the lore-brary project might actually be moving forward.

Aye - I've reason to believe we'll be visiting a certain scholarly group's vacant outpost in a very dragon occupied territory come expansion.